Predator mask

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I created this mask for my kids' Wolf Predator costume and I thought maybe you'd appreciate seeing it. As I'm sharing it now, keep in mind that it's sized for an 8-year-old kid, so if you want to print it for an adult, you'll need to scale it up a bit - how much exactly, I have no idea! The mask is printed in three parts (not counting the teeth and horns), but they don't come with alignment pins, making it a bit tricky to glue them together. I first glued the parts together using superglue, then printed small thin squares about 2x2cm big, heated them up, pressed them onto the seams from the inside so they got the right shape, and finally epoxied across the seam. Each seam has three such reinforcements along its length. The red light (laser sight) is simply a cylinder with a battery, switch, and piece of LED strip with three LEDs inside. It's painted black and hot glued behind the holes. Between the holes and the LEDs, there's a piece of plastic that I sanded to diffuse the light slightly. The teeth and horns were painted and glued on last. For the dreads, I cut some thick fabric into tapered tubes and glued them onto the mask in two rows. Some of the dreads have strips of craft foam painted copper glued around them. There's an elastic strap glued inside the mask to hold it securely on the head - it works surprisingly well! This mask is just one part of a larger costume, which includes wrist claws (non-retractable) modified from another model, a wrist detonator with LED lights also modified from another model, shoulder armor, a belt, bombs on the belt, skulls around the neck, and an extendable spear. There's even a really cool cardboard backpack - and that's not all! Anyway, I hope you like it and find some use for it - it makes an awesome wall decoration!