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Mad Dragon posted:Has anyone ever made medieval armor (European or Japanese) out of carbon fiber? I'm sure someone has, but I haven't seen it. Would be spendy, even compared to how expensive well-made steel is. The SCA never bothered with it because the standard formulation of carbon fiber doesn't hold up to blunt impact very well, and since they're fighting with rattan sticks, blunt impact is 100% of what the armor actually has to take. The sweet spot for price vs weight seems to be HDPE plastic or aircraft aluminum. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jun 18, 2017 |
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Materials question. The internet indicate that I should tie armor plates together with paracord. I was browsing the hardware store yesterday and noticed that the braided clothesline is much, much cheaper. Is there a good reason to use paracord over clothesline, since I'm not using it to suspend my body?
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Clothesline won't lie flat, which is essential to the look of Japanese armor. Paracord with the center nylon strings pulled out will. It'll be really narrow, though. The usual material for this is 3/8"-1/2" shoelace or braid. Others have quoted Laces 4 Less as a good source, and at $.52 per pair for 132" laces you'd be hard pressed to get paracord cheaper. Plus they have a bunch of nice colors.
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Jun 20, 2017 09:43
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 I'm almost done adding paperclay to this gosh darned thing. I still have some dips in the overall form I need to bulk out to complete a round appearance.
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Not directly cosplay, it could be but it's more meant to be a prop:  Deku Mask. I'm donating it to SGDQ this year. Kinda small to be actually worn, although it's a good size for a Happy Mask Salesman get up.
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Jun 20, 2017 18:17
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Is that clay? HMS is a costume I've always wanted to do but do not have the patience for.
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Inzombiac posted:Is that clay? 3D printed wood PLA that I slathered with wood putty, sanded, stained, sanded, then sealed with a wax treatment and Poly. Here's some other pictures.  
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Crain posted:3D printed wood PLA that I slathered with wood putty, sanded, stained, sanded, then sealed with a wax treatment and Poly. First off, that looks awesome. Second, am I reading this right? There's a method of 3D printing that is basically liquid plywood? Holy poo poo.
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CzarChasm posted:First off, that looks awesome. Basically. It's wood pulp like fibers mixed with binders and PLA thermoplastic. So when the filament goes through the extruder the deposited layer's fibers bind slightly with the previous layer. A lot of 3d printer people don't like but I get my best results from it I find. Sands, stains, and glues just like real wood. It's weaker than normal PLA though.
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Hey all, looking for some advice. I have a Casey Jones (Ninja Turtles) costume from Halloween that worked out pretty well. Bought a cheapo mask that was straight from the cartoon and spray painted the wear-n-tear away with white paint. Looking to add to it, torn between making it look like the cartoon vs. functional/realistic. Is there a decent website for used sports equipment beyond Amazon? Thinking of getting some knee guards and a shoulder guard, plus a skinny golf bag to hold everything while walking around. The plastic mask I have works but I wouldn't be opposed sinking a little dough into something sturdier.
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Does anyone have any good resources for an ankle length coat like you'd see on a plague doctor or the like? I'm not looking for anything with a collar or lapels, just something basic and utilitarian.
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Jun 21, 2017 16:27
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crime fighting hog posted:
Goodwill son. Or some other thrift shop.
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Jun 21, 2017 16:27
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If you're in the US you might have a Play it Again Sports near you somewhere.
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Crain posted:Goodwill son. Or some other thrift shop. That's what I did the first time around. Most second hand shops around here don't have much beyond baby clothes and crappy furniture. cloudy posted:If you're in the US you might have a Play it Again Sports near you somewhere. Yup, that's where I got my hockey stick. But they don't have any cricket bats, goalie sticks, pads, and a bunch of other stuff I'm interested in. I'll check again later and see if maybe they changed things up.
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neogeo0823 posted:Does anyone have any good resources for an ankle length coat like you'd see on a plague doctor or the like? I'm not looking for anything with a collar or lapels, just something basic and utilitarian. Maybe an old graduation gown that you can modify? Goodwill tends to hoard those until Halloween but you might be able to find one this time of year.
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neogeo0823 posted:Does anyone have any good resources for an ankle length coat like you'd see on a plague doctor or the like? I'm not looking for anything with a collar or lapels, just something basic and utilitarian. A priest's cassock of some sort? There are a bunch on Amazon for fairly reasonable prices.
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So, for this year's PAX, I'm going to do mid-game Link from Breath of the Wild, with a random assortment of gear to reflect what I wind up actually wearing at any given point. I'm doing the Stealth Tights for sure, which is kind of a stretch for me ability-wise since I've never really done any work in a really stretchy tights material. What makes it extra difficult is that it looks like the tights continue straight down and are part of the boots:   How the hell should I do this? I figure I'm going to buy some tabi boots, strip them down to just the soles, and build them back up somehow, but I don't really know where to begin, especially when working with such a stretchy fabric. Does anyone have any suggestions of things I could start looking at? (also i might be doing the climbing gear because it means i don't have to attach any sleeves)
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blastron posted:So, for this year's PAX, I'm going to do mid-game Link from Breath of the Wild, with a random assortment of gear to reflect what I wind up actually wearing at any given point. Maybe don't try to make them the same thing? Why can't you just get tabi boots, and some matching colour tights, and wear them together / overlapping. No one is going to be looking for seams down at your ankle, especially if you have the additional strap on shin guards.
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Skandranon posted:Maybe don't try to make them the same thing? Why can't you just get tabi boots, and some matching colour tights, and wear them together / overlapping. No one is going to be looking for seams down at your ankle, especially if you have the additional strap on shin guards. That is an excellent suggestion. Thanks!
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blastron posted:
Another suggestion in the "you don't have to make the actual thing, just make something that looks like it" camp: Get regular leggings/tights, cut and sew up the tabi toe, then get some EVA foam for something and make a sandal of sorts to just wear on the feet. Basically just the toe cups, a sole, and the heel cap. You can also make the cover on the top of the calf the same way.
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Finally caught up on this thread and loved seeing everyone's thought process and execution when building stuff they're passionate about. I've been posting my final pics in the PYF Cosplay thread for awhile, but this time around I took lots of progress pics for the Ghoul Ana Candy Emote I just put the finishing touches on last night. Sorry for being spammy, but I'm really excited about what I accomplished here. I'm not the best at either sewing or prop-making, but I'm really proud of the most elaborate pieces I've made so far in my cosplaying career.               Tons more pics on my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jayssplays/ I'll be showing it off at Anime Expo in LA this weekend. If you're there keep an eye out for me, I'll be the one giving out handfuls of candy. Keep making and posting badass stuff, thread!
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jmistajay posted:Finally caught up on this thread and loved seeing everyone's thought process and execution when building stuff they're passionate about. I've been posting my final pics in the PYF Cosplay thread for awhile, but this time around I took lots of progress pics for the Ghoul Ana Candy Emote I just put the finishing touches on last night. Sorry for being spammy, but I'm really excited about what I accomplished here. I'm not the best at either sewing or prop-making, but I'm really proud of the most elaborate pieces I've made so far in my cosplaying career. That bucket build is brilliant.
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Here are the costumes I made for Denver Comic Con this year. Wonderwoman for a client she sent me some blurry photos but I hope to get some better ones from her.   There are process photos on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/funhilde/ Squirrel Girl for myself-  We also took Totoro to the Con and it was so awesome. We got a cheer when we entered.
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Funhilde posted:
That's a fantastic Doreen Green. I did Oz Comic Con on the weekend, and was delighted to put Jason on again. Donated a sweater to a close friend and she made a Freddy in 3 days. 
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Is that facepaint? Her Freddy burns look rad. I also love that Squirrel Girl and that Wonder Woman. Great work all around!!
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SHAMELESS CROSSPOSTING FROM PYF COSPLAY Got lots of great pictures of my outfits at Anime Expo this past weekend. My friend and I were reprising from PAX South Immortal 76 and Lady McCree on Day 1     And I was Ghoul Ana on Day 2. Fortunately people were very willing to take candy from a stranger, and I handed out something like 7 pounds of assorted sweets. I also found it kind of interesting that at the Overwatch meetup there were 8 or so ladies dressed as Captain Amari plus just me as the only outlier doing a different skin.     Not seeing any of my Ghoul Ana on Cospix.net yet, but hopefully they'll post some soon? Also, found this other dude doing Ghoul Ana as well and I like seeing a different approach. I clearly put a lot of work into glowy electronics and the inside of the jacket, but he's got a gun and more accurate accoutrements. His costume also sorely lacks free candy. 
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my cat is norris posted:Is that facepaint? Her Freddy burns look rad. Yeah, its apparently eye-shadow, lip (?) liner and a form of lipstick... I could be wrong. From her: quote:Red lip liner, pink eye shadow, red lipstick, and black eye shadow for the burns and different shades of foundation for the wrinkles inbetween a cock shaped fruit fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jul 6, 2017 |
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Goons. Help me. I'm making Zorg's ZF-1 gun from The Fifth Element. I'm 3D printing pretty much the whole thing. I am a few parts in, but I decided I'd check the scale before I went too much farther, so I printed it out 1:1 and mounted it on cardstock.   The scale is based off the rocket part - someone took measurements of it, which gave me something to scale against.   MY GIRLFRIEND thinks it's too big. I'm comparing it against shots of Gary Oldman holding the thing.  My reference is basically his forearm length from fingers to elbow, in which case I think I'm close?. But Gary Oldman is also 5'9", and I'm 6'2", and probably have longer arms, so I'm not sure if I'm going overboard scale-wise. What do you think, goons? Harvey Baldman fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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I'd say go bigger. Oldman's extends down to his elbow, and yours is still pretty far from that.
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It might be a little on the bigger side, but not by a lot by what I can see. Of course, the original prop was also comically huge so I wouldn't be bothered much by it.
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The scale as it is looks fine, but the joke is that it's a comically oversized in the movie. It looks like something from Borderlands.
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Yea, I would not worry about going too large on that gun unless it's for ergonomic/logistical reasons. It's hilariously huge and the one you have looks fine - I also agree that you could scale it up a bit, because its not actually sized the same on you as the prop is on Oldman. Very possibly you are taller/lankier and so its not matching right (Oldman is 5'9") I have the reverse problem, where I have a replica of a prop that was made for Billy Campbell, who is 6'4", and I'm 5'10" so its outsized for me. Doh!
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IIRC from watching Adam Savage's videos about his one, there were half a dozen or so different models used on screen anyway, so its not trivial to find an acceptable 'canon size' for that reason.
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What's a decent and simple method for connecting one thing to another that'd be plausible for a plague doctor? I'm making a sort of utility belt thing loosely based on some festival belt plans I found, and I wanna be able to hang my bottles and phials of weird cure-alls off of it for looks. I don't wanna use carabiners, and I'm not sure how D-rings would look/work for the smaller stuff. What did people use to hang things on stuff back then?
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Does it have to be hanging? Image search "vial bandolier" and you'll see the tiny-pouch-based approach that I think is close to the look you want. You can do a similar technique with leather to make containers you can hang from a belt.
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legendof posted:Does it have to be hanging? Image search "vial bandolier" and you'll see the tiny-pouch-based approach that I think is close to the look you want. You can do a similar technique with leather to make containers you can hang from a belt. Huh. I didn't even know that was the name for it. That's much closer to what I was looking to make.
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Actually, wait, duh, I will be making one of those, yeah, but I still need to hang bottles off of it in addition to the vials I'll be using. I'm gonna have 3 or 4 of these bottles as well, and I want to show off their webbing and have them swaying as I move and such. The specific bottles pictured there are the ones I have, so they have a rim around the neck that I can tie or wrap something around to use as the connecting piece to the belt.
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Oh, yeah, with those you could add additional lacing as a loop hanging off the neck and larks head knot them onto your belt or something. You can also make a leather bottle holder (if you want to be able to take them off) - I went looking for a picture of what I mean and just found this instructable, so take a look at this and modify according to your needs. You could probably use fake leather if cost is a concern, just pick something fairly sturdy and make proper straps rather than just cutting strips of it so the underside doesn't show.
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Not exactly sure what period you are aiming for; the image of a plague doctor most people know is from the 1600s, but I think I've seen a number with a more steam-punky bent that push it later than that in general. I think that if you want to use D rings it would be fine - 1600s is full of elaborate armors and most typical buckles and fasteners would be fine - barring those spring clasps, I guess. The easiest way to do it would probably be a simple leather strap with a buckle, you run the strap through the webbing, over your belt, and then buckle it back to itself. You'll see this sort of arrangement sold for LARP/SCA as a 'tankard hanger'. You can also look at this page of sword hangers for inspiration. The answer to 'how did people hang things on stuff' is mostly 'they didn't' - if you try this you'll find that strapping a bunch of stuff to your belt, or even a bandoiler, is pretty unwieldy. Especially if you are making it heavy stuff like filled bottles, it mostly pulls down your pants and sways around. You'll notice that most practical ways of doing this, like toolbelts, rely on making fixed bags you put things in, rather than just tying things to each other. Don't get me wrong, it can look cool for a costume, but its not how things were done. People mostly only wore a few light items like a purse or a knife and if you had a bunch of stuff to carry you put it in bags or trunks.
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If you are going the vial route, and have smaller ones, you can just grab a bandoleer for either shotgun shells or just large rounds/machine gun bullets. Test tubes should fit in there pretty snug, and they can be made with elastic material so they have some stretch to em. Loop a small piece of leather or suede wrapping around the ends, and tie them or sew them to the back piece and it should be pretty secure.
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