Note! If you haven’t played Monster Hunter World yet, beware mild spoilers for early armor sets.

Note #2! Unless otherwise stated, all prices are listed in USD.

These are suggestions to help anyone who wants to cosplay these designs, but doesn’t know where to start. If you find a better fabric, more helpful pattern, go for it!

Kulu Armor

I really dig the colour scheme and desert nomad aesthetic here. It’s unfortunate that it’s a belly-costume (since I don’t like to show mine) but it would be easy to extend the top down to tuck into the belt.  And for once the men’s armor also has skin! (dat deep v, tho)

Fabrics

‘Leather’

You have two approaches here: Either get twill and do applique, or a leather like material and use a leather or multi-surface paint to paint on the pattern. I chose to find sources for the orange since cream is a bit easier to find in most fabrics and paints.

Right to Left:

• Fabric Wholesale Direct Polyester twill in Gold at 3$/yd
• Fabric.com Mill Creek Faux Leather in Thurston Copper at 13$/yd
• Fabric Wholesale Direct Vinyl Upholstery at 7$/yd
• Fabricville Cyrus Light leather look in Camel at 30$/m (CAD)

Pants and undershirt

For the men’s pants, they’re box pleated and look to be leather or a worn twill in a basic tan. The women’s are much softer looking and look to be a cool, almost olive, brown.

Right to Left:

• Women’s pants:
  • Cosplay Fabric’s Desert Robe in Brown/ivory at 20$/yd
    • It’s not the exact colour but it’s the most textured and comfortable looking option I could find
  • Fabric Wholesale Direct Polyester twill in Khaki at 3$/yd
  • Fabric.com Cotton Twill in Khaki at 7$/yd
• Men’s pants:
  • Fabricville Old Navy Twill in Cardboard at 15$/m (CAD)
  • Fabricville Cyrus Light leather look in Camel at 30$/m (CAD)

Sash & Cape

This was the hardest to source, since it’s a sun-faded salmon/rust colour.

Left to Right:

• Fabric.com Island Breeze Gauze in Coral at 4$/yd
• Fabricville Cotton Gauze in Papaya at 13$/m (CAD)
  • although it’s darker than the others, since it’s 100% cotton you can fade it until you’re happy with the colour.
• Fabricville Handkerchief Linen in Salmon at 20$/m (CAD)
  • It’s actually 100% ramie, not linen. But. It’s the right colour. Ish.

Patterns

• Women’s
  • Cosplay by McCall’s Prelude Bloomers (M2082) – view A
  • Cosplay by McCall’s Power Brace (M5923) – view A (Bra), E (Bracers)
  • McCall’s Paneled Bra, Top, Dress, and Leggings (M7578) – view A (Bra)
• Men’s
  • Cosplay by McCall’s Thirst (M2090) – Vest
  • Period Patterns #58 Men’s Elizabethan Garments for the beautiful pants
  • Simplicity Men’s Renaissance Costumes (4059)

Pukei Armor

This is the costume that kicked off the whole post when I was browsing Cosplay Fabric’s sale and realised that the Mermaid Oil slick in the original green was the perfect fabric for this set. Naturally I tweeted about it in the most professional of ways:

Fabrics

Although the picture above just looks like a flat green, the monster itself has green, blue, purple feathers and scales. (he’s so derpy and silly, he’s my favourite of the game, hands down). So I expanded the fabric selection to be lustrous like the scales might be in real life.

Feathers

Left to Right:

• Cosplay Fabrics Mermaid Oil slick (green) at 20$/yd
• Spandex World Hologram Fish Scale (green) at 14$/yd
• Fabric.com Timeless Treasures’ Plume at 12$/yd

Brown Leather

Left to Right:

• Fabric.com Buffalo Camel print at 6$/yd
• Fabric Wholesale Direct Vinyl Upholstery at 7$/yd
• Fabricville Elephant suede in taupe at 35$/m (CAD)

Corset

Left to Right:

• Fabric Wholesale Direct Vinyl Upholstery (but in black) at 7$/yd
• Cosplay Fabrics Textured Pleather at 30$/yd
• Fabricville’s Leather Look Rawhide at $27/m (CAD)
  • note: As someone who frequents leathers shops, THAT IS NOT WHAT RAWHIDE LOOKS LIKE

Patterns

• Row 1, left to right
  • Butterwick Cape, Skirt, Bonnet and Earmuff (B5265)
    • Cape!
  • Butterwick Making History Wrist Bracers, corset, Belt and Pouches (B5371)
    • All of them are useful here to be honest but corset ‘D’ and pouch ‘G’ especially.
  • Cosplay by McCall’s ‘Stash’ belt (M2071)
• Row 2, left to right
  • Yaya Han for McCall’s Assassin costume (M7645)
    • Hood, corset
  • Melissa Watson for Palmer/Pletsch by McCall’s Dress (M7628)
  • Simplicity Misses’ 1950’s dress (8244)
    • If you look very closely, the dress for the Pukei armor set has an opening down one side and likely has a qipao/cheongsam style collar to get in and out.

Anja Armor

This is definitely the ‘worst’ when it comes to splitting the armor by gender. BUT. I still really like aspects of both designs so I’m going to cover the Anja armorset anyways.

Fabrics

The main fabric actually varies in colour here. The women’s armor is pink lizard print while the men’s is a rusty red. The Anjanath is actually pink, so I totally think they should have made the men’s pink too.

Lizard skin Fabrics

Left to Right:

• Spandex World #14894 at 10$/yd,
• Spandex World #8903 at 14$/yd,
• Cosplay Fabrics (Int’l) Mermaid Oilslick Pink at 19.99$/yd
• (your) skintone powermesh or tights to hold up those thigh highs.

These are all spandex fabrics, and will require a bit of extra care while working with them. However stretching them over an EVA foam base or sewing them to a spandex spacer/lining will help add some body. I did a little search for non-spandex fabrics but didn’t find anything in the right colour family.

Fur

Left to Right:

• Fabricville Yak Yak Fur at 50$ (CAD)/m, currently on sale at 25$/m
• Fabric.com Shannon Fur, Mongolian, at 31$/yd (Picture’s of grey to make it easier to see)

Patterns

Left to Right:

• Row 1
  • McCall’s Bikini and Cover up (M5400) view C, D
  • Misses’ Cosplay Armor (8630)
    • Note! Although this says ‘misses’ it can be used for the men’s armor as well. Legs are legs, and from the knee down, they’re not that different.
    • also, if you’re like me, and not as cool being bare-bellied, you can always copy the men’s breastplate design using this pattern
• Row 2
  • Punished Props Basic Helmet Digital pattern, only 2$!
  • Men’s Cosplay Armor (P0100) I’d suggest making a dart at the arm hole since it gapes there
  • Period Patterns #58 Men’s Elizabethan Garments – The doublets here could be modified to be made out of EVA foam for the men’s breastplate

Don’t forget your Palico!

Simplicity’s Stuffed Kitties (8403)

See you out on the hunt!
xox Calamity