Destiny Hunter Bladedancer costume

[Merentha]

I only had 2 weeks to put together my Halloween costume this year and I really wanted to do a hunter from Destiny, so the crunch began... I didn't finish all the pieces I wanted to or get all the details done but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I'll probably do a bit more work before taking it out to the next fan expo. Sorry it's a bit light on progress photos since I was in such a rush I kept forgetting to take pictures.

My reference was partially the live action trailer and partially made up and from various other hunter refs.



The design on the cloak was pieced together with panels of fabric rather than painted on



I sewed the top with lycra knit and stretch faux leather trimmed with some of my light grey cloak fabric to make that distinctive paneled stomach look most of the hunter designs have



The armor was eva foam with a few rivets and a plumbing connector for the tubing to be added later. Luckily I had a template from my Shepard costume that I reused for the chest.



Grenade holder made from worbla and grenade made from plumbing pipe and those plastic eggs filled with silly putty from the dollar store



The mask was built around a pair of snowboarding goggles with foam and worbla...first time using worbla, which I liked but didn't have enough time to sand to the smooth finish I wanted. The round filter is the lid from an air freshener I found at the dollar store wrapped in worbla. You never know what will be useful. I also used plastic needlepoint mesh in the nose area, made for easy breathing (other than the sweet smell of e6000)



I wanted to do the buckles in some other material but foam to save time...



Managed to get it done after a few sleepless nights. Finished pics coming soon

 

[Merentha]

The arc blade was my favorite part (in game too). I don't have any WIP shots, but it's laser cut fluorescent blue acrylic glued to a flashlight and wrapped in worbla and cord. The engram is polypropylene painted with purple glass paint and filled with purple LEDs. It took fewer hours than getting one in the game.

The foam armor was sprayed with plastidip and painted with acrylic airbrush paints (just brushed on). I didn't notice the scarf was covering my carefully stenciled emblem on the chest in every. single. photo.

Tried a new to me method for paint chips I saw online - base coat of silver, painting where I wanted chips in mustard, spraying over it in black and wiping off the mustard. I was doubtful but it actually worked really well.

I noticed in the live action trailer there were some things dangling from the belt, some of them looked like teeth so I made these from Sculpey and a little brown paint the morning before I wore it to work, not that I was cutting it close with the time or anything.

Given more time I'll probably add a bit more weathering (ie. the shirt looks too clean compared to the rest), panels to the pants, more armor for legs and arms...but that's it for now. Time to sleep for a few days.

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

I'm not familiar with the game but your costume looks great, very polished and professional. Great job.

 

[mcoatsey]

awesome costume, I'm wanting to make a hunter costume, your feed will help. Keep up the good work

 

[Camaro91]

This is amazing! Nice work! Not many Hunters around but you have knocked it out of the park!

 

[erickste]

How did you acquire that amazing knife? Did you have the resources yourself or did someone make it for you? I've been thinking of ways to make an Arc Blade, and you blew it out of the water!

 

[Merentha]

Thanks all! erickste, the knife blade is acrylic I laser cut and etched at a local hackspace, but you can get it done online at those sites like ponoko. If I'd had more time I probably would've done that since the fluoro blue acrylic was really hard to source locally (luckily I had a bit leftover from a previous project, but I had to cut it in two parts and glue it back together, not ideal). The base is just an LED flashlight covered in worbla and painted. The worbla really helped with securing the blade to the flashlight.

 

[erickste]

Ah, gotcha. I'm new to all these 'hardware' resources for costuming, so I'm definitely taking notes on all of these construction ideas. Very inspiring! Keep up the good work!

 

[wifuzzy]

Nice. Way better than mine. Hope you have fun with it.I had fun with mine this weekend.

 

[thegreatgonzo]

Nicely done! I especially like the blade.

 

[laxman09]

so envious of people being able to manipulate the foam to make such great looking costumes, im really tempted to do one in foam now!

 

[The Schlitzie]

That Hunter costume is absolutely amazing! I'm geeking out over the Arc blade and Legendary Engram especially! Sorry if this is a dumb question but, how big are the pentagon shapes you used to make up your engram and how many pieces of acrylic sheet did it take? I might have my laser cutter guy make one for me.

 

[FirstPick]

Amazing work

 

[Merentha]

Thanks! The engram isn't acrylic, just a thin sheet of polypropylene plastic (.7mm I think it was). So it was cut out from a template like this and folded into shape. Each face is about 6cm. It would definitely look more impressive made out of some fluoro acrylic (but too time consuming for my quick build), I'd love to see it if you end up doing that.

 

[Gee2]

I enjoy the game and love your costume, absolutely awesome work!

 

[endo500]

Great Work Merentha you should also share it with the Destiny cosplay group on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/255351411342343/

 

[newbie5583]

Absolutely beautiful work!!! What were the measurements for the blade? Im thinking of making my costume for the 1st time - hope I didnt bite off more than I can chew

 

[FEVERHUNT]

This is such a great build! So stoked.

 

[skelepun]

How did you make the gloves? im trying to make a hunter cosplay I have 8 months to complete it. I don't have a whole lot of money to fork over but id really like to make the bones of eao grieves any suggestions or tips?

 

[Merentha]

The gloves were reused from my Commander Shepard costume, and originally were motorcycle gloves I bought on ebay:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/ICON-BLACK-A...291444069638?var=&hash=item43db6b9506&vxp=mtr

I'm not sure about the grieves since I haven't done much organic work. I'd probably go for Worbla, but I'm sure others with more experience will have better advice

To the member who messaged me about the cape fabric, the forum says your account doesn't accept email replies so hopefully you'll see this. The fabric is just regular cotton broadcloth that I dyed with RIT fabric dyes (some combo of black and brown, I did a few experiments to get the color right). I ran it through the dryer a few times to soften and age it a bit.