About Odin Makes

Odin Makes is a YouTube channel that has been described as "a cooking show for props". Each week, Odin puts together a cosplay prop based on pop culture such as film, anime, or video game. He shows the audience step-by-step how to create patterns, work with a variety of materials, and troubleshoot issues throughout the building process, which is both comical and relatable. The majority of his creations consist of EVA cosplay foam with other materials, out of which he makes helmets, weapons, shields, armor, and even full body cosplay suits.

Odin has been building costumes and props since his teens. In his early twenties, he built three elaborate cosplay suits of the band GWAR using foam from old couch cushions. These costumes were so detailed that there are photos of them floating around the internet mistaking the cosplayers for actual band members.

In 2015, when Odin was building props for SMOSH, he was asked to host some prop builds for DIY Prop Shop. That was when he decided to start making prop build videos of his own. With some help from a friend, he rented some shop space and came up with the name: Odin Makes.

Odin Makes: YouTuber and Personality

FFO: Marvel, Star Wars, DIY Channels, Pop Culture, Prop Builds

With over 35 years of experience, Odin’s builds started in the pre-internet era. Self-taught, he learned from books by Tom Savini and Dick Smith, as well as magazines like Cinefex and CineMagic. Odin honed some of his skills by building model kits, painting miniatures for tabletop games and by creating props and costumes for other prestigious productions.

In 2017 Odin started his YouTube channel Odin Makes, a DIY series about making props for cosplay, or just for display. Episodes focus on novice to intermediate skill levels, inexpensive materials, and often, minimal power tools. In each video the prop is taken from the very first step of pattern making to the finished painting and details; often featuring on-the-fly, on-screen problem solving. It's like a cooking show, but for props.

Episodes have included: the Infinity Gauntlet, Soul Edge from Soul Calibur, a full suit Gundam cosplay, and a full Mechagodzilla cosplay.

Odin Abbott of Odin Makes holding the chain swords of Kratos from God of War with props hanging on the wall behind him in his shop Odin Abbott of Odin Makes

Felicia Cowley

Felicia is the current co-host of the Odin Makes project build Livestreams. She enjoys working on long-term full costume projects with Odin as they chat with fans and answer questions.

Felicia's degree is in Fashion and Design and she works as a professional seamstress, patterning and making custom wedding dresses.

She has a passion for dressing people for costume events; she won many costume contest awards during her years working for Decades Costume Shop

Felicia Cowley of Odin Makes. Woman posed with foam chainmail wearing a handmade face mask around her neck. Felicia Cowley of Odin Makes

Shop Gremlin

The Shop Gremlin is the shop cryptid at Odin Makes. They have experience and education in robotics, Mechatronics, chemistry, business management, web and graphic design, live entertainment set design painting and dressing, PCB and wire soldering, electronics repair, FDM printing, FDM Printer repair, 3D object design, Arduino c++ programming, Adobe creative suite, AutoDesk CAD, Inventor, Fusion 360, Revit, Vectric CNC design and machining, arts and crafts, airbrush and traditional painting, sewing, and needle crafts.

At their day-job, SG creates and updates assembly instructions for locomotive and other large diesel engine pumps.

They enjoy playing video games, LEGO, food, and the beach.

Gerry Elgart-Fail

Gerry is a long-time friend of Odin thanks to an outgoing personality and a sandwich. Officially, Gerry is the Odin Makes Cosplay Repair Coordinator for the Odin Makes Cosplay Repair booth at SacAnime twice a year. Unofficially, he assists Odin and Shop Gremlin with various facets of the Odin Makes brand as well as reminds them both to eat, hydrate and breathe. They are both still functional, so it is assumed that he’s doing a good job.

By day, Gerry is an IT Manager at a prestigious country club in Pebble Beach. He has been doing IT for over thirty years. But his real passion is being creative. Alongside being an award-winning cosplayer, Gerry is a visual artist and does logo and tattoo design, fine art and was the storyboard artist for the award-winning independent film, A Long Road to Tao. He also recently published his first novel, System Glitch.

Gerry has decades of experience as a maker, from building costumes and props for Halloween and theatre, to making sure his children had awesome Halloween costumes of their own. He looks forward to building more large cosplays and continuing his volunteer work with Odin Makes. You can find him on Instagram @gerrybuiltprops.

Booth Volunteers

  • Mariah and Aaron

    Mariah and Aaron are longtime friends of Odin Makes. They volunteer at the booth to speak with those that come to see the props so that the rest of the Cosplay Repair volunteers can focus on helping repair costumes. You can find them at other conventions with their own booth selling collectibles, oddities and other products. Please give them a follow on their social media sites.

    (Instagram) @darkrenegade911

    (YouTube) Adaptable Gamers Inc.

    (Facebook) Zombie Prevention