If you need to make a prop or accessory for your costume and the item needs leather, consider this alternative shared by Andy and Nat Dempsey with The Replica Prop Forum (RPF) Facebook page. Instead of using the costly material, he turned craft foam into a leather like substance. To accomplish this, he put a sheet of crinkled aluminum foil over the craft foam, turned an iron to its hottest setting, and ironed over the craft foam. Having the foil between the iron and the craft foam prevents melting and gives the craft foam a convincing leather texture. That texture will really pop with light washes of paint.
To add faux stitching around the edges, a commenter suggested using the tip of a flathead screw driver to leave the marks.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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