"PROMETHEUS" costume build.. Need some suggestions.

As most of you know, Sir Ridley Scott's newest Alien installment (Well, prequel) is coming out in a few months. I've been inspired to create my own sort of costume from the trailer we've seen. Obviously, it won't be too screen accurate. I just want to create something to wear to the midnight launch.

First things first, I'll be creating all armor pieces as 3D pepakura files and doing them that way. Can't spend toooo much money on this and don't really have much knowledge of modeling other than on a computer.



I have some questions for the RPF, though. Do any of you recommend where I could get a full plastic (maybe glass, but thats hard to work with) "Bowl" sort of helmet? I'd most likely be cutting it in half and then putting it back together with a control panel type mechanism in it. Like in this picture:



Also, where could a fella go about getting that type skin tight leather/spandex/anything bodysuit? I'd need one to match the kind of material used in the movie but I don't even know where to start when it comes to looking for one of those.

Any help would be widely appreciated. I know this is a crazy idea to make a costume for a movie that hasn't even come out but I'm challenging myself with it.

Thanks,
Wes

Any ideas at all? Really looking to start this soon.

Not sure about the plastic "Bowl." I haven't seen any pre-made shapes that big.
There was a post on a while ago dealing with cartoon Mr. Freeze costume that had a clear dome similar to the set up you have pictured but it wasn't as bubble shaped. You may start by searching for that and see what they used.

For the bodysuit a good start would to go with a full body wet suit and build the detail on. The material looks similar to Lycra, which many wet are made of.
Hope this helps

Cool idea good luck. I have been working on a spacesuit project for over a year and I still haven't figured out how I am going to produce the suit part. If you look at the screen caps of the trailer you will notice two different spacesuit designs. The other one may be easier to create since it doesn't have all of the colored ribbing detail. The helmet is going to be a problem if you are trying to use some aready made, since it is an unusally shape, an egg rather than a sphere.

I'm going to have a go at this as well. Finding an oblong dome for the helmet is going to be difficult, so I'm going to see about vacforming. Would be nice to know the helmet dimensions first, though.

My initial thought seeing as this is probably an original piece, you're going to have to make it, if you can find someone with a vac table it might be your best shot.
I've been tossing the idea around to do one of these as well but will go the helmet-off route.

You might be able to find the suit at an "adult bookstore" if they sell fetish clothing.

The helmet puts me in mind of the helmets in Dark Star where Dan O'Bannon came up with the idea for Alien.
Dark Star

for teh dome trying searching Ebay under clear plastic dome. or you can got a grdening Cloche ( it's plastic too) from Lee Valley. That's what I have for my Mr. Freeze build and it looks like it might work for what you're doing.

Captain April, cheers for that. Very helpful. However, I think the front of the dome is a wee bit longer. I'm going to be chatting with a 3-D printing firm in Tokyo about making a negative for the helmet for a vac-forming bed. The problem will be getting the correct dimensions.

Dimensions are one of the hardest things to figure out from screen caps without any known object for size reference. The ellipse size I use to create the Hemlet was 14 inches wide by 20 tall. If you can get me better numbers I can easily resize my model. By the way the program I am using is an engineering program so I can output to STL files, which most 3d printers use. Good luck because that is going to be one big vac-form. Most likely the production use blow molding, but you will have to vac-form it in two parts.

From the screen cap it almost looks egg shaped.

I too am looking for ways to make a space costume to coincide with the release of Prometheus. Looking at some other pictures, I got the idea of using my morphsuit as the skin of the suit and somehow crafting the other body parts from plastic.

I already love the design of this film, the ships the costumes everything! I can't wait for this movie.

I'm so excited for this film. I saw the trailer when I went to see The Hunger Games a few nights ago. My fiancee has been looking forward to this movie for months. I saw a few costumes that caught my eye, though there aren't many shots of it. If I can find any I'll link them.

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Captain April, cheers for that. Very helpful. However, I think the front of the dome is a wee bit longer. I'm going to be chatting with a 3-D printing firm in Tokyo about making a negative for the helmet for a vac-forming bed. The problem will be getting the correct dimensions.

I would have thought thast a 3D print in this size would cost a small fortune.

Could you not find a balloon & make a cast from that?

about the dome, ive been to the studio where the costumes were built, and they had to do each dome in 2 parts as an all in 2 dome wasn't possible to get anywhere. i believe both halves were vacuum formed. as for the bodysuit, either you could have the design printed for you and sew the bodysuit yourself, or you could try looking at one of these superhero cosplay costume websites, who usually have some blank suits.

looking forward to seeing your work good luck

kmc said:

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Captain April, cheers for that. Very helpful. However, I think the front of the dome is a wee bit longer. I'm going to be chatting with a 3-D printing firm in Tokyo about making a negative for the helmet for a vac-forming bed. The problem will be getting the correct dimensions.

why not have 2 halves cnc'd out of wood and then use those directly as a vacuum forming base?

mracole said:

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why not have 2 halves cnc'd out of wood and then use those directly as a vacuum forming base?

You would only have to do one buck for both sides.

Hi,

I've just come across this in another thread:

http://www.therpf.com/f24/deadmau5-h...66/index5.html

It maybe useful.

Couple Q's.. Do they have 2 different suits? In the face cave pics the material almost looks more cloth-like and solid blue. Then in other shots, (Shaw) it's more of plastic scale-like print on something that resembles a wet suit. Also the piping on the arms and torso seems to go from matching blue to that neon color. So, I'm confused. Does anyone have any screen grabs of the other suits that can be seen when the initially set out to explore? There's a quick shot of one character walking down the ramp next to one of the vehicles. To me it looks a lot like the suits worn in armegeddon.

*editing myself.. After a quick look, yes, there seems to be two suits and they have many differences. The entire chest piece and torso areas are very different. *

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about the dome, ive been to the studio where the costumes were built, and they had to do each dome in 2 parts as an all in 2 dome wasn't possible to get anywhere. i believe both halves were vacuum formed. as for the bodysuit, either you could have the design printed for you and sew the bodysuit yourself, or you could try looking at one of these superhero cosplay costume websites, who usually have some blank suits.

looking forward to seeing your work good luck

Very helpful. I was able to find a few sites that explain how to vacuum form plastic in your kitchen, doesn't seem too hard, it's relatively cheap, the most difficult part will be making a base for the pieces.
Vacuumforming Plastic

Some ideas for your dome... try a garden Cloche: Garden Cloches | TheGardenCloche.com

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Hi,for the dome,what about to use Optically Clear Liquid Plastic,like Crystal Clear® Optically Clear Casting Resin from Smooth-On, Inc ?

I am very curious...how did the pepakura go?