Abominable Snowman (Bumble-1964 Rudolph Build)-WIP

Awesome build and collaboration:thumbsup I like the concept of cosplaying as a family

devinsdrake said:

And I was happy with my Mars Attacks costume... You killed it!
I'd love to see progress photos of the model/pattern making (if you have them)

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So once I had my Clay Bumble I covered him with thin strips of masking tape and using a fine tip sharpie drew out my patterns (like dress making) and you only need to do one side cause you can just flip your patterns to get the other side. the little marks are to help line things up. At that point I took my exacto and carefully cut each pattern off and taped it to a piece of card stock. I then scanned the card stock into a digital file and imported that into Autocad where I scaled it up to full size and plotted them on my large format printer - you can do the same at a print shop as well if you do not have access to a CAD/Plotter

After I had my patterns it was just a matter of cutting them out and tracing them onto the foam.
also for a guideline I kept Clay Bumble and using my sharpie marked where each pattern went to use him as a guideline.

I started at the shoulder and worked down using the naming convention of

L1, L2 etc.... L meaning stage left 1 the pattern # and on the back side of those patterns I wrote R1 cause flipped they make the right side

only thing I ended up modifying was the legs cause they didn't allow for the thickness of the feet but it was an easy fix but overall it was a good way to create a large costume off a small model.

in the future I might even try doing this off a toy figure and see how that works -

hope this answered some questions for you.

Father of the year! What an amazing memory for your family!

I like that your really just an accessory for your daughters costume!

Absolutely fantastic effort and result! Lucky daughter too !

Thank you for all the kind comments!

She and I will go to the festival Saturday so hopefully I will get more pics then of the completed costumes in action

This is possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen.


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Wonderful build! I also love how you included "Ace" in the theme, and scale.

Made the local news during Santa Con even get a shout out at the end of the video for it being hand made!


http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/Santa-Pub-Crawl-continues-to-grow-405716305.html

we also took first place in the costume contest - try to track down some pics to post

SC2016-5 by Tim Burket, on Flickr

SC2016-3 by Tim Burket, on Flickr

SC2016-2 by Tim Burket, on Flickr


Pics from taking first place at Santa Con Aug Costume Contest2016

great work i bet its a hit with everyone. i know my neices would loe it.

Totally in awe here. Amazing!