Dabboy
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Hi everyone,
So I finally decided to make a post for my costume.
The Ghost unit from the starcraft series has been replicated many times in its female form either as Kerrigan or Nova.
I looked through the web for male ghost costume and found only a few. Here are the guys who inspired me to build my own costume:
I started in mid September 2012 trying to have my costume readied for Halloween. Big shoot-out to TheHeroTutorial (https://www.facebook.com/TheHeroTutorials) for his amazing videos on building foam armors. I did not use pepakura since they were none available for Ghost unit. And I felt more free at building, trying and fixing. Although at first it was more about building something that would fit on my body (which was not necessary accurate to the artworks) Here are some artworks that inspired me. You can see how the results differ significantly from the original photos.
Anyways, after a month and a half of building, coating, painting, soldering LED wires and installing a sound module in the rifle I was able to dress up for Halloween like this:
It cost me 1 full roll of EVA foam (4 x 8 ft), 2 packs of hot glue gun, few cans of spray paint, LEDs + resistors and wire, and a sound module from ebay.
The C-10 canister was also made of foam and giftwrap roll. A plastic bottle was used to make the tip of the barrel. The sound module was used to produce the gunshot and nuke sound. It was working on its own via a small speaker.
I might change it though because the wires are very thin and break easily
The costume has full coverage of body with the lycra suit. Featuring gunshot and nuke sounds with unit quotes randomly popping up from a mp3. However, looking back at it, there were many issues. I could hardly see through the pill caps. I used for the eyepiece, the LED were blinding especially at night.
The shoes were not fitted properly. The helmet and belt part were tight. The biceps did not fit or look right. I didn't manage to install lights everywhere I wanted. Another big turn down is that I couldn't go to the bathroom unless I took out my whole costume. It looked more like a female costume and you could hardly tell it's something related to Starcraft.
Oh well, I let the project rest for the school year and got back at it right after my last class ended in June 2013. When I pulled out my costume back, I reviewed the weak points enumerated above and started carving foam again.
I bought 1 new roll of EVA foam, hot glue and got to work.
Since I had all the time I want and no deadline I could freely tear out many pieces and replace them until I could get a satisfying results.
Many adjustment were made to the helmet around the eyepiece and mouthpiece.
The last picture shows the LEDs this time put on the auxiliary lenses. Once all the lights were set up, I covered the eyepiece this time with a rigid green transparent plastic I cut off a toy tambourine.
The biceps were totally remade.
old one
new one
I added some depth in the forearm energy chamber.
Shoulders and chest were rebuilt on top of the old parts.
I upgraded the belt part adding a detachable crotch protector for leak-walk.
I also added armoured thighs and redesigned the shoes and shin parts.
Lastly I added gloves with finger joint pads made of craft foam sheet.
The typical gray and black was replaced with a new white dip. After looking at many armored power suit I felt the white contrasting black pattern looked especially slick and decided to let my imagination go free again. A few parts were painted gray to create a bit of transition. Here are some inspiration:
However I certainly did not want to be misinterpreted for this
Hi everyone,
So I finally decided to make a post for my costume.
The Ghost unit from the starcraft series has been replicated many times in its female form either as Kerrigan or Nova.
I looked through the web for male ghost costume and found only a few. Here are the guys who inspired me to build my own costume:
I started in mid September 2012 trying to have my costume readied for Halloween. Big shoot-out to TheHeroTutorial (https://www.facebook.com/TheHeroTutorials) for his amazing videos on building foam armors. I did not use pepakura since they were none available for Ghost unit. And I felt more free at building, trying and fixing. Although at first it was more about building something that would fit on my body (which was not necessary accurate to the artworks) Here are some artworks that inspired me. You can see how the results differ significantly from the original photos.
Anyways, after a month and a half of building, coating, painting, soldering LED wires and installing a sound module in the rifle I was able to dress up for Halloween like this:
It cost me 1 full roll of EVA foam (4 x 8 ft), 2 packs of hot glue gun, few cans of spray paint, LEDs + resistors and wire, and a sound module from ebay.
The C-10 canister was also made of foam and giftwrap roll. A plastic bottle was used to make the tip of the barrel. The sound module was used to produce the gunshot and nuke sound. It was working on its own via a small speaker.
I might change it though because the wires are very thin and break easily
The costume has full coverage of body with the lycra suit. Featuring gunshot and nuke sounds with unit quotes randomly popping up from a mp3. However, looking back at it, there were many issues. I could hardly see through the pill caps. I used for the eyepiece, the LED were blinding especially at night.
The shoes were not fitted properly. The helmet and belt part were tight. The biceps did not fit or look right. I didn't manage to install lights everywhere I wanted. Another big turn down is that I couldn't go to the bathroom unless I took out my whole costume. It looked more like a female costume and you could hardly tell it's something related to Starcraft.
Oh well, I let the project rest for the school year and got back at it right after my last class ended in June 2013. When I pulled out my costume back, I reviewed the weak points enumerated above and started carving foam again.
I bought 1 new roll of EVA foam, hot glue and got to work.
Since I had all the time I want and no deadline I could freely tear out many pieces and replace them until I could get a satisfying results.
Many adjustment were made to the helmet around the eyepiece and mouthpiece.
The last picture shows the LEDs this time put on the auxiliary lenses. Once all the lights were set up, I covered the eyepiece this time with a rigid green transparent plastic I cut off a toy tambourine.
The biceps were totally remade.
old one
new one
I added some depth in the forearm energy chamber.
Shoulders and chest were rebuilt on top of the old parts.
I upgraded the belt part adding a detachable crotch protector for leak-walk.
I also added armoured thighs and redesigned the shoes and shin parts.
Lastly I added gloves with finger joint pads made of craft foam sheet.
The typical gray and black was replaced with a new white dip. After looking at many armored power suit I felt the white contrasting black pattern looked especially slick and decided to let my imagination go free again. A few parts were painted gray to create a bit of transition. Here are some inspiration:
However I certainly did not want to be misinterpreted for this
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