Making a * DUNE * Stillsuit in 3 Days! 😱

Watch Alyson Tabbitha create a DUNE stillsuit costume in 3 days, sharing patterns, crafting tips, painting, and fabric work.

Key Takeaways

Patterning is the most challenging but crucial step in making the stillsuit costume.
Using a combination of craft foam and thrifted fabric can create an authentic and wearable costume.
Multiple layers of Plasti Dip provide a durable base for painting foam armor.
Attention to detail with tubing, texture, and weathering enhances the costume's realism.
The project is achievable within a short timeframe and suitable for cosplay enthusiasts.

What the video covers

Alyson Tabbitha demonstrates making a DUNE stillsuit costume from craft foam using a printable pattern.
She explains the patterning process as the hardest part and offers a downloadable pattern for viewers.
The video covers cutting, gluing, and detailing foam pieces, including tubing made from foam strips and pre-made foam dowels.
Alyson shares fabric sourcing from thrift shops and sewing techniques for pants, sleeves, and shirts to match the costume.
She applies multiple layers of black Plasti Dip as a base coat on the foam armor before painting and weathering.
The tutorial includes tips on adding texture, raised edges, studs, and using tools like a Dremel for detailing.
Alyson discusses assembling the armor pieces and ensuring mobility and fit before final painting and fabric attachment.
The video concludes with makeup tips for the character look and encouragement for viewers to try the project themselves.
Alyson highlights the official Dune movie social media sharing her costume photos as a stamp of approval.
The entire build is completed in about three days, emphasizing accessibility and creativity in costume making.

Chapters

Where can I get the pattern used for the stillsuit costume?

Alyson provides a printable pattern that you can download and print at home on letter-size paper. It is adjustable to fit different sizes and is recommended as the hardest but most important part of the build.

What materials are used to make the stillsuit armor?

The armor is primarily made from craft foam, including foam strips and pre-made foam dowels for tubing. Alyson also uses hot glue, Plasti Dip for coating, and various fabrics sourced from thrift shops for the costume's fabric parts.

How long does it take to make the stillsuit costume?

The entire costume build takes about three days, including patterning, cutting, gluing, painting, and sewing fabric pieces. Alyson emphasizes that the project is manageable within this timeframe.

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[Music] Hey guys, I am currently editing my video. I hope you like that little introduction. I realized I don't have a proper segue into the making of the costume, so I wanted to mention that before I worked with the craft foam, I do have a pattern

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that you can print at home on your own printer on, like, a letter-size piece of paper. This is the same pattern that I made for myself and that I use, and you can adjust it according to your size, but

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it is very useful. I highly recommend that if you are making this suit, you download this because I think the patterning was a hundred percent the hardest part of making this costume. Everything else was like just a lot of

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puzzling fun. Also, I am filming this after I finished the costume and after I already did some, like, photo shoot with it, and I posted pictures, and official Dune movie social media shared it, so I think that is a pretty cool stamp of

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approval. I'm so excited about that. So now, if you use my pattern, you can say you have the same costume shirt by the official Dune page, which is, uh, pretty cool. And I think the best part about the

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still suits is that they all look almost the same, so no matter what character you be, you can use this and I'll know it is for the front only. The back is covered by a cape, so I didn't worry about that,

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but you can add to it if you want. Easy peasy. So once the patterning is taken care of, we can get straight to the crafting. Let's do it. [Music] First, I cut out all the pattern pieces onto foam. I start with the chest plate

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and I just lay all the pieces together to get an idea of where they go. [Music] I made some of the tubing by hot gluing strips of craft foam around a small rope. I did this before I got some pre-made

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foam dowels from the Yayahan line because I didn't know I could just go pick some up from Joanne. I definitely preferred working with the pre-made foam dowels, but the amount you need can get pricey, and some people might not have

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time or access to get it, so I thought I would share with you this alternative. I cut off the excess foam, and it leaves me with this half-circle strip. [Music] To make much smaller tubing, I just fold

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strips of craft foam directly in half, and I cut off the excess foam, and I'm left with this. Then I take a pin and mark where I will be adding the tubing. [Music] Then I use hot glue and lay all the

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strips down on the marked areas. [Music] So, [Music] I also add some smaller details by cutting and heating up a piece of foam. [Music] Then I take the tubing I made, and I add it to these strips from the pattern,

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and I put all the pieces back together with the new details added. [Music] I also outlined some of the detailing with a pen to add definition to the edges, and to make raised edges, I cut thin strips of craft foam and glue them

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down. [Music] Then I keep gluing the various pieces together. [Music] And I add the tubing whenever it's needed. [Music] I use various different glues like hot glue and spray Loctite super glue. [Music] Some of the detailing has texture

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underneath, so I scrap some fabric from a jacket. [Music] I also use that same fabric to make little straps that I weave through the pieces. [Music] To make a raised area, I just use a thicker piece of foam and glue it

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underneath. [Music] And I add strips along the edges of some pieces as well. I also use hot glue to make studs, but you can do anything you want for that. [Music] Here, I'm using a Dremel tool to make

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indentations into the foam pieces for the arms. [Music] For curved pieces like the shoulders, I take strips of foam and glue them to the underside to hold the slits together, which create the curve. [Music] And just keep gluing pieces together and

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adding edges and detailing until you're done. [Music] So, I have been working on the armor a lot, um, for the past two days. Day one, I just kind of was working on the patterning, and day two, I cut out all the foam and I

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glued all the pieces together. I'm going to show you what I have so far. So right now, I have the base of the chest plate, which goes right here, and then over that, I think I'll call this like the rib cage area. It's gonna

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go right around here. This is the crotch guard, and then hip pads. There's also some shoulder pads, and then there's the knee pads. There's these, uh, little things that go on the inside of the elbow, and then these, I have like four of these pieces.

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These go on the sleeve of the arm. Then there's these pieces that look like they go on the leg, and I think that's all I need for the armor. Oh my god, I'm getting hot again, so I'm going to coat all the armor in

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some Plasti Dip, and then I'm going to paint it and detail it. Hopefully, I can do that all tomorrow in one day, so this would be a three-day build. That would be awesome. I don't want to get into painting it tonight because I just

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don't feel like it at this hour of the night, so I'm gonna just get to the fabric work instead. And I have a bunch of stuff that I got from the thrift shop. Hold on. Okay, I don't remember if I said a bit or a

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bunch, but I got a bunch of stuff from the thrift shop. So what I went for were items that are like this beige-gray color. I don't really know what the actual color is. I know it does have a name; I just can't think of it

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right now. These are like stretchy pants, which I think will be perfect for underneath because it looks like the pants are two different layers. I'll probably use one of these pairs of pants to put over it as a second layer. Oh my

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god, and she has like this shawl or cape or something, and there was this dress, and it's like the perfect fabric, and I'm so excited that I found it because this is only like four dollars. I also found

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like this sport jacket, and the best part about it is it has this big chunk—sorry for all the dog hair—this big chunk of fabric on the back with like these, uh, like the bumps or something, which it seems like a very

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consistent part of this costume, like the tubes and the lines. As you can see, I already started scrapping it for fabric, and I use it for the straps on this. You can see in here I used it, and here I used it, so

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it already has come in handy. I definitely have a lot of work to do trying to figure out how everything's going to attach and the movement and the mobility and all that fun stuff, but I have to wait for it to be painted first,

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which I'm doing tomorrow, um, and I'm gonna get to work on the fabric stuff now. Before I go, I also wanted to mention I got these shoes. That's it. Okay, fine. I'm laying out all the pieces so you can

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see how they will be placed. [Music] Now it's time to paint the base coat. I use black Plasti Dip and apply about three or four layers and let it dry between each coat. Note: before this, I did go over all the foam lightly with a heat

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gun to prep it for painting, but that's optional. [Music] While that dries, I'm going to work on the fabric pieces. First, I put on the stretchy pants, then I put on the looser, thicker pants, and I trace the areas that

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I need to cut off. I cut off the excess fabric. [Music] And I fold the edges over and sew them down to finish them. Next, I take another pair of pants and slide it on my arm to make a sleeve. Then I cut off the excess

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fabric, run a stitch through it to fit it around my arm better. I cut off the excess fabric again, then fold the sleeves right side in, and this is what I'm left with. I trace the area I need to end the sleeve

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at and finish the edges. Then I take all the leftover fabric from the pants, and I use it to make a shirt. Any basic shirt pattern should work. [Applause] Then I take the sleeves I just made and attach them to the rest of the shirt, and

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I use chalk to mark where I need to add all the detailing. Then I begin gluing pieces on. [Music] [Applause] [Music] There's tubing detailing on the leg that I made by cutting this leaf shape out of fabric, and I take the Yayahan EVA foam

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dowels and cut them in half to make them go farther. Then I glue them all down to the fabric. [Music] I attached all the crotch and hip pieces together with straps. [Music] Then I take some more tubing detailing I

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made and add them to those p—

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the details underneath then i glue everything on [Music] i don't even know if you can hear me but in the slight chance that you can people always comment in my oh my god people always yell at me in my comment

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section saying if you are going to be spray painting you need to wear a mask guys my face isn't on camera most of the time when i'm painting but i do own one and i'm going to wear it

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right now you have proof so please don't yell at me everything's gonna be okay crisis averted anyway right now i am going to take the rest of the scraps of fabric from the pants and i'm going to glue them to the back of

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pieces of foam and these are just like little boot covers because the boots have a bunch of different weird layers and i think this will be the easiest way to accomplish that so that's what i'm doing [Music] i attach the fabric to the foam with

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some loctite spray glue [Music] and i do this to about six pieces that are gonna be layered on top of each other i also finally got around to making the mask and ran out of black foam so i used

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white instead and i just coat it with black plasti dip like i did with the rest of the suit once that piece is dry i attach it to the other pieces that i covered in scrap fabric so i just wanted to update you on how

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it's going i did finish making everything so i'm very happy about that i didn't finish everything i just finished building it and making it it's all totally wearable that's usually the part i dread the most because like there's so

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many different ways you can put things together and just like figure out how to do that is kind of stressful but it all fits it all goes on it looks great it's really cool i'm going to show you what

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it looks like on before i paint it so you can see the difference between the before and after of painting anyway i'm gonna put it on and show you what i got [Music] so here it is on it looks

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so cool now i'm going to show you the dressing process and how i put all the pieces on the boot covers just connect with velcro in the back the crotch guard and hip plates are all attached as one piece and it has an

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elastic strap that buckles in the back and these flaps on the hips also connect in the back with a buckle i made a little scarf that velcro's in the back and the chest plate has elastic straps that buckle in the back

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and velcro that attaches the lower half together [Music] the mask has a buckle attached at the end of the straps and i just added an extension to the wrist of these gloves that velcro closed i cut the dress apart and attached

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strips of fabric together to create this cape and this is what it looks like with everything on since i wanted the fabric to look weathered and all match the same color i watered down some acrylic craft paint to

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the desired color and i applied it all over the fabric areas here you can see one of the legs of the pants painted and unpainted and the big difference it makes i also lightly brushed over all the foam

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pieces with some light tan paint to look like dust and sand and i made the tighter pants darker with watered-down paint [Music] i added black detailing on the indentations of some of the foam pieces to make them more defined

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and i painted the shoes the same color as the rest of the fabric [Music] [Applause] i also did the same with the gloves [Music] and the mask as well [Music] then i went over all the rest of the

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foam pieces to make them look weathered and dusty by lightly brushing on sand colored paint [Music] then i went in the crevices and indentations with black paint to make the details really stand out [Music] and then you're done with the painting

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process [Music] okay so i finished painting everything do you like my hat it's all right here everything's dry all the pieces are attachable and adjusted so they fit i weathered it to make it look like it's been worn in the

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desert so that was such a fun process my favorite process of anything is always painting because one i just like painting it feels very therapeutic and two it's usually the final steps so i get very excited about that step

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because i know i'm close to the finish line when i'm there here you can see like i painted all the fabric pieces to be way more cohesive with each other because they were all kind of like a bunch of different tones and now they

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like match almost perfectly and i made them look really weathered as well as like the armor you can see there's like some uh light dry brushing on edges to make it look like it's just like a little sandy

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and a little dusty and a little beaten and worn i flipped the hat around because i don't even know why i'm wearing it i'm inside i don't need a hat it's just fun to wear but anyway this is

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probably one of the coolest suits i've ever made just because like it was so many different pieces and different layers and although i love the idea of drinking your own sweat and urine very resourceful it's not a functioning

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suit it's just for looks purely so unfortunately if you want to drink your own bodily fluids you got to do that the old-fashioned way um anyway i did already try everything on and it fits perfectly and by the time i post this there will

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be patterns available for the suit so you can just like skip that agonizing process of pattern making and get straight to the fun stuff it's the same exact pattern i made and used a couple days ago to be honest i think the

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patterning was a hundred percent the hardest part of this costume surprisingly this costume is relatively easy to make like i know it's really daunting and like there's so many layers and so many details but the layers are flat and as long as you have all the

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patterns you need and know where everything goes it's actually a pretty quick process i think i spent three or four days on this i'm not a hundred percent sure because i did so much so fast it's kind of all been a blur um

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i'll know by the time this video is being edited how many days i spent on it so i'll add that here and if you wanted to make this and thought that it was going to be like some big impossible daunting project

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and don't think you have the skills for it i promise you you can make it it actually was not that hard if you can get your hands on some craft foam some glue and some paint you can make this costume i believe in you i

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know you can do it once you have the pattern it's literally just putting a bunch of pieces together and none of them are like crazy dynamic shapes or have like wild finishing this was just coated in some layers of plasti dip and

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then dry brushed with some tan paint so i just hope that if you wanted to make it now you have the motivation to do it now you have the resources it's also surprisingly comfortable and wearable so i cannot wait to wear it to an event and

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see like a bunch of other doom cosplayers that would be so cool but yeah i have a photo shoot coming up very soon and the makeup i'm gonna try to replicate is lady jessica i'm not gonna make a dedicated makeup tutorial for it

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it's too much of a no makeup makeup looks so i will be answering a little makeup part in the next clip and then i will be showing you the results of the photo shoot i am so excited to see them

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i'm so excited for you to see them so let's go [Music] to do her makeup that looks like she's not wearing any makeup first i start with an even coat of foundation [Music] then i take a beige eyeshadow and

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contour around the tip of my nose to make it look sharper [Music] and along the sides of my nose as well as above the tip i look at reference photos of her face to try to recreate her bone structure

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i also define my cupid's bow my cheekbones and my jawline then i add some shadow to my eyelids and i switch to a more red shadow and darken around my eyes [Music] i use a white eyeliner to line around

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the inner corners of my eyes [Music] and i go around that with a warm brown liner then i fill in my eyebrows next i use a matte white powder and highlight the tip of my nose between my eyebrows

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and my chin then i use a shimmery and highlighter and highlight the top of my cheekbones the tip of my nose and above my lip then i take a black eyeliner and very lightly line my upper lash line and i

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drag out a wing slightly to make my eyes look pointier then i take a warm brown eyeliner and line around my lips to recreate her lip shape [Music] then i go over that with some natural matte lipstick and add some more definition with a warm

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brown liner pencil [Music] then i apply mascara lightly around my upper lashes i darken my eyebrows a bit then i put in these colored contact lenses they make a huge difference and i will add a link to where you can get

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them in the description [Music] next i reshaped my forehead a little by filling in my hairline with a dark brown eyeshadow [Music] and i dab a little bit of that in the corner of my lips [Music] then i put my hair in a low ponytail and

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that's pretty much it for the makeup [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i really hope you guys found this tutorial helpful and if you wanted to make this costume i hope it is a lot less daunting now if anything i hope

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this video showed you if i can do it you can definitely do it and i'm so excited to see what you guys come up with if you use this tutorial so if you post pictures or videos of it please tag me

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on social media so i can see it nothing makes me happier than knowing that people are actually using my tutorials because i love making these videos and i love crafting and it makes me feel like we're crafting together when i know

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you're watching my tutorials while you make stuff so thank you so much for watching i have tons of other videos on my channel if you guys are liking the more vlog style videos please let me know in the comments i've been getting a

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lot of good feedback on it so i'll keep it up because i enjoy talking to the camera it makes me feel like i'm just talking to you and i will link other videos that i have been doing that in

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right here so you can watch those if you enjoy them i hope you have an amazing night or day enjoy crafting and being creative and i will see you in the next video bye [Music]

Topics:Dune costumestillsuit cosplaycraft foam armorDIY costume tutorialAlyson Tabbithacosplay patternfoam craftingPlasti Dip paintingthrift shop fabriccostume making tips

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