Fragasaurus
New Member
Hi RPF'ers,
This being my first worklog, a quick introduction. My name is Daniel, and I live in Perth, Western Australia. I have been a Judge Dredd fan since I discovered 2000AD comics in the 80's. I have always dreamed of having my own Judge uniform, but I never had the ingenuity or the means to make one. Cue the 21st century, and having discovered this site via aimless googling one night after re-watching the Dredd 2012 movie, I have decided to dive in and make my own costume.
This will probably take a while to do, although folks on this site seem to not mind things taking a long time to complete. Reason being is that I need to lose about 40 kilos before it would be worthwhile to make/aquire the jacket and pants. I'll just add this to all the other reasons why it's better not to eat evil food and exercise :angel
<------- No one want to be this guy doing Cosplay
So, my workflow will probably be as follows:
Helmet
Lawgiver
Badge
Boots
Gloves
Belt, buckle, grenades and pouches
Tac vest
Pants
Jacket inc elbow/shoulder details
First convention here in Perth is in April 2015, so I'm aiming to be complete by March.
Costs so far:
$ 4 A3 cutting board
$ 13 A4 200gsm card x100
$ 5 Fine point pens for scoring
$ 24 Ozito glue gun/sticks
$ 3 Paint brushes x3
$ 21 Fibreglass.Epoxy resin + hardener
$ 70 Total
So, Helmet...
Thanks to the kindness of Blaxmyth via Dung0Beetle, I downloaded the updated pep file for the 2012 Helmet. Unfortunately, every time I printed it out, only the numbers printed, not the outlines of each piece. After uninstalling and reinstalling various versions of Pepakura Designer, I discovered that if I printed using the dropdown menu "File" rather than the printer icon on the toolbar, I got my outlines. Tricksy Pepakura Designer, tricksy.....
After looking at it for about a week, I finally took the first step.
I decided to just make a helmet using normal paper/glue stick as a test run for sizing. After a couple of hours I ended up with...
Oh dear...
My daughter thinks it's cool, so I guess it's ok.
I decided that it might need a 1cm on either side for width, being the owner of a larger skull that most, so I fiddled with Pep Designer until I worked out how to do it, and move the pieces around so it fitted the pages again. I only ended up needing two more pages than the nine initially :thumbsup
Now it's onto the real deal, I've printed onto the card stock and I'll get pepping asap. Thanks for looking!
This being my first worklog, a quick introduction. My name is Daniel, and I live in Perth, Western Australia. I have been a Judge Dredd fan since I discovered 2000AD comics in the 80's. I have always dreamed of having my own Judge uniform, but I never had the ingenuity or the means to make one. Cue the 21st century, and having discovered this site via aimless googling one night after re-watching the Dredd 2012 movie, I have decided to dive in and make my own costume.
This will probably take a while to do, although folks on this site seem to not mind things taking a long time to complete. Reason being is that I need to lose about 40 kilos before it would be worthwhile to make/aquire the jacket and pants. I'll just add this to all the other reasons why it's better not to eat evil food and exercise :angel
<------- No one want to be this guy doing Cosplay
So, my workflow will probably be as follows:
Helmet
Lawgiver
Badge
Boots
Gloves
Belt, buckle, grenades and pouches
Tac vest
Pants
Jacket inc elbow/shoulder details
First convention here in Perth is in April 2015, so I'm aiming to be complete by March.
Costs so far:
$ 4 A3 cutting board
$ 13 A4 200gsm card x100
$ 5 Fine point pens for scoring
$ 24 Ozito glue gun/sticks
$ 3 Paint brushes x3
$ 21 Fibreglass.Epoxy resin + hardener
$ 70 Total
So, Helmet...
Thanks to the kindness of Blaxmyth via Dung0Beetle, I downloaded the updated pep file for the 2012 Helmet. Unfortunately, every time I printed it out, only the numbers printed, not the outlines of each piece. After uninstalling and reinstalling various versions of Pepakura Designer, I discovered that if I printed using the dropdown menu "File" rather than the printer icon on the toolbar, I got my outlines. Tricksy Pepakura Designer, tricksy.....
After looking at it for about a week, I finally took the first step.
I decided to just make a helmet using normal paper/glue stick as a test run for sizing. After a couple of hours I ended up with...
Oh dear...
My daughter thinks it's cool, so I guess it's ok.
I decided that it might need a 1cm on either side for width, being the owner of a larger skull that most, so I fiddled with Pep Designer until I worked out how to do it, and move the pieces around so it fitted the pages again. I only ended up needing two more pages than the nine initially :thumbsup
Now it's onto the real deal, I've printed onto the card stock and I'll get pepping asap. Thanks for looking!
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