We've got a costume party coming up and the theme is "When I grow up, I want to be..." so I thought of putting together a super low budget astronaut outfit.
Like a lot of my builds the object is to spend as little money as possible and get a "close enough" end product.
Step 1: find some overalls... I went to the second hand store and bought the cheapest suit they had (something like $8):
It was absolutely huge... which turned out to be a great thing once I started filling it out.
Step 2: neck ring... I decided not to do the helmet since I wanted something practical for walking, talking and eating... so the neck ring would have to do. I looked around my garage for anything the right size and found the lid of a paint bucket:
Figuring out how to attach it to the suit proved problematic... until Blaxmyth provided a brilliant, simple fix... use the rest of the bucket! So I cut it to match my shoulders, and split it down the front middle so I can get in and out of the jumpsuit:
The next step was to cut the collar off the overalls, then sew a new hem for the oversided collar. I used chicago screws to attach the overalls to the under-neck piece:
I added a blue rubber piece (taken from an old tupperware lunchbox) to the lid piece, some sheet metal to the inside and a greeblie to make it look a bit more "spacey":
More to come....
-Magnoli
Like a lot of my builds the object is to spend as little money as possible and get a "close enough" end product.
Step 1: find some overalls... I went to the second hand store and bought the cheapest suit they had (something like $8):
It was absolutely huge... which turned out to be a great thing once I started filling it out.
Step 2: neck ring... I decided not to do the helmet since I wanted something practical for walking, talking and eating... so the neck ring would have to do. I looked around my garage for anything the right size and found the lid of a paint bucket:
Figuring out how to attach it to the suit proved problematic... until Blaxmyth provided a brilliant, simple fix... use the rest of the bucket! So I cut it to match my shoulders, and split it down the front middle so I can get in and out of the jumpsuit:
The next step was to cut the collar off the overalls, then sew a new hem for the oversided collar. I used chicago screws to attach the overalls to the under-neck piece:
I added a blue rubber piece (taken from an old tupperware lunchbox) to the lid piece, some sheet metal to the inside and a greeblie to make it look a bit more "spacey":
More to come....
-Magnoli
