How do you stiffen your custom capes and cloaks?

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:19 pm

Well the title says it all. How do you coat/ stiffen your custom capes and cloaks?

I used glue and it worked vey nicely. The cloth was limp but it now is nice and stiff. But not too stiff. It's...perfect.

Well just post comments here...

TheOrk · Post by **TheOrk** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:32 pm

For the capes I put it on a minifig then I put a LEGO UFO over it and that stiffens it.
If you want it ragged just crumpel it up. Or just go to a fabric store and get somthing stiff.

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:42 pm

TheOrk wrote:For the capes I put it on a minifig then I put a LEGO UFO over it and that stiffens it.
If you want it ragged just crumpel it up. Or just go to a fabric store and get somthing stiff.

Are you refering to official LEGO capes and cloaks? I was talking about custom ones

.

And unfortunanly I don't ahve the money right now to go off buying fabric from stores. I don't have money to buy LEGO right now as it is. Oh well I will just have to wait till christmas to get some LEGO.

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:39 pm

spray starch (or liquid starch) works well too. I made a bunch of red, black, green, and white sails for my ships quite awhile back, and my mother suggested the starch.
(she is into all that craft stuff)

It worked out quite well, and the sails felt exactly like the lego fabric. All you would need to do is go to a fabric store and ask them if they have any scraps, or find out if you have an old t-shirt you can hack up.

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:47 pm

LEGOFREAK wrote: or find out if you have an old t-shirt you can hack up.

Muhhahahahahahaha! My mom has plenty of cloth and other nice goodies in the "Rag bag" as she calls it. Thanks for putting the lightbulb in my head Freak :idea: .

lil Jon · Post by **lil Jon** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:25 pm

I've never experiemented with custom capes. Do you use paper... from reading I'm guessing you use cloth.

Do these capes have a design or are they a flat color?

Can anyone post pictures of custom capes they've made!?!

Hurry!

(just kidding, you don't have to hurry) Sorry about so many questions.. don't wanna sound too needy.

Duke_Dave · Post by **Duke_Dave** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:29 pm

[quote="lil Jon"] Do you use paper.
quote]

I do. I find that they work for a while.(depends on if you play with them much, I don't really so this is in my experiance) but sometimes you have to print one up.

Dave

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:36 am

lil Jon wrote: Can anyone post pictures of custom capes they've made!?!

Here is a Falcon cape

And a Forestman cape

Both were made by me. Here is a article on Cloak and cape making by Ramus. If you scroll allllll the way down to the very bottom you'll see a custom Forestman cloak by Armothe

Jojo · Post by **Jojo** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:13 am

Hello!

Use paper. When I was young and commited customizing I always did:

Bye
Jojo

And now I'll flee from this place again.

lil Jon · Post by **lil Jon** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:54 pm

Commited customizing... haha

That looks pretty cool, Jojo

Paper just seems too weak, I would still want to play with them.

When I do a torso sticker, i put tape. How well do you guys think putting a tape over it would work/ how good do you think that would look.

It may look funny if its shiney.

Jojo · Post by **Jojo** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:35 am

Hello!

lil Jon wrote:Paper just seems too weak, I would still want to play with them.

Oh, I played with my customized paperfigs. In fact I played exessively with 'em as I prefered my own customized figs way over the standard LEGO figs then. And they lasted until today (OK, colours faded out a little.) I just played carefully. I wasn't a 5-year-old, you know...

Bye
Jojo

Post by **Formendacil** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:51 pm

lil Jon wrote:Paper just seems too weak, I would still want to play with them.

All of my custom capes are paper. And they have been played with. Pretty extensively. They have to be replaced occasionally (about yearly), but much less now that I play less and have less.