LEGO Daredevil Costume
| She-Hulk started on Disney+ 2 months before Hampton Comicon 2022. It was rumored that Daredevil would be making his first in costume appearance in the show. Half way through the season, a mid-season trailer was released that gave us our first look at his costume. As fans of the Netflix series, my daughter and I agreed we needed to make this her costume for the convention. Unfortunately she was at college for her sophomore year so I had to make the costume without being able to try it on her. Since I still had her Moon Knight costume, I was able to replicate the dimensions. | ||
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| I started with the head since there were some decent screenshots I could pull from the She-Hulk trailer. In the trailer, Darevdevil flips over a car into the air, lands, and camera pans up his body. This scene takes place at night and is dark. Due to some weird lighting, it appeared the neck of the helmet was red. I later found out this was just a darker mustard yellow color. | ||
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| In the trailer, the batons are visible enough to see some of the details. I wrapped a wooden dowel rod in several layers of foam to make the batons thicker. On the the last two layers, I added some details and buried 2 magnets under the top layer of foam. For the details, I used a thin piece of foam as a spacer to try to evenly space out the cracks. When I made the hands, I added matching magnets in the palm of the hand to hold the batons in place.
This allowed the batons to be removed. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a clear screenshot of the torso details until Daredevil finally appeared in episode 8 of She-Hulk. This was only 9 days before the convention. Fortunately it only took 1 night to add all the details on the torso. | ||
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| Once Daredevil appeared in episode 9 of She-Hulk, I had to make adjustments. I couldn’t find a mustard yellow spray paint so I had to try to hand paint the yellows on the helm and torso. Unfortunately acrylic yellow paint doesn’t cover well and took several layers on the incorrectly painted red neck. We did find a mustard yellow fabric that matched the acrylic paint. The night before the convention, I picked up my daughter from college and brought her home. She was able to pattern and sew the fabric for the arms and legs of the costume before the convention. | ||
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| During one trip through the lobby of the convention, we passed near a DJ playing dance music. My daughter had stopped and I assumed like many times during the day she stopped so someone could take a picture. When I turned around to see what was going on, my daughter was already dancing to the music with someone video streaming her. I was in shock, laughing, and worried the costume would fall apart if she moved too much all at the same time. I was fortunate enough to get a couple of minutes of her dancing. The costume did survive. | ||
