Deathstroke, Arrow Season 2

I've started in on my Deathstroke Season 2 costume. I figured it was about time to have another build thread, so here goes!

I'm trying to do this as a "budget" build, where budget is defined as $1000 or less. As such I'm cheaping out on some of the more gratuitously costly parts.

I got a set of "Oakley" gloves from Amazon. They are blatant bootlegs of the correct Oakley gloves at a fraction of the price (around $20)




For the soft parts under it all I'm using a black coverall. It's cheap, easy, and most importantly I don't have to worry about the shirt coming untucked at a con. Not accurate, but close enough for now.

Tvayumat had purchased some stuff, but then decided he didn't really want to build the suit. I picked up his starter kit: shoulder pads, forearm guards, blue carbon fiber fabric, assorted quick clips and more orange webbing than I ever really wanted to have in my home.



Also shown in that pick is the boot knife I picked up, a lovely sub $15 Bud K Vietnam war bowie. I really just wanted the sheath... the knife will be replaced by a fake one to avoid con security problems.




For the helmet I'm using the BlackKaos pep file. As with all things pep, I'm modding the #%%^@ out of it. Here's where it started:



And where I'm at today. Still a long way to go!



I got the equestrian vest:



I haven't shortened the back yet, but this did prompt me to also throw together an island Slade as a side project:



Now, the armor vest!

The next shortcut is the carabiners. I didn't have the $$ right away for all 4235 $10 Petzls or whatever it is he uses, so I went with $1 silver ones and a can of metallic orange spray paint.

The vest is being made out of heavy vinyl with twill trim and ABS/carbon fiber armor. I didn't do the shapes 100% accurately... I tailored them to fit me well, while still looking generally correct. Manu Bennet is a much larger man than me, so what works on him transferred directly would be silly on me!











Lots of things in the mail:

• I'm using a bokken for the sword, since local cons tend not to like metal weapons. That's in house already, but the saya is still in transit
• I've got a neoprene mask that should be good under the helmet
• Eye patch
• 40mm grenades and pouches
• Knock off Safariland holster. It's a 1911, but it's close enough for my taste (plus I've failed to get the right one 4 times now!)
• The 'tactical ninja' swords for island Slade

The next fabrication piece is the shinguards. I'm planning to vac form those out of black ABS as well.

So that's where I am now!

Looking great!

Seeing Deathstroke at the head of a squad of his Mira-Crew-Ru is going to be AMAZING!

Oh yeah! The other part of this "project" is recruiting a whole bunch of mirakuru soldiers!



There are 15 total soldiers so far.

New England is a baaaaad place to wear green this fall

nice so far dude !

Must have upper armor!!!

Moving right along... I sewed one of the chest armor plates into place last night:



And did a test pull of the mask in 0.080 styrene so that I could see how it fits / figure out what needs work. Other than smoothing surfaces and sharpening lines, I'm pretty happy with it!

Man, this looks gorgeous! The body armor is spot-on, great use of the vinyl! I'm anticipating the result!

well, you have done a bang up job,very close...and I should know..curious to see your shin armor

MrDark said:

well, you have done a bang up job,very close...and I should know..curious to see your shin armor

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I'm curious to see it too! It's been extremely challenging finding a clear shot of them to work off of. The best thing I've got going right now are some pics of the new action figure.

I'm throwing together something quick for a convention this weekend, but will definitely be going back to those!

(btw: #$%@ing carabiners! )

Speaking of...

With just 2 days left before Boston ComicCon, I'm rushing like mad to get a wearable costume.

Last night I sewed 2 more armor panels onto the vest. I ran out of thread, but have more arriving at the house today. It's looking and fitting great!

I built up the hard parts for the version 1 shin guards. I'm doing 2 (maybe 3) parts. A large black plate, a smaller blue/carbon fiber plate, and then perhaps an orange top plate. For the knees, I'm not going to have time to build, so I'm going to hit the hardware store today to find something suitable for a temporary set.

I also got a workable mask! I cleaned up the sculpt a bit more and vacced over it again.



I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the back finished for the weekend, so I may be wearing it hockey mask style. We'll see how that goes.

I got the grenade pouches altered and attached the bandolier, along with the glove pouches. Time and money both intervened on buckles, so instead of Cobras (btw: #$%@ing Cobras!) I've got quick clips.

My safariland holster has not arrived, so if it fails to show I'll fall back to a generic drop leg holster I've got kicking around for another costume.

Lots of stuff arrived in the mail too... a neoprene face mask that I plan to have under the mask. An eye patch for when I'm not wearing the mask. Mag pouches for the belt )not accurate, but $9 so they'll do for now). 4 accurate orange carabiners for the shoulders and stomach.

Amazon's been loving me. Today should be more thread for my sewing awl and the saya for my bokken (no metal weapons at the con).

*phew*

And around all of this I made 15 mira-crew-ru masks. If this all comes together we should make for a pretty impressive group photo!

Fantastic work mate ! That body armour vest looks absolutely awesome.

does this pic help everybody?

wow! yes, yes indeed! and it looks like I'm not all that far off base with the shins either!

i'll share pics tonight.

This is fantastic work!

Surprise! My safariland holster came. It's a 1911, but it was the drop leg sure fire style and super cheap so I grabbed it.

Here is what I can only assume to be a fake Safariland holster. For costuming purposes the build quality is great, but despite the official looking bag, the holster itself bears no maker marks, and was only $30. Not perfect, but close enough for now.



The only problem was that my $3 airsoft gun was too wide to actually fit. Well...




All better!




The chest armor is all sewn:


Back plates will be added post-convention this weekend. For now the back is just smooth vinyl.

Mask is painted:


I haven't build the back yet, so it's strapped hockey mask style and will have a balaclava under it. Put enough coats of paint on something and the surface imperfections don't seem so bad anymore

Turned some quick and dirty grenades in the lathe before work:



Bottoms aren't even round, but they look the part unless you really really know what to look for.

I then riveted the grenade and glove pouches to the bandolier so they wouldn't slip around. I'm probably going to glue a strip of abs to the inside of the bandolier to give it extra strength... sorta wish I had done that BEFORE riveting on the pouches. May drill out the rivets and replace.

I pulled the parts for the shins, but need to assemble them. You can see one poking out to the left of the chest armor pic.

2 parts ABS. One base, one raised detail panel. Detail panel to be covered with carbon fiber fabric, rest to be covered with vinyl. This is happening tonight.

Also tonight: straps to connect vest pieces, straps for the bottom of the horse vest. straps on the shins. straps, straps straps.

SO MUCH MORE TO DO!!! But, I think this will be a good representation of him for a first pass.

Question on painting the mask, how did you go about making sure the black and orange were level and even?

Irongills said:

Question on painting the mask, how did you go about making sure the black and orange were level and even?

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Not really sure what you mean... I put a piece of masking tape down to get the sharp line, covered the black half in plastic (old plastic shopping bags are great for this) then painted it. No real science to the line other than what looks good by eye.

When I do the "real" mask I'll be a bit pickier about finish. This one is a bit rough in some spots, but it's going to get worn once so I didn't mind too much.

Yeah that makes sense. I meant if you were doing anything other than eyeballing with masking tape, but after asking realized that's kinda the only way to do it. Looks good!

Nice work! I love what you did to get your plates in the upper chest. Makes me wish I had access to a vaccu-former. It does give me an idea on how I can do something similar to make it easier to sew in.

For the grenade pouch, what one did you get and how did you mod it? It looks like you took the bottom out and flipped it upside down. All the ones I've found seem to be larger than what they used, as the grenades I grabbed are pretty well hidden either from the top or bottom. I did figure out that the grenades will screw apart, so my plan if I run out of time to come up with anything else is to unscrew them and stick something in the middle to split them and make them taller so they look closer to the reference photos.

Thanks for sharing, subscribed and anxiously awaiting finished photos.