Chucko
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OMG! this is fantastic! How awesome for your son to be dressed up as Tron Legacy. I bet you he had the time of his life! Did you show him the 1st movie yet?
Yep he loves that movie. I so want to go the midnight screening
OMG! this is fantastic! How awesome for your son to be dressed up as Tron Legacy. I bet you he had the time of his life! Did you show him the 1st movie yet?
i might be going to the midnight showing at downtown disney... a few friends are going... don't know yet, because i want to see it on IMAX first!Yep he loves that movie. I so want to go the midnight screening
Finally got all 6 sets of my 2.3mm wire...came in two packages about a week apart...don't know why.
Today I got the pack of 3 5mm wire... but they sent it to me in RED!!! What the heck! I paid for and the auction listed white...I emailed them and they tried to get me to keep it and refund me 15%...yeesh. Hopefully they can fix this soon. How do you get RED and WHITE mixed up? >_<
Thinking of buying rubber for Quorra... right now the body armor is vinyl and the skirt is a leather look material but I think rubber might looks sweet...possibly E6000'ing it over craft foam? I know sewing it isn't a good idea but I was wondering if it'd last being E6000d. Annisse, what do you think of this? What were the major problems you ran into with using craft foam as your base? Did it have to do with sewing it ( or did you sew it? )?
Hi girl!
I hope you get your El Wire issued cleared up. That is why I don't like buying stuff like that on Ebay. I worry about the quality I am going to get. I have ordered from www.coolneon.com in the past many years ago and have never had any problems with them. They can even solder your El Wire connections for Plug n Play if you don't know how to solder. You gotta pay a little extra for that though.
The only problems I have ran into with my Quorra chest and arm armour so far is that craft foam main build I used for the them both, is very fragile. It is bendy in the back area around the waist. I patterned the top part with a matte rubber look material, but that is beginning to detoriate from the bends. It is beginning to look sloppy and that unacceptable to me. I have worn it so many times already it is really beginning to fall apart. None of my Quorra chest or arm armour was sewn. It was all built with glues, mostly super glue (GEL) form.
You just gave me a great idea. I work with latex rubber. I make later rubber costumes. If you use a thick gauge black latex sheeting like 1.0mm, there is even thicker gauges than that like a 3.0mm, that might work to make the Quorra chest and arm armour LOOK more like the movie materials. It can also be boned in the waist area which will take care of the bendiness that happens around the waist. Kinda like a corset. Now this might work, but you gotta know how to work with latex, the pattern, cutting and gluing of the seams. Latex is glued with rubber cement at the seams, over lapped and not sewn.
Hmmmmmmm I am going to consider this now and possibly remake the chest and arm armour for the movie premiere then add my El Wire to that.
Correct. If the theater catches fire, the two of us can direct the entire contingent to the emergency exits....even if the place loses power.
Hey, it comes down to doing something spontaneous. If someone asks me: "What's the most spontaneous thing you did this year?"...
I can say that I built a costume for the Halloween party season based on a movie that wasn't even released yet, with the help of a group of people I've never met in person. Then I became facebook friends with a few of them and decided to fly across the country so we could all party together, in costume, and then see the premiere of the movie our costumes are based off of.
Sorry, but that's freakin cool to say. Can't wait. Should be a great time and a lot of fun to meet everyone.
(I'm going to try reposting this, as I think I've gotten lost in the shuffle here. I could really use some help!)
I ain't even touching the lighting issue yet! My head is positively reeling from reading back over the 37 pages of this thread. Though it's definitely a wealth of information and I thank you all for it.
TheLadyNerd said:Undershirt - Ideally, I'd love to purchase material from Soulinertia's amazing silkscreening. But if not, my backup plan is to make a stencil and airbrush gray hexagons onto a black athletic spandex top. Has anybody has any airbrushing-to-shirt experience?
Armour - If I do the budget route, I'm not really sure how I'm going to do it. But if I do the high-quality route, a couple friends and I are going to get a wee bit ambitious. It'll be body-casting time! More to come on that...
Gloves - I'm going to hit up the local costuming stores for after-Halloween sales for Quorra's gloves today. Does anyone know what material they used for her gloves in the film? I'm imagining a stretch glove should work alright.
Identity Disk - Are the plastic deluxe toys adequate or should I just make my own?
Skirt - What in the world is going on with that skirt?! Is it a piece all unto itself or is it part of something else?
Pants - As far as I can tell one could use a pair of basic leather leggings for Quorra, right?
Boots - I'm at a loss on how to modify these. I found a really lovely looking pair on ebay yesterday, only to have them be a few sizes too big (AND the sale just ended. Rats!) The closest wedges I've been able to find were an older pair of Colin Stuart for Victoria's Secret black leather wedges. Sadly, Victoria's Secret doesn't carry the leather ones anymore, only stretch wedges.
On the note of lighting and keeping things low profile, this is the site where I ended up buying most of my power inverters:
www.elwirepros.com
Their inverters are very small, and you can conceal them fairly easily if you were to light up your costume. You look on the back of Quorra's costume pics and she has that little box on the small of her back.
If I knew about this site earlier I probably could have had most of my costume run off of the 2, 12v inverters and do away with 2 9v and 2 3v inverters on my sides and arms, respectively.
I don't know if anyone has found anything smaller but I think inch for inch these babies are mint. Check out the site. If you need EL wire, or inverters this is now my main source.
They also have quick connectors. If I was to do the project over from scratch, I would buy these splitters and connectors so I wouldn't have to do ANY splicing, soldering or any other wire work. The whole thing would be plug-and-go.
On the note of lighting and keeping things low profile, this is the site where I ended up buying most of my power inverters:
www.elwirepros.com
Their inverters are very small, and you can conceal them fairly easily if you were to light up your costume. You look on the back of Quorra's costume pics and she has that little box on the small of her back.
If I knew about this site earlier I probably could have had most of my costume run off of the 2, 12v inverters and do away with 2 9v and 2 3v inverters on my sides and arms, respectively.
I don't know if anyone has found anything smaller but I think inch for inch these babies are mint. Check out the site. If you need EL wire, or inverters this is now my main source.
They also have quick connectors. If I was to do the project over from scratch, I would buy these splitters and connectors so I wouldn't have to do ANY splicing, soldering or any other wire work. The whole thing would be plug-and-go.
i might be going to the midnight showing at downtown disney... a few friends are going... don't know yet, because i want to see it on IMAX first!
Thanks guys, I appreciate the help!
Have you guys had any experience with these sites and some of their products? (Glowire has some interesting LED tape.)
Electroluminescent sheets, tapes and EL inverters
I bought all of my EL Sheet from that site. They are quick, and I mean quick to deliver. Aside from the EL sheet, if you decide to go that route, I would recommend other sites like the link I mentioned above for EL wire, inverters, and connecting cables.
But I can't find another online shop ANYWHERE in the US that sells and ships EL Sheet.
Very soon I'll post a tutorial on how to prep EL Sheet for use on a costume (something I've been meaning to do but put off. stupid halloween deadlines).
Thanks guys, I appreciate the help!
I'm holding off on getting an identity disk until this one comes out. I'm curious about it's quality.
TRON Legacy Deluxe Identity Disc Replica - Spin Master - Tron - Roleplay at Entertainment Earth
Hey actordiver, got my tix last night, I'm in K row next to where Annisse is seated, I think K18. And I should have a non-lighted costume ready for the premier!
My main thing, is that there is a group going for midnight, and I am kind of on the fence about going to the midnight show...