Lunaman
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Thank you and you're welcome!Excellent info, Lunaman! :thumbsup
Graci! :cool
Thank you and you're welcome!Excellent info, Lunaman! :thumbsup
Graci! :cool
Wish this accurate description would be made on every other piece we do here on the RPF.
I feel honored for the "talented" almost as much I am amused about the fact the everybody (including myself) knows I'm doing it wrong ahhahaha
It should react about as well as any other spandex blend. Eldonnaty has gotten some good dimensional results with puff-paint applied to spandex using a stencil.I'm curious how glissnet would react with silk screening for the suit texture, or if it would look good at all.
Regarding the microsuede of the cape -- if it is anything like the stuff I use for other projects, it is often used for upholstery and can be found on rolls in ~60" widths, so there's probably no seam.
Lunaman, you rock. I dont' want to do Kal-El, or really any of the main 'face' characters, but I definitely am looking at a background Kryptonian outfit. This helps immensely, but I'm going ot have to find resources (or folks on here) for doing the screenprinting in other colors than blue, and so forth...
--Jonah
Regarding the microsuede of the cape -- if it is anything like the stuff I use for other projects, it is often used for upholstery and can be found on rolls in ~60" widths, so there's probably no seam.
Single layer. No seams along the edges. Haven't been back to check since the last time, but I remember this quite well.The cape is a single layer? Not two sewn together along the edges?
--Jonah
Fabric Depot Catalog Page 12 Source for Blue Glisennet.
It's a nylon and spandex blend, so possibly. Might require heat-setting that would damage the spandex, however.Maybe the white or nude would work in a heavy concentration (since I'm guessing it is a nylon or polyester) of blue dye.
Hey Jonah,Hey, Lunaman... I've been idly noodling this over since the first publicity photos showed up, and actually seriously thinking about it after all the wonderful "last days of Krypton" stuff in the actual film*. How much do we know about the classes/castes/houses? Does the entire scientist caste wear dark blue? Or just the House of El? We saw all of the military caste wearing black, not just Zod. Was the Council of Elders from... what, Governing caste? Religious? Something else? I saw lots of golds and browns on them...
For that matter, do we know which houses are in which caste? WB did a lovely job frontloading publicity for MoS with the house crest finder toy for their website (I got House of Zar), and the work they did on the alphabet is stunning, because they actually went past direct one-to-one transliteration. And I want to go past just doing Jor-El or Zod or some other face character and maybe do a costume representing one of the other Kryptonian houses. I had actually just found that site for Glitenet, but was beaten to the punch in letting you know. I love all the color options available, but I don't know which one to go with...
In a completely unrelated aside... *points to your signature section* ...Cary Elwes is going to be up here in Seattle at Emerald City Comic Con this coming March...
--Jonah
* Really should have been three films, edited together in less-confusing manner: #1) Kal-El's quest for identity from arrival through childhood and adolescence to discovery of his heritage and adopting a heroic persona to protect Earth; #2) Prequel on Krypton going into backstory, Jor-El, Zod, and all of that; #3) Zod arrives at Earth pursuing the Genesis Matrix and has to fight Supes (less collateral damage, bad science, and military acting stupid, though, please).
I don't know the specifics of the sartorial guidelines on Krypton off the top of my head, but I believe they're discussed in the 'making of" Man of Steel art book that I flipped through at Barnes&Noble recently.
I'm fairly certain only Kal-El's suit uses blue.