LDJosh
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Hey all.
About 2 months ago I came to this board looking for help building a decent Spiderman for Baltimore Comicon (in 3 days). I found exactly that, and a whole lot of inspiration for the next 35 costumes.
To be brief about the situation, I came looking for information about the guy I would later find out was Spidey4fun. he was much too busy to do a costume for me (and way out of my ballpark anyway). Then I saw Taylor running TASM sheets in the junkyard. I signed up for a run right away, but it was heavily backlogged. When someone from the first run received their costume, they had already decided to do a different character and offered it up. I bought it. The suit I bought had been sized for someone *slightly* taller than me, but I figured on the time constraint I was working with, better to roll the dice on this side of the line.
There's been some impolite chatter in the junkyard about the quality of this suit. I've stayed out of it until I had some evidence of my own, but I have to be honest here. I hired a *very* high quality seamstress, and she and her fellow seamstresses were confused by the pattern.
This is what I got.
- HUGE IMAGE - http://i.imgur.com/QBFOI.jpg
I sent it to my seamstress, who made these costumes in may:
In the meantime, i bought spiderman eyes from joelai009
She told me what she thought would take her a day from her initial glance took about 3.
It turns out, the things most people on the thread in the jy were pretty valid. My only major complaint was how the mask isn't lined up right (might be partially the height issue) but the fingers are a little extra too long, and that hip issue everyone was talking about was a real thing. Mostly minor things that I'll probably be able to tailor out myself. I plan to someday replace the mask entirly with a removable one, and make the gloves detachable. I've also considered the puffpaint, but sewing patter work aside, Taylor made a fine print. All in all, the costume isn't bad, and I lost 30lbs getting ready to wear it (still have a way to go though, more outfits ahead).
I'll update post con with con pics and whatnot. All in all, I'd say the suit is a good suit, it just needs a little work. Still impresses the hell out of the ladies around here. And the stoner college kids.
Thwip Twhip, spidey fans:
(you can see a bit of the hip issue here.)
Extra in fingers:
Mask:
About 2 months ago I came to this board looking for help building a decent Spiderman for Baltimore Comicon (in 3 days). I found exactly that, and a whole lot of inspiration for the next 35 costumes.
To be brief about the situation, I came looking for information about the guy I would later find out was Spidey4fun. he was much too busy to do a costume for me (and way out of my ballpark anyway). Then I saw Taylor running TASM sheets in the junkyard. I signed up for a run right away, but it was heavily backlogged. When someone from the first run received their costume, they had already decided to do a different character and offered it up. I bought it. The suit I bought had been sized for someone *slightly* taller than me, but I figured on the time constraint I was working with, better to roll the dice on this side of the line.
There's been some impolite chatter in the junkyard about the quality of this suit. I've stayed out of it until I had some evidence of my own, but I have to be honest here. I hired a *very* high quality seamstress, and she and her fellow seamstresses were confused by the pattern.
This is what I got.
- HUGE IMAGE - http://i.imgur.com/QBFOI.jpg
I sent it to my seamstress, who made these costumes in may:
In the meantime, i bought spiderman eyes from joelai009
She told me what she thought would take her a day from her initial glance took about 3.
It turns out, the things most people on the thread in the jy were pretty valid. My only major complaint was how the mask isn't lined up right (might be partially the height issue) but the fingers are a little extra too long, and that hip issue everyone was talking about was a real thing. Mostly minor things that I'll probably be able to tailor out myself. I plan to someday replace the mask entirly with a removable one, and make the gloves detachable. I've also considered the puffpaint, but sewing patter work aside, Taylor made a fine print. All in all, the costume isn't bad, and I lost 30lbs getting ready to wear it (still have a way to go though, more outfits ahead).
I'll update post con with con pics and whatnot. All in all, I'd say the suit is a good suit, it just needs a little work. Still impresses the hell out of the ladies around here. And the stoner college kids.
Thwip Twhip, spidey fans:
(you can see a bit of the hip issue here.)
Extra in fingers:
Mask:
