Excellent Suggestions For Creating A Thor Movie Halloween Costume

If you are looking for a Halloween costume idea, you could choose a Thor costume. The film has a number of exciting characters to choose from. It also has a wide range of truly awesome costumes that will be good for parties, school events and competitions.

Thor

Of course, the principal character is Thor himself. He wears a suit of armor with his signature red cloak and also his hammer. The red cloak can be made from any piece of fabric but it should not be too bflighty, nor too heavy to weigh down the wearer. You can choose to die some cloth or buy the appropriate colour. The hammer is easily made from a block of polystyrene attached to a kitchen towel tube. It should then be painted appropriately.

Thor's armor can be made from cardboard. Cut out the shapes and stick them together with some strong glue and some twine. Cardboard boxes of the type used for large appliance packaging will be the most suitable. Once you have achieved the desirable armor design, you can paint the finished product with a thick latex based paint which you will mix from black and white to get a dark grey. Paint normally used for railings will suffice.

Heimdall

Heimdall is the fearsome but loyal gate keeper in the movie. His costume is among the most spectacular of all. He wears a great horned Viking mask. The mask along with the armor he wears appears to be of solid gold. You can try to achieve a similar effect by combining the use of polystyrene with cardboard and wood. Metallic car paint is what you will need to produce the golden finish.

Frost Giants of Jotunheim

The key characteristics of the Frost Giants in the film are the faces. They are created to depict the frozen wastelands from which they originate. Their faces are contoured and textured and you could try to achieve this in a choice of two ways. First might be with the use of heavy makeup. Thick layers of grey and white stage paint should do the trick. You could also use stage paste applied to the skin and then cover with patches of white tissue paper to achieve a frozen scaly effect. The red eyes can be approximated with some small round spectacles with semi transparent plastic lenses which you can make yourself.

If you want to use your Frost Giant costume more than once then you can apply the effects to a mask rather than directly to the skin. Try using papier mache which can be moulded to get the contoured texture you will need to look authentic. After you have achieved this, paint the finished mask in a greyish or white paint.

The Destroyer

The more adventurous designer may want to attempt recreating the Destroyer. However this is not a task for the feint hearted and will require hours of painstaking work. However, the finished results should be quite spectacular. For the best outcome pieces of old leather stitched together are highly recommended. Look for scraps at recycling plants or leather repair shops. You will need a cardboard or plywood box for the head with the eye section cut away and filled with colored plastic.

Warrior Princess - Sif

If you are looking for a female Thor movie Halloween costume to make then one of the best choices is probably that of Sif. In the movie her costume is mainly robes which are easy enough to recreate with yards of cloth. You can make the armored shoulder pads she wears out of cuts of stiff paper or cardboard and then color them with paint.