Tutorial: Thor Cosplay

Photo by April Miller

For the Dallas Comic Con this year, I was asked to be in a Marvel vs Capcom group! I chose to make a Thor cosplay because he’s one of my favorite superheroes, and I really like his new design. At first I had a hard time deciding how to tackle this. After brainstorming for several weeks I finally figured out a pretty easy way to make the outfit. I hope this tutorial helps anyone that may be interested in cosplaying as Thor!!

This is the image of Thor that I based my costume on.

I began by making his helmet. I looked up other helmets online and drew some shapes that I liked. Don’t laugh at my drawings 😛

Next I cut my shapes out of paper first to make a pattern.

Then I measured my head and created a wire base for the helmet.

Using a large sheet of craft foam, I cut a strip that would go all around the wire. I also cut out the front details from foam, too.

Here you can see that the inside of the wire base is sandwiched between craft foam.

For the wings I cut out 10 “feathers” .. this took forever!

I laid them on top of each other in a design that I liked and glued them together.

Then I glued everything to the base.

Before painting your helmet be sure to prime it. I used two coats of Gesso.

Then I spray painted my helmet metallic silver.

To give it a more rustic look, I added some bronze weathering with acrylic paint.

And that’s a finished helmet!

For the silver discs on Thor’s tunic, I used craft foam and cotton balls.

I wanted the discs to have a bevel look so I put a cotton ball in-between the foam then glued around the edges.

I also made the belt buckle and ankle discs out of foam. You actually need 4 ankle discs (the smaller circles in the pic) .. I forgot there’s two per ankle and had to make more. Prime everything before you paint them!

Originally I wanted to glue the brown cord (which is just a brown ribbon) and the silver discs to a black skater dress. But I realized I would lose a lot of the stretch in the dress and have trouble getting it on and off since there wasn’t a zipper in the back. So I sewed my ribbon onto a black halter corset that zipped up the front. Then I glued the silver discs to the corset and the bottom of the skater dress. The shoulder discs have a brooch backing so I could safety pin them onto my cape. The cape is just a red cloak I had from a Halloween store with the hood tucked under. And the brown belts are from Walmart.

Photo by Alan Tijerina

My “chain mail” shirt is actually a silver sweater I bought at the mall that I thought resembled chain mail. I try to buy random things when I see them just in case I’ll need it for a costume. 😉 Same goes for the leggings – they are sold silver metallic leggings with fishnets over them! My boots are from Walmart with brown ribbon velcro’d around the ankle and calf. And I also used black ribbon for my bracelets.

I would have loved to make a hammer myself, but I didn’t have the time. I was actually very impressed with the hammer I bought from Amazon. It was sturdy and colored well, and for the price I didn’t feel bad if I were to drop it or let someone else hold it. My wig is an Imaldris from Arda Wigs in the color Titanium Blonde. 

Photo by Alan Tijerina

Photo by Ed Steele

Photo by Jack Teague
Our Marvel vs Capcom group!

Photo by Mineralblu 

Photo by Mineralblu

Overall, I would say this costume is pretty easy! It requires some assembly, but the skills I used to make the items weren’t too hard. The helmet and hammer look cool on a shelf in my room, too! 😀

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Who is your favorite Marvel superhero?

If you cosplay as Thor please send me photos! 🙂