New Contest: Warframe Cosplay on a Budget!

[BakeMyCake]

My rendition of the Grineer Napalm with some liberties.

 

Additional pic

De facto it cost no money, since all the materials used were already owned. Here is the breakdown of all the materials:

• Boots
• Thermal underwear
• Gloves
• Sweatpants
• Down jacket
• One ceramic dinner plate
• Vacuum hose with the ... whatever you guys call that stick thing
• One purple marker(because black ran out)
• A bunch of plastic bags totaling roughly 2$
• Transparent scotch tape
• One sheet of A4 paper

Of all of this only the paper, scotch tape, marker and plastic bags were expended. It's hard to count the price of a single sheet of paper, but if you count the costs of entire packages of the mentioned materials, then I'd say that this costed a total of roughly 13$.

Tutorial:
 

Spoiler

Step 1: DO NOT draw on your ceramic plate! It will probably never wash out! Instead draw on a piece of paper and tape it to the outer side of the plate.
Step 2: Make a tape ring around your head and tape that ring to the inner side of your plate. You now have the mask.
Step 3: Put sweatpants on top of your thermal underwear. Roll the sweatpants up to your knees and stuff with plastic bags. You now have the iconic Grineer thighs.
Step 4: Roll your down jacket up to your chest. Stuff your shoulders with plastic bags until you get the volume resembling shoulder plates.

 

[maripod]

9 hours ago, arifnur01 said:

as a frost main i approve of this.

you really capture it well. especially with the towel xD

I CANT IM DYING XDDDD

[GAT-X207]

18 hours ago, Phovos said:

 

Bloody hell, that's awesome. And it cost only $20 to make?

Actually, most are recycled materials XD it doesnt look like that cuz it's covered in rubber foam~ I calculate around $10-$15 only. 

[ZappingZinny]

Here's my "budget Wukong" costume!

  

 

My goal and challenge I set for myself was not to try not to use "ready made" materials like a morph suit or paint, but items that were seen as recycled or cheap that are household items everyone has. Anyone can use paint to match a specific pattern, so I tried to pick items that already resembled him (like the priority mail boxes having the red lines already). I didn't want to just use a black shirt with blue painted lines so I made my costume from scratch out of everyday items instead of going for pinpoint accuracy to keep with the spirit of the "budget costume" theme 

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Materials Used:

• 2 black trash bags
• Tape (black and blue duct tape, clear packaging tape)
• 3 cardboard "priority mail" boxes (1 poster box and 2 regular boxes)
• 4 sheets of printer paper
• 2 paper cups
• Aluminum foil trays (1 grill topper and 2 cookie trays)
• 2 ribbon things
• 4 plastic bags
• 2 rubber bands
• 1 paper plate
• Sharpies (red, black and some light blue for his mask)
• Black long sleeve shirt with a blue t-shirt on top
• ...And a broom for his pole xD

All of these materials came from around my house so it was free!

[MystMan]

Wukong just flew in by priority mail......

....and boy are his legs tired!!

*cricket chirping*

......I'll see myself out now.... 


_{I'm not sorry}

[clxrffdman]

Is 3D printing allowed? I have a 3D printer and galatine designs already made.

[___Operator___]

Loki Costume, cost me $0 bucks

 

[ElberethGilthoniel]

Sorry for the quality, but, alas, there is no other camera 
I made the Trinity in the skin STREGA.
A bit of art, a little bit of mine ... but I tried
Materials:

• - Hair $ 13
• - Paper 0.26 $
• - Gloves 3 $
• - Make-up 2 $

 

[(PSN)TheLadySaphira]

Here is my Valkyr cosplay, one of my favourite Warframe in the game 😃 thought of making it in my own colours of black, red and white.

List of materials I used

Pair of back leggings - £2.30

Long sleeve black top- £2.50

Black, Red and White paint - £4.50

Cheap hose pipe - £1

Super glue – got in a multi-pack of 3 for £1 and only used one tub which cost £0.33

Old pair of black socks - Free

Old Fingerless gloves – Free

Card board – Free

Newspaper -Free

PVA glue – Free

(The stuff that says Free was stuff I already owned)

Total cost is - £10.63

[bombames]

Seeing the other cosplays here discourages me a little, and I can't imagine what people posted on twitter, but since I already took the pictures, here I go:

This is my attempt at Zephyr cosplay (with some color changes).

click on the image to see more.

_{i know it's bad :(}

Materials:

Clothes I had laying around - 0$

A bag I was gifted by my College - 0$

Some used papers (written on one side) - 0$

Already bought and half used sellotape - 0$

Total money spent:

0$

Edited May 31, 2017 by bombames
fixed link

[Arkis-Prime]

Greetings Tenno! This is my budget entry to the contest: Nekros Prime! Well, ok he's not really primed, or even un-primed for that matter. Nekros Pre-Alpha! All items were currently owned or recycled so budget was a whopping $0.

Material List:

Costume: 1 thick cardboard box, 1 thin cardboard box, 1 old bed sheet (for the cape), 1 bath mat, 1 milk jug, 3 bungee cords, 1 dog cone, 1 pair of disposable gloves, 2 thin tubes (for the finger dangly thing), duct tape, 1 clothes peg, cap/jacket/t-shirt/pants, pencil/permanent markers for the mask and armor detail.

Grakata: 1 old drill, 1 old flashlight with charger, 1 bull clip, 1 toilet paper roll, 1 watering can head, duct tape.

I think that's everything, had a lot of fun working on this! Made some extra bonus footage for fun too:

What Nekros does when he thinks no one is watching.

What Nekros does when he finds out people have been watching.

Best of luck to everyone!

[Gravysaurus]

Here's my Grineer Scorpion Cosplay! XD

Grineer Scorpion with zip line.

Materials used:

• onesie - already owned
• black lipstick - already owned
• socks - already owned
• sword - already owned
• bag - already owned
• zip line made of toilet roll, alfoil and belt

Total cost = $0 :D

Edited May 31, 2017 by Gravysaurus
Edited because my 2nd image wasn't showing up

[Jagazaar]

Introducing the Grineer Elite Lancer - super dodgy edition! 

Everything used from pre-owned stuff lying around, but here's a breakdown:

• Generic black pants, shoes & shirt
• Pajamas shoved down pants to bulk up scrawny legs
• Gardening gloves - with bonus grass stains!
• Black jacket
• Pillow shoved down back of jacket to make 'hump'
• Cloth costume face mask painted yellow (from old Lemongrab costume)
• Cheap toy gun (not pictured - 4 annoying noisy fire modes)
• Plenty of sweat from wearing all of the above in hot weather

Total cost of materials - $0

Total fun had farting this mess together - plenty

Thanks for the laughs DE & other participants, great event & efforts all around! :)

Edited May 31, 2017 by Jagazaar
Picture links derping out... repeatedly >__>

[Jagazaar]

Not a separate entry for us two, but adding an extra pic for kicks - friends who slay together, stay together. GET CLEM! :D

[(PSN)LeBlingKing]

Nice. I was about to ask why it looked like you guys used the exact same corridor to take a pic. 

[Enrick04]

 

excalibur!

CARDBOARD
TAPE 
METALIC RULES 
BAG

:)

[Nomenium]

Romantic Corpus Target Cosplay 

Base was created by sewing some old clothes together, then i glued cardboard and styrofoam on that, painted and voilà, ready for the Tenno to come (and prabobly leave immediately after seeing this  )

Budget and materials: 
Cardboard (Got it from the store for free)

Old clothing I found in the closet (Not really worth anything )

Glue (A lot actually, around 5$)

Paint, (White,Black and a bit of red) (I think that everyone has atleast 2 differend sets of paint somewhere at home so no cost here :V )

Tube from old vacuum i found (No budget here nither, i hope nobody is gonna miss these)

Some flowers and a glass of Void Tears for the decorations that I ,,barrowed,, from Orokin Living Room 

1 Romantic Corpus Target (Priceless and also free at the same time)

 

In the end the only thing that I spended money on was glue

(Total budget: 5$ )

Hope I made it on time :v It's 31th of May and I never could read differend time zones 

[-V-Endymion-V-]

Bobble head Excalibur here!

I just finished my build, that took me about 4 hours to put together. It was mostly made with materials I had on hand, and I tried to capture that Chibi-drawn "100 days of warframe" parody look. Hope you like it? Anyways, the materials are listed just below;

The materials:

Foam mat- around 9$

Fake leather- had this on hand, but the piece is roughly 4$

Pants- got 'em at second hand for about 2$

 Cardstock paper- around 1$

Old socks- free

Old gloves- free

Two markers- 1$

Thick cardboard (for skana and mask)- 0.5$

Total- 17.5$

 

Edited May 31, 2017 by -V-Endymion-V-

[Saberpeep]

Well unfortunately this contest ran right through finals so I didn't have enough time. Heres as far as I got on an atlas costume:

Made from recycled cardboard boxes, (also a few sheets of paper for the cutting templates if that counts)

The box was shipped to me from some product I bought so it's basically free, but it probably would have come to ~$8

[KRYPHUS]

Greetings from Brazil!
Here is my cheap Vauban Prime cosplay.

Materials:
A4 yellow paper
Coat
Scotch tape
Acrylic gold paint
Old headphone
Top hat
Two bananas 

I found it at home, so it was all for free. :D 

Bonus: Orokin reactor (papaya)

[Loki_Speight]

Here is my entry:

Since the last costume contest, there has been a little Dethcube supporting us.

He was very tired though and didn't like his costume much.

All materials for it where already lying arround our house, but here's the list:

- yoga matt  ~6€

- a stick of  hotglue ~0,50€

- acrylic paint

- knitted hat ~5€

- 3D-printed "eyepiece" ~material and energy cost come together to 0,60€

Edited June 1, 2017 by Loki_Speight

[[DE]Taylor]

I unfortunately didn't get to participate during Prime Time, but I wanted to make this since the contest was announced, so here we go.

Tin pans: $3 for 3
Gold gift bag: $1.50
Paint: $1.50
Foam board: $1
Gold tissue paper: $1.25
Curtain rod: $1.50

[Lilith_Alpha]

So this is my attempt at a Budget costume solution

I present Loki, the deciever.

More pictures:

Spoiler

 

 

Since Loki_Speight and I are married, live together and produced a Dethcube together,

we also share the same material pool, meaning that all of the materials where also lying arround the house already ( we like to build stuff)

Here's the breakdown for the materials:

- Cheap yoga matt 6€

- 2 Sticks of hotglue 1€

-Acrylic paints - Already lying arround the house

-Double sided Tape 5€

-Duct Tape - LOTS OF IT, but cheap 2€

-Back Hoodie - already owned

-2 black Sweaters -already owned

-Camouflage caro Pants - already owned

-pair of gloves - already owned

- Bolto pistol - 20k Credits, 1 Lato, 800 Polymerbundles, 2 orokin cells and 2 Neurodes, but luckily my wife built it already 2 years ago for the Halloween contest

- Corpus Trophy - I built that one 2 years ago for the Halloween contest

So construction wise I cut up the Yoga Matt into convinient Loki-shaped pieces and glued them together with loads of Hotglue.

The arm pieces were cut out and blasted with a blowdryer to mold them into shape. Afterwards I painted it all with Acrylics.

The rest then was assembled with duct tape and doublesided tape to look somewhat not offputting.

I hope you enjoy it and have lots of fun!

Good luck everyone!

Edited June 1, 2017 by Lilith_Alpha

[Laszlok]

Budget Sargas Ruk:

Expenses: $9 for 3 orange t-shirts.

Everything else I already had on hand: bike helmet, cardboard, paint, bath towel, knee and elbow pads, various safety pins and duct tape.

[Insert greedy milk joke here] 

[cloudsoda]

Here's my entry! I recently started playing again and I finally got Zephyr. :D I'm addicted to divebombing now. I love the Monsoon helmet!

 

However, I suck at taping cardboard.

All the stuff I used (aside from my shoes and black long johns) was my dad's old cycling gear (plus his racing gloves)!

Materials:

Cycling helmet

Cycling jersey

Cycling thermal vest

Cycling armwarmers

Car racing gloves

Duster jacket for tablet (aka the hood on my head)

Spare water bottle holders

Cardboard

White acrylic paint

Black acrylic paint

Electrical tape

(Fun fact: when I was taking these pics, a police helicopter started circling the roof. I don't blame them; if I saw that monstrosity on my roof I'd be freaked out too. XD)

Edited June 1, 2017 by cloudsoda
Forgot a material lol