decaturvader
Sr Member
I had never been a huge Capt America fan; or followed Red Skull for that matter.
Sure, I knew who they were, had a Mego Capt. A figure as a kid..but that's bout it.
I knew the movie was coming out this summer, didn't really follow much about it other than some pics posted here regarding what the set looked like and sneak peeks of the Capt A costume.
I started watching mrbungle's thread on his Red Skull sculpt.
It interested me; I had seen the same promo pic of Hugo in the Red Skull outfit and he indeed looked incredibly evil....well done.
As Tom's sculpt progressed, and I saw the first pull - I said to myself I had to get one if it was in my budget. In that far corner of my mind, I started wondering about the black leather trenchcoat and if I could build one that was similar (I am no seamstress by any stretch of the imagination, but can work a machine a little).
Well, I ended up ordering the mask.
I started looking online for cheap trenchcoats...thought about buying two of them. One to be the base, and the second to be used for cutting up and making the decoration pieces and colar. Then find some assorted buttons as stuff at Jo-Anns...and call it a day.
In the relatively short timeframe I pondered making my own coat, I found an eBay seller. They were from China and make a lot of cosplay costumes. I had been following them a little anyway since I considered getting their Selene outfit for my wife and they have pretty good feedback.
I started talking to the seller via email about the idea of making it for me. Based on the complexity of their other suits, I could only assume price range would be around $150.
The builder only had the two pics I supplied them and took a bit of effort to get em to do it.
I gave a fairly broad artistic license to the builder - didn't need to be screen accurate, just similar.
This all started around May 24th and I received the coat June 4th!
Well - for the money, it exceeded expectations.
It's not perfect; I have some things to fix/redo to suit me...but from the drawing board to in-hand in under two weeks...not too bad.
The material is pretty thin. The whole coat weighs less than 5lbs I think.
The coat consists of several pieces:
Main Coat
Skirt-thing with shoulder straps
Wrist straps (4)
Belt
Fake shirt Collar
Gloves
They did some detail work on the belt - but....yeaa...it is coming off as soon as I get my pewter buckle. Really poor Hydra logo...cut out with exacto knife or something...painted grey...yuck.
They did send two shoulder patches...umm yeaa....not even good enough for a kiddie costume they are sooo freaking cheap and poorly done. They are not seen in the pics because they came seperate from the coat...I am supposed to peel off some tape and apply them to the coat myself. Umm no.
I supplied a Hydra logo to a fellow member here, and he is doing a JY run of patches that should do quite well.
The coat is HOT. Ohh my goodness, does it hold the heat in. Not exaclt y sure what to think of it once I get outside and sweat a bit. I plan on wearing my black compression suit to pull the heat off my body and keep my skin seperate from the coat.
I also plan to don my Darth Vader pants and my Vader boots.
The coat also has a pretty strong odor. Not sure if it is some sort of dye used or what...but my goodness...pretty strong.
The coat is lined with some sort of material...I don't think it is satin...it's more like that white liner in swimming trunks and sticks to your skin.
I'm not disappointed with the coat since I had pretty low expectations to start with...plus, they did the coat for $150, which I gave another $50 for the rush job.
The camera flash was on when my kid took the pics...soooo, yea...it looks a little shiney. In person, the coat isn't real shiney at all.
Should compliment my Red Skull mask nicely.
Here's some pics.
Sure, I knew who they were, had a Mego Capt. A figure as a kid..but that's bout it.
I knew the movie was coming out this summer, didn't really follow much about it other than some pics posted here regarding what the set looked like and sneak peeks of the Capt A costume.
I started watching mrbungle's thread on his Red Skull sculpt.
It interested me; I had seen the same promo pic of Hugo in the Red Skull outfit and he indeed looked incredibly evil....well done.
As Tom's sculpt progressed, and I saw the first pull - I said to myself I had to get one if it was in my budget. In that far corner of my mind, I started wondering about the black leather trenchcoat and if I could build one that was similar (I am no seamstress by any stretch of the imagination, but can work a machine a little).
Well, I ended up ordering the mask.
I started looking online for cheap trenchcoats...thought about buying two of them. One to be the base, and the second to be used for cutting up and making the decoration pieces and colar. Then find some assorted buttons as stuff at Jo-Anns...and call it a day.
In the relatively short timeframe I pondered making my own coat, I found an eBay seller. They were from China and make a lot of cosplay costumes. I had been following them a little anyway since I considered getting their Selene outfit for my wife and they have pretty good feedback.
I started talking to the seller via email about the idea of making it for me. Based on the complexity of their other suits, I could only assume price range would be around $150.
The builder only had the two pics I supplied them and took a bit of effort to get em to do it.
I gave a fairly broad artistic license to the builder - didn't need to be screen accurate, just similar.
This all started around May 24th and I received the coat June 4th!
Well - for the money, it exceeded expectations.
It's not perfect; I have some things to fix/redo to suit me...but from the drawing board to in-hand in under two weeks...not too bad.
The material is pretty thin. The whole coat weighs less than 5lbs I think.
The coat consists of several pieces:
Main Coat
Skirt-thing with shoulder straps
Wrist straps (4)
Belt
Fake shirt Collar
Gloves
They did some detail work on the belt - but....yeaa...it is coming off as soon as I get my pewter buckle. Really poor Hydra logo...cut out with exacto knife or something...painted grey...yuck.
They did send two shoulder patches...umm yeaa....not even good enough for a kiddie costume they are sooo freaking cheap and poorly done. They are not seen in the pics because they came seperate from the coat...I am supposed to peel off some tape and apply them to the coat myself. Umm no.
I supplied a Hydra logo to a fellow member here, and he is doing a JY run of patches that should do quite well.
The coat is HOT. Ohh my goodness, does it hold the heat in. Not exaclt y sure what to think of it once I get outside and sweat a bit. I plan on wearing my black compression suit to pull the heat off my body and keep my skin seperate from the coat.
I also plan to don my Darth Vader pants and my Vader boots.
The coat also has a pretty strong odor. Not sure if it is some sort of dye used or what...but my goodness...pretty strong.
The coat is lined with some sort of material...I don't think it is satin...it's more like that white liner in swimming trunks and sticks to your skin.
I'm not disappointed with the coat since I had pretty low expectations to start with...plus, they did the coat for $150, which I gave another $50 for the rush job.
The camera flash was on when my kid took the pics...soooo, yea...it looks a little shiney. In person, the coat isn't real shiney at all.
Should compliment my Red Skull mask nicely.
Here's some pics.
![redskull001.jpg](http://www.decaturvader.com/rpf/redskull/redskull001.jpg)
![redskull002.jpg](http://www.decaturvader.com/rpf/redskull/redskull002.jpg)
![redskull003.jpg](http://www.decaturvader.com/rpf/redskull/redskull003.jpg)
![redskull004.jpg](http://www.decaturvader.com/rpf/redskull/redskull004.jpg)
![redskull005.jpg](http://www.decaturvader.com/rpf/redskull/redskull005.jpg)
![redskull006.jpg](http://www.decaturvader.com/rpf/redskull/redskull006.jpg)
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