Female Pred Costume Wip

[kristen jones]

Long time lurker, here. I've been working slowly on a femalr pred costume for myself, and am finally @ the point where I've made enough progress to share.

The armour was made with templates from VinMan (TY!), the bio is from Mysteria. The rest is from scratch. I was inspired by a few of the female preds I've seen here on the forum, but then took it in my own direction.

I'm working @ being a human huntress, so i won't be using a mask, and I've used natural hair instead of dreads due to this. Also, I won't have a "crazy" skin... I'll be using a flesh-coloured lycra body suit, lightly painted for texture, with a body net.

Sorry about the sideways pics... I'm not sure how that happened, or how to fix it. Rightside up pics are @ my facebook:

www.facebook.com/kristen.henry70

As always, comments/questions/suggestions are welcomed.

Kristen

 

[JehdinThwei]

Wow!! Looks great!!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Ostberg]

It's a good looking suit you got there, is the armor made out of resin?
Awesome paintjob and thanks for sharing, sharing is caring, and gives the rest of us more ideas

 

[kristen jones]

Thanks, guys!

The armour is made out of Sintra. I got that tip from VinMan, as well. It is ultra easy to cut and mold, and looks fantastic once painted.

Once I get some progress on the body suit, I'll post some pics of me wearing the suit.

I'm also working on a retractable spear that can fold down to about 14 inches, which will attach to a thigh platform

Kristen

 

[CYCLONE 06]

Looks awesome. Bet itll look great on you. Sorta going for a Machiko kinda look ?

~CYCLONE_06

 

[Estelle]

OMG Kristen, that is an amazing suit build.

 

[TokyoRose]

The chest armor looks insanely good. I love it. Great build so far!

 

[kala]

Looks very cool! I love the armor, very nice build and paint up! Keep up the great work!

 

[NEMES1S]

So far so good. Cool bio too!

 

[kristen jones]

I suppose Machiko was a jumping off point for this...though ive seen her done alot already. I wanted that same look, but with my own spin on it.

More pics to follow as I make progress

 

[xdmray]

your paintwork is really nice on that armour. i like how you did your own style for the chest piece. very cool looking.
kudos to you!

 

[Double H]

Looking awesome, great good.

 

[Bovine13]

The paint and weathering o the armor look very nice. Great work thus far.

 

[kristen jones]

Thanks again, everyone.

The paintup turned out easier than I had thought it would be. I coated all pieces first in black. Then, I lightly sponged on some "hammered metal" silver; not taking much care with it. I wanted a random sponge pattern of the silver. I didn't cover the black completely... Instead, I let areas of it remain.

Then, while it was still tacky, I misted over all with silver. This gave a sort of "flecked" effect, ad the black areas where now dusted with silver, and the sponged areas looked like metal flakes.

Next, I sponged on some hammered metal bronze, in the same manner ad the silver.

Finally, as this layer was tacky, I dprayed VERY lightly with some black; more like small splotches. This gave me a pitted metal effect.

I dry-brushed some black lightly around details for depth, then coated it all with a clear laquer.

 

[JehdinThwei]

Thanks again, everyone.

The paintup turned out easier than I had thought it would be. I coated all pieces first in black. Then, I lightly sponged on some "hammered metal" silver; not taking much care with it. I wanted a random sponge pattern of the silver. I didn't cover the black completely... Instead, I let areas of it remain.

Then, while it was still tacky, I misted over all with silver. This gave a sort of "flecked" effect, ad the black areas where now dusted with silver, and the sponged areas looked like metal flakes.

Next, I sponged on some hammered metal bronze, in the same manner ad the silver.

Finally, as this layer was tacky, I dprayed VERY lightly with some black; more like small splotches. This gave me a pitted metal effect.

I dry-brushed some black lightly around details for depth, then coated it all with a clear laquer.

It looks awesome. I love the hammered paints. They add a dimension of "metallic" very well.

 

[kristen jones]

Yes, they do. It made this part of the project so much easier in terms of providing a realistic metalic look on what is essentially plastic.

I need to get to work now on my gauntlets. They are the only part of the armour left to build.

 

[TweiKarikna]

nice start seven.....

 

[Sorrow]

Wooohhh! You use your real hair for the dreads sooooo cool!

 

[antcarb]

hey girl nice job like your approach,love the idea of using your real hair,also with not using a skin,when i made mine i did the same thing with using the real female body instead of making a skin,on the same page girl nice job.

 

[berserk wolf]

Your suit looks awesome!