I make my kids Halloween costumes every year. Pretty much every year has involved some sort of pretty significant prop. One year I did an excavator that DS1 fit inside of and had a functional scoop, two years ago he was an ice cream truck, and last year he was a mail carrier with a truck with working tail lights. It is therefore assumed that I make him some sort of vehicle to go with his costume. lol
This year, he wants to be Princess Peach from Mario Kart. I guess in Mario Kart 8 she has a motorcycle that she rides instead of a regular racecar? Anyway, he's insistent that he have a motorcycle and when I suggested that might not happen, he very sweetly told me he would help make it. Problem is, I can't find anything online to go from and I'm struggling with how to make a motorcycle work. Cars, trucks, etc, I get and know how to make, but a motorcycle is throwing me off.
Anyone have suggestions on DIYing this thing? I'm all set on the Princess Peach costume, but the motorcycle is stumping me.
The only things I can think of are to add her pink plastic motorcycle shield thing to a regular bike or buy this for $84 and call it an early Christmas present!
Post by ellipses84 on Oct 11, 2021 14:03:11 GMT -5
Whether you put it on some sort of existing wheeled transportation or over the shoulders with straps, all you really need are two pieces of cardboard with the profile of peaches’ motorcycle. Then infill they gap between with a strip of cardboard bent / curved to follow the profile. It’s ok if the connector piece is wider than a motorcycle would be, so it’s not that dissimilar to how you would build a car costume. Then you can add to it, with like handlebars and a headlight. You could print out and glue on the image of the side, you could color / paint it on or use cut pieces of. Silver and pink duct tape may be useful too.
If you wanted, you could have the motorcycle popping a wheelie so his bottom half is concealed by the back wheel on the ground and the top wheel / handlebars are up in the air at his hands. Then you use tights to make fake princess legs / shoes to hang outside of the motorcycle.
Whether you put it on some sort of existing wheeled transportation or over the shoulders with straps, all you really need are two pieces of cardboard with the profile of peaches’ motorcycle. Then infill they gap between with a strip of cardboard bent / curved to follow the profile. It’s ok if the connector piece is wider than a motorcycle would be, so it’s not that dissimilar to how you would build a car costume. Then you can add to it, with like handlebars and a headlight. You could print out and glue on the image of the side, you could color / paint it on or use cut pieces of. Silver and pink duct tape may be useful too.
If you wanted, you could have the motorcycle popping a wheelie so his bottom half is concealed by the back wheel on the ground and the top wheel / handlebars are up in the air at his hands. Then you use tights to make fake princess legs / shoes to hang outside of the motorcycle.
Ok, yeah, this makes sense. I also started thinking I might just do the front profile with handles behind it so he can hold it in front of him. It won't look like a motorcycle from the side, but I don't want it to feel unwieldy to walk around in either.
Whether you put it on some sort of existing wheeled transportation or over the shoulders with straps, all you really need are two pieces of cardboard with the profile of peaches’ motorcycle. Then infill they gap between with a strip of cardboard bent / curved to follow the profile. It’s ok if the connector piece is wider than a motorcycle would be, so it’s not that dissimilar to how you would build a car costume. Then you can add to it, with like handlebars and a headlight. You could print out and glue on the image of the side, you could color / paint it on or use cut pieces of. Silver and pink duct tape may be useful too.
If you wanted, you could have the motorcycle popping a wheelie so his bottom half is concealed by the back wheel on the ground and the top wheel / handlebars are up in the air at his hands. Then you use tights to make fake princess legs / shoes to hang outside of the motorcycle.
Ok, yeah, this makes sense. I also started thinking I might just do the front profile with handles behind it so he can hold it in front of him. It won't look like a motorcycle from the side, but I don't want it to feel unwieldy to walk around in either.
That could work too. Kind of like a stick horse. You could even do one layer of the profile, with only the handlebars in 3D.