How to Make a Winter Soldier Arm
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- I had a couple requests for how to make a winter soldier arm, so here it is. Took me a little while to figure out how to make something that resembled a mechanical arm without getting too expensive, but finally settled on a simple solution of duct tape. While this is not a completely smooth finish like the real winter solider arm, and the line pattern is different, it's one of the more inexpensive and fairly simple ways of making one.
I ended up finding some chrome duct tape after I'd already made most of the arm and spray painted it, but if you use chrome duct tape right from the start you won't have to bother with spray painting. The chrome duct tape can be found at JoAnn Fabrics or here on Amazon: amzn.to/2j59fgp
When you're wrapping your arm in duct tape, it's easiest if you have a second person, rather than having to wrap it yourself as I did. Keep the wrapping quite loose as you go, both for circulation reasons, and so the duct tape arm still fits after you cut it open. It doesn't have to be neat since you'll cover it later, just as long as the plastic bag is covered.
(The last shot was done in a mirror, so even though it looks like it's my right arm, it's actually my left)
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Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave. With a box of scraps.
Mr. Stane, Sir, we've explored what you've asked us and it seems as though there's a little hiccup...I'm not Tony Stark
I did this for my Halloween costume and it turned out amazingly. I used strictly silver Duck Tape and I ended up not having to paint it at all because the color was perfect. Thank you so much for the tutorial! I got a ton of compliments!
I'm thinking about dressing up for halloween this year and i'm looking at either a female winter soldier or black widow but i think after seeing this tutorial i'm leaning towards winter soldier.
i'm meeting Sebastian 148 days, and this looks like an easy way to do the arm, now i need to find the clothes, which will be harder
+Sam Mulvihill - That is awesome you're meeting Sebastian! For the clothes, check a 2nd hand shop. They usually have stuff that make a good base, and only need a few adjustments. Faster and usually cheaper than making something from scratch. Plus you don't feel as bad when you cut up something used.
How’d it go
This tutorial helped me and my boyfriend a lot! We made a base with plastic bags and tape just like the one you did, and then we glued the pieces of foam onto it. We decided to seal it with a few layers of white glue, and finally we painted it with silver spray painting. It looked awesome ^^ Greetings from Argentina !
facebook.com/BuNanCosplay/ Boyfriend here! There you can see the result ^^ Thanks for the tutorial
Hello in Argentina! Thanks for sharing the link. Looks great in the pics. I love the foam layering.
honestly this looks better than some worbla arms I've seen and this is movable!! will have to try it out, thanks for posting
TheKristyMack Thanks for watching :)
Amazing! I've been trying to DIY my own Winter Soldier arm for the last couple of weeks and I never thought of doing it like this. This basically blew my mind. It looks amazing too! Good job!
+CoulsonsArmy - Thanks :-)
@@Thewoodlandelf also a good way to do Cable's arm , and if you got a huge amount of metallic tape- also good for Colossus Cos-Play 😋😋👍
You did a FANTASTIC job on this!
Thanks 😊
So I'm seeing Civil War tomorrow and I used this method and the arm looks awesome! I actually used twine on the inside as a "lace-up"method, simply because me and my friend made it a tad too small- but it's not noticeable. Hopefully people at the theater will dig it. This tutorial was excellent!
+Shannon Stewart - Thanks. Actually kinda like your lace-up method. Would save having to retape it every time. Good luck with it at the theater tomorrow :-)
Thank you you saved my life! With the arm I did before I couldnt move my fingers or my arm. 😭 Since I have to exams on Halloween.. this Will be needed.
This is fantastic, I have my arm half done now. Thank you so much!
Thanks for watching :-)
I saw this video 4 years ago and made a arm to it
Now I’m back 4 years later making another arm
At the beggining I was like "Putting a bag around your arm and wrapping it with duct tape?" and then at the end I was blown away, realy looks nice :) :)
+Skeletonfinger1 - Thanks :-)
I've made a Winter Soldier arm before by layering duct tape and craft foam, but I was not very happy with it. I'm playing around with methods for my new make, and I might just end up using this tutorial because it's kind of genius. Plus, it would be easy to try to fold the duct tape scales a little differently so it looks a little more screen-accurate. Either way, the flat duct tape elbow covering is extremely useful. Thank you so much!
This really helps a lot. I plan on being Bucky for Halloween and I was very worried about the arm part. This gives me a lot of relief.
+Emma Tulotta - Good luck :-)
This is awesome! Had a looming deadline and a low budged and this is perfect and very effective.
Amazing! It's easy and cheap, and perfect if you wanna dress for fun but don't got the money or the time, it looks very good. Also for the elbow I cuted a sock and wrapped in the duct tape, so it would adjust better, really worked out for me. Thanks!
Thanks. And love the sock idea, more comfy! :-)
Good for Halloween and with a little tweaks (literally maybe 2) cosplay. You are so perfect
Thanks :-) Good luck.
So far this is the best looking obe i have seen and i have been looking for about 3 days now
Thanks 😊
Oh my gosh, this is amazing! I'm using this for my Vriska Serket cosplay, and I found that if you have tin foil and clear packaging tape, you can make the scales.
Cool, the packing tape/tinfoil is a great alternative. I'll admit I'm not familiar with Vriska Serket, but I googled her and yeah, I definitely see how it'd probably work pretty well for her too. Thanks for watching :-)
Thanks for revealing me the solution for my problems
+SOMEWHEREINTHEGALAXY - Thanks for watching :-)
That was actually really good I never new that you could do something like that with a plastic sack
Thanks 😊 That's my favorite part of costume making: finding out how much can be made with just random, round the house items.
This is awesome, looks simple too. Good job.
Thanks. Yeah it's pretty simple. A bit time-consuming, but not too bad.
*tackles you in a hug* Thank you thank you thank you. I've been looking EVERYWHERE and your's is the best and easiest tutorial I have found.
K Mocks lol, thanks for the hug. Good luck with your arm :)
Omg this is perfect! I thought it would be much more difficult but now I know that it's actually super easy! Thank you for posting this!
Thanks for watching. Good luck :-)
Wow really smart way of doing it. Much more cost and labour efficient that others I've seen. Also looks better when finished.
+Huw Davies - Thanks :-)
I used this tutorial for my Bucky cosplay, and it honestly worked so well, so thank you!
I considered using craft foam, so I could get a smoother finish, but for now the duct tape will do perfectly fine!
Thanks for watching :-)
Honestly thank you for this! I've got plenty of time, but very little leeway financially so even though I've wanted to knock up a WS costume since the original film came out, I've been daunted by how much I thought I'd have to spend on things like foam, plastics etc.
+A. Stark - Yeah, this way is a little time-consuming, but definitely pretty affordable.
I just wanted thank you sooooo much. Went to my first comic con today and went as Winter soldier, my arm looked awesome. Thank you so much for this video!
+Aysh Roche - Cool! The first con is always a magical experience isn't it? Glad you liked the tutorial, thanks for watching :-)
This really helped! I've been trying to find videos on how to make the arm, thank you!!
Good luck :-)
This is awesome. Great pointers for Thor's metal arm
Ooh good idea! Yeah for Thor's you won't even need to go over the shoulder so it should take less time than this one did. Good luck 😊
Wow, this was so helpful! I was planning to make it for this Halloween, but I decided to postpone it for next year, after The Civil War hits the cinemas, when my friends will hopefully know what my mask means. ;-)
Thx for the inspiration to do a more detailed one.
+Florin Oprandi - Thanks for watching :-)
I tries to make an arm too. I sticked silver foil on a pullover and it works. But your arm is amazing! So i'll make a second one. I takes a little bit more time, but it is great!
Built it!
And it looks fucking awesome!
+Aaron Knight - Cool, glad it worked for you :-)
I want to thank you so much for this. I used it at FanExpocanada in Toronto this year and got compliments at every turn; even a professional cosplayer took my picture!!!
Cool! Glad it worked so well for you 😊
This week's #craft project is a #cosplay tutorial for how to make a Winter Soldier arm. The arm is easily made out of duct tape, and while it's not a completely smooth finish like the real #WinterSoldier arm, it does make a fairly convincing #DIY mechanical arm for a Winter Solder #costume.
#CaptainAmerica #TheWinterSoldier #Marvel
+The Woodland Elf Hey, er how do you stop the inside elbow from creasing to much? PLS HELP
avril shields Make sure when you're doing the upper arm, you don't go down too far. It's better to have the lower arm pieces overlapping the upper arm, rather than the other way around. That way if it creases, it doesn't show as much.
How did you make the elbow please help
***** To cover the elbow itself, I just made a flat piece of several pieces of tape, bigger than the hole between the lower and upper arm pieces, and then just set that flat piece inside the other two. It's totally free-setting, not attached to anything, so it allows it to it bend whatever direction you move your arm. Just make sure it's quite a bit larger than the elbow hole, so there's no gap showing when you do bend your arm.
+The Woodland Elf, I happened on your channel by accident and I'm so glad I did. That was a very impressive diy! I just have one question. Would going over parts with clear coat spray paint help make the "scales" look or become harder. Giving it a sturdier look? I just wanted your advise before I attempt to make my own. One more thing, before you painted the shoulder piece it almost looked like the layered armor Capt. America wears. You're really good thanks for posting this.
Thanks for this tutorial! I was planning a winter soldier costume and had no idea where to start with the arm. Now I'm gonna do this. Thanks!
Good luck 😊
Thanks (I'm gonna need it!)
Beautiful job. I might be too much of a wuss to wear it in August in Atlanta for Dragoncon, though. 😊
+justalurkr Too hot out then?
We got lucky last year, wasn't too bad! Hoping for the same this year.
Dont you mean hotlanta?
Excellent video! Not too long or over complicated and easy instructions. Thank you very much
Thank you for making these awesome tutorials! Its very helpfull for my first cosplay costume :)
+Desirée Geers Good luck :)
You've made a metal arm? That's awesome, dude!
Well, "imitation metal," lol 😉
The Woodland Elf That Spidey quote from Civil war...
CS Yoon kh Gotcha, now that you say it, it clicks. (Only seen Civil War twice so far, so don't have it all memorized yet...)
This was great!!! I just finished making mine and I can't wait to wear it! It was somewhat difficult but totally worth it !! Thanks so much!!!
+Superwholock Fangirl Glad it worked for ya, thanks for watching :-)
Finally! A cheap and easy tutorial that looks very good! Thanks!
This is the best one I've seen so far. Probably, definitely gonna do this. Thanks a lot!
Thanks, good luck :-)
This was an amazing tutorial. It takes a little bit of time (I made the scales for 5 hours:)) but its totally worth it!
Yeah, it's definitely a bit time consuming, LOL, but glad it worked for you 😊
I love that this build, while not following the actual patter of Winter Soldier's arm actually has layers like Winter Soldier's arm. Most cosplay arms I've looked that sell for hundred's of dollars (except one) either look too plastic, too smooth, too bulky, or don't succeed in camouflaging the fact that the arm is multiple pieces to a reasonable extent. It's simple, has depth, it's cheap, anyone can do it, I love it.
Thanks :-)
Made it! looks great!
This was amazing! And way better than the other complicated methods they showed! Can't wait to make this for the convention! 😁
Thanks. Good luck on yours :-)
This is really helpful I might use it for my Cable costume instead of winter soldier.
+Dennis Bönnekamp - Cool, you're the second person in 2 months who was going to use it for Cable instead, lol. I'm thinking I should add it to the description as an alternative character use - minus the red star of course.
I'm trying this out, it's really good for being so cheap to make
Thank you!
This is Awesome!!!! Definitely going to try this. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching :-)
This is awesome!
+Michael Morgan - Thanks :-)
Awesome. Recommendation: Paint the red star a little smaller.
Yup, definitely a good tip. Thanks.
I agree but this is still really cool
I just finished lol ( still working a bit on the lower cast). there's a lot of room on the shoulder so in that area the arm kinda floats. Hope that ain't too much of a crime lol. Thank you for the video!
I'm sure the cosplay police won't write you a ticket, lol. Mine kinda floats there too, so I compensated by tucking it into the top of my jacket sleeve to hold it in place.
The Woodland Elf lol my sleeve isn't long enough
lol, well then just tell everybody it's not floating, it's all muscle 😉
memo to me- make this for next convention.
Hey, I’m not the only non-binary watching this video!
Thank you so much! This is so helpful! ❤❤
Oh hell yeah thank you
finally i know how to make a winter soldier arm! thank you :D i'll be using this method for the con i'm going to in January!
+harrysmykryptonitex cool, so you'll literally be a "winter" soldier in January
This was an awesome tutorial! Thanks
omg this is really cool i was actually wondering what i would be for this halloween because i wanted to do something a bit different (my cousins always copy my halloween costume ideas and i hate that ) and so i was thinking i would either be a ray from star wars or winter soldier and this vídeo helped me make a choice and i picked winter soldier thankyou this looks so easy and cool i will try it thanx again !! :)
+Mr.mystery Of Mysteries - Welcome, good luck :-)
That's a lot of fun tape
lol, yup ;-)
This is so cool I hope I can make this with the
Same appearance
+Jude Raboy - It's pretty easy once you get the hang of folding pieces.
I just did this myself and HOLY COW it looks cool! I used silver duck tape and spray painted it afterwards with chrome and it looks sick as frick. The arm pit was really hard to get right, I forgot to fix it before I sprayed it but I'm sure I can fix it after it has dried. I couldn't find a metallic red paint but I got some red varnish for the star and it should work. Thanks!
looks awesome 😚
Thanks 😊
I did it here and it worked pretty well! thanks!
I'm going to have to try this for my Halloween costume! Awesome tutorial!
currently working on this and it's going so well! thank you for the tutorial!^^
Thanks for watching. Glad it helped, and good luck on finishing yours 😊
thank you so much! I'm working on a winter soldier cosplay and this was a big help!!
+Victoria Esquivel Thanks for watching, good luck :)
at first i was like this is a fail why is she rapping her arms with a bag and tape and the i thought OMG i NEED to try this😍😍😍👌👌
Lol, yeah, it does look pretty bad when it first starts with the plastic bag and the duct tape wrapping. Thanks for watching :-)
dude thank you so much you got me inspired and I made my own plus the mask and I got the shield so thanls to you Im pretty much set for Halloween
+Jessie Sevichay Cool, thanks for watching and have a Happy Halloween :)
That looks so good!
Not srcasasm bte
Thanks 😊
I love this ! I'm on a budget this year for costumes this is a great idea I just need to figure out how to make the mask and the rest of the costume now ! thanks for making this video !
+Allysa Ramkishun Thanks for watching :)
Thank. You. So. Much. Your a present sent from above haha, I found my Halloween costume
+Ima Person lol, thanks for watching, and Happy Halloween :)
that is so awesome
+avenging gamer - Thanks :-)
That is awesome!! Thank you for doing a tutorial!
+lafinitryder - Thanks for watching :-)
I just got into cosplay, and did my first event (Firefly night) this past Friday at the "fandom bar" in town. They will be doing a Civil War event the week after the movie opens (to give people time to go see it). I'm totally doing this. I'm probably buying way too much duct tape (two 1.88-inch x 15-yard rolls of the chrome), but figure any left over will be good to have on hand.
+ackthbbft - That sounds like a pretty good amount of tape (mine were all partial rolls, so I don't know exactly how much I used, but I think it was around a roll and a half). That's awesome they're doing a Civil War event in your town and the Firefly night too! LOVE firefly!
This is amazing!! Thank for the video!!!
very good
Dang, for duct tape this looks pretty good
Thanks 😊
This saved my ass, thank you @Woodland Elf
wow!!! it's so cool!!! good job dude!!!
Thanks so much 😊
Great tutorial. Perhaps a costume in the future. Thanks.
sweet I'll give it a try!
This super awesome! Amazing creative mind you got there 👌😉
Thanks 😊
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is SO helpful!
Jessie Komala Thanks for watching :)
Ahh this is so cool! I've just achieved man bun length hair (proud af) so I'll definitely be trying this for comic con this year!
Cool, growing your hair out for a costume is definitely dedication. Good luck 😊
This is amazing. It's something even I can make and it looks AMAZING 😍
+santje98 Thanks :)
This is so cool 😄
Thanks :-)
I love this!! this is amazing, I am so going to make this
Thanks. Good luck :-)
Omg I found one of the best videos ever :D
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
The Woodland Elf :D
Great job with the arm! But I have a question, how do I wrap the second part without cutting off my blood circulation?
Do it in sections. So instead of doing one continuous wrap, tear off pieces of tape that are several inches long and stick them all over your plastic-covered arm, making sure the pieces overlap each other. That will keep it looser, but still allow it to be one solid duct tape form.
i actully just made this and omg it actully does look great thank you so much
You're welcome, glad it helped 😊
Wow this is great!!! Thanks so much for making this video!!! looks amazing!!!😄😄
Thanks :-)
Thanks The Woodland Elf, I'm a big cosplay fan and I love this
+Noah Farrell - Thanks for watching :-)
Thank you soooooo much for this!! This is so helpful xx
Thanks for watching :-)
thank you so much for helping me find a starting point, this looks so good by the way :)
Thanks, glad you found it helpful 😊
Thank you so much, also can you put subtitles please?
Ok, I think I just got the subtitles turned on. If not let me know.
thank you so much this helped so much
Thanks for watching :-)
thanks
Thanks for watching :-)
thank u so much!