At the same time I didn't want to rely on cardboard or something like that, so I spent awhile looking around. Eventually I was lucky and found an old cassette box that was made of a soft rubbery black plastic. I cut the spikes with tin snips and made them one solid piece to keep them lined up.
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To finish it all off, I used the same liquid rubber (Plasti Dip) from the batarang to cover up the plastic that had been exposed in cutting and give it a consistent finish.
Finding gloves to wear over them proved tricky. There are lots of good work gloves with padding that would look right, but I couldn't find any that are all black. In the end I bought a black and red pair and just used permanent marker to make it all black (I tried fabric dye but the gloves are 100% unnatural so the dye didn't stay).
See all of the batman costume here
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