Clover - Payday 2
1) Why I chose to make this costume:
One of the ways how to render a tribute to this game I fell in love with, is to honor it with cosplay. And as Clover was one of the first characters I've played in this game and I feel like she's that kind of a girl I like - rough, strong, can compete with guys - she simply fitted to me, I decided to make a cosplay of hers.
ORIGINAL CHARACTER:

2) How I made this costume:
1) Mask
The easiest way to make a mask, that would fit you, is to make a cast of your head, but who has it? If you're willing to cast your head, you can buy some plaster bandages in local pharmacy and follow this youtube tutorials: Face mold, casting the face. On the completed face you can then mold your mask from any self-drying clay or other available materials.I decided to try to do it right on my face,

I have tried 3 different ways how to make a mask without having a cast of your head: aluminium foil with tape and papiermache, paper strips with tape, papiermache and acrylic cement and worbla (thermoplastic material) with ceraplast (self-drying modelling clay) and acrylic cement. The third one was the most expensive (worbla costs a fortune), but the fastest, easiest and the most functional way for me.

So I used a heating gun to soften the worbla and shaped it right on my face. It hardens really fast and careful, it's really hot! Then I´ve used modelling clay to make the shapes of the clover mask. I used the game itself as a referrence by making it (Choose the mask and push preview button). Then I let it dry for a day. I made the border of the mask from worbla too. Then I´ve soften the shapes with acrylic cement and sanding paper.

Last step was to make this mask hold on my face.Worbla can stick to itself, so I made holders from worbla, metal buckles and black rubber straps, that comes into a small backhead part from grey EVA foam.
MATERIALS:
What are the above mentioned materials and where can I buy them?
Worbla - brown thermoplastic material in sheets.
Heat gun - gun-shaped electric tool making heat.
EVA foam - thicker craft-foam with high density, can be glued with chemoprene glue.
Acrylic colors - after drying, water-resistant colors.
Keraplast or DAS - self-hardening modelling clay (I recommend maybe a modelling clay, which is a little flexible ater drying)
If you're not interested in making the mask of your own, you can buy some masks in some stores as Payday 2 merchandise products.

Since my original mask started to crack on some places due to the modelling clay not being flexible and worbla is still a little flexible, I decided to remake my mask using my 3D printer. I started with this FILE, which I sliced and printed out from black PLA. I glued it together using PLA glue (PLA disolved in tetrahydrofuran - be careful, it's toxic), but you can use epoxy or high quality second glue.
Then I primed it with spray primer and filler and sanded it down in a lot of layers. I spraypainted it white and then I painted it using acrylic colors and colors for modelling kits and airbrush.
2) Clothes
The clothes of Clover is quite simple. You need a suit. so a black blazer and matching black trousers. Underneath you have a white (or light blue) shirt with buttons. I think this clothes is quite simple to buy and there is no need to sew it. If you don' t have enough funds, you can try to find it in second hand shops. The shoes are simple black ones too.
3) Accesories

Most of it you can easily buy:
Pink lock of hair
Blue cleaning gloves
Guns (toy), guns (airsoft), guns (devaluated real guns)
Silver small piercing - you can either pierce your nose or make a false piercing from a piece of wire like I did.
GenSec card - I´ve downloaded a picture from internet, printed it out and sealed that in transparent foil.
3) Advantages and disadvantages of this costume:
Advantages:- Simple, casual and comfortable cosplay (a lot of costumes aren't very comfortable to wear).
- There are not many cosplayers of Payday 2 secondary character, so it's kinda original.
- Storable cosplay - the transportation and storing of this cosplay is really easy.
- I have same hair and eyes color with the character, so I don't have to wear contact lenses and wig.
Disadvantages:
- Your weapons can attract unnecessary attention on action.
- You actually look like a robber.
- Your cosplay is simple and doesn't show your skill as other cosplays could.
- Payday 2 is not as mainstream as for example Diablo 3, so it could be for some gamers difficult to recognize your cosplay.
- Some people can evaluate your cosplay as awful - in fact you're cosplaying a bad guy with horrifying mask.
And if you like my work, I would be honored if you're interested in my other work too and like me on my facebook page HERE.
Yours
Germia


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