CLUs Guard
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Hello all, I have been following these many tron costuming threads very much so and I am finally beginning my own.
I am currently doing some designing because it is going to be my own design, but a mix of C.L.U. and a user suit. I am actually going to over time be making two different user suits and one siren (for the girlfriend).
I have my upper body design basically ready, just trying to make sure it is what I want and it will look good at the same time before I begin the sculpting process.
Within the next week, me and the other person getting the user suits are going to do full upper body casts of ourselves and cast them so we will have nice structures to work on... and also so that the molding of the rubberized armor will be form fitting to our body structure and look great!
As for the molding we are just going for plaster bandages with vaseline as a release agent. Then casting the "bodies" out of fiberglass to begin sculpting with oil based clay, most likely sculpey.
After the sculpting phase we will use the tin moldMAX to begin making the mother mold for the casting of our armor, then covered with plaster bandages and fiberglass for support. after making the mother, and making sure it is all looking good, we will remove the clay from our casted fiberglass bodies and then put the mother back onto it and that is where we could use Dragonskin to begin the mold of the armor pieces. After popping out the fresh mold, it should fit perfectly snug to our body structure because of how it was cast on our "bodies".
Then comes the tricky part... Lighting.
As for lighting, I am looking at using EL Sheets for the chest lights, and possibly for a bit on the legs or arms. The rest I am using El Wire because I only want to have thin lights going down the legs. On the back I am planning on having the battery pack below the disk, and the inverter in the disk hub.
After the lighting we will wear the undersuit and glue down the rubberized armor, hiding all exposed wires and making it all one or two pieces. As for the hex pattern on the undersuit, I may not have that, I am either just using a spandex suit, or ifffffff Soulinertia finishes the pattern and begins selling it, I may have the undersuit pretty screen accurate!
I have been putting a lot of thought into this costume on how to make it turn out great, so I am going to start that soon!
Attached is a pic of my design for the suit so far.
I am currently doing some designing because it is going to be my own design, but a mix of C.L.U. and a user suit. I am actually going to over time be making two different user suits and one siren (for the girlfriend).
I have my upper body design basically ready, just trying to make sure it is what I want and it will look good at the same time before I begin the sculpting process.
Within the next week, me and the other person getting the user suits are going to do full upper body casts of ourselves and cast them so we will have nice structures to work on... and also so that the molding of the rubberized armor will be form fitting to our body structure and look great!
As for the molding we are just going for plaster bandages with vaseline as a release agent. Then casting the "bodies" out of fiberglass to begin sculpting with oil based clay, most likely sculpey.
After the sculpting phase we will use the tin moldMAX to begin making the mother mold for the casting of our armor, then covered with plaster bandages and fiberglass for support. after making the mother, and making sure it is all looking good, we will remove the clay from our casted fiberglass bodies and then put the mother back onto it and that is where we could use Dragonskin to begin the mold of the armor pieces. After popping out the fresh mold, it should fit perfectly snug to our body structure because of how it was cast on our "bodies".
Then comes the tricky part... Lighting.
As for lighting, I am looking at using EL Sheets for the chest lights, and possibly for a bit on the legs or arms. The rest I am using El Wire because I only want to have thin lights going down the legs. On the back I am planning on having the battery pack below the disk, and the inverter in the disk hub.
After the lighting we will wear the undersuit and glue down the rubberized armor, hiding all exposed wires and making it all one or two pieces. As for the hex pattern on the undersuit, I may not have that, I am either just using a spandex suit, or ifffffff Soulinertia finishes the pattern and begins selling it, I may have the undersuit pretty screen accurate!
I have been putting a lot of thought into this costume on how to make it turn out great, so I am going to start that soon!
Attached is a pic of my design for the suit so far.
