SPIDERTEEN911's Definitive Spider-Man Suit! SOLD TO chaosprince PIC HEAVY!
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chaosprince
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Not this year, couldn't afford it sure to the five other conventions I'm going to.
fun4spidey
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U can jump in mine and I will make sure get u a JPEG
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chaosprince
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:O
I'd love you forever until the end of time, or at least until the year 2099.
fun4spidey
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chaosprince
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Sac-Con was yesterday. It's a smaller convention held in Sacramento as a kick-off to the convention season. It was a perfect test drive for my Spider-Man suit, as I found out some things I need to do before Sacramento Comic Con next weekend:
1. Add another layer of Plasti-Dip for footing. (Just because I did a lot of jumping and my bridges started hurting)
2. Make bigger eye holes. (The TASM2 lenses are huge, so no big deal on making them bigger. I had a couple awkward moments with my blind spots)
3. Bring more cash!! (there were a ton of places that didn't take my credit card, though four places did thankfully)
4. Purchase Lense de-fogging liquid. (I had to bate my breath the entire four hours I was in costume to keep my lenses un-fogged)
5. Exfoliate face before leaving for convention. (a bit of extra "pore-action" wouldn't have hurt, seeing as it got real stuffy behind that face shell)
6. Go "mask-less" for the second half of the convention to fully experience the booths. (I had to get within two feet of everything I wanted to read)
Well, I learned a lot, and this was a great test-run.
On to next weekend!
1. Add another layer of Plasti-Dip for footing. (Just because I did a lot of jumping and my bridges started hurting)
2. Make bigger eye holes. (The TASM2 lenses are huge, so no big deal on making them bigger. I had a couple awkward moments with my blind spots)
3. Bring more cash!! (there were a ton of places that didn't take my credit card, though four places did thankfully)
4. Purchase Lense de-fogging liquid. (I had to bate my breath the entire four hours I was in costume to keep my lenses un-fogged)
5. Exfoliate face before leaving for convention. (a bit of extra "pore-action" wouldn't have hurt, seeing as it got real stuffy behind that face shell)
6. Go "mask-less" for the second half of the convention to fully experience the booths. (I had to get within two feet of everything I wanted to read)
Well, I learned a lot, and this was a great test-run.
On to next weekend!
Lunaman
Sr Member
Glad your first con was a success!
Couple tips:
You can consider adding a layer of upholstery foam inside the shell like a pair of 'goggles' around the eyes. This will keep the moisture from your breath from reaching the inside of the lenses as easily and it will reduce fogging. This plus the use of a surfactant like clarity: defog it should alleviate fogging issues. But a surfactant alone will also do a good job.
You could also consider adding an orthopedic insole inside your foot setup. I haven't had your problem because my suits have full shoes built into them, but I have done a play where I was in socks for many hours and experience sore bridges. I ended up putting insoles inside my socks and taping them to my feet so they didn't move around. Though as a dancer I'm sure you already know good tricks for surviving doing athletic stuff in bare or near to bare feet.
chaosprince
Sr Member
Yeah, I do ballet and Jazz in bare feet lately since I keep trashing perfectly good pairs of bloch shoes... so I'm slowly building a tolerance. But when it comes to straight up walking and posing for five hours, idk, it got quite weary for my feet. Luckily, I've found a great stretch for it that should help me if I do it before hand.
I'll go ahead and pick up some different foams from Ace Hardware when I go to get some lens defogging stuff.
Side note:
here's a nice pic I got with a con-goer at Sac-Con on Sunday:
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chaosprince
Sr Member
The mask was a tiny bit off center since I had a bathroom break ten minutes prior and rushed the lenses back on haha
PolyversalAri
Active Member
This is great! I really like the plasti-dip idea for the feet. Might have to think about that for my own suit. Do you think the three layers offered addequate foot protection? Were you only on those soles in the convention center or outside / traveling to and from as well? i.e. Did you wear real shoes over them for travel?
chaosprince
Sr Member
Three layers was quite adequate protection. But I'm going to add a fourth super-thin layer before tomorrow, just because you can never be too careful.
I've been hired out to headline a club event (I'm a contemporary hiphop dancer outside of working for EA games) and will have to make the suit "dance-able":
They even made a custom flyer for the event!
To make the feet danceable, I'm going to NOT wear the neoprene diving socks in the suit and instead wear a thick pair of ankle socks on the OUTSIDE of the suit and the slip into some red converse. It'll look a tiny bit tacky, I know, but there's no way to moonwalk on PlastiDip hahaha
I don't wear anything over the sprayed on rubber soles for travel as the layer of PlastiDip is really like wearing really thin flip flops.
I get side-tracked very easily, did I cover everything? hahaa
PolyversalAri
Active Member
Haha yes you did! Sounds like a fun event too 
chaosprince
Sr Member
Just added an extra (thin) layer to the feet. So, three base layers and one thin aftercoating seems to be perfect.
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chaosprince
Sr Member
Some more progress!
I added some upholstery foam under the eyes to try and get rid of some of the fogging.
Tested and functioning well.
I also went out and got de-fogging liquid for the lenses.
I added some upholstery foam under the eyes to try and get rid of some of the fogging.
Tested and functioning well.
I also went out and got de-fogging liquid for the lenses.
Equinox
Active Member
Awesome! That looks good and may even make it more comfortable. Was it a peel and stick glue or did you have use external adhesive. (Superglue, normal glue, etc.)
-Equinox
chaosprince
Sr Member
Equinox
Active Member
Cool, may try it on mine since I finally fixed the lenses! (Thanks for your tips, they worked out perfectly!)Peel and stick. Easily removed if anything happens.
But everything seems awesome! Nice to see pics of the suit in action too!
-Equinox
chaosprince
Sr Member
I'm glad to have been of some help. We're all trying to do the same thing in these forums, teamwork is what it's all about! Trial and error for me equals straight up success for the person after me.
Pay it forward and all
chaosprince
Sr Member
I found an RPF stand!
This guy's name is Keith, and he was running the stand.
Pretty cool. Any idea who this is here?
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