Hey Cits and Civs, this is Kinshadow. You may know me from the random stuff I do in the community like the Guard Frequency Podcast (http://guardfrequency.com), my card games (http://kinshadow.com/games), my pumpkins, my Valentine’s day cards, etc. If you happen to be an OG Star Citizen fan, you may also know me as that guy who used to dress up like a pirate and hunt Logante on Wingman’s Hangar. For this year’s CitizenCon, I decided I wanted to dress up like my old pirate self once more, but the old shiny trenchcoat just wasn’t going to cut it (it smells like mothballs and plastic). I had some time on my hands and I figured I could probably pull off some half-way decent cosplay if I put my mind to it. You can see the results below in the first two pics.

Since then, a bunch of people have asked me ‘how’ I built my helmet. So, I decided to make a howto post. Before I start, I’d like to point people to a great couple of resources for EVA foam crafting:

- My original helmet and shoulder templates from from Evil Ted Smith : http://eviltedsmith.com He sells foam templates for a reasonable price or shows you how to make your own (which I do in this post). He also has GREAT videos on how to build all sorts of costumes.

- Humble Bundle just happens to be doing a cosplay foam crafting book sell!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cosplay-book-bundle

- I scanned all the templates I used in this build. Feel free to use them and skip about half the steps in this build :D You can download them here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwet7KWDw9emWGJuTHRWZDdoWmM/view?usp=sharing

Make sure you mouse-over each pic to see the text instructions