Tarchinoko
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So I decided to put this up here so that everyone can see the progress ive made on my girlfriend's Chell Cosplay!
I wanted to do this on as small a budget as possible without having to make the clothing from scratch so for the shirt I bought two different tank tops to match the design in the game! one white and one light blue.
to make the aperture logo simply take a white tank top, an aperture logo stencil made from card stock and finally a clothes marker!
once we test fitted it looked good so we moved on to the jumpsuit! :thumbsup
For the jumpsuit I simply ordered a prisoner costume online, unfortunately i couldnt find any made for women... so! We altered the jumpsuit ourselves to fit better from the waist down seeing as the waist up would just end up tied around the waist anyways! We also added elastic to the waist to help keep the jumpsuit just below the waist. Once we did that we test fitted and once again was looking good! :thumbsup
The next part i moved onto was the portal gun. now because this is a low budget build i didnt want to buy the NECA replica ASHPD so instead i decided to try out a bit more foam building and hopefully hone my skills a bit! unfortunately the seams on the shells didnt look too great because i forgot to sand them down before sealing :facepalm but if i end up unhappy with them later on I can always re build them!
Because i cant find anywhere to get PVC pipe in Hong Kong i built all the tubular sections from foam as well, i made a support structure from half inch foam which i then covered in the thinner craft foam to make the full structure, even the prongs were made completely from foam as well!
For the light tube I bought a rod of acrylic and sanded it by hand to make it diffuse light better, the light source was a Cree L.E.D torch housed inside the gun itself.
once again test fit before moving on!
Once that was out of the way I sealed and painted, I still need to add the light at the top of the white shell at the back to finish it all but here it is!
So now the costume is about 80% complete and now comes the most difficult and fiddly part... the boots and i had no idea what I was going to do for this at first so i was kinda just riding along and seeing where it went
opcorn
I saw maggie's thread here on the RPF on her working spring heels! This inspired me to try her concept but improve upon it slightly
the steel support with a harness is essentially the same but instead of making the boots out of craft foam from scratch i decided to see if i could integrate the harness inside an existing pair of boots I bought for the costume. The pair of boots I bought were as close to the shape and height of the long fall boots
my plan was to take some white pleather and layer it ontop of the boot to create the look of the long fall boot after I added the harness on the inside and removing the heel. So i made the metal supports from 5mm steel bar that was 35 mm wide and bought some ripstop nylon to make it. First we made a template by wrapping her leg whilst inside the boot in cling wrap and then masking tape, i then drew on the shape of the harness that i wanted and cut it off
but before making the harness i decided to do a strength test
thats 16 kilos on the fabric tripled up, after i leaned on it a bit more and bounced it a bit it started ripping :cry and i dont feel safe having my girlfriend walk on these unless it can support at least 5kg more than her weight so I decided to try buying some bridle leather and trying that out instead! so thats where im up to right now, i welcome all suggestions for what material to use for the harness as I would like to not waste anymore money on the wrong stuff :lol
I wanted to do this on as small a budget as possible without having to make the clothing from scratch so for the shirt I bought two different tank tops to match the design in the game! one white and one light blue.
to make the aperture logo simply take a white tank top, an aperture logo stencil made from card stock and finally a clothes marker!
once we test fitted it looked good so we moved on to the jumpsuit! :thumbsup
For the jumpsuit I simply ordered a prisoner costume online, unfortunately i couldnt find any made for women... so! We altered the jumpsuit ourselves to fit better from the waist down seeing as the waist up would just end up tied around the waist anyways! We also added elastic to the waist to help keep the jumpsuit just below the waist. Once we did that we test fitted and once again was looking good! :thumbsup
The next part i moved onto was the portal gun. now because this is a low budget build i didnt want to buy the NECA replica ASHPD so instead i decided to try out a bit more foam building and hopefully hone my skills a bit! unfortunately the seams on the shells didnt look too great because i forgot to sand them down before sealing :facepalm but if i end up unhappy with them later on I can always re build them!
Because i cant find anywhere to get PVC pipe in Hong Kong i built all the tubular sections from foam as well, i made a support structure from half inch foam which i then covered in the thinner craft foam to make the full structure, even the prongs were made completely from foam as well!
For the light tube I bought a rod of acrylic and sanded it by hand to make it diffuse light better, the light source was a Cree L.E.D torch housed inside the gun itself.
once again test fit before moving on!
Once that was out of the way I sealed and painted, I still need to add the light at the top of the white shell at the back to finish it all but here it is!
So now the costume is about 80% complete and now comes the most difficult and fiddly part... the boots and i had no idea what I was going to do for this at first so i was kinda just riding along and seeing where it went
opcornI saw maggie's thread here on the RPF on her working spring heels! This inspired me to try her concept but improve upon it slightly
the steel support with a harness is essentially the same but instead of making the boots out of craft foam from scratch i decided to see if i could integrate the harness inside an existing pair of boots I bought for the costume. The pair of boots I bought were as close to the shape and height of the long fall boots
my plan was to take some white pleather and layer it ontop of the boot to create the look of the long fall boot after I added the harness on the inside and removing the heel. So i made the metal supports from 5mm steel bar that was 35 mm wide and bought some ripstop nylon to make it. First we made a template by wrapping her leg whilst inside the boot in cling wrap and then masking tape, i then drew on the shape of the harness that i wanted and cut it off
but before making the harness i decided to do a strength test
thats 16 kilos on the fabric tripled up, after i leaned on it a bit more and bounced it a bit it started ripping :cry and i dont feel safe having my girlfriend walk on these unless it can support at least 5kg more than her weight so I decided to try buying some bridle leather and trying that out instead! so thats where im up to right now, i welcome all suggestions for what material to use for the harness as I would like to not waste anymore money on the wrong stuff :lol
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