Re: IndieFilmGeek 2012 Halloween Costume Contest - My Daughter as a Predator
THE BELT
This actually started as a Goodwill purchase. It's a nice Michael Kors belt... well, it WAS nice... I immediately cut it down to size and drilled two holes in the flat buckle. :lol
I then took some generic brown Hobby Lobby craft foam (2mm) and sliced it into 2" strips.
I then glued the strips (at different lengths) to the belt in a sorta overlapping way...
I then created the groin flap. Again 3mm white craft foam and green 2mm craft foam.
Same with the butt flap...
I masked off the top parts (which should look more like leather) and then hit them both with a quick coat of plasti-dip, adhesive promoter and the hammered steel paint.
...close up of the groin piece so you can see the detail of the paint texture...
Then the top parts got hit with a brown textured paint...
And finally some weathering.
The side panels were next. These were a bit more complicated (template-wise). I decided to start off with the backing piece split in half and glued back together at an angle. This should give these panels some more shape.
Again, I'm using 12" x 18" 3mm and 2mm craft foam from the Hobby store...
Here is an out of focus shot of one piece with the angle completed and the other one ready to glue.
The scale pieces cover the seam well... so it looks pretty good (even with pink highlights).
Done and ready for painting process...
Plasti-dip, adhesive promoter and hammered steel paint.
...close up...
I also did up a belt buckle piece and painted it...
And this is what the weathered versions of these looked like on the belt (with blackwashed foam strips done).
To add some detail, I took two bubble gum containers I had and added some foam and stuff.
Here is what the final piece looks like...
...and the other one...
The FINAL belt looks like this: