Indakin
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Well, I havent posted much if any on the RPF before, so this will be one of my first posts. Ive been a costumer since 2006 doing everything from Ep3 Anakin from REVENGE OF THE SITH, and eventually moving onto more super hero type costumes, like Superman and Batman.
A particular costume I have always wanted was Peter Pans outfit from the film HOOK. Mostly like alot of us, I wanted the Golden Pan sword more than anything. Getting ahold of the sword was the first step in making my suit.
I originally commissioned my friend Chris from Sterling Armory to make me the base sword to work from. We decided to use Bronze, since it was stronger than brass, and golden reflective looking as well. The sword blade came out fantastic, has the perfect taper and shape to it as noted from the few decent stills I could get from the film. I did some detailing tweaks to the grip area, but otherwise it was a great sword to get me motivated to finally study the 100's of still frames i took from the Film and few reference photos I found deep within GOOGLE's search
Very hard finding good reference from anything early 90s and later. But from the little I had, I was able to figure out all the details to his suit, and capture almost all of them for making my Pan suit.
There are obviously alot of things I could fix up, which i still plan too for my suit, particularly shortening the belt length. The main material was likely a suede leather ( which i used for my boot tops). Since this was my first attempt, i didnt want to botch up good leather as i experimented making the suit. I used a mircro suede for this suit, and it worked really well. I plan to darking it slightly still, but in some shots the color looks pretty spot on to me. The biggest pain was really just cutting out all the different variety of leaves on the suit, and figuring out a general sense of the different types of leaves used for these cutouts. The draw strings on the neck were somewhat of a challenge too. My method appears correct enough to the movies look. Probably the most difficult part for a while was trying to find baby Acorns for the neck ties, not even Ebay had any. I actually randomly got lucky walking to visting my GF at work oneday and there happened to be a row of trees on the sidewalk that had just shed a ton of them. So I quickly grabbed a few handfuls and stuff them into my pocket... JACKPOT!
But enough about the details Ill tell you more if you ask...
The basic costume i figured out consisted of:
The tunic top, Shorts, Boots, Knife, Belt, Marble Pouch, Sword Holster (some promo shots), Tights, PAN SWORD.
All of the above have a good amount of detail points i was able to figure out to make it screen accurate.
I honestly didnt post a thing about me working on this project, since it was something I wanted to accomplish for myself, and didnt want to have too much input from. This is mostly because I had never seen someone do this costume before, and I wanted to pull it off myself. Im very happy with the results in the end. Especially with my "New" Pan Sword that I made recently for SDCC 2011.
Something i realized from the start with my Bronze sword, is that its WAY too heavy to fight with, particularly for a 10 -14 year old kid. I wanted to make a much lighter, and "safer" prop to carry at the cons, while also making it more detail accurate.
The grip / gaurd are much more screen accurate in size and detail to the hero screen prop swords. The blade is super light now since its made from aluminum. At first i spray painted the blade gold, but as i expected, it was way too dull. I eventually opted to use Gold Mylar tape, which is highly reflective and doesnt scratch too easily. There are some details like the taper of the blade out of the gaurd, that arent there now, but some of the stunt swords didnt have this detail always. Overall its a much better prop, and now i can say, i did make the whole suit, which is more satisfying.
Anyways here are a bunch of pics of my suit, along with some comparison shots of Robin Williams in suit. Hope you enjoy.
A particular costume I have always wanted was Peter Pans outfit from the film HOOK. Mostly like alot of us, I wanted the Golden Pan sword more than anything. Getting ahold of the sword was the first step in making my suit.
I originally commissioned my friend Chris from Sterling Armory to make me the base sword to work from. We decided to use Bronze, since it was stronger than brass, and golden reflective looking as well. The sword blade came out fantastic, has the perfect taper and shape to it as noted from the few decent stills I could get from the film. I did some detailing tweaks to the grip area, but otherwise it was a great sword to get me motivated to finally study the 100's of still frames i took from the Film and few reference photos I found deep within GOOGLE's search
Very hard finding good reference from anything early 90s and later. But from the little I had, I was able to figure out all the details to his suit, and capture almost all of them for making my Pan suit. There are obviously alot of things I could fix up, which i still plan too for my suit, particularly shortening the belt length. The main material was likely a suede leather ( which i used for my boot tops). Since this was my first attempt, i didnt want to botch up good leather as i experimented making the suit. I used a mircro suede for this suit, and it worked really well. I plan to darking it slightly still, but in some shots the color looks pretty spot on to me. The biggest pain was really just cutting out all the different variety of leaves on the suit, and figuring out a general sense of the different types of leaves used for these cutouts. The draw strings on the neck were somewhat of a challenge too. My method appears correct enough to the movies look. Probably the most difficult part for a while was trying to find baby Acorns for the neck ties, not even Ebay had any. I actually randomly got lucky walking to visting my GF at work oneday and there happened to be a row of trees on the sidewalk that had just shed a ton of them. So I quickly grabbed a few handfuls and stuff them into my pocket... JACKPOT!
But enough about the details Ill tell you more if you ask...
The basic costume i figured out consisted of:
The tunic top, Shorts, Boots, Knife, Belt, Marble Pouch, Sword Holster (some promo shots), Tights, PAN SWORD.
All of the above have a good amount of detail points i was able to figure out to make it screen accurate.
I honestly didnt post a thing about me working on this project, since it was something I wanted to accomplish for myself, and didnt want to have too much input from. This is mostly because I had never seen someone do this costume before, and I wanted to pull it off myself. Im very happy with the results in the end. Especially with my "New" Pan Sword that I made recently for SDCC 2011.
Something i realized from the start with my Bronze sword, is that its WAY too heavy to fight with, particularly for a 10 -14 year old kid. I wanted to make a much lighter, and "safer" prop to carry at the cons, while also making it more detail accurate.
The grip / gaurd are much more screen accurate in size and detail to the hero screen prop swords. The blade is super light now since its made from aluminum. At first i spray painted the blade gold, but as i expected, it was way too dull. I eventually opted to use Gold Mylar tape, which is highly reflective and doesnt scratch too easily. There are some details like the taper of the blade out of the gaurd, that arent there now, but some of the stunt swords didnt have this detail always. Overall its a much better prop, and now i can say, i did make the whole suit, which is more satisfying.
Anyways here are a bunch of pics of my suit, along with some comparison shots of Robin Williams in suit. Hope you enjoy.
