Hey Rob:
Happy Thanksgiving. I used to live in Sac, but now I live in Fairfield.
I actually have a couple hundred progress photos, but I went through and selected 54 of them to share. It'd probably take me a while to explain everything like you did, but I'm sure I'll get around to it at some point. A lot of the time I put into the costume was trial and error. I'd build something and it'd look cool, but then when I tried on the costume, it wasn't right. For example, I had to build the "arm" for the plasma canon three times:
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1. Too tall and too far back
2. So I lowered it and moved it forward by creating a new arm, but that one was too close to the midline of my body, which made the cannon point right at my head
3. So I re-did it again, this time just moving it out to the left a few inches, installing it on a swivel I pirated from an office lamp, and installing the LED
The same types of things happened with the skull and dreads (had to redo it a couple times... the first time, the dreads didn't flare out enough, I used a hard hat as a base (uncomfortable), and the skull was painted black) but the second time I used a bike helmet (way better than a hard hat), repositioned the dreads at a better angle, and painted the skull to match the skin and the lasers got messed up at one point too (one shorted out so I had to start over)
Long story short, this was my first time building a costume like this, so it was a long, involved process. I had to learn a lot about building it online. My wife hated me for using the garage and kitchen as my workshop for weeks on end!
Greg
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Wow. That arm is my favorite part. The detail was crazy.
I'll post these on Sunday. I hope I don't look like a complete idiot for my earlier comments about your costume. ;)
-Rob
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No worries... ultimately, most people I know who read it objectively thought it was more of a compliment than anything. After all, if it looked like it came out of a box, it's probably because it looked professionally-done, which is what I was hoping to achieve anyway. No hard feelings.
Greg
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Greg also sent a photo from the Chris Ives Experience
http://www.thechrisivesexperience.com/blog/2007/10/index.html |
