Another throwback for you all today! (Or should that be flashback, since it's a Friday..?🤔) Anyway, I figured that since yesterday's post was dedicated to my first Spider-Man suit, I should show off the custom web shooters that I made to go with it!
These were really fun to design and build and were made using a combination of cardboard, craft foam and any other bits and pieces that I could get my hands on. As you can see I based my web shooters on Miles Morales' from the comic books but with some heavy influences from the homemade ones in Spider-Man Homecoming.
I'm hoping that this post won't be quite as long-winded as the last, but we'll see 😅
The first thing I did was sketch out a design for the top of the web shooters and build up the layers of cardboard until they were around 2mm thick. I then painted each one with a sort of gunmetal grey colour, followed by some silver dry-brushing around all of the edges (suggesting that the paint had been scratched off over time.)
Next up, I made 6 webbing cartridges using more cardboard. These were very much based on the cartridges from Peter's homemade web shooters in Homecoming because I just love how big and chunky they looked. Each cartridge is filled with air-dry clay to give them a bit of weight and has a magnet glued to the inside so that they can be attached to the web shooters.
The web shooters themselves completed, I wanted to add some more finishing touches in the form of fake electronics. The idea was that these would be visible through a small window in the top of each web shooter but that didn't work out as well as I'd imagined. 😅
I drew the circuit designs with a 3D paint pen and the nozzle is made from some sort of audio jack (I later painted the yellow part the same grey as the rest of the web shooters.)
And here are my web shooters with the faux circuitry attached!
For the web shooters' trigger I just used a plastic disk that I painted silver. To make them seem like they actually functioned, I glued 2 push buttons onto each disk and attached a magnet to the back that connects to another magnet which I had sewn into each of the costume's sleeves - allowing the triggers to stay attached to my palms.
Then to connect each trigger to the web shooters, I wanted something flexible that would allow me to move my wrists while still staying connected to the magnets in my hands. The solution was a pair of electrical wires! Foam would have been equally flexible, but I just love the wires because they add to the whole "thrown together by a teenager in his bedroom" aesthetic.
Finally, I made a wrist strap out of craft foam, painted to match the rest of the web shooter and weathered with some black acrylic paint. Oh, and some storage for my spare webbing cartridges! Each strap can be worn using magnets, but they have a habit of popping open whenever I move my wrists so they weren't really the best idea!😅 Looking back, Velcro would have been much more secure.
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