The $4 Hylian Shield

This Halloween, I wanted to do a Star Wars theme. My 4-year-old shot it down; *she* just wants to be a princess. Any princess but Leia.

Princess Zelda, however, was suitably glamorous in the munchkin's eyes.

My two sisters agreed to help with Halloween if they could both be Link, AND if I would provide the costumes.

So, to fit my budget, I came up with this.

First step was to trawl the discount costumes for suitable props. This little $4 set from Walmart jumped out at me, as it was closest to the shape I needed. But that crappy dragon decal had to go.

Acrylic here. For the sequel I'll use primer, but here I settled for a couple of haphazard coats.

Allow to dry for 3 or so hours.

Paint on your best impression of Link's shield, put it up to dry, and call it done.

The sequel will use stencils, and I'll update this when it's done. I wasn't sure this would work at all the first time, so it didn't seem worth it.