Spidey help

[Jokerjack350]

hey everyone,
I'm currently researching how to make a spider man suit, the plan is to make one of his alternative suits, not the normal red and blue, tho i might end up making that.

Heres my dilemma,

I have no knowledge on how to make the suit, i've seen pictures of spidey suit and they are almost seamless :S, it's all very confusing .

So,

if there is anyone who can help me I would appreciate it so much .

Any and all help is welcome

Thank you .

 

[TheNickFox]

Here are images of the movie patterns. If you base your pattern on the outermost edges of the costume, you'll be able to make a costume with just as few seams as the original.

(Note: I got lazy and didn't turn all of the layers on in Photoshop, hence the ghostly sections)

I hope this helps.

-Nick

PS: This is really making me want to retackle making a pattern with the FULL brick pattern on it.

 

[Jokerjack350]

Here are images of the movie patterns. If you base your pattern on the outermost edges of the costume, you'll be able to make a costume with just as few seams as the original.

(Note: I got lazy and didn't turn all of the layers on in Photoshop, hence the ghostly sections)

I hope this helps.

-Nick

PS: This is really making me want to retackle making a pattern with the FULL brick pattern on it.

Thank you so much this help alot

is there a larger high def version? also do you know what i should you to make it and how to get web ect on it.

and how would i messure this suit to fit me?

 

[TheNickFox]

The full resolution version isn't available anywhere for free. It used to be sold fairly regularly on eBay, but it's probably not so common anymore. They are widely known as the TKComics pattern. (The username of the person who first widely released it into the wild)

If you are looking for a movie style suit, you would take the pattern to a dye sublimator to get the pattern printed onto a medium weight 4-way stretch cotton lycra. If you're looking to make another Spidey pattern, and don't need the intricate brick-work all over it, you can just use the low res images I gave you, blow them up and use them as a guide to cut your fabric.

The web is usually a cast urethane or latex rubber (generally from a CNC-made mold), glued onto the printed suit using a drop of superglue at all of the intersections of web. (Gluing the entire thing would be too rigid) Other people have had some mixed success with using puff paints (They tend to crack easily) or liquid latex laid directly on the suit. The most common solution is to just PRINT faux 3d webs onto the suit.

And basically you measure it like anything else: take your height, chest, waist, inseam, and about a million other measurements and scale the pattern to you. If you work exactly to the movie pattern, the best you'll probably be able to do is find a balance between your height and waist/chest size by scaling to your height and just taking it in a little in the back and sides to get it snug.

Good luck.

-Nick

 

[Jokerjack350]

thank you so much this has helped greatly . I'm still trying to wrap my head around the patterns, where are the hands, wrists for arms and shins?

 

[TheNickFox]

The boots are all one piece, meaning the tops of the feet blend right into the ankles. The hands are directly attached to the wrists as well, and are the top two long pieces in the second image. Directly to the left of those are the thumbs, and then the two pieces under the long vertical rectangular pieces are the palms of the gloves.

It's all pretty self-explanatory, just look at the pattern next to images of the finished suit and you'll figure it out.

If you ARE having trouble wrapping your brain around this though, it doesn't sound like you have much experience with sewing. In which case, I hope you're not planning on sewing this costume yourself. Sewing a stretch material requires more experience and more expensive piece of equipment (Called a serger) in order to get clean results.

You may want to consider starting with something simpler and building up to this.

-Nick

 

[Jokerjack350]

oh dont worry i wont be sewing it my GF made a dear devil suit similar to the movie one she said she'll sew it for me

and you should retackle the pattern i know there will be millions of people that would love a copy

Thanks again this has been really helpfull

 

[spidyswagg1156]

how did you get like it to form that pattern??[/I]