EvilTron
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I went to my first DragonCon last year (2013) as Batman with the UD Replicas Dark Knight Rises Suit and had a blast! I even got to talk to the UD designer and all around awesome dude David (I know he's on here somewhere... You are awesome and i wish i could get my hands on the tron suits! )
But when night came i realized that having a light-up suit would be absolutely killer at this Con. So I knew next year, when nightfall came, I would run back to the room and "Tron UP". And with Tron Legacy being one of my favorite movies...its on! So since Dragoncon 2013 Ended ive been on the hunt for all the pieces of a fully functioning tron suit. Its been 5 Months of relentless searching and I've finally gotten all of the things i need to put the suit together... The Hardest Part obviously being the light rig. That being said, here's how my EVIL TRON (Orange Custom Tron) suit is coming along....
Here's what I've hunted down on gear...thanks to some help from some RPF members,
HELMET--- I saw a picture of the Quorra Helmet... the one that looks like this..
I really wanted that freaking helmet. After 3 weeks of searching for ways to make this happen i stumble onto the RPF and find Crimson Works, after a good chat with him about his work i decided to give it a whirl and see what the end product looked like.....and this guy does not disappoint. Verry Happy With the end result.
So HELMET... FREAKING CHECK!
Next it was onto the Identity Discs...... I think everyone who saw tron legacy remembers this scene in the Disc Wars...
It was when i saw that scene, that i decided, if I ever got a tron suit... I would have double magnetized discs. Well that's where the RPF came through again, I searched on youtube and found someone making some pretty cool discs, with push button inner ring and outer ring in custom colors. Found him on this forum, Soul Inertia.
So here's the end result of the discs i got from him...
Before i got them, I'll admit i was worried the oranges wouldnt match, but i was wrong,
So now that i had the tangibles it was off to find the right light source for the suit.
Let me mention this.. I AM STILL LOOKING FOR EL WIRE GLOVES LIKE TRON LEGACY... cant find them anywhere. I may have to make those out of leather gloves and el wire.
THE LIGHTS
After a buttload and a half of researching.... weeks and weeks worth I finally decided to go with Electroluminescent Tape instead of EL-Wire. Its more expensive FOR SURE, but if i was going to do this right... like the batman UD suit, I was going to have to spend a little extra. The biggest things I had to worry about was 1. Battery Life, Amount of Batteries using at one time, and how fragile EL Tape is. So i called the company and was told you can get 6 hours of light from these on fresh batteries. Perfect. As for the amount of batteries, there's ALOT to power the suit body... 56 Double A's. Which mean alot of DC Converters as well. (I'll get to where im going to put them here in a few)
It's at this point ill ask if theres anyone who knows how to combine these souces... i would love to have this rigged to an ipod for touch on and off.
So the lights came in...
DC INVERTERS, POWER SWITCHES OH MY... anyways theres alot to the wiring.
THE FULL BODY SUIT
So that started the HARDEST part of this so far... what suit would i get to use the lights on. After 2 months of researching i narrowed down to Motorcross Armor... specifically the ones here
Mainly because the one i originally wanted was no longer made. But i got to thinking about all the wiring and it just seemed like it would end up putting too much stress on the light packs and lights since it was in 2 pieces and wouldnt be cohesive with pants. SO it brought me to Full Motorcycle Leather... and trying to find ALL BLACK full motorcycle leather was extremely difficult, and i refused to pay 1,500+ for it.
So fast forward 2 more weeks and i found exactly what i was looking for by a company called Dainese in Italy. And I purchased it.
Welcome the Dainese T. M6 DIV. Motorcycle Suit to the equation.
So that just came in today. So that prompted my RPF Starting post for getting the lights going. If anyone has suggestions on this or questions feel free as this has been a long reseach project, I would be happy to talk about it as im starting to get into lighting the suit and attaching the disc back holster ect.
Thanks so much for having this forum as its been so much fun reading everyones projects and i am so happy to have my own.
But when night came i realized that having a light-up suit would be absolutely killer at this Con. So I knew next year, when nightfall came, I would run back to the room and "Tron UP". And with Tron Legacy being one of my favorite movies...its on! So since Dragoncon 2013 Ended ive been on the hunt for all the pieces of a fully functioning tron suit. Its been 5 Months of relentless searching and I've finally gotten all of the things i need to put the suit together... The Hardest Part obviously being the light rig. That being said, here's how my EVIL TRON (Orange Custom Tron) suit is coming along....
Here's what I've hunted down on gear...thanks to some help from some RPF members,
HELMET--- I saw a picture of the Quorra Helmet... the one that looks like this..
I really wanted that freaking helmet. After 3 weeks of searching for ways to make this happen i stumble onto the RPF and find Crimson Works, after a good chat with him about his work i decided to give it a whirl and see what the end product looked like.....and this guy does not disappoint. Verry Happy With the end result.
So HELMET... FREAKING CHECK!
Next it was onto the Identity Discs...... I think everyone who saw tron legacy remembers this scene in the Disc Wars...
It was when i saw that scene, that i decided, if I ever got a tron suit... I would have double magnetized discs. Well that's where the RPF came through again, I searched on youtube and found someone making some pretty cool discs, with push button inner ring and outer ring in custom colors. Found him on this forum, Soul Inertia.
So here's the end result of the discs i got from him...
Before i got them, I'll admit i was worried the oranges wouldnt match, but i was wrong,
So now that i had the tangibles it was off to find the right light source for the suit.
Let me mention this.. I AM STILL LOOKING FOR EL WIRE GLOVES LIKE TRON LEGACY... cant find them anywhere. I may have to make those out of leather gloves and el wire.
THE LIGHTS
After a buttload and a half of researching.... weeks and weeks worth I finally decided to go with Electroluminescent Tape instead of EL-Wire. Its more expensive FOR SURE, but if i was going to do this right... like the batman UD suit, I was going to have to spend a little extra. The biggest things I had to worry about was 1. Battery Life, Amount of Batteries using at one time, and how fragile EL Tape is. So i called the company and was told you can get 6 hours of light from these on fresh batteries. Perfect. As for the amount of batteries, there's ALOT to power the suit body... 56 Double A's. Which mean alot of DC Converters as well. (I'll get to where im going to put them here in a few)
It's at this point ill ask if theres anyone who knows how to combine these souces... i would love to have this rigged to an ipod for touch on and off.
So the lights came in...
DC INVERTERS, POWER SWITCHES OH MY... anyways theres alot to the wiring.
THE FULL BODY SUIT
So that started the HARDEST part of this so far... what suit would i get to use the lights on. After 2 months of researching i narrowed down to Motorcross Armor... specifically the ones here
Mainly because the one i originally wanted was no longer made. But i got to thinking about all the wiring and it just seemed like it would end up putting too much stress on the light packs and lights since it was in 2 pieces and wouldnt be cohesive with pants. SO it brought me to Full Motorcycle Leather... and trying to find ALL BLACK full motorcycle leather was extremely difficult, and i refused to pay 1,500+ for it.
So fast forward 2 more weeks and i found exactly what i was looking for by a company called Dainese in Italy. And I purchased it.
Welcome the Dainese T. M6 DIV. Motorcycle Suit to the equation.
So that just came in today. So that prompted my RPF Starting post for getting the lights going. If anyone has suggestions on this or questions feel free as this has been a long reseach project, I would be happy to talk about it as im starting to get into lighting the suit and attaching the disc back holster ect.
Thanks so much for having this forum as its been so much fun reading everyones projects and i am so happy to have my own.