kanji
New Member
Hello hunters. First I thought I build this suit on my own without thread about constructing, but I wanted to share some pictures of progress and how I tackle obstacles on the way to a final costume.
I want to keep this as budget suit and try to make as much as possible myself and use some ready parts that are going to look decent with some modifications.
First I thought I'm going to do a P1 suit but I wanted it to be bit different than whats already outhere. So I decided to do a P1 suit that has some hints of leopard/feline breed.
I'm slow builder and I'm one of those people who have frenzy of build and then it fades away for a while. I've not you decided on the bio, I have couple raw bios that I bought after I constructed my pepakura bio you can see here :
http://www.thehunter...d-pepakura-bio/
So to get things rolling I decided to start with bodysuit and chose to use rambo shirt as top part because it was really cheap and had suitable base colour. So body suit is going to be 2 piece, I'm thinking getting one of those cheap bodybuilder costumes and cut lower part to use for the predator. I just liked rambosuits muscles more than what you can find on cheap bodybuilder halloween costume.
I don't want to buy a airbrush and I've done dry brushing with foam before so I decided to go that route. I had quite a good selection of browns and earthcolours as acrylic paints from model making so I used those. First I shaded muscles with lighter shade of brown and then highlighted darker areas and added some spots here and there. Right after that I laid first layer of latex when acrylics were still bit moist so latex makes it "bleed" and blend more.
After first layer of latex was cured I drew on black spots and leopard camo with permant markers and laid another layer of latex on top of those to seal.
Arms and chest area are now done and now I'm going to do sides with similar method. I didnt want to do whole suit as same time because I feared that latex will stick to itself while I work.
So here are photos where I'm now. There are quite a bit stuffing inside the suit to prevent shrinking so it looks bit bulky to say the least
[edit : dang.. didnt get photoupload to work.. well I upload those as soon as possbile]
I want to keep this as budget suit and try to make as much as possible myself and use some ready parts that are going to look decent with some modifications.
First I thought I'm going to do a P1 suit but I wanted it to be bit different than whats already outhere. So I decided to do a P1 suit that has some hints of leopard/feline breed.
I'm slow builder and I'm one of those people who have frenzy of build and then it fades away for a while. I've not you decided on the bio, I have couple raw bios that I bought after I constructed my pepakura bio you can see here :
http://www.thehunter...d-pepakura-bio/
So to get things rolling I decided to start with bodysuit and chose to use rambo shirt as top part because it was really cheap and had suitable base colour. So body suit is going to be 2 piece, I'm thinking getting one of those cheap bodybuilder costumes and cut lower part to use for the predator. I just liked rambosuits muscles more than what you can find on cheap bodybuilder halloween costume.
I don't want to buy a airbrush and I've done dry brushing with foam before so I decided to go that route. I had quite a good selection of browns and earthcolours as acrylic paints from model making so I used those. First I shaded muscles with lighter shade of brown and then highlighted darker areas and added some spots here and there. Right after that I laid first layer of latex when acrylics were still bit moist so latex makes it "bleed" and blend more.
After first layer of latex was cured I drew on black spots and leopard camo with permant markers and laid another layer of latex on top of those to seal.
Arms and chest area are now done and now I'm going to do sides with similar method. I didnt want to do whole suit as same time because I feared that latex will stick to itself while I work.
So here are photos where I'm now. There are quite a bit stuffing inside the suit to prevent shrinking so it looks bit bulky to say the least
[edit : dang.. didnt get photoupload to work.. well I upload those as soon as possbile]