Contec
Master Member
Now you can vote for me in the RPF COSTUME CONTEST
http://www.therpf.com/f24/rpf-2nd-annual-halloween-contest-male-vote-now-131579/
In August/September I started to think about making a halloween costume and to have something to enter the RPF costume contest with.
I checked around and with the Tintin movie that was on its way i thought WHY NOT HADDOCK.
I loved Tintin since I was a child and the few pictures that had been release for the movie did make his costume look not that hard to make. I also found pictures on the statue that Weta had printed from the CG files and that got me a 360 view of the Haddock costume.
My first thought was to sew a turtleneck shirt from blue fabric but then i would not get that knitted look that the movie Haddock had. I wanted to go for the movie Haddock and less the comic version.
I was lucky to find a Cap, and then a two white female cotton knitted turtlenecked sweater in a second hand store .
With the sweaters in my hands I started to look for ways to colour it.
Something i never done before.:confused
Before going any further I did a little photoshoping of a picture of what I had, Just to convince me that I could do it and that I would look the part.
Left: unmodified Middle: Weta cg printed statue Right: Photoshoped picture
Next I needed a pipe, though the movie Haddock never had a pipe in the movie
because smoking is bad. The comic book Haddock however had a pipe and that was a good part of what he was, A smoking, drinking, swearing sea captain.
I remembered that my late grandfather had left a few of his pipes after he died. So I asked my grandmother if she still had them and she sure did.
It still had years of tobacco/tar and nasty stuff inside it so it needed to get cleaned before i put that thing in my mouth.
And after a good cleaning :
Then i bought fabric colouring (navyblue) and stuffed two sweaters inside the washing machine. I thought for sure that i would ruin them and make them too dark.
But Success
When this picture was taken the sweather is still wet from the colouring.
Now i needed to add the anchor to the sweather.
I checked the designs on the movie one and could not find a image on the net that i could use so i had to make my own.
I printed it out and cut it out on black fabric and then sewed it onto the sweater
I started to work on his captain cap and found gold colored ribbons that i glued around the rim and for his medallion i used super sculpey to make the two pairs of "wings". The anchor part I had a hard time figuring out how to do, but later did one from scratch with styrene plastic that i carved with a exacto blade....and stuck the blade it into my thumb..:lol
I then pressed the anchor into a oval piece of clay that i had layed the "wings" onto. Made a mold of it with the last (and pretty old) silicone that i had. The mold came out ok ,a few small air bubbles and the silicone was a bit sticky but i used a little resin in the mold and got two medallions (one that i tried with metal powder but failed.)
In one of them i had inbedded pins so that it could be attached to the cap.
I started to paint it as i thought it looked from the few small pictures that i could find of it. It looked at first like it was painted Gold and silver for the anchor but i saw something that looked like whiteish colour for the bottom paint.
When it was ready and dry i gave it a weathering coat of black to bring out the details and then a clear coat to protect it. GOD!! I LOVE WEATHERING!!!
At this point my costume pretty much complete. I only needed to find a similer jacket that haddock has on the statue.
I was really lucky to find a jacket at a Second-hand store that matched it almost perfectly. (The statue one looks like it's of a thicker fabric)
I knew i was going to use a bottle of real Loch Lomond whiskey for a hand prop but i saw that on the statue they had given him a sea-man canvas bag to have over his shoulder. I looked in my fabric supply box and found this wonderful thick textures fabric that i continued to sew a bag from.
The statue bag had three black lines on it. I made those by using a black marker pen on the fabric with tape guidelines.
Now the costume was ready and i gotten a pair of black chinos for his pants.
It was time to do something about the beard. I had bought crepe hair a few years ago and still had a bunch of it.
But i went ahead and bought a "fullbeard" just to see how it would look.
That beard was connected by a rubber string around the back of the head, and two tape pieces on the cheeks. It was too thick and did not look convincing.
Crappy beard:
So i turned back to the Crepe hair and used the gray one to test out how to attach it the best way.
Looked pretty good
So late night yesterday I took on my costume and started to add beard pieces onto my face.
Soon I started to look like a Klingon.....or Mormon.
This one makes me look like Weta Designer Greg Broadmore:lol
Real Greg ---->
The beard looks a little lame and wild when it was not styled.
So a bit of cutting and shaping made it alot better:
Captain Badass
Just for the fun of it:
Just a little drink can't hurt Tintin!!
Captain Cuddles
Haddock find a bottle of fine whiskey
I'm going to keep on updating my costume next year by making a facial prosthetics nose. Haddock has a huge nose and it would be fun to have that as well. It's been a lot of blood sweat and tears on this build but it has been worth it to 100%
Thanks for watching and reading.
http://www.therpf.com/f24/rpf-2nd-annual-halloween-contest-male-vote-now-131579/
In August/September I started to think about making a halloween costume and to have something to enter the RPF costume contest with.
I checked around and with the Tintin movie that was on its way i thought WHY NOT HADDOCK.
I loved Tintin since I was a child and the few pictures that had been release for the movie did make his costume look not that hard to make. I also found pictures on the statue that Weta had printed from the CG files and that got me a 360 view of the Haddock costume.
My first thought was to sew a turtleneck shirt from blue fabric but then i would not get that knitted look that the movie Haddock had. I wanted to go for the movie Haddock and less the comic version.
I was lucky to find a Cap, and then a two white female cotton knitted turtlenecked sweater in a second hand store .
With the sweaters in my hands I started to look for ways to colour it.
Something i never done before.:confused
Before going any further I did a little photoshoping of a picture of what I had, Just to convince me that I could do it and that I would look the part.
Left: unmodified Middle: Weta cg printed statue Right: Photoshoped picture
Next I needed a pipe, though the movie Haddock never had a pipe in the movie
because smoking is bad. The comic book Haddock however had a pipe and that was a good part of what he was, A smoking, drinking, swearing sea captain.I remembered that my late grandfather had left a few of his pipes after he died. So I asked my grandmother if she still had them and she sure did.
It still had years of tobacco/tar and nasty stuff inside it so it needed to get cleaned before i put that thing in my mouth.
And after a good cleaning :
Then i bought fabric colouring (navyblue) and stuffed two sweaters inside the washing machine. I thought for sure that i would ruin them and make them too dark.
But Success
When this picture was taken the sweather is still wet from the colouring.
Now i needed to add the anchor to the sweather.
I checked the designs on the movie one and could not find a image on the net that i could use so i had to make my own.
I printed it out and cut it out on black fabric and then sewed it onto the sweater
I started to work on his captain cap and found gold colored ribbons that i glued around the rim and for his medallion i used super sculpey to make the two pairs of "wings". The anchor part I had a hard time figuring out how to do, but later did one from scratch with styrene plastic that i carved with a exacto blade....and stuck the blade it into my thumb..:lol
I then pressed the anchor into a oval piece of clay that i had layed the "wings" onto. Made a mold of it with the last (and pretty old) silicone that i had. The mold came out ok ,a few small air bubbles and the silicone was a bit sticky but i used a little resin in the mold and got two medallions (one that i tried with metal powder but failed.)
In one of them i had inbedded pins so that it could be attached to the cap.
I started to paint it as i thought it looked from the few small pictures that i could find of it. It looked at first like it was painted Gold and silver for the anchor but i saw something that looked like whiteish colour for the bottom paint.
When it was ready and dry i gave it a weathering coat of black to bring out the details and then a clear coat to protect it. GOD!! I LOVE WEATHERING!!!
At this point my costume pretty much complete. I only needed to find a similer jacket that haddock has on the statue.
I was really lucky to find a jacket at a Second-hand store that matched it almost perfectly. (The statue one looks like it's of a thicker fabric)
I knew i was going to use a bottle of real Loch Lomond whiskey for a hand prop but i saw that on the statue they had given him a sea-man canvas bag to have over his shoulder. I looked in my fabric supply box and found this wonderful thick textures fabric that i continued to sew a bag from.
The statue bag had three black lines on it. I made those by using a black marker pen on the fabric with tape guidelines.
Now the costume was ready and i gotten a pair of black chinos for his pants.
It was time to do something about the beard. I had bought crepe hair a few years ago and still had a bunch of it.
But i went ahead and bought a "fullbeard" just to see how it would look.
That beard was connected by a rubber string around the back of the head, and two tape pieces on the cheeks. It was too thick and did not look convincing.
Crappy beard:
So i turned back to the Crepe hair and used the gray one to test out how to attach it the best way.
Looked pretty good
So late night yesterday I took on my costume and started to add beard pieces onto my face.
Soon I started to look like a Klingon.....or Mormon.
This one makes me look like Weta Designer Greg Broadmore:lol
Real Greg ---->
The beard looks a little lame and wild when it was not styled.
So a bit of cutting and shaping made it alot better:
Captain Badass
Just for the fun of it:
Just a little drink can't hurt Tintin!!
Captain Cuddles
Haddock find a bottle of fine whiskey
I'm going to keep on updating my costume next year by making a facial prosthetics nose. Haddock has a huge nose and it would be fun to have that as well. It's been a lot of blood sweat and tears on this build but it has been worth it to 100%
Thanks for watching and reading.
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