Hello everyone, I am a costume newbie facing a bit of a dilemma here. I am trying to recreate Gray Fox from the Metal Gear Solid series, but my primary obstacle is making a realistic muscle suit. My first thought was just getting one of those zentai suits and using an airbrush to paint on the pattern, but after viewing several examples of this, I don't like how obviously artificial it looked. Because of this, I am thinking that a better idea might be to use a zentai use as a base, cover it in a layer of liquid latex, then build up the musculature with something and coat in more liquid latex. The problem is building it up: What should I use, and how do I get the effect I want? I have heard of using upholstery foam, L200 foam, "fun foam" and all sorts of other things for making fake muscle, but I don't know what would give me the best bang for my buck. I plan to use liquid latex from Monster Makers, so I have that taken care of.
Basically, I don't want an exaggerated "superman" look like the cheap musclesuit costumes you can buy around Halloween; I want it to be sleek and look like what it is supposed to be: an exoskeleton of sorts.
As a related question, is there any way to sand down foam or latex or anything to make sure the muscles are shaped properly and aren't all blocky? What is the trick?
Basically, I don't want an exaggerated "superman" look like the cheap musclesuit costumes you can buy around Halloween; I want it to be sleek and look like what it is supposed to be: an exoskeleton of sorts.
As a related question, is there any way to sand down foam or latex or anything to make sure the muscles are shaped properly and aren't all blocky? What is the trick?
