Batman Begins - Scarecrow Mask Help

[El Duderino]

Could someone give me a template or something that could help me build a scarecrow mask from Batman Begins? I have the burlap, I just need help with the rest.

 

[TazVader]

Yeah...I'd like to build one too. Maybe a few great high rez screencaps might help?

Cheers
TAZ

 

[El Duderino]

Screencaps would be cool, there isn't many pics of him online.

 

[Ramiel]

Actually it should be quite simple (the main shape, I mean)... It's so irregular that every "mistake" could be forgiven with the final result!

http://media.outnow.ch/movies/images/2005/BatmanBegins/movie.fs/16.jpg

 

[El Duderino]

I found an article giving some info on how to do the mask and costume.

Costume

Your first stop will be your friendly neighborhood thrift store. Dr. Jonathan Crane, The Scarecrow's true identity, favors muted, soft-looking suits. Look in the mens' section for a single-breasted grey jacket with a left breast pocket and matching pants.

During most of his screen time, Dr. Crane wears a white dress shirt with thin olive stripes. However, any striped dress shirt should do. For a tie, you have several options. Depending on the scene, Dr. Crane/The Scarecrow wears either a navy tie with a knitted look; a diagonally striped tie with olive, cream and grey; or a solid burgundy tie.

For the purists out there, pair the burgandy or stripped tie with a reddish-grey crew neck sweater.

If you plan on taking your Scarecrow mask off at any time during your portrayal, you'll want to look like Dr. Crane underneath. See if the thrift store has wire-framed glasses with a thin, rectangular shape and silver finish. If not, inexpensive reading glasses can be found at most drugstores. Just a tip: You'll probably want to remove the lenses before you wear these!

To complete your look, part your hair on the right side and slick it back with a bit of gel. Let the hair start to fall back down before spraying it into place. Dr. Crane's hair has a somewhat greasy, messy look.

Mask

Now on to everyone's favorite part. The mask is essentially a burlap bag covering a partial gas mask. The only time anyone ever sees the gas mask, however, is when the whole assembly is being put on or taken off. In other words, there's no point in making yourself uncomfortable by adding it, and gas masks tend to be expensive.

To find your burlap bag, try feed stores, plant nurseries and international groceries, where staples like rice are often sold in sacks. Tip: Burlap is also called "jute". If you have no luck locally, there are online resources. To decide which size you'll need, use a cloth tape measure to find the circumference of your head at its widest point, which is probably around the ears. Once the bag has arrived, kids should have the help and supervision of an adult to continue working on the mask.

The width and height of the bag you order may be reversed from what you need. That's no problem. Just rip open one side and sew the top shut with some matching thread. The Scarecrow's bag mask is in very rough shape, so don't worry about making your sewing pretty.

When you try the bag on for size, gently use a marker to indicate where your eyes are. After you remove the bag, carefully use a knife or other sharp object (an apple corer would be perfect) to punch holes through the marks that are big enough for you to see out of.

Again, the rougher the holes are, the better. You'll probably wind up with a ragged fringe. Make sure the fringe is pushed outwards so that it doesn't irritate your eyes.

The Scarecrow's mask has thick, black cord sewn in a jagged line to close a hole in the bag over his mouth. Similar cord should be easy to find at any fabric store.

There are a number of other jagged rips in the bag that have been sewn shut with twine. The twine by itself will accomplish the look you want without the need to actually rip your bag. Twine is available at hardware stores and most supermarkets.

For most people, the scariest aspect of The Scarecrow is the brown, worm-like things that appear to come out of the mask. You can imitate this look (and save yourself some sewing) by buying some wild rice and glueing it into place where the mask's rips would be. Hot glue should do the trick.

To complete your ensemble, make a small, fake hangman's noose. This will hang loosely around your neck, giving the bag more of a head shape.

Buy some lightweight, natural fiber rope. Create the "knot" by hot glueing together coils of rope that leave enough room inside for two strands of the same rope to be pulled through. Drape a 3 foot length of rope around your neck and thread the ends through your "knot" like a bolo tie.

The goal here is to make sure that a yank on the rope won't hurt you. Angle the knot to one side of your chin so that it can be seen.

Lastly, for those who want to add an extra punch to their costume, The Scarecrow appears on horseback towards the end of the film wearing a full-body straight jacket as an overcoat. (It's undone, of course.) These are practically impossible to find, so you may have to create your own. The link at the beginning of this article has a photo to guide you.

Still would like some more screencaps though, I never even knew he had a gas mask in it, would make sense though.

 

[Predatormv]

Also if you look his right eye is a patch of burlap that is slightly darker then the rest of the mask, as though he cut the original hole too big and sewed on a patch with a smaller hole in it.

 

[RoCKo]

i found these pics on a german Batman site, maybe these help...

Looks like my posted pictures can´t be displayed here directly anymore, so please go to

www.batmannews.de

and enter the "Flugelheim Museum" section to find those pictures...

 

[RoCKo]

here is the face shot in a slightly higher resolution...
( i don´t know why it can´t be displayed here directly, but here is the link)

CLICK IT FOR HIGHER RESOLUTION
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b345/RoCKo_1975/127_G.jpg

 

[Kylash]

i started one of these but only got this far:

 

[freakengine]

In the pic Rocko posted, it looks like he has a noose around his neck holding the bottom of the mask around his neck. I don't remember seeing that at all. Great pic, Rocko.

There's nothing simple about that mask. Replicating that shape and the way it hangs along with the changes in the weave direction would be challenging.