Use a brillo pad (not sandpaper, you don’t want to scratch it up that much) and circular motions so it’s uniform. The first thing you’re going to want to do is sand the plastic globes. While you’re waiting for them to come in, you can contemplate your choices and wonder if, possibly, you made a bad time-management decision, before concluding nah, you totally got this. So step one is deciding about 10 days before you need them that you are, in fact, going to make these, buy your supplies, and thank God prime is a thing. Now, they broke on, somehow, which really is the best way to break mid-con, but that did cause the batteries to be worn out by the end of the day and the lights to dim.

I bought some pretty cheap ones, and I recommend not doing that, because they broke pretty quickly. For stuffing/light diffusing and covering the handle. Matching tulle fabric and solid fabric. We mixed crackle acrylic paint in with this to see what would happen, and it sort of gave it a texture, but not really, so that’s your prerogative if you would like to try it. Otherwise, use whichever color you’re making this to be. For Starfire we used lime green, and for Blackfire we used neon purple and pink. I used a ½” diameter because a smaller pipe was more comfortable to hold and easier to shove into the globe. A lot of these are glass so make sure you get plastic because glass will be a disaster on so many levels. You want it to engulf your whole hand, but not look overly large. Depending on how big your hands are this size will change. I bought clear ones with no neck, with an 8” diameter and 4” opening.

We designed them to be able to encompass our hands so they looked good from all angles, and to be able to light up.Ĭonstruction time could take up to three days, but most of that is waiting for paint to dry.

They’re actually pretty simple and don’t take a whole lot of time! At this year’s Philly Wizard World we got a lot of questions on how we made the starbolts for our Starfire and Blackfire costumes.

Sexy blackfire cosplay