Hunter's prey progress thread--~~UPDATE~~--

[hunters prey]

how many magnets did you use?

two big ones: one in the top of the bio, one in the corresponding spot inside the mask between the foam padding and the rubbber mask....

 

[MisserCraig]

if i might suggest one thing... do something to your shins besides just painting them to hide the fact that they're baseball guards. right now it's blatantly obvious.

 

[Bovine13]

I agree. You could take some foamies and add layers and more detail to the gaurds. Very cheap and will make them look more the part. Weather them bad boys up and roll out.

 

[jaded]

Thats what I did to mine. I bought plain-jane knee pads and dressed them up. You can see them on this page of my WIP: Knee Pads pics

 

[hunters prey]

I know I should doctor them up a bit more, but right now, I don't have the time... they'll have to wait until after WWC.

For now, I call it done.... I'm not wearing the black sweats, but it works. The bio won't sit right... need to p[lay with it a bit more... I'll be going without it for WWC.... it's just too risky with my vision impaired as much as it is, much less the way the magnets messed up the way hte mask and helemt line up.

Mom got one when I was adjusting the dreads..... In the final verison, my skin won't be seen due to the pants.

and a shot of the dragon gaunt with bomb:

I also did not have time to attach my neck ring substitute, so....

So, does this qualify me for a spot in the "completed suit" thread?

 

[one and only]

Looking pretty good.
Still you should definately get a proper skin and a neck ring.

 

[ancientpredator]

Looks cool lad!!
Impediatly something came in my mind...Roman decurion or...footsoldier in the Middle ages. When you weather the armor a bit more you'll look like a Roman decurion lad.
Cool!!

 

[LemonFreshElder]

Very nice suit! I like the leg armor.

 

[hunters prey]

Impediatly something came in my mind...Roman decurion or...footsoldier in the Middle ages. When you weather the armor a bit more you'll look like a Roman decurion lad.

This armor has been beat up in actually fighting, so it's plenty weathered.

I'm just going to let the shins and gaunts weather naturally.

It's not as good as I'd like, but it is pretty decent.

I also have a new blade setup.... they appear to be made from a Xenomorph shell.... they're made to look retracted because I can't see sh!t in this mask and I don't wanna hurt myself because I can't see.

I'm not going to risk wearing the bio tomorrow due to the wierd way it sits on the mask.... the magnet really f*cked up the way it fits.....

The way I intend to do the ultimate version will be an AVP-styled armor with a P2/AVP 2-toned color scheme.

 

[SUICIDALRAIDER]

nice job!!

 

[one and only]

Dude - Seems to me that you're being slack with your suit.
Take the extra leap man, make your suit the best it can be with the materials you have, in the time you have.

You can easily make those shin guards look Predator-ish with some, foam, hot glue, and some paint.

 

[hunters prey]

Well, since WWC is done, I'll be sure to get right on that.

I'm going to leave the shinguards so I can use them with my SCA armor in combat.

I only had $75 to get everything complelted as well as my pass.... only to find that there was an exhibitor pass awaiting me.....

If we can get a refund for our $28, I'll put it toward upgrading this even more.

 

[hunters prey]

here's a shot from the con... only one I was able to find of the full suit:

I know it's not great, but I personally think it's as complete as it'll be for the time being....

Think I can get a spot on the "completed suit" thread yet?

 

[hunters prey]

alright.. finally did soemthing.. I just grabbed one of the voice-changers fro walmart's toy aisle....

it's not that bad for $6 and it actually works
I'm going to give it a try this halloween at a local haunted hayride attraction.

 

[mothmonty]

looking good man

 

[hunters prey]

Well, I got bored and started working on the thigh, groin, and butt armor. The templates I had saved came out too small.... I didn't know how to resize them, so I improvised.

I used linoleum for everything... yes, that's right, the same rubbery crap used for flooring. My first costume was made of linoleum and it hasn't failed me yet...

it will all be sprayed the hammered copper of my shinguards when I'm done. I also have hte AVP buckle that I hand painted.... didn't have a color scheme in mind for the buckle, just wanted to have fun. it'll go on once the rest of the belt setup is painted.

front:

right side:

back

left side

I'm sure you noticed the gap between the groin armor and the left thigh plate.. the reason for that is that I always do the "crouch" pose with my left foot leading.... the gap is to give me some extra mobility with it, as show here.

I'll paint it whenever the weather cooperates with me.... which I'm hoping will be soon.

In case you're wondering how I connect it, I used industrial-strength velcro as a closure between the groin and right thigh plate. the buckle will had the seam once I attach it

the plates are superglued onto a strip of linoleum that is about 3 inches wide and long enough to wrap around my natural waistline and overlap slightly.

 

[thebigbadwolf]

looks good , cant wait to see finshed

 

[hunters prey]

me and you both

 

[thebeastwithin]

awsome,
it's cool to see that you didn't stop just after you completed it

keep it up man

 

[hunters prey]

the main reason I'm reworking it is that the other armor is a little restrictive.... plus when you hvae a Boba Fett with the 501st walk up and tell you to "stop moving around, you're making too much damn noise," you know you need to modify I was the only pred with no stealth at the convention