I spent a lot of time on the accessories for this look so I thought they needed their own post. Also, the accessories were mostly not sewing like the rest of it. There were actually 2 sets of accessories since there were cosplay flavored ones for the Disneyland Half Marathon and the fashion ones for the fashion shoot.
In both cases, I utilized 3d printing heavily. First up was the eyeballs. I’m going to show photos from the visor eye balls because they’re bigger so it’s easier to see what’s happening. Above is one of my test prints. I modeled it in Fusion 360 from photos of the Snowths. And, in case you want to make your own, I’ve uploaded them to Thingiverse! Get them here.
When I actually printed everything I did I at very high resolution so they looked pretty good and fairly smooth. Certainly good enough for a race.
And then I crazy glued everything together.
Pretty good once it was all together.
Then it was just attaching to the visors. Yes, that is me in the hotel room sewing it on the day before. Of course. When I modeled the eye balls, I added sewing hooks so I could attach it and have something to put the thread through. I was a little worried that the thread wouldn’t hold up to the bounciness of running, but it seemed to do just fine.
The visors also had horns. These were simple 2 piece shapes that I sewed and stuffed. I drafted the pattern on the computer. The right is how it started, but that was way too big. Not cute or proportional. Then it became the one on the left. Those were also attached to the visors the day before the race.
The final look:
The race was great and we got recognized so often! We were the only Snowths I’ve ever seen on a race and it was so much fun to have people shout “mahna mahna” at us and sing back for most of the half marathon. Gave us something to do when going through some of the drearier parts of Anaheim.
For the fashion shoot, I once again made use of my 3d modeled eyeballs. I modified the attachments on the back so they could be dangled as earrings. These are also printed at 50% compared to the others. I think they’re quite cute! I have this version up on Thingiverse as well — get them here.
For the fashion shoot, I also wanted a nod to the horns. Actual horns like on the visor were too in your face, so I decided to do my hair up in horns with some pink wefts and I’m quite pleased with the combination of fashionable and thematic. I had created a headband as part of my Her Universe Minnie look. It was a part that didn’t get used in the final version, so I was happy to have a reason to use it now! I modified it to have 2 posts instead of 1 and then modeled the horns.
I made the horns with ridges along them so that my hair would have something to grab on to. I also tried a few different sizes before finding the right one. The first ones were way too tiny. The second one way too big. The third one was just right.
The final headband is below. I actually totally messed up the part of the horn which the post sticks into which is why these are not on Thingiverse. When I pushed them down, they actually cracked off the inside so I ended up having to just superglue the horns down. It was fine for the shoot, obviously, but they’re not at a quality level right now where I’m comfortable sharing with others.
Here’s how they looked in the final shoot:
