Cosplay creation: Like Halloween all year

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Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Buddy of mine charges $500 to put together a pre-made kit of a Stormtrooper but this kind of thing really depends on how much you value your time.

If you think your time is worth $40 and hour that's how much you should charge.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2012 20:18

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 16:53

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Psychobabble! posted:

I have a quick question. I'm planning to do an outfit with EL wire for PAX(specialist gang member from Saints Row 3), from tutorials I've read I need a heat gun for the shrink wrap tubing stuff. Could I just you a hair drier set on high instead of a heat gun? I am broke

I just started a PAX thread! Do you know of anyone that has room in their hotel? I can pay!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3499845

# ¿ Aug 5, 2012 22:46

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Veila posted:

Glad you found a room and will probably see you there. I am bummed I can't bring anything really awesome this year to PAX I feel like it's a con to go all out, but it would make my grabbing free poo poo harder and all planes and costumes probably not a great idea.

Anyone else from this thread going to the giant gaming convention?

Yeah! I'd spread the wealth but I think it's an Enforcer only room...

e: also: 24 days!

# ¿ Aug 6, 2012 22:23

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

That's a cool shirt, where's it from?

\/ huh... cool!

Red Robin Hood fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Aug 13, 2012

# ¿ Aug 13, 2012 02:46

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

That helmet looks fly as gently caress :smug:

# ¿ Aug 14, 2012 19:17

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Man, those all look so loving cash! :black101:

# ¿ Aug 20, 2012 02:57

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Funhilde posted:

I'm being commissioned to do a slave Leia costume for Halloween. Does anyone have a good resource for this or has anyone done it before? I have a few ideas on how I can do it but any help is always appreciated.

http://www.rebellegion.com/about_standards.php?id=8853

And search for Slave Leia. Should help you out a bit!

# ¿ Aug 30, 2012 06:07

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Funhilde posted:

Thanks! I'm doing a Return of the Jedi Luke as well so that looks like a great resource .

It most definitely is!

# ¿ Sep 3, 2012 03:54

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

The OP is in pretty poor shape, and to encourage more people to try out this fabulous hobby I'd like to get it filled with awesome tutorials and a bunch of useful information!

Please post in bold if you have something you feel should be added to the OP. Otherwise please continue posting as normal.

Thank you

# ¿ Sep 28, 2012 16:00

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Leper Residue posted:

A list of the most common materials to use (wonderflex? The foam pads people keep mentioning, etc) and a good place to buy them. Also a general idea of what to do with them.

I've been reading through the thread and searching for some of the stuff as they come up, but I still get kind of confused by it all, like how much wonderflex I need, or if that's even the stuff I want or what tools I'll need to work with the stuff.

If someone wants to come up with a list of stuff like this I'll add it to the OP. For now I have added what was requested!

# ¿ Sep 29, 2012 04:47

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Kind of hard to tell, really. Any other pictures?

# ¿ Oct 29, 2012 02:33

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Killer_Frost posted:

The fogging can be fixed, there's coating that you can get that divers use for their masks.... Or so I've been told. I'm claustrophobic so I never wear masks.

The problem with the el wire could be that the battery pack is simply not putting enough power out to supply the whole strand with power.

Does the battery pack HAVE to be stored in the mask/helmet? Could you feed a wire down the back of your neck or something and store it on your body instead?

Yeah that is called Cat Crap :smug:

No... really: http://www.amazon.com/Ek-123625-Cat-Crap-Anti-Fog/dp/B002ZNA488

# ¿ Oct 30, 2012 22:01

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Cheap Shot posted:

That's a good deadpool! ^

Did the chest armor 2 hours before I went out. Not bad for quick work.

Forgot to pop the collar

Got someone else to take the photo and it turned out poorly.

This is so loving :black101:

great job!

# ¿ Nov 2, 2012 02:43

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

I'll be wearing my Stormtrooper armor to Emerald City CC! Can't wait to see you there!

# ¿ Nov 12, 2012 17:16

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

PezMaster posted:

My SO will be jealous of your armor - if you don't see a Carrot and Angua, it's because everything blew up in our faces and we're going as Krieger and Pam from Archer as plan B Make sure you ask us if their are stairs in our house, because all you Stormtroopers look the same.

I'll probably have a horse head mask on for at least some of it so come say hello!

# ¿ Nov 14, 2012 02:19

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Rubber Slug posted:

You might be able to use the gels that photographers use to add color to their flashes - http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...sl_2hr89s6wzz_e Something like that could work. You may be able to find them even cheaper with more searching.

I'm finally making some headway on my first cosplay attempt (civil protection officer from Half-Life 2).

Turns out Bondo is not easy to sculpt with.

If you're able to make copies (vacuum form or whatever) I'd definitely buy one from you :3:

# ¿ Jan 22, 2013 06:24

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

gently caress that is so hot :fap:

Please make some nice copies!

# ¿ Jan 23, 2013 18:11

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Are you trying to have a DOT approved scout biker helmet? Or just a scout biker helmet? I can get you in contact with a few makes from the 501st legion that make those helmets and have kits available. You still have to put them together so you'll still feel crafty

# ¿ Jan 24, 2013 23:50

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

I don't think they care about poo poo all over it considering there are those crazy mohawk ones everywhere.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2013 00:10

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

I've come to the conclusion (being a member of the 501st) that all Mando Mercs are gigantic dickheads. I've trooped with a number of female members all of which do not have "boob armor" and other than the long hair hanging down you couldn't tell they are female.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2013 16:35

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Now you understand why I hid this baby away in the DIY sub forum! :tinfoil:

# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 22:20

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

I'd like to get around to starting my Scout Trooper from Endor this year :unsmith:

# ¿ Feb 8, 2013 23:57

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Wow that looks really nice! Congratulations!

# ¿ Feb 24, 2013 10:42

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

PezMaster posted:

I finally get to share our Discworld cosplay! My husband (Killamajig) and I have been working on them for the past month, but haven't been able to take any in-progress pictures since we work at night. The chest pieces are poster board, paper mache, paper clay, wood filler. The skirts are foam leather. My mom knitted up the chainmail - though she was a little worried at first why two grown adults wanted knit chainmail. Now she's really excited to see everything come together.

This is my Angua von �berwald. There's a bright pink bra somewhere under all that breast plate. The collar is my favourite

My husband's Carrot. He wears those tights and that codpiece like a champion. The sword was the bane of his existence - It's cardboard, a wooden dowel, wood filler, oil paint medium, and lots of curse words. It looks okay in the picture, but it's pretty nasty close up.

We'll be headed to Emerald City this evening. Maybe we'll see a few of you there tomorrow? We'll make sure to take pictures of everything on us - I'm experimenting with really creepy blue contacts (though I just discovered I'm not a fan of stuff in my eyes, so we'll see how that goes) and Killamajig is adding more ginger into is already ginger hair.

I think next time I'd like to experiment with something other than paper clay. Wonderflex looks really cool - and now that we know how to form breastplates, I'm sure I'd be more confident working with it. The next cosplay on my list is a Jamie Lannister and Brienne of Tarth crossplay, or Green Arrow and Black Canary. One of Killamjig's requirement for the next set of costumes is that he's able to keep at least some facial hair. Carrot is way too clean shaven for him.

That chainmail looks awesome O_O

Does she do commissions?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 01:17

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

I'd kill for a chainmail sweatshirt (and by kill I mean pay out the rear end).

You guys look great! Well done!

This weekend at ECCC 2013, my girlfriend and I:

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 06:16

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Learning from threads like this an others around is really a great place to start. If you look through the past couple of pages you will see many goons asking what material should be used, how to do this or that, etc.

Hang out at conventions and try to get in touch with some of the cosplayers there.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 04:36

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Please tell me you can make more for relatively cheap :negative:

# ¿ May 6, 2013 21:26

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Rufus En Fuego posted:

Hey, Red Robin Hood! I mentioned it a long time ago but don't see it in the OP, so can you add JoAnn's Fashion Fusion magazine? It's $3.99 and has six 40-50% off coupons on the back. Ask for it at checkout/customer service. It comes out twice a year (spring, fall) and the coupons are good for six months at a time.

Added!

# ¿ May 6, 2013 21:47

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Ruin Completely posted:

Hey cosplay peeps, I'm kind of a scrub when it comes to complicated props, and was wondering what the simplest, cheapest solution would be for getting Travis Touchdown's beam katana from No More Heroes. The actual assembly is pretty simple and fun looking, but actually getting it to light up is where I'm not so sure, I've never messed with electrical stuff for a costume before.

Picturrrrrre:

P.S. I blew through this thread in the past 24 hours and loving christ the stuff you people produce is amazing.

I would buy a $120 FX lightsaber and modify it.

# ¿ May 20, 2013 19:07

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

McPantserton posted:

Nightmare Moon photoshoot!!

Also, we spent the whole weekend drafting and sawing out silhouettes and crosspieces, then filling them in with pink foam for StarCraft space marines. These suits are going to be somewhat scaled down for obvious reasons but they are still going to be seriously MASSIVE.

You wear a bra while you wear that? Did that make it easier to form the "chest armor"?

Wow... that sounds incredibly creepy :ohdear:

# ¿ Jun 3, 2013 17:40

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

At what point is a cosplay too easy and people aren't really able to tell that your cosplaying? My girlfriend admittedly looks pretty young for her age (she's only 21 and my father always teases me about dating a teenager), so I think we could pull off Ellie and Joel from The Last of Us:

With a backpack, fake guns, metal pipe, etc., would it be obvious what we are?

# ¿ Jul 1, 2013 15:21

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

horchata posted:

does cosplay that costs me a dollar for a packet of safety pins count?

my zipper fly broke as soon as I got there so it was down for like 12+ hours.
also i got blisters on my feet and walked around shoeless for 12+ hours.

Where is this at? That same guy took my picture for the past two years. Dude gets around!

# ¿ Jul 12, 2013 06:27

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Fatkraken posted:

uuuuurgh, my sewing machine is on the blink.

Anyone here who's good with sewing machines? I mean really REALLY good, because my problem is very specific and I've ruled out the usual suspects (tension, popped springs, misthreaded bobbins).

Basically, the feed dogs, the little serrated plates under the foot that move up and down and back and forth to pull fabric through the machine as it's sewn, have decided to start misbehaving. When I set the stitch to 4mm (the max on my machine), they move the fabric maybe 1mm, so my stitches are incredibly close together. But that's only half the problem, the big issue is that I mostly use the triple/stretch stitch, which moves the fabric forward AND backwards in turn using the feed dogs so each stitch is gone over multiple times, so it can stretch without popping a seam. The problem is, the forward stitches are half the length they should be, but the backwards ones are the full proper length, so when it tries to go two stitches forward then one stitch back, the needle just keeps going over and over the same spot

I've spent about two hours poking around inside the bloody thing with a screwdriver and I cannot work out what the cause of problem is, nothing seems to have snapped or bent. All I can think is that something within the stitch length setting mechanism has slipped and turning the dial to 4 isn't actually moving the appropriate mechanical parts as far as it should (there's an angled bar/cam mechanism that moves when you turn the dial and when you push it to set the reverse stitch), but I can't even get into that part of the machine, it's hidden really drat well and I'd have to strip it completely, something I'm not confident I could bring it back from. It's an old Janome/New Home 632 if that means anything to anyone, I'm talking OLD, like circa 1970 or something. Until today it was working great

I know it's pretty specific, I'm mostly just venting and I'll take it to be repaired next week. Still and absolute pain, and if it can't be fixed an identical replacement is gonna be a bugger to find given it's age.

Check the sewing thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2701891&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=60

# ¿ Jul 13, 2013 23:43

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Fatkraken posted:

Ah thanks for the pointer, I'll go crosspost in there

I've only ever hand sewn but I figured if you're going to get a solid answer it'll probably be in that thread!

# ¿ Jul 14, 2013 00:41

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Will anyone be attending PAX Prime? I am organizing a goon-meet but if we can get a few cosplay thread goons together that could be a fun photoshoot!

# ¿ Jul 18, 2013 16:31

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

LadyRavenWaves posted:

I will be there. I am still deciding how much I want to wear there I am trying to get my FFXIV archer set done for it though I know that I want to wear that there. What are you planning to bring?

I'll be in my Stormtrooper. Haven't decided which days I'll be suited up but last year was a blast. I got to test some Xbox 360 dance game in armor and dance to some Klezmer music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5HPMmZycz0

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xMqKYAf7Q

# ¿ Jul 18, 2013 18:02

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Rubber Slug posted:

Whoops, thanks for mentioning that!

Also, I'd totally be at PAX Prime, but the tickets sold out before I even knew they were on sale.

I've got one 4-day ticket left. We could work something out... you've already PMed me but shoot me an email: redrobinhood.sa@gmail.com

# ¿ Jul 21, 2013 19:53

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

McKilligan posted:

This might be bad advice, but honestly I've had good luck with Sharpies or other markers. Most paints come off really easily, but markers have alot more staying power. I did a Spider Jerusalem a few years ago, but I will admit that having that much sharpie on me at once did give me a slight buzz, so... use caution, I guess?

You're right, this is terrible advice!

Sharpies contain some pretty strong chemical solvents... but no pain, no gain! Right...? Right...? :unsmith:

# ¿ Jul 29, 2013 17:55

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Showed a coworker the helmets and he thought it would be cool if you could do voice to text on the display!

Get started! :suspense:

# ¿ Aug 1, 2013 04:14

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 16:53

Red Robin Hood: Jun 24, 2008; Buglord

Looking forward to PAX Prime again this year!

My cosplay results from last year (I'm the one on the left)

# ¿ Aug 1, 2013 07:42

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