Starcraft II: Spectre

[Hamsterstyle]

Hello my RPFy friends.

Over the last two months I have been considering, wondering, planning, agonizing, and pondering how to build a spectre costume for PAX Prime 2010. About a week before it started it all came to me how it would work and after a flurry of furious foam fun, some magic sculpt solutions, and some pvc inspirations It all came together.

Granted, attempting to wire up some LED's failed badly, I went without glowing eyes and other glowing parts (there is alot of glowing normally). Also, this costume wasn't really fully assembled until the parking lot of PAX. A little electrical tape goes a long way.

Here it is all up and assembled:

The hardest part was getting the mask to actually work.

In the end I didn't really finish the costume in time for PAX. But I got about 75% done. There are lights, decals, the leg armor (I use bits from an old Commedian costume), and even the gun wasn't done being modified.

But I'm happy, learned a lot, and got a great response.

It was comfortable to wear for the most part, except for the helmet, which due to lack of sufficient padding started hurting my ears.

 

[Zaxmon]

Cool, do you have any in-progress photos?

 

[hbrika]

Very nice! What did you use as the base for the helmet?

 

[weaponx82]

Great work! This or the ghost is one thing I've been considering tackling. Kinda wish I went to PAX this year. I live about 30 minutes away from downtown Seattle.

 

[Hamsterstyle]

Very nice! What did you use as the base for the helmet?

Great work! This or the ghost is one thing I've been considering tackling. Kinda wish I went to PAX this year. I live about 30 minutes away from downtown Seattle.

The helmet is a completly custom build. The hard part was actually getting the mask to articulate. It was a bit of a tight movement, but it worked better than I thought it would, and held up pretty well over a day of moving it over and over again.

The ghost would be easier, there is more info on how it looks. The spectre was a pain as there isn't much reference material, other than in game screenshots. The gun was a complete guess, there isn't any info on how it should look. So I just modified a nerf gun, I'm lazy.

PAX was fun, but not alot of costumes there.

 

[Warlord]

Very ncie mate.