Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit - Complete!

[STpropguy76]

Re: WIP - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

It good that you found the boots.

The only ones I could find that halfway fit the bill were these:
White Sorels

And these at Sears online for Men:

And the Womans look almost dead on with the soles:

....................Jeremiah (STPropGuy76)

 

[blubeetle3]

Re: WIP - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

As someone whose job it was to cut rubber gaskets, I gotto tell you this: You should've used a utility knife with a nice new, fresh blade! Put a metal straightedge on the line you want to cut, DON'T put pressure on the blade (because rubber will pull), and go over the line a few times while letting the blade do the cutting. That will give you a nice straight, clean line.

Friendly advice brought to you by wage-slave.:lol

 

[Felgacarb]

Re: WIP - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

You should've used a utility knife with a nice new, fresh blade! Put a metal straightedge on the line you want to cut, DON'T put pressure on the blade (because rubber will pull), and go over the line a few times while letting the blade do the cutting. That will give you a nice straight, clean line.

Friendly advice brought to you by wage-slave.:lol

Thanks! I tied that method with a bunch of different exacto blades, but I don't think any of them were sufficiently sharp (made quite a mess of the edges) Next time my first attempt will use a brand new blade!

I've been working on the boots:

Here's the covering coming together:

Re-attacing the soles. It's a good thing my old patcher machine was handy, as doing this manually would have been no fun. Even so, there was some minor blood loss involved....

Here we have moon boots with the matching white covering:

Next, the giant piping for the tops-

And the ankle circles:

A bit more hand stitching, and voila! Probably 90% done. I still need the rank pin and service pips & squeaks (on order from Roddenberry) and gloves may be added later. I may also cut down the neck part a bit more. I'll have to stare at it and think about the proportions a while longer...

But here is what we have today:

So, mostly there!

(I'm sure engineers need to disintegrate things in corridors all the time....)

 

[Pauleysolo]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Very cool!

 

[tim]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Awesome! Now you just need to take a pic with a burned and bloodied guy in your arms.

"He stayed at his post...while the trainees ran!"

 

[peter1701]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Just wow. Next I will start the I hate you thread. Well done

 

[Rikarus]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

wow!! That looks awesome!!!

 

[Felgacarb]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Thanks guys!

I intend to put up a couple more pictures once I get the rank pins on and a couple more tweaks done. ('cause this thread just isn't picture heavy enough yet....)

 

[Dave Porter]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Awesome! Now you just need to take a pic with a burned and bloodied guy in your arms.

"He stayed at his post...while the trainees ran!"

I must be tired, I read that as 'trannies'

Great build, as usual.:thumbsup

 

[Plane Crazy]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

I must be tired, I read that as 'trannies' ....

:lol

Nice work on the suit! You have amazing talent.

 

[Dart]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Suit looks really great!

I see you've already done the boots but if you're looking for some soles that are also close-ish, there's always these boots here. I've got a pair that I'm using for my AT-AT driver suit.

 

[Cameron]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Wonderful work!

 

[Igniitus]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Nothing like seeing a finished product... great job, Man!

 

[Felgacarb]

Re: 90% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Well, I've gotten impatient waiting for my rank insignia to arrive, so I've made one myself.

(Don't know what the deal with rodenberry.com is, perhaps they don't actually have it in stock at the moment. Normally I order such items from xscapes.com, and they have been fantastic. On average, when I order an in stock item from them, it's on my costume three days later!)

So, I started with some left over kydex, and a captain's pin for scale:

Marked and drilled some tiny holes, then started the hand filing.

After lots more filing:

Next came the dremel for some bar detail lines-

Then sanding and primer-

More sanding, and the super shiny rustoleum silver metalic from a rattle can.

(It's not quite chrome, but it is remarkable how bright and mirror like this can be on a good surface.)

A little hand brushed gold paint:

And there we are! Now I just have to hand stitch it onto the sleeve pillow (I've got some fancy gold thread for that) and all that remains are the squeaks and pips.

 

[Shyaporn]

Re: 95% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

To reiterate what has been said before, your work is really astonishing! I've really enjoyed reading through your various costume builds. And TWOK is one of my favorite movies, so I've loved that you've done a lot from that source!

 

[Felgacarb]

Re: 96% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Thanks Shyaporn! I've definitely been on a TWOK kick lately...

My first attempt at the gloves- Started with a $3 pair from the thrift store:

Painted them white-

Made the back panels and the giant piping:

Put them all together

I think they'll work, but they are not great. The biggest problem is the paint flakes off pretty easy. I'll have to keep an eye out for a better pair of gloves that I might transfer the details too later...

 

[J Scorn]

Re: 96% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

that is better than the film version!

 

[Jessica]

Re: 96% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

This is some serious awesome.

 

[micdavis]

Re: 96% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

Just Wow.

From the moment I met this guy I knew we'd see some serious stuff from him.

This is high difficulty costume.

GREAT JOB.

 

[Felgacarb]

Re: 98% Finished! - Star Trek II Engineering Radiation Suit

OK, here's an update with some minor tweaks. I've re-done the shoulder boards and service band to make them more accurate. (Mostly to improve the color match.)

(There is a thread on the shoulder boards here: Shoulder Boards - ST:TMP & TWOK in TWOK (The Wrath of Khan - Generations) Forum )

I also reduced the size of the neck part a bit, and put on the gloves.
So, here is what it looks like being worn now:

(Can't resist posing with Phaser...)