StormTheGates
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Hello everyone, been a bit of a lurker here for a while but I've finally got round to getting something together so I thought I'd post it up. There's not a whole lot of building involved for this, it mostly involves repurposing stuff I already had, or improving upon other props available to buy. This is a costume that's been through several revisions over the years, but they've all be a bit lacklustre so I'm splashing out a bit for this one to really get it right. Key thing to bear in mind with this costume is that I never intended it to be based on a specific version of Thor, but rather it draws parts that I liked from various incarnations over the years to make something custom and a little unique, with the leather LARP armour and arm guards giving it a bit more of of a fantasy/Viking feel than the more sci-fi costumes of the recent films.

This is what I still have to do for this costume before it is "finished" (are they ever really finished?):
Look forward to hearing what you guys think or if you think of different ways to achieve good results here
Cheers,
Mike
P.S. This is the costume as it was in 2010, with a Mjolnir replica I made myself, but has since been broken and thus thrown away (my friends head was harder than it looked). It lacks tunic, arm armour, belt, silver discs on the armour and the trousers are too baggy.


This is what I still have to do for this costume before it is "finished" (are they ever really finished?):
- Official movie replica (the costume one, not the £££s display ones) is on it's way to me in the post. I expect that will need some repainting and possible filling with expanding foam, depending on how well it's made.
- Make a brass/gold N shape (it's an Uruz or Ur rune) belt buckle out of something sturdy, the one in the image above is just a foamcore placeholder to get the size right.
- Get some appropriate boots. Been thinking of getting a pair of New Rocks (the big goth boots AKA jolly boots of doom) to use for this and some future costumes. I had a pair years ago that I used for the first version of this costume before they broke, the greaves I have laced into them neatly.
- Possibly repaint the helm. I'd really like to give the helm a deeper, more iron like appearance with some darker shading around the joins and recessed areas.
- Make a new cape. The old one was quite short, thin and not hemmed very well and looks a bit worse for wear now. I've got the material for the new one already (it's under the helm in the photo above) I just need to figure out the best way of sewing in the shape I want it to hold to give it that permanently arched look that it has in the films and comics rather than just resting flat on my shoulders.
- Find a way of attaching two more similar round belt buckles further down on the armour and a little closer together in a way that they can't be easily ripped out or otherwise ruin the rather expensive leather LARP armour, but are still flat to it.
- Make some segmented arm and leg armour. I have a long sleeve top which comes down well below the armour I can turn into a split tunic with the metal plates along the arms. I've not yet decided exactly how I want to do the arm segments yet. I was originally going to make some plastic scalemail held together with metal chainmail but I think that'll take too long, and would heavily restrict movement in the arms. I'm going to experiment with this stuff : http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1YXKMDHQMAZKQ as well as with attaching foam squares to see what looks best.
- I've not decided yet whether I want to attach that same segmented armour to the trousers as well, or what trousers to use if not. Jeans just look a bit lame but leather trousers would probably be a bit much.
Look forward to hearing what you guys think or if you think of different ways to achieve good results here
Cheers,
Mike
P.S. This is the costume as it was in 2010, with a Mjolnir replica I made myself, but has since been broken and thus thrown away (my friends head was harder than it looked). It lacks tunic, arm armour, belt, silver discs on the armour and the trousers are too baggy.

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