Egon's Spider-man costume. NEW PHOTOS! Nov 2, 2014,

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Thanks Josh. The only problem I'm having right now is that fabricondemand is taking a while to get my replacement hand prints to me. It's been over 10 business days. But they are redoing their manufacturing facility. I really want my prints. :-/

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Here is the issue I am now dealing with.

The replacement print I ordered, which I was told would be a match with the original, came out like this, on the left.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Update on this costume situation.

Due to Fabric on Demand promising, but not being able to deliver on a matching print (since they re-calibrated their printers after upgrading their facility) they decided to make it up to me by sending me an entirely new suit print. The over all color is darker, but it's still Spider-man.

With that said, I'm still trying to finish the suit I already have 90% sewn that I ordered the replacement arm for. I'm still not happy about how much I screwed up the hand when cutting it, but I'm stitching together the screwed up hand as best I can, and it's working out well, but I cannot for anything figure out how where or how I'm supposed to connect the seam that runs along the sides with the thumbs. I don't mean the thumb attachment seam, but the main seam for the glove on the side with the thumb.

Can anyone please help me? Pictures/ Diagrams? Even close up photos of your finished glove will do. I'm pretty much desperate for help on this.

 

[Lunaman]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

With that said, I'm still trying to finish the suit I already have 90% sewn that I ordered the replacement arm for. I'm still not happy about how much I screwed up the hand when cutting it, but I'm stitching together the screwed up hand as best I can, and it's working out well, but I cannot for anything figure out how where or how I'm supposed to connect the seam that runs along the sides with the thumbs. I don't mean the thumb attachment seam, but the main seam for the glove on the side with the thumb.

Can anyone please help me? Pictures/ Diagrams? Even close up photos of your finished glove will do. I'm pretty much desperate for help on this.

Working on getting some pictures, but it will be a while. The seam runs from the forefinger down to the base of the thumb on the palm side, then of course turns and goes across the bottom of the palm. Just sew it as if the thumb hole isn't even there, just lining up the webs where they should be.

*EDIT*
Ok, here's some pictures of my glove, inside and out.
Outside of thumb

Inner side of thumb and palm

Thumb, palm, and wrist:

Interior seams, palm, thumb, wrist

interior seams, thumb and back of hand.

Hope that helps. Good luck! Would be interested to see the difference between FOD's old print process and new print process side by side.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

You have no idea how much these images have helped me. Thank you so much! I now have the most annoying part of this glove for me mostly completed because of you after viewing these images and a bit of trail and error sewing and a whole lot of seam ripping. The glove will never look completely "normal" because of my original flawed cuts around the fingers, but you've helped me a lot!

Thank you!

Oh! For a basic idea on the print differences, check out the attachment in the 3rd post up. Original print on the left, and the new color on the right. It turned out much darker than they said and would and so I couldn't use it to replace the damaged hand/arm section on my original print purchase.

 

[Lunaman]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

You have no idea how much these images have helped me. Thank you so much! I now have the most annoying part of this glove for me mostly completed because of you after viewing these images and a bit of trail and error sewing and a whole lot of seam ripping. The glove will never look completely "normal" because of my original flawed cuts around the fingers, but you've helped me a lot!

Thank you!

No worries, good luck! I'm in the same boat as you right now, sewing up gloves on my newest suit. :lol It's a frustrating challenge, especially since I have wrist zippers to work around and am doing all the finger and thumb stitching by hand.

Oh! For a basic idea on the print differences, check out the attachment in the 3rd post up. Original print on the left, and the new color on the right. It turned out much darker than they said and would and so I couldn't use it to replace the damaged hand/arm section on my original print purchase.

Gotcha, very interesting. I saw from another recent print (Crimzon's) that the saturation is much deeper in the fabric with less washout, but the colors themselves seem to be less accurate to the file, more darkened with a less subtle contrast gradient. Hmmm.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Yeah. I really hope that they can get the color accuracy back to where it was. It all seems too dark.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Been working hard to get this glove completed. I'm having a heck of a time getting the palm to connect properly to the wrist. Would love to have the costume finished tomorrow for Halloween, but I'm running out of time. The gloves are a pain and I'm only almost finished with one. Then I need to do the other and attach the arms to the shoulders. After that I need to add the zipper up the back and put the eyes on.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Well both arms and hands are complete. I just need to attach them to the shoulders and honestly that's a bit of a problem for me. I can't seem to get them to line up properly it seems. It's as if there is almost too much fabric in the top of the sleeve?

 

[Lunaman]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Well both arms and hands are complete. I just need to attach them to the shoulders and honestly that's a bit of a problem for me. I can't seem to get them to line up properly it seems. It's as if there is almost too much fabric in the top of the sleeve?

There's a big seam allowance at the top of the sleeve, yes. Just match up the weblines and cut away the excess later.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

I actually meant that there seemed to be too much around the top of the sleeve, not along the webbing edge at the top, but from chest to back on the sleeve. I was just looking at it all wrong and need to slightly adjust the sleeve hole seam a little bit and it will all work out. Yeah, I'll definitely need to trim back from of the top of the sleeve webbing. It goes just a bit too high as well.

A progress pic, first one in a while.

Getting there.... one arm partly attached at the shoulder. I'm going to stop working on it for the night. Needs some adjustments. Nothing a seam ripper and the sewing machine can't fix, with my help of course.

I doubt I'll do it, but since I have a second print, I've been thinking of adding a whole lot more weblines to this suit to make it more like his suit from Edge of time. Just and idea I've been tossing around in my head. I'd use the same markers you used to darken your webbing Lunaman.

Thanks again for your help and interest in my progress!

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Another update and a rather awkward question.

First the update.

I've been struggling with attaching the shoulder to the left arm as I mentioned before but I think I'm finally getting it. The only part I'm still having trouble with is the last section as seen on the back of the shoulder in this image. I'm thinking maybe I just need to remove the vertical seam and then bring the fabric in a bit. It seems like there is too much fabric this way <----------------->


And for the rather awkward question and embarrassing photo.



I have a dance belt. The thing is very snug and maybe it's because I don't have the zipper running up the back of the costume yet, but it seems like the suit itself, even with the dance belt wrinkles inward around my crotch area, and while it doesn't show every bump of my junk, it does define it very well. In this image I pulled in the side seams to get the inward \_/ wrinkles to go away. I guess I should just take in those seams a bit more after I install the invisible zipper up the back, or is having those wrinkles there normal with these costumes? Keep in mind this is a straight on shot my wife took with flash.

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Almost forgot to post images of the right hand! It turned out great! Still need to attach it to the shoulder though. Need to trim down some loose thread remnants.





I would like to improve some of the seams in the future, but for now I'm going to move on. I think it looks pretty good.

 

[mrodhawks]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

I had a hard time finding a good solution with the crotch. I didnt try the dance belt because of wrinkles from the belt i was told. I tried cup but stood out to much. So i ended up with compression shorts x2 and cut and shaped foam. Stuffed the foam inside the compression shorts with a pocket for a cup.

Here is with a cup.

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[mrodhawks]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Ill try and see if i can find with the foam, it was a last minute before halloween, didnt take many photos.


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[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Thanks!

 

[mrodhawks]

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Foam shaped like a v at crotch

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[Egon Spengler]

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Cool. I think one thing with that pattern is that the diagonal lines heading to the crotch highlight that area no matter what. If, after finishing the suit I still have this problem, I'll try your ideas. Thanks!

 

[Egon Spengler]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

I finally finished attaching my left arm to the shoulder. It came out looking pretty good. I had to really fit the last block of webbing in by taking it in some. It turned out pretty good and it fits my frame nicely.

Lunaman, does this look about right? I'll have to add the weblines in some places with those markers you use though.
Of course without the back being zipped, everything stretches a little odd.

 

[Lunaman]

Re: Egon's Spider-man costume progress and advice thread- Help needed!!!

Lunaman, does this look about right? I'll have to add the weblines in some places with those markers you use though.
Of course without the back being zipped, everything stretches a little odd.

Yea, you've pretty much got it. Here's some images of the back and front of my shoulders. I think the little "stairstep" in the seam happens a little further in on my suit and turns at a sharper right angle instead of a curve like you've done, but you've certainly located the intersections correctly. The main thing is to get the vertical lines to mate smoothly with the lines coming down from the neck. This is actually where I've had a lot of trouble with my current suit I'm sewing, and wasn't able to get it to match up as cleanly as this Ultimate Suit. I consider it one of the tougher parts of sewing these suits.