Tron Legacy Costume

Bandit-Jedi

What's perfect is the light up area of the desk is a Grid. It has lit grid lines all throughout that carry the light from the LEDs in the side frame.

trekking95

Yeah I saw that when I joined but I cant do that since I cant sew!
Is there a easy way to do it with no sewing?

Canobi

Hi there trekking95

You could always use a fabric glue if your not into sewing. I used glue for my first costumes for the same reason. It turns out not to be too hard though. I practiced on some off cuts first until I was happy that I could do it without making a complete hash of it. It just adds to the list of skills I'm clocking up since joining this forum, so I'm happy. You could always do the sewing after new years to give the seems strength of they need it, but the glue should hold well enough for new year

Bandit-Jedi

Fabric glue was going to be my suggestion as well. Although I have never used it to do a full project like that it is a good place to start.

Soulinertia

Sweet setup Bandit

Christie

im working on one now =)

Canobi

Is that yours, or a reference pic?

aradia

Have you got any pics? would be great to see what you have so far.

Canobi

Hi all

Just had a news letter from Entertainment Earth. If anyone is still looking for a disc they now have all of them in stock:

Spin Master Tron - Action Figures, Toys, Bobble Heads, Collectibles at Entertainment Earth

Bandit-Jedi

Yeah, I just got in my Kevin Flynn disc from them today! Even came with a free Venture Bros. mousepad, haha

Bandit-Jedi

Thanks Soul,
Your disc mod "really tied the room together"

HQuinn

Anyone have issues with getting their EL wire from elwirepros? They were awesome and super speedy but my white wire looks blue. should I try diffusing it? It's too late to send it back.

MrSpicewood

Hey guys! Another update here. All the parts to make my own custom modded Sam Deluxe Tron Disc from scratch will have arrived by Thursday minus the lighting on the outer blade. Didn't know what length I'd be needing but it looks like 3 feet is fine for the outer portion.

I'll be going with an all EL Wire mod to show the benefits of it VS the LED versions I've seen out there.

With the inner el wire that I already have, I'll be sizing up the guts of the ring to see if it'll fit and will report my findings when I get the chance.

Thinking about going with a Soulintertia mod kit if this doesn't work out, though. Those outer rings look so perfect. If I do, I'll still have left over parts to make outfits or accessories when I design the costume part. Definitely a win-win so long as I don't permanently add anything until I make up my mind.

Parts bought so far:

Sam Deluxe Identity Disc
2 feet of 'quick connect' EL wire
10 neodymium magnets
2 mini inverters (CL-IPTC-3v-3-7FT)
2 AAA battery compartments
2 non heavy duty single pull, double throw switches. (Heavy duty was out of stock.)

MrSpicewood

Glad I wasn't the only one who was thinking of "The Dude" while watching Tron. xD

Canobi

Hi HQuinn

How blue is it?

If its really pale, take a pic of the wire when it's on in a dark environment, you might find it'll look white in the photo. I had a similar thing happen with some tape I got (used for the costume in my avatar pic):



You wouldn't know from the pic above that the tape is blue.

HQuinn

^ Thanks so much Canobi. Unfortunately I think mine is a true aqua blue. Thoughts?

Canobi

Hi HQuinn

Yep, that's aqua blue all right. It might be an idea to send this pic to the people you bought the wire from and explain you ordered white. If white is the colour you ordered and you recieved blue (even if it is aqua), you should be able to get them to swap it. Most places supply aqua blue as a colour choice and it's not your fault you recieved the wrong colour. Just be polite and I'm sure they will help you. If not, I might have a length of white in the 5mm size you can have as I used some for my disc mod as well. I'm at work right now but I'll look as soon as I get home if you want?

Canobi

I found the piece I was on about, but it's too short to use for the C ring = ( Sorry about that, I thought it was longer. I hope you get it sorted though, you've started well. What are you going to use to light the blade? I used LED strips for mine:

abdbasye

Wow, your projects are amazing! Great work!

HQuinn

Thank you so much for offering it though! I really appreciate it. I emailed the owner and we are trying to figure out what to do. He asked if it was pink or white when it wasn't lit. It looks white, with a hint of pink. I'm so confused lol

As for the outer ring, for now I'm going to solder the original LED wires to the main board. Eventually I will most likely add my own LEDs.

moses23

Such an awesome suit

Canobi

I'm going to finish my rogue program costume for New Year. It needs a bit of repair in places from wearing it out before its ready (), and I've got to add the EL tape to the arms and lower legs, but it's nearly there:









Chest piece (front) with my homage to Tron using his costumes bust design from the first film:



Chest piece (back). I used my homemade disc hub to house my inverters and battery packs:





I'll take some better pics and put them up when I get a bit of time.

tim

Very nice! How did you make the illuminated Tron homage piece?

Canobi

RHi Tim,thanks for the compliment

I bought a couple of small EL panels with the intention of cutting out the circles from them like the legacy costumes. Found out what a pain that was and wrecked one of them, then the costume base parts arrive and have a completely different texture to the pic in the advert. I was going to shelve it but came across Tron's costume bust design. I inverted the spectrum in photoshop to make the black parts white and vice versa. I then messed about sizing the image to be the same as my remaining panel and layed a page full in publisher. I then had a friend print the file onto an overhead projector cell and layered three of the best prints and glued them all onto the panel. The white comes out clear, allowing the EL to show and the black blocks the light. I was really pleased with how it turned out even though I ran out of PlastiDip to finish it.

brulafu

Im in the middle of building a Daft Punk Tron style Guy Helmet - it will be a Tron Style & colour, but using the lights from the older style helmet (which was a lot cooler imo)

I'm also going to make a jacket and trousers (ultimately in leather, but before that...) in plain black cotton which will be using the same pattern as the leather, however, I've made myself a lycra under armour style costume to wear, so if i can zip down the jacket to show this...