CadetTK2386
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For Dragon Con 2013, I was asked to be part of a Batman Villain’s group. I had previously played Henchman to my friend’s Joker, but this year decided to try for a custom take on The Scarecrow.
The costume includes homages to both version of the Scarecrow from Batman: The Animated Series. While not solid Red as it was in the show, a Red shirt was chosen specifically to reference that first version of the cartoon Scarecrow. The final version of the Scarecrow seen on B:TAS was drastically different, featuring a vaguely skeleton face, hat, duster, and noose. I loved that look. From it I took the burlap skull face and the noose.
I did not want to emulate the Arkham Asylum needle glove, and wanted my own spin on the fear gas system. When I started on this project, I had been playing a lot of Assassin’s Creed. So, I decided to base my system on the Assassin’s Hidden blade, and have it mounted under the arms. I also borrowed the Assassin’s Style hood, which was also sort of a trial run for doing Altair later this year, with the hood with the wire sew in to hold the shape, et cetera.
This was sort of budget/closet build. The pants and shirt were purchased from Goodwill and heavily weathered. The boots were an old pair of boots formally used in other costumes before they got rips and tears on them. The fabric for the hood was left over from suede like material from another project. The forearms were simple Halloween store Skeleton gloves. The “Fear Gas” dispersal system is a combination of dyed vinyl tubing from Home Depot, and plastic canisters from a drink mix I like.
The mask is one of the things on the costume I am most proud of. It started life as a $5 Halloween store skeleton mask. Like ten years ago when I first started costuming, I remember seeing a picture of a plain skeleton mask that was made to really pop and look amazing with the addition of some simple weathering and tweaks to the mask. I think, this might be the same mask, actually.
The mask as it was received:
The first layers of weathering and paint:
After all the weathering, I went ahead and covered the whole thing in 99 cent a yard burlap and weathered that as well:
Many thanks to Bryan Humpfrey for the fantastic pictures at Dragon Con this year with his awesome backdrop. I think it fits the costume nicely:
The costume includes homages to both version of the Scarecrow from Batman: The Animated Series. While not solid Red as it was in the show, a Red shirt was chosen specifically to reference that first version of the cartoon Scarecrow. The final version of the Scarecrow seen on B:TAS was drastically different, featuring a vaguely skeleton face, hat, duster, and noose. I loved that look. From it I took the burlap skull face and the noose.
I did not want to emulate the Arkham Asylum needle glove, and wanted my own spin on the fear gas system. When I started on this project, I had been playing a lot of Assassin’s Creed. So, I decided to base my system on the Assassin’s Hidden blade, and have it mounted under the arms. I also borrowed the Assassin’s Style hood, which was also sort of a trial run for doing Altair later this year, with the hood with the wire sew in to hold the shape, et cetera.
This was sort of budget/closet build. The pants and shirt were purchased from Goodwill and heavily weathered. The boots were an old pair of boots formally used in other costumes before they got rips and tears on them. The fabric for the hood was left over from suede like material from another project. The forearms were simple Halloween store Skeleton gloves. The “Fear Gas” dispersal system is a combination of dyed vinyl tubing from Home Depot, and plastic canisters from a drink mix I like.
The mask is one of the things on the costume I am most proud of. It started life as a $5 Halloween store skeleton mask. Like ten years ago when I first started costuming, I remember seeing a picture of a plain skeleton mask that was made to really pop and look amazing with the addition of some simple weathering and tweaks to the mask. I think, this might be the same mask, actually.
The mask as it was received:
The first layers of weathering and paint:
After all the weathering, I went ahead and covered the whole thing in 99 cent a yard burlap and weathered that as well:
Many thanks to Bryan Humpfrey for the fantastic pictures at Dragon Con this year with his awesome backdrop. I think it fits the costume nicely:
