The Samus Saga: Episode 1

Preparing 3d file for Armorsmith Designer NOTE: If you are 3d printing your costume pieces, you can skip this step. Armorsmith will handle your high resolution files fine and if you use the file generated by this step, you will have a 3d printed blocky mess.  This is our first big build for the site, […]

The Samus Saga Tutorials, Tutorials

Making Laser Cut Files

A Note About Laser Cutters While making stuff in the workshop, we follow the acronym ATGATT – All The Gear All The Time. It means you should always wear your PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). I admit, there are times where we have shirked our duty on safety measures in the workshop – not wearing a […]

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The Samus Build: Helmet Preparation

The Beginning This is it – the beginning of the Samus build tutorial. This tutorial series will be a full build of the studio’s Samus cosplay from start to finish. And boy are you in for a ride… a very long, slow, detailed and thorough ride.  This build is going to be primarily from EVA […]

Tutorials

Software: Armorsmith Designer

A Word About Software As a general rule, we try not to recommend software that you have to pay for unless it is  a must have. For instance, Adobe Acrobat Reader is free for anyone to use, and it works as described in our tutorials. When we do recommend a paid software package, we will […]

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