The Lady Arbitrator's new AVP suit for 2009

[Ei luj]

Thanks, Garo

More info:

I got my hands from the ebay guy (jk60205) today, many thanks again to Tuath for the alert post on it

They were made by Snyder, and fit -welllll- they fit like a glove just a wee bit o' babypowder and on they go!

Not painted yet, here's a pic with my hand for comparison:

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Ei'luj

 

[frosty]

Looking good, your suits shaping up nicely

 

[TuaCathach]

Glad to be of help... now enough chit chat.. make with the suit.

 

[pdisc]

Love this suit Julie...keep the pics coming

 

[roninpredator]

Great progress Julie your suit is going to turn heads at the con.that snake eyes better not be there again or you're going to show him off again

 

[Herald]

[quote name='ei'luj' post='144621' date='Jun 9 2009, 06:52 AM']I got my hands from the ebay guy (jk60205) today, many thanks again to Tuath for the alert post on it [/quote]
haha I was bidding on that item before Tuath posted it here
gratz on the win

 

[Ei luj]

Love this suit Julie...keep the pics coming

that I will.... despite catching whatever crud is going around

Roninpred

Great progress Julie bigthumb.gif your suit is going to turn heads at the con.that snake eyes better not be there again or you're going to show him off again laugh.gif

hehe, yup, and I've got longer blades this time

Herald

haha I was bidding on that item before Tuath posted it here biggrin.gif
gratz on the win smile.gif

Thanks

Small update, I took the skin off the dummy and stuffed it lightly with more shop towels and am starting to iron... uuuuugh, I hate ironing, but in this case I'll make an exception

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Ei'luj

 

[jaded]

Coming together very quickly now, colors for the mask and bodysuit look good together

 

[Bovine13]

Coming along lady...very nice!

 

[Ei luj]

Jaded,

thanks

I spent a good amount of time trying to match the color without bringing the mask into the local Michael's store

Next step is to do the hands.... I got em washed and trimmed, and smoothed out a pesky nobbly thingy in the inside right at the palm where it would drive me bonkers

Scott,

thanks

Despite catching the crud I went shopping for more paint, those quick release things and some grey webbing

I also velcroed the back opening of the mask and made the ear holes larger...

I was worried those doggone hearing aids would not stop squealing, but the holes turned out the right size and location (whew!)

Question, do I make 'em pink, or use the brown material?

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Ei'luj

 

[Bovine13]

That bugs got a lot of people down. Just keep moving is all I can suggest. I would leave em brown.

 

[Paintninja]

Sorry to hear you're not feeling the best, but your suit
is coming along in a spectacular whirlwind of wicked badassness!
Great paint up!

 

[Ei luj]

That bugs got a lot of people down. Just keep moving is all I can suggest. I would leave em brown.

Scott,

I followed both your suggestions, only spent 1/2 day yesterday in bed, spent the rest of it shopping, then went to work today... I feel much better

and I left the ears brown:

This is what I used to help get the skin off the dummy, while its on the dummy, slide this long handled shoehorn under the fabric to get it unstuck:

Ironing took a couple hours... the suit gets turned inside out, stuffed lightly with new shoptowels, and each section ironed for two minutes:

paintninja

unsure.gif Sorry to hear you're not feeling the best, but your suit
is coming along in a spectacular whirlwind of wicked badassness! bigthumb.gif
Great paint up!

Many thanks as they say "non illegitemae carborundum" I consider virii "illegitimae"

if weather permits tomorrow afternoon I will tackle the hands we have had "June gloom" big time this week

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Ei'luj

 

[TUSKY]

Wow,
Man all you preds will own the SDCC again!
Great work on the suit Julie
Hope you are feeling better soon, i have the bug as well,...tis the season (cough, cough, wezz)
Lady Arbitiror hunting at the SDCC!!

 

[Ei luj]

Wow,
Man all you preds will own the SDCC again!
Great work on the suit Julie
Hope you are feeling better soon, i have the bug as well,...tis the season (cough, cough, wezz)
Lady Arbitiror hunting at the SDCC!!

many thanks tusky, that bug didn't get me down for long.

Here's more pix,

I started patterns for the anklets, the silver metallic paint is flaking so I am making leather ones to cover it.. they will be silver & layered like the ones that are built in to the feet:

I got the hands done, matched the skin to the body skin and the gloves to the loin cloth:

I also repainted the feet, I just couldn't stand that yellow that a certain manufacturer uses :0
Before:

After:

I started the neckring, so far its only primed in black with prosaide added; I will finish it tomorrow.

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Ei'luj

 

[jaded]

Nice job on the hands and the feet!

 

[Ei luj]

Many thanks, Jaded

More pix!

It was a nice and sunny day in SoCal, so outside I went and finished the neckring. Just plain black.

Then that two part foam I got a couple weeks ago started tempting me so I kitted up...

Mini huntorial on foaming an item, (in this case adding some to a backpack)

You will need gloves, a postal scale, a dremel, some coathanger wire, and a couple cups from your favorite fastfood restaurant, plus some two part foam.

I got the lightest weight Silpak had at the time, its "4 pound" foam.

Bend the wire into a loop at one end, then the other goes into your dremel. Voila', paint or solution mixer.

Prop your item up so the area to be foamed is at the bottom and will hold the liquid till it foams up.

Pour an ounce by weight of the isocyanate solution (small bottle marked #1) into one cup, and two ounces by weight of the other solution into another cup.

Pour the first into the second cup, getting all of it out into the other cup, and then mix it for 20 seconds.

Then pour where you want the foam to go.

I found that the two ounces covered about 9" by 3" area and rose about twice its size, maybe more.

I mixed another batch, this time a half ounce/one ounce amount, and filled in the left corner of the backpack where I had missed....

OOOOPS, a little too much :0

Let it set for about a half hour to an hour and go do something else; in my case we went and had dinner....
after dinner I primed and painted it.

Here's the backpack with the base coat of grey with prosaide, plus another coat of grey without prosaide on it.

I looked at my shinguards and noticed one was a different color than the other one...

I was wondering why, and my eagle-eyed better half said it looked like theres brushmarks on the darker one.

Yup, one was weathered, and the other wasn't, so using the last bit of light, I weathered the other one up.

No more light to paint by, so I called it a night

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Ei'luj

 

[TiaJa]

Very nice, looks like its coming together nicely for ya You guys really will own this year again at SDCC!!!

 

[strugglingrunt]

looks well pukka i really admire people who put there own suits together i dont have the time or skill unfortunately so i had to buy one finished,but anyway nice job

 

[pdisc]

Julie...you truley are a woman of hidden talents ....killer job.Cant wait to see everything at SDCC09