I have to admit, I'm a tiny bit irked by the black costume being almost all found items; it means nobody's working on the final costume!
Anyway, I've been whittling away at some of the costume parts for eventual Pep/print purposes, and while I'm not done with anything yet I'm close enough to there on some pieces that I feel I
have to get input from you people to handle any lingering inaccuracies. So first up:
The Bracers
Judging by the egregious buckling whenever his wrist is anything but straight, I feel it's safe to assume these were cast as a flat sheet, and hold their curve purely by tension from the straps. The straps initially looked to match the rubber of the bracers, but wrinkling in a few shots (and what appears to be a seam at times) make the strap appear to be a rubber-look fabric strip. Perhaps they were sprayed down with rubber to match, but considering how much of this costume seems to have been done on the cheap, that looks like a path they wouldn't have taken, and likely just got lucky with a match. I'd say leather, but... nah. They'd have to use thin glove leather to get that kind of wrinkling going on, and it wouldn't make sense to me to go that thin on something so integral..
Forearm strap uses a tri bar slide adjuster with a matching hook on the front of the bracer. The rear end of the strap looks to have another adjuster holding it in place, but directly attached to the bracer (no hook) hence the more flush fit.
Wrist strap is... inconclusive. Same material as the forearm strap (wrinkles like fabric, rubber-look when taut) but there's no visible closure mechanism in any screens I can pull up. Possibly just Velcro underneath, and a whole lot of over-thinking on my part...
Aaaaaand that's all I've got so far on the research end. They're pretty simple as far as I can tell, just black rubber sheets with a couple of straps and off-the-shelf hardware.
My Progress So Far
(I only just realized the forearm strap is on backward in the ortho shots! Sorry!)
So, thoughts? Criticisms? Suggestions? Reference is hard to come by outside of the show itself, so more eyes on this would be fantastic! IMO, the only thing that's left to do is clean up some messy faces, otherwise it's done, but gosh, I really wanna hear someone else say that!
