What costumes are you working on?

Gah....can you come live with me Chris.....~batting eyelashes~ Please?? I want to leeeaaarrrrnnnnn.......

I think I am the only guy doing "Hurt Locker"

lol.....
that is always a question mark...

I have 17 Star Wars costumes already...and said 6 costumes ago that I was not going to make anymore...

but...
who knows...

I have always had my eye on the Naboo Pilot costume..

FANGS said:

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Gah....can you come live with me Chris.....~batting eyelashes~ Please?? I want to leeeaaarrrrnnnnn.......

You'll have to take that up with Betsy, although if she's allowed along I'm sure I can talk her into moving to Canada.

Darth Mule said:

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I guess I meant to ask about what you used for the ridges? Bits of foam perhaps? And did you paint all the backing scales in? Or is it a piece of vinyl? Just curious about the techniques. Looks really cool.




The paint has alot to do with what type of paint you use for what application. Sadly I'm a bit out of the loop on my painting/dyeing technology as I left that job for school 5 years ago. I can tell you, however, that I always had problems with Nu-Life cracking and peeling off of non-stretchy items and would usually opt for the more flexible acrylic based Angelus. You may also want to try the Jacquard fabric paints as they are pretty flexible. And just a thought... Since PVC is essentially plastic, I wonder if the Krylon Fusion paints would bond with it???

I'm not sure what purpose boning a stretch bodysuit would serve other than aesthetic, but there are a few tricks to make that easier if you choose to do it. Building the boning into an understructure, like Fangs suggested, is one way. The other would be to use boning tape on the inside, but before you put it down, you can cut small strips of armo-weft, the size of the boning tape, and press them to the inside where you will put the boning. this will keep that area from stretching and make it easier to work with. I use a similar technique when putting zippers into stretch and dance wear. Helps you get a nice clean line.

It's actually nothing more than super sculpey and acryllic paint, believe it or not.


As far as Krylon.... Yknow...I hadn't thought about it, but you're right. That would make a lot of sense. I might do a test (once I manage to get a hold of some friggin' brown stretch pvc, I hate how complicated it is to get this stuff) with some gold krylon, I'll get back to you on that.

The boning is purely for aesthetics, and for holding my stomach in. What is armo-weft? That sounds interesting. I've never put boning in anything so this will be an experience. Boning tape sounds like it might be less time-consuming than building it in...

FANGS said:

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Boning in the waist....hmmm....what purpose is it going to serve? 'cuz you're totally itty bitty so it can't be what I'D use it for....hahahaha Could you get away with creating a foundation garment to wear under it? And then potentially attach that to the inside of it if you needed to? Really I'm grasping at thin air here and likely talking about of my a....well...you know. But I do love a good costume mystery solveing!

This one is definitely a mystery! I've literally got 2 reference images to work with. On the one hand a HUGE pain, on the other hand it's cool because it gives me a basic design to work with, and from there I can branch off and elaborate.

But yeah, the boning is in there to serve the purpose of holding me in lol. I have about 1.5" between my hip bone and bottom of my long ribcage so any amount of waist I can squeeze in to give me more shape, the better. >.<


Honestly I think the worst part of the project is going to be figuring out her hair. Her braids aren't knotted/'elasticked' at the ends, they just kind of fade off into nothing...I'll probably try to use the sort of cement that people use in mohawks to keep its shape.

RebellionBarbie said:

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The boning is purely for aesthetics, and for holding my stomach in. What is armo-weft? That sounds interesting. I've never put boning in anything so this will be an experience. Boning tape sounds like it might be less time-consuming than building it in...

Armo-weft is something you've probably seen in passing at least. Its a light weight fusible interfacing that sort of looks like cheescloth with plastic woven into it. It comes in Black and White. I think they sell it at JoAnn's and Hancock. If not you can order it online through Sew True or Atlanta Thread or if you're in the neighborhood in NYC you can pick some up at Greenberg & Hammer or Steinloft & Stoller or one of the many notions and tailoring suppliers.

Boning tape - http://store.corsetmaking.com/Mercha...de=BC&AFFIL=CM

Its just a canvas tubing made to hold the boning on single layer corsets. I like the guys I just linked for corset supplies. Farthingales (the other major supplier) overcharges.

Darth Mule, *huge* thanks on the spray paint suggestion, it does in fact work, and like an absolute charm at that. Picked up a couple yards of 2-way stretch leather-look material, and cut a couple little sample sizes out and sprayed them with a couple kinds of krylon that were lying around. The gold metallic krylon works PERFECTLY. And miraculously it was dry almost instantaneously. I could handle the painted material in under a minute without any residue or bleeding, and it stretches without any hint that it's been painted. The H2O Latex krylon has not dried yet (granted it's been less than 5 minutes lol) but it looks like I've got a real winner in the regular krylon sprays.

So anyone doing work with stretch vinyl, note that spray painting is indeed a sound method! Thanks so much DM!

I forgot I had posted in this thread. Here's the finished Who suit. Still haven't finished the space suit yet.

(I'm standing with Louise Page, the costume designer from Doctor Who.)

RebellionBarbie said:

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Darth Mule, *huge* thanks on the spray paint suggestion, it does in fact work, and like an absolute charm at that. Picked up a couple yards of 2-way stretch leather-look material, and cut a couple little sample sizes out and sprayed them with a couple kinds of krylon that were lying around. The gold metallic krylon works PERFECTLY. And miraculously it was dry almost instantaneously. I could handle the painted material in under a minute without any residue or bleeding, and it stretches without any hint that it's been painted. The H2O Latex krylon has not dried yet (granted it's been less than 5 minutes lol) but it looks like I've got a real winner in the regular krylon sprays.

So anyone doing work with stretch vinyl, note that spray painting is indeed a sound method! Thanks so much DM!

Glad it worked out for you. I was actually thinking of the Krylon Fusion stuff that is made to stick to plastic, but hey! whatever works right?

Risu said:

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(I'm standing with Louise Page, the costume designer from Doctor Who.)

Now that is just too friggin cool (I'm a budding costume designer, so she's a celebrity in my book).

Yea, she was really nice and answered a lot of questions that most people probably would have blown off. I also found out she did some work on the Young Indy show, which I started watching around the same time I started getting interested in costuming.

I'm currently working on a long list of costumes, trying to get them ready for Dragon*Con.

They are Silk Spectre 1, Star Trek TOS Skant Dress, Sarah from Labyrinth, a Seaquest DSV uniform, the Coat Alice wears at the end of Alice in Wonderland and I'm updating my Padmé Geonosis costume with new shins and a new hairpiece.

I am also still trying to source a good replica of the Belt Silk Spectre 2 wears.

Sarah

hmm whats costumes i am working on?

upgrades to my custom mando..
a Open seasons Inspired custom mando
a At-At Driver ( waiting on a back pice)
a halo marine

a few others aswell

RebellionBarbie said:

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That Abe Sapien head is...zomg.

My current baneofexistanc--err, project, is a little back of a Star Wars EU throwback. (I'm not much of a prequel/clone gal, never have been and never really will be.) I always liked the Young Jedi Knights and I've already done Jaina, so now I'm working on Tenel Ka. It's been a really exciting project because aside from a few pointers here and there, I've been constructing this costume on my own and I haven't really done that before. I'm really quite proud of my pauldrons.

So far:

That is sweet! I love seeing people do some different characters.

Working on a sandtrooper and 3PO. Here are a few progress pics of the shorts and chest piece parts that I'm currently concentrating on.

Some sweet costumes in here. Hurt Locker costume was cool but that will be hot, so god bless you and good luck with that one. Nice Boba Fett, Mad Hatter's and many many others.

On my plate is a Legends Captain America and G.I.Joe Tunnel Rat

i'm working on my first thing - iron man helmet! almost done snipping out the pep parts (it takes a LONG time!).

I would like to work on another ME so that I can put him to work on my costumes while I take care of REAL LIFE!

Being new and all, I guess this is a good place to start. I'm on a LOTR kick right now, so I'm working on some maille to eventually go with some Rohirran armor.

so far I have my Ghostbusters suit and a Jason Vorhees but I'm wanting to do more....

Currently I am working on The Red Queen from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Nothing amazing to report here, been working on an Assassin's Creed 2 Ezio costume, and have a couple works in progress of a World of Warcraft costume that got put aside to work on the Assassin's creed 2 outfit.

Here's a couple photos of the AC2 work in progress

this thing still needs the top sculpt, and a good bit annoyed, because though I still have the pattern i drew up for this, the drawing for the sculpt that goes on top of this thing went missing, and have to redo it. Think the PSD file corrupted or something


The belts my favorite part so far


And the rest of what i have so far. Still a lot to do there..

would like to do some armor aas well, but haven't gotten far beyond the initial layout phase
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...atherback1.jpg

Its been moving slowly due to commissions and stuff, but hope to get it done before Dragon*con As I work on the AC2 gear, I've been making some of the parts for other people, so thats slowed down a good bit

As for the WoW armor, i have a half done wing
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...ow_wings_4.jpg. if I don't finish this, i'll try to at least find a way to put the wings to use.. been thinking of rigging it to my wedding dress when that time comes


Currently working on an TF2 intel case, gunblade, chakram, and customized leather straps (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8.../strapwips.jpg yay the resin stamp idea worked!) for blindquirrel's Boromir's Shield props..

Did Family Guy something darkside Gordon
pics on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000506513989&ref=profile#!/photo.php?pid=158396&id=100000506513989
my next few are
SW esp GM clone armor
Bablyon 5 army og light uniform
Robotech flightsuit

Well I've started on a Mikey Myers. Pretty simple all around actually, aside from the mask, but after a long time of looking i've found the perfect, most accurate mask I could and really have stuck to it. Well, there's two but I like the first better. Boring first post, so uh ,yeah (awkward....)