IronMeg
Active Member
Hello RPF,
This is my first time entering the costume contest so If I miss anything or post in the wrong order/place please let me know!
I am building a HulkBuster costume for this year's Halloween.
I originally chose HB as a joke, because I'm all of 4'11" and everyone was saying I could be a "mini" HB and making jokes about what happens when Tony get's his hands on Pym Particles and shrunk his armor. However, the more I thought about it, the more I really wanted to make it. I've always had a fascination with Tony's armor suits, but being a very short female, I've never really had an armor I could fit in. Luckily HB doesn't require you to have a tiny waist to fit into the suit! It was perfect really. So, about 8 months later, here we are only a few weeks from Halloween and I've got the suit built. I'm still working on weathering and lighting up the arc reactor and repulsor blasts, but it's almost done!
Challenges along the way have been... abundant. Scaling is always difficult, but I was able to build it to be about 5'5" tall, which meant stilts. I had to make the stilts twice, because the first time they weren't tall enough. I also scaled the chest incorrectly the first time that I made it, and this required me to make it all over again. That was a huge blow to the motivation... This is also the first time I've ever made a large armor suit so learning to do the painting and weathering have been very interesting. All the folks on the RPF have been incredibly useful and helpful with that.
For my previous costuming experience, this is the second costume/cosplay that I have ever done. My first was a Hogwarts quidditch player, so this is my first big armor suit. I've made a few prop IM helmets to practice with fibreglass and foam and I definitely prefer the foam builds. Far quicker to build and more comfortable to wear
I've taken a lot of pictures during the build and I hope it's not too many I'll post what I have up to date, then later in the thread I'll add my verification shot and the final One shot to rule them all for the contest.
Also, I used SmookCMb's files for this build, and if you want to see even more pics of my build, they can be found starting on page 4.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=212583
Here is the very beginning of the build. Even here you can begin to see that the chest is too small, but I didn't notice until much later on.
Color testing different paints. I loved the gold right off.
Then after I build the second chest piece it all started to fit together nicely
The first attempt at stilts
Test fitting the legs to make sure I can walk (and a pic of me)
Lighting up the helmet
Not sure why that is upside down... very strange
Anyways... this is where we are now.
Thanks for looking and I'll be adding more pics once it is weathered and ready for Halloween!
Again, there are more pics in the other thread if you want to have a look, and if I've missed any details please let me know.
Thanks!
This is my first time entering the costume contest so If I miss anything or post in the wrong order/place please let me know!
I am building a HulkBuster costume for this year's Halloween.
I originally chose HB as a joke, because I'm all of 4'11" and everyone was saying I could be a "mini" HB and making jokes about what happens when Tony get's his hands on Pym Particles and shrunk his armor. However, the more I thought about it, the more I really wanted to make it. I've always had a fascination with Tony's armor suits, but being a very short female, I've never really had an armor I could fit in. Luckily HB doesn't require you to have a tiny waist to fit into the suit! It was perfect really. So, about 8 months later, here we are only a few weeks from Halloween and I've got the suit built. I'm still working on weathering and lighting up the arc reactor and repulsor blasts, but it's almost done!Challenges along the way have been... abundant. Scaling is always difficult, but I was able to build it to be about 5'5" tall, which meant stilts. I had to make the stilts twice, because the first time they weren't tall enough. I also scaled the chest incorrectly the first time that I made it, and this required me to make it all over again. That was a huge blow to the motivation... This is also the first time I've ever made a large armor suit so learning to do the painting and weathering have been very interesting. All the folks on the RPF have been incredibly useful and helpful with that.
For my previous costuming experience, this is the second costume/cosplay that I have ever done. My first was a Hogwarts quidditch player, so this is my first big armor suit. I've made a few prop IM helmets to practice with fibreglass and foam and I definitely prefer the foam builds. Far quicker to build and more comfortable to wear
I've taken a lot of pictures during the build and I hope it's not too many
I'll post what I have up to date, then later in the thread I'll add my verification shot and the final One shot to rule them all for the contest. Also, I used SmookCMb's files for this build, and if you want to see even more pics of my build, they can be found starting on page 4.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=212583
Here is the very beginning of the build. Even here you can begin to see that the chest is too small, but I didn't notice until much later on.
Color testing different paints. I loved the gold right off.
Then after I build the second chest piece it all started to fit together nicely
The first attempt at stilts
Test fitting the legs to make sure I can walk (and a pic of me)
Lighting up the helmet
Not sure why that is upside down... very strange
Anyways... this is where we are now.
Thanks for looking and I'll be adding more pics once it is weathered and ready for Halloween!
Again, there are more pics in the other thread if you want to have a look, and if I've missed any details please let me know.
Thanks!
