LARGE bird wings

[Funky]

If one were to do a Hawkman or Angel costume, where does one find a large set of white wings in the "down" position. I did find a set on eBay, but 200.00 seemed a bit steep. I'm only using them for one event and they don't have to look fantastic, but passable would be good. Any ideas?

 

[TridCloudwalker]

Large scale stuff like that is hard to do on a budget. The only thing I can think of is building a pair out of white craft foam onto a thick wire armature, and adding white and grey feather accents to it here and there.

 

[loganallenwolf]

Large scale stuff like that is hard to do on a budget. The only thing I can think of is building a pair out of white craft foam onto a thick wire armature, and adding white and grey feather accents to it here and there.

I have a pair of these for my Hawkman costume; I bought them from a Hollywood costume company for almost $1K. They are made of Grey foam and hand cut and sewn feathers. The back of the wings are quilted. The harness is made out of aluminum and I covered it in yellow vinyl. It would be possible to make these yourself, but the man hours would be tremendous. I may get a second pair for my wife and would probably just buy them again just to save me months of work.

You can check out my Hawkman costume if you want on my Myspace account pics section: http://www.myspace.com/allenhansard

 

[GuntahKela]

On the same note, where would one find gigantic feathers for these kind of wings? The ones at the craft stores are less than a foot long.

 

[penwiper]

Mostly when I've seen large feathers done, they either use non-feather material (foam, etc.) or layer several feathers in a straight line to make one super-feather. The latter actually looks pretty good.

 

[jackdoud]

Only place I've found that sells LARGE feathered wings (that don't look like crap) is this site: http://www.dragonwings.net/HugeFeatherWings.html but they're really expensive. If you do a Google search for "feathers" you'll find a ton of sites that sells all sizes and types, both natural and synthetic as well as feather dye. While I was researching the idea a few years ago I eventually came to the decision that the only way I'd get what I wanted was to make it myself. It's just not worth it for most costumers to sell high quality setups.

 

[ObiWannabe]

The one name I've heard most often for buying feathers in bulk is Rainbow Feather Co. I don't have a link handy, but I'm sure you can search it up easily. Unfortunately, my handout from CostumeCon's wing panel only has links to armature and harness designs, no other feather companies. But they are out there. I know there's more than one, I hear about wings all the time on cosplay.com.

Thing is...$200 is pretty damn good for a full-sized set of wings. If you think you can just buy a set that size for less than that, you're crazy. Hell, I'm not sure you can even make a set for that little. I suppose it depends on how dense you want the feathers to be, the fewer you have to buy the cheaper. Making them static - that is, non working - will also cut costs on the harness. But you won't get a full-sized set of feathered wings for *considerably* less than $200 if you make versus buy.