I need help with designs for gauntlets and a spear. I would also like to have a partner in designing special details plz tell me what you can please I need to have it by halloween please.
I'm sure that something could've been worked out - if this were
JUNE instead of
SEPTEMBER.
I plan on makinging my own I plan on taking some of the costume that is ussually sold and then make it better I plan on using real blades using esay but reliable material and I want to find stuff to make better dreds for design and detail I am not a good artest at all. Iwas was hoping for help on that one mabe a mold for gauntlets around the actual machinery and I am also looking to make a cannon made from old dvd player parts and I was planing on doing this along time ago I just didn't have time. Oh and I also have a desing plan I. just need help excuting it. I almost forgot I need an idea for a pressure system for both spear and for the gauntlets
This is a new one for me. You want functional equipment made up in time for Halloween... not to mention the actual suit? Let me stop you right there - using real blades is a bad idea, in this case anyway. I don't have to know you, to know that you'd end up hurting yourself or someone else. That goes double for the piston driven- or whatever spear you want to make up.
I'm with PunHulk. Just save yourself some time and hit up Ebay or the local costume shops for a Rubies Predator costume. They're extremely light weight, and chances are that if you're boozin' it up, you won't dehydrate as quickly. Because drinking alcohol and wearing an actual Predator suit that took years to make is a very un-wise decision.
Making even a decent looking Predator suit takes month
S, not days. Not to mention an ass-load of money to back the project. Everytime an individual takes on the task of creating a suit, they become a one- sometimes two or three-man FX shop. They're responsible for designing, sculpting, molding, painting, and assembling the suit. That is if they so choose to go that route. I would say that, if you want to MAKE your own costume, hit up hobby stores and pick up some craft foam - or "foamies" as they're refered to 'round heyah. As far as acutal metal pieces, that would probably be expensive. Or perhaps not, it depends on the type of metal, and whether or not you're good with metal-working tools. Anyhow, stick with plastic or cardboard. For the spear, hmmm... well, when I was 12 I made a 7ft non-retractable spear over the course of 2 months using nothing but pencils, plastic, and cardboard. Along with a blade and a computer gauntlet, cannon, disc, etc.
I wish you luck. If you thought the Predator would be easy to do in a period of a few weeks: you picked the wrong character to dress-up as for Halloween.