Yeebeme
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A while back I got my Orhadar comic style Spider-Man suit, printed by a friend and sewn by Trophywife with TJack lenses. Wore it to London Film and Comic Con and it was great. But after I looked at pictures taken from the con I thought “hmm…you really can’t see the webbing that well, I need to do something to highlight them”. Eventually I decided on latex webbing and here’s my thread on my attempts at it through the power of trial and error 
So as you can see from some LFCC pictures you really can’t see the webbing on my suit especially in the picture with the other two Spider-Men
At first I tried darkening them with pigma micron pens and honestly it does look really good, but I still felt it wasn’t enough for me. I thought “puff paint? Maybe. Latex? Maybe.” I liked the idea of latex so I gathered some materials to test it out on some fabric.
Some liquid latex, some latex thickener, an old puff paint bottle to apply it, acrylic paint to colour it, a drizzler to get it into the puff paint bottle, a wee measuring glass thingy and a coffee stirring stick thingy.
So I got to work, just randomly mixing liquid latex, thickener and paint and testing on fabric which I unfortunately don’t have pictures of. Eventually I found a mix I was happy with, it was thick enough that it wouldn’t soak right through the fabric but thin enough that it could get through the bottle in a smooth efficient manner. About a drop of thickener per millilitre of latex.
In the first two pictures of the below pictures, that is what the latex looked like upon initial application. As you can see, it’s very very light in colour but darkens quite a lot as it dries, you can see it darkening in the third picture.
Here it is pretty when it’s touch dry. It’s still pretty shiny but will turn matte as time goes by
Switched to a bigger puff paint bottle to save me from constantly running out so quickly
Here’s the front spider on initial application
After a few hours of sleep
And after I got home from work
As Collectormania was looming I rushed the rest of the suit and finished it the night before the event. Here are some pictures from the con
With Venom
Upside down
In the car (complete with lens falling off)
And some at MCM where I had to reapply all of the latex on the head at 2am the night before after I accidentally messed some of it up.
On a chair
Blue Steel
Of course because of how messy it was applied for MCM I had to redo it all. Luckily latex peels off fairly nicely even though it sticks on really really strongly onto the suit. Wanted to get a shinier mix so I trialed and errored (not a phrase) a new mix that remains fairly shiny even when completely dry. Here’s some comparison pics:
Head
Upper Chest
Lower Chest
Close up
And that’s all so far. I’m still in the process of redoing it all so I’ll post updates as I go on and then hopefully the suit will look good with the new mix. Who knows? I may very well redo all of it again. I know some of you may or may not like the look of it. But I do which is the important thing for me but hopefully some of you will have had a good read. Thanks for looking
So as you can see from some LFCC pictures you really can’t see the webbing on my suit especially in the picture with the other two Spider-Men
At first I tried darkening them with pigma micron pens and honestly it does look really good, but I still felt it wasn’t enough for me. I thought “puff paint? Maybe. Latex? Maybe.” I liked the idea of latex so I gathered some materials to test it out on some fabric.
Some liquid latex, some latex thickener, an old puff paint bottle to apply it, acrylic paint to colour it, a drizzler to get it into the puff paint bottle, a wee measuring glass thingy and a coffee stirring stick thingy.
So I got to work, just randomly mixing liquid latex, thickener and paint and testing on fabric which I unfortunately don’t have pictures of. Eventually I found a mix I was happy with, it was thick enough that it wouldn’t soak right through the fabric but thin enough that it could get through the bottle in a smooth efficient manner. About a drop of thickener per millilitre of latex.
In the first two pictures of the below pictures, that is what the latex looked like upon initial application. As you can see, it’s very very light in colour but darkens quite a lot as it dries, you can see it darkening in the third picture.
Here it is pretty when it’s touch dry. It’s still pretty shiny but will turn matte as time goes by
Switched to a bigger puff paint bottle to save me from constantly running out so quickly
Here’s the front spider on initial application
After a few hours of sleep
And after I got home from work
As Collectormania was looming I rushed the rest of the suit and finished it the night before the event. Here are some pictures from the con
With Venom
Upside down
In the car (complete with lens falling off
)
And some at MCM where I had to reapply all of the latex on the head at 2am the night before after I accidentally messed some of it up.
On a chair
Blue Steel
Of course because of how messy it was applied for MCM I had to redo it all. Luckily latex peels off fairly nicely even though it sticks on really really strongly onto the suit. Wanted to get a shinier mix so I trialed and errored (not a phrase) a new mix that remains fairly shiny even when completely dry. Here’s some comparison pics:
Head
Upper Chest
Lower Chest
Close up
And that’s all so far. I’m still in the process of redoing it all so I’ll post updates as I go on and then hopefully the suit will look good with the new mix. Who knows? I may very well redo all of it again. I know some of you may or may not like the look of it. But I do which is the important thing for me but hopefully some of you will have had a good read. Thanks for looking
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