{"id":1258,"date":"2022-06-18T01:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2022-06-18T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:59:25","slug":"making-of-darth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/making-of-darth\/","title":{"rendered":"Making of Darth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ve arrived here because part of you (or all of you) is interested on how to DIY your own Darth Vader costume. Guess what? It is entirely possible. I had a choice between purchasing a ready-made costume or just hacking my way through a Build-to-Made project. The latter just seemed more appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thought here was pretty simple: to take a look at something in a much different way, taking ordinary household supplies from nationwide stores like Walmart, Dollar Tree, Five Below and turn these supplies into something meaningful. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Please note, this list, pricing, and product availability might vary per location. But you can use this as a frame of reference to get started on your own build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elements to consider<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are a few elements to consider when making Darth. There are actually a number of die-hard fans that have successfully DIY-ed their way through an entire costume. Because I was pressed for time, I purchased the mask for about $20. My focus was on the armor and chest box, the belt, and light saber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(p.s. I’ll be updating this blog with more details, but please check out my Instagram stories<\/a><\/strong> for the entire play-by-play).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve arrived here because part of you (or all of you) is interested on how to DIY your own Darth Vader costume. Guess what? It is entirely possible. I had a choice between purchasing a ready-made costume or just hacking my way through a Build-to-Made project. The latter just seemed more appealing. The thought here … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildtomade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}