Bringing this project back from the dead!!!
I'm trying to gauge interest in this project once again.
By gauging interest, do you mean interest in trying to find the closest materials, or do you mean you plan to do a run or something?
Bringing this project back from the dead!!!
I'm trying to gauge interest in this project once again.
By gauging interest, do you mean interest in trying to find the closest materials, or do you mean you plan to do a run or something?
I'd like to find existing materials ideally. I know they exist, because I have the "Golden Edition" costume that Sebastian shows above. The fabric is excellent, and all three colors look dead on. If he can tell us where he gets it and how we can order some, I think we should be good.
However, a project run would be cool too, especially if we had enough people to make it cost effective. In my searches, a company or website called "alibaba" will make fabric that looks identical to the screen used stuff, metallic sheen and all, but at a minimum of 500 yards per color. I don't know how much though. I'm assuming anywhere from $5-10 a yard, so it would add up quick.
If you look at post 51, he says that he got it in his home country. I think that's Argentina based on ebay. Since you ordered the suit, you may be able to verify based on the address it was shipped from. If it is Argentina, I doubt it'll be a place we can order it from directly online unless we know where they got it from
I could see it possibly working if say it were sold in batches of 8 yards. It would require 62 people and they'd have a ton of red and yellow leftovers, but enough to make 2 full suits.. Maybe use the extra yellow to make a Kill Bill / Bruce-Lee Game of Death type of suit 62 people is probably a lot though.. if you did it in 5 yrds, it would require 100 people though.
The main question, though is will alibaba produce exactly what we're looking for!
I'm sure a few of you have seen this website before, but if not:
http://www.capedwonder.com/christopher-reeve-superman-costumes/
This has some closeups of the suit and other info. Getting the real material does not seem possible... so action costumes is the closest but there has to be others that are similarly close.
Wow. That material looks great. Do you happen to know what the name of it is? If not, do you know what it's made of (percentages would help too if listed). While I would still be on the lookout for closer material, I think that material would satisfy me for now.. I know it's thinner than the material you have, but is it still decently thick?
So I saw this material on spandex world, and asked them to send me a closeup of the knit pattern but it wasn't the same.
http://images.spandexworld.com/vii/2012/12/12/DSC_3647_2012-12-12_7.jpg
This is actually a 2 way slinky spandex. It's 80/20 acetate/spandex. Unfortunately I cant see the material in person. They also said that it's really stretchy which is no true of the suit material.
I sent alibaba a picture of the closeup knit but they said they'd need a sample to compare to because they cannot tell from the pic.. With the alibaba route, it would have to be the perfect material in order to order 400 yards
supgreg, Can you look at the weave on the red and let me know how close this is? (click on it to zoom)
That looks really close. It's hard to tell how big the weave is though. The stuff I have only stretches horizontally, not vertically, which is the identifying feature of 2-way stretch. What other colors does it come in?