Real Ghostbusters Samhain headsculpt/costume

[jarvis]

It looks awesome. I really enjoyed the progress pics too. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Onkelpsycho]

Just awesome... One of the best (or THE best) Halloween costumes...

Man, hopefully I never meet you in the woods at night with this costume...


Well done... thumbsup:thumbsup

 

[Gareee]

Thanks much for the praise!

 

[Gareee]

Here's our first quickie test video of the costume put together. It started raining as soon as I was geared up, so we had to make it fast.

I'm looking down too much through the mouth and bending my back rather than tilting my head up.... I'll have to work on that. An the cowl needed to be bent up more in the back.

The length looks good, but we need something on the sleeves to keep them from riding up over the hands. We are also working on the final shoulder cloak attachement, as well as cuting the back opening longer, and adding its attachement hardware.

All in all, a good 1st test run.

http://www.facebook.com/v/10150339764898581

We pretty much have all the costume items resolved (we think) and will do another test outside tomorrow, assuming the weather permits. its hard not to growl "Ghossssbusssterssss" when wearing it!

 

[darthgordon]

Looks great! Having to look down is common in a mask that distorts your FOV. We're used to being able to see our feet a lot when we walk... then there's the long robe that you're trying to be careful not to trip over and the terrain... which isn't exactly flat.

 

[Gareee]

I'll have to practice just standing in place postureing..

 

[pRoJectEarth7]

whoa!:eek... creepy and amazing at the same time...

excellent work there man...:thumbsup

 

[lordgilpin]

So amazing Gareee... Great work on this!

 

[Gareee]

Looks like Sam will be debut at the ghostbusters showing near Charlotte tomorrow!

 

[everchanging1]

So awesome! looked great before but the cowl and pose just sell it! Let it get dark outside and give it some nice creepy lighting and it'll scare the bejesus out of anyone!

 

[BigJon]

Amazing work Garee!

 

[rosskow]

looks creepy, cool and very creative.

seems like it will be a little difficult to see out/through the mask, still amazing

 

[Gareee]

Yeah, originally I hadn't intended it to really be worn at all... but I looked at the proportions, and managed to make the space in the head large enough.

You see out of the mouth, and the opening is fair sized.

I did make a few tweaks in the past few days.

The collar is now angled up in the front, and the arms are now glued at proper angles for prop display. Getting the arms to glue was proving to be a problem, but finally super glue gel resolved them slowly sagging over time.

 

[chimmera30]

Beautiful sculpt,and breath taking paint job!
love the final result!

 

[Gareee]

I ended up adding removable eyes to him.. the blank eye sockets kept buging me, and this looks closer to the cartoon version.

He was VERY popular on Halloween night!

If yer on facebook, I could use your vote for a Halloween costume contest I'm in.

Please follow the link, and like this photo to vote for me. Then share this link on your facebook wall with the instructions on how to vote, and THANKS!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...49708032.64641.112118442165241&type=3&theater

Here's the contest entry pic:

 

[benhs1898]

That is so freaking scary with the eyes. beautiful work.

 

[rosskow]

 

[Gareee]

Yeah, but he has nothing on this custom action figure I did:

 

[rosskow]

Yeah, but he has nothing on this custom action figure I did:

your one does have much more character to it yes, but i just felt the need to post it when i saw it, sorry

 

[Gareee]

No worries at all! I'm probably going to do a 12" version of samhain, to go with the matty 12" figures.