My Fate Is Twisted with Worbla

My Fate is Twisted!

Worbla is a very interesting thermoplastic material, which has become very popular and with good reason. However it does come at a price point not everyone can afford. Also as far as internal structure goes, it’s very hard to make it stand on its own, not to mention molding it. Yet it works wonder with a foundation underneath. Most people usually stick with craft foam, since Kamui cosplay made a brilliant tutorial about it and gained a lot of fame at the same time. I will use it in several planned projects and then some more. For now you’ll just have to make do with my first attempt at using the material some years ago. Worbla is very fascinating as it will easily stick to itself, melts with heat and becomes solid but flexible when cool. I did consider some point at tracking down the factory and buy a container load of the stuff.

Introducing the hat of the one and only Twisted Fate from League of Legends, a card hustler, magician and over all fancy pants. Due to the nature of 3d models and video game design, it is a hat that is virtually impossible to make with felt or leather. It’s black on top and red underneath. With an almost Robin Hood like style to it. He is a handsome rogue after all.

I did manage to make the hat work with worbla without any support under. This came at a cost, when it comes to the not so neat and clean top part, where the hat is wobbly. Inside the dome, I glued red felt, for conformist and due to sweat. Worbla is plastic and the texture repels water and is quite unpleasant on the skin. At a later point I added a chin strap, since the darn thing blew off my head during bad weather. The hat is pretty much a sheet of plastic easily carried by any gust.

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