Whatup. SomeGuy here. First post on the RPF, etc, etc. What's goin' on?
Figured I'd actually post here since I joined...uh...a while ago. Or something.
Anywho. This thread, I suppose, will be my little show-off business for my Resident Evil endeavors. They're mostly based off of the Video Game parts...since I absolutely hate the movies. A lot. Like. A -hell- of a lot.
Anyway, first up is my Raccoon City Police Department uniform. I've posted it on several sites before hand, so I'm sure a handful of you have seen it, but I figure I might as well kick off it's evolution into what it is today.
The Original base of it was when I first started growing out my hair, and Resident Evil: Outbreak was new. The officer Kevin Ryman immediately stuck with me, and I used him as my main character, eventually I decided I might as well make a costume based off of it. Taking a page from Resident Evil 2's Leon; I eventually came up with this:
Those were taken in 2005, the costume was completed in 2004. It was made from things I had laying around the house, the "armor" was material from Michael's; along with sheets of padding, hot glued together (Awwww yeah) and the patches were ordered off of eBay and around 2008 I decided to retire it, and dismantle it. As proud as I am to have made it by spending only around $10, I figured I could do better.
I've got an extensive collection of RE Action figures, one being this:
After research, I figured why not. Now, of course, if one has played the games, then one knows that the RPD wears BLUE/NAVY uniforms. I wanted to be a little different, and went with that variant figure colors instead. Unfortunately for me, when I bought the shirt from Galls.com, all they had in stock was gray/black, so I bit the bullet...and there we go. The 8-point-cap was an easy find, but I needed hat badge for it as well. Most of the gold ones (since the variant had gold badges, as opposed to silver) were US Military; but after nearly 6 hours - I settled on an NYPD Sergeant Hat Badge.
After searching more, I finally found a website that makes custom badges, with a lengthy paragraph stating about how this badge would be a prop, and not used for any unlawful activity, I received my RPD badge from Officerstore.com. It was around $75, and took a month to make.
Mine:
The...urgh...movie version:
http://www.yourprops.com/norm-490a604705027-Resident+Evil:+Apocalypse+(2004).jpeg
As a place holder (and still is my place holder) I ordered a random duty belt off of eBay, came with just about everything I needed, and it was $25, so...not bad. Plus I'm using it for a later RPD costume. I'll eventually get a classic leather belt for it. After ordering some collar brass, and a lot of waiting, we come up with...
This!
It's first debut was Otakon 2008. Needless to say, everyone thought I was a real officer; asking me directions about certain areas...It was quite funny.
And in case if you're wondering, yes. That's a VP-70. Leon uses one in RE2 (and 4), and (though non-canon) the Officers are upgraded from Browning HPs to H&K VP-70s ever since the 'attacks' start happening in the city.
Don't mind the Ghostbusters wrist band, I forgot I had it on, lol. I figure this post has gone on long enough, so I'll post a another costume a friend helped me with; and my current project in a bit.
So...Uh...Enjoy. I guess. :|
Figured I'd actually post here since I joined...uh...a while ago. Or something.
Anywho. This thread, I suppose, will be my little show-off business for my Resident Evil endeavors. They're mostly based off of the Video Game parts...since I absolutely hate the movies. A lot. Like. A -hell- of a lot.
Anyway, first up is my Raccoon City Police Department uniform. I've posted it on several sites before hand, so I'm sure a handful of you have seen it, but I figure I might as well kick off it's evolution into what it is today.
The Original base of it was when I first started growing out my hair, and Resident Evil: Outbreak was new. The officer Kevin Ryman immediately stuck with me, and I used him as my main character, eventually I decided I might as well make a costume based off of it. Taking a page from Resident Evil 2's Leon; I eventually came up with this:
Those were taken in 2005, the costume was completed in 2004. It was made from things I had laying around the house, the "armor" was material from Michael's; along with sheets of padding, hot glued together (Awwww yeah) and the patches were ordered off of eBay and around 2008 I decided to retire it, and dismantle it. As proud as I am to have made it by spending only around $10, I figured I could do better.
I've got an extensive collection of RE Action figures, one being this:
After research, I figured why not. Now, of course, if one has played the games, then one knows that the RPD wears BLUE/NAVY uniforms. I wanted to be a little different, and went with that variant figure colors instead. Unfortunately for me, when I bought the shirt from Galls.com, all they had in stock was gray/black, so I bit the bullet...and there we go. The 8-point-cap was an easy find, but I needed hat badge for it as well. Most of the gold ones (since the variant had gold badges, as opposed to silver) were US Military; but after nearly 6 hours - I settled on an NYPD Sergeant Hat Badge.
After searching more, I finally found a website that makes custom badges, with a lengthy paragraph stating about how this badge would be a prop, and not used for any unlawful activity, I received my RPD badge from Officerstore.com. It was around $75, and took a month to make.
Mine:
The...urgh...movie version:
http://www.yourprops.com/norm-490a604705027-Resident+Evil:+Apocalypse+(2004).jpeg
As a place holder (and still is my place holder) I ordered a random duty belt off of eBay, came with just about everything I needed, and it was $25, so...not bad. Plus I'm using it for a later RPD costume. I'll eventually get a classic leather belt for it. After ordering some collar brass, and a lot of waiting, we come up with...
This!
It's first debut was Otakon 2008. Needless to say, everyone thought I was a real officer; asking me directions about certain areas...It was quite funny.
And in case if you're wondering, yes. That's a VP-70. Leon uses one in RE2 (and 4), and (though non-canon) the Officers are upgraded from Browning HPs to H&K VP-70s ever since the 'attacks' start happening in the city.
Don't mind the Ghostbusters wrist band, I forgot I had it on, lol. I figure this post has gone on long enough, so I'll post a another costume a friend helped me with; and my current project in a bit.
So...Uh...Enjoy. I guess. :|
