Dafoe Green Goblin Build (Spider-Man 2002)

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Hello everyone! I'm currently in the midst of building my Green Goblin costume from the first Raimi film! My printer is running hot putting out the 80+ armor pieces. I don’t have much to show quite yet, but I thought I would start off by asking for some input!

On the sides of the costume there are these two cables/hoses running down, these are held in place by these brass looking pieces. I’m curious whether these are found parts, or made custom specifically for this costume. I’ll probably end up resin printing them in the end for my costume, but if anyone here has any intel or information about these pieces, or the overall costume for that matter, please let me know!

Thank you!

 

[TJackFx]

Looking forward to seeing your build
I do offer gold lenses if you end up needing to buy any for your helmet

 

[Moldwarped]

Looking forward to seeing your build
I do offer gold lenses if you end up needing to buy any for your helmet

Oh awesome! I’ll probably try to make my own, but it’s always good to have a plan b!

 

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This costume will be built upon this leather suit from WhiteSheepLeather. It’s not 100% accurate in it’s design, but it will look fine when covered in armor. The color of the leather panels however were not quite to my satisfaction, I believe it’s designed more after the No Way Home suit. Either way I still wanted the leather to match the color of my helmet and armor, so one of the first things I did to it after seam-ripping off all the leather armor, was to paint the panels with the same paint as I will be using on the hard parts.

I’m using a pearlescent color pigment mixed in with some clear-coat to paint all of the green. The great thing about it is that I can use the exact same color on both hard and flexible surfaces, making the color matching between the suit and armor much easier!

Before:

After: (with reference for the armor paint)

 

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So, after having my printer slaving away for a couple of weeks, I now have the 80+ armor pieces printed and ready for post-processing!

For big project like this, I like to use a 2K filler primer (comes in a can with hardener) that I can lay down with a cheap spray gun. It’s a lot more cost effective compared to buying smaller spray cans and gives the prints a good base coat to sand on!

All of the armor was 3D-modeled by myself and I’d be willing to share the files for free down the line if there’s interest.

 

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Finished the shoes the other day!

In the film he wears a pair of Nike Flightposite sneakers in what I believe is the ”metallic gold” color. Seems like they simply bought the shoes and didn’t bother painting them since you can clearly see the color difference between the shoes and suit in the E3 pictures for example. I guess the color was a close enough match anyways.

Nike Flightposites aren’t super common, but not impossible to find either, especially considering all the reissues that have been made of them over the years.

Finding a pair in the metallic gold on the other hand proved more difficult ( at least for me).

Luckily I was able to find a pair locally, in a design called ”topaz mist” seen below:

So, the mission became to try and mimic the metallic gold paintjob seen in the movie.

Once again, I’m using a color shift pigment mixed with some angelus clear varnish. The soles were colored with a mixture of angelus sole-bright and black leather dye. The bumpy plastic-y panels were painted with simple silver acrylic paint.

I then made a cover-flap made out of some vinyl fabric painted with the same pigment as the bodysuit.

 

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The helmet is sanded and ready to paint! So while I’m waiting for paint to arrive I ventured to make the yellow/gold eye lenses.

The helmet I’ve printed came with files for the lenses, but since I found them to be a bit to flat for my liking, I chose to give them a bit more of a domed appearance within ZBrush. I also used ZBrush to add some material on the back of the model to give it a flat bottom to stand on.

This was then printed and finished with the normal filler-primer routine. Here it is freshly wet sanded up to 1200 grit.

The next step was to dust of my janky self-made vacuum former and pull some lenses in clear PETG.

The lenses were trimmed and put into a bath of IDye Poly ”Golden Yellow” dye, which has no problem dying plastic. I experimented with leaving them in the bath for both a shorter and longer duration, which gives different shades of color. I think I prefer the more paler shade in this case, but I’d still like to experiment a bit more with this process!

To give the lenses the mirror shine I simply used some alclad (now known as A-Stand) chrome paint, which is sprayed lightly through my airbrush on the backside of the lenses. Again some more testing is required to find a good compromise between good visibility and sufficient mirror shine.

Still, the lenses I have now will work fine for the time being.

Next up should be painting the helmet!

 

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Time to paint the helmet!

I printed this helmet several years ago and I’ve been working on it on and off for some time, and after the usual sanding process I started by hitting the piece with some matte black spray paint.

Once dry, it was time to add the green! The color comes from a pearlescent green paint pigment (the same as I’ve used for the leather bodysuit) this can be mixed into some 2K clear coat and run though a HVLP paint gun.

My setup is by no means ideal for this kind of work, but my 50 dollar HVLP gun still does the job just fine for my purposes.

After the base green coat is down, next up is to add the purple color shift effect on top. For this I use another pigment that shifts from a bright purple to a dark green.

Now you could of course use this pigment by itself to get the full effect, but I found that most purple/green shift pigments tended to have more purple than green in them, which was something that bothered me about all the pre-mixed spraycan color shift paints.

Instead I used this pigment in a smaller quantity, mixed with the same 2K clear, to add a sort of “tint” of purple that disappeared when it fades into green, blending into the base color.

This whole paintjob was then slightly matted down with some semi-gloss 1k clear coat, to better match the original look.

The back plate was also painted and held in place with friction and some elastic straps. (Sorry no picture)

To cover my mouth I added some metal wire mesh that I painted black. The eye lenses and mouth cover were both attached with some hot glue.

The teeth were painted with some Alclad “steel” and slightly weathered in brown and black tones, to give them some contrast and depth.

And finally, to help balance this thing on my head, I added an adjustable hard-hat liner to the inside of the helmet.