yeah ive seen that vid. Awesomly funny pics. @ Flashman I'm mainly using duct tape to make sure my wires stay firm. I'll try to figure out how to put up pics i'm still new to forums.
TBH, the pictures you posted hadn't finished loading when I made my post.
it's an ok effort for a first timer.
We all had to start somewhere, I suppose - but I didn't start 40k until I was 19 (couldn't start any younger - the game didn't exist when I was 18) and my first stormtrooper costume was when I was 26 (made from the actual original moulds).
Masked_One wrote:so how can i improve my costume? ive got until september to finish it.
Is it meant to be seen in bright lighting? Dimmer light hides a multitude of sins.
Background costumes don't have to look as good as those for close up work.
Details and lots of them. At the moment, it's a mish-mash of ideas that don't work together.
The skull face doesn't really work if you can see your fleshy neck. You need a "skivvy" (you could be the black wiggle) to cover the exposed flesh. The polo has to go.
The wires in your leg have too much slack and the duct taped shin/thigh guards look like duct taped shin/thigh guards.
Some more thought on the execution and less last-minute teenage "she'll be right" attitude and you can do wonders.
Yeah i really assembled the shins the morning of the picnic, but ive now got knee pads to tighten the wires and get rid of most of the tape, also they are all spray painted now. I thought today of how to get ridof the skull mask and use something else, maybe pantyhose as a cover for my handsome face and use just a sander mask with painted tubing going into it. The pluss of that is i can hide another tube going to a water bottle. Ive called in a few favors to help make red robes.
The costume is meant to be for a convention so yeah bright lights and close ups.
Find an old USMC Gas mask, and use that as a base for the mask. Already has the lower half you want. Modify the lens of the mask with LEDS, either red or green, to cast light up and out of them(not at your eyes). Gas masks also already have a feeding tube/water tube. Get a black bodyglove to cover yourself in, then build the costume as if you were gonna just wear it(Make sure to not attach anything to the glove). Your Robe is gonna need shoulder pads in it, if you can find a set of football pads, and shred out the lining that would help. You are a small guy, you need to appear bigger. Don't be afraid to show at least some skin. Maybe leave one hand human. Also spray paint your weapon either grey or black, so it is all one uniform color, then paint the bits that need to be different. This will help make it look like it all goes together rather than like a bunch of stuff.
hmmm cheers. i dont think i could get a gas mask cheap but i'll check it out.
Do you really think i'm small? i assume you mean build coz i'm 6 foot bloody 5
Masked_One wrote:hmmm cheers. i dont think i could get a gas mask cheap but i'll check it out.
Do you really think i'm small? i assume you mean build coz i'm 6 foot bloody 5
If you were in the US I'd suggest a small company called "American Science and Surplus" but I'm guessing someone local would have something cheaper. AS&S often has gas masks and some other weird military leftovers for sale.
Your shoulders need to be a tad wider. Mechanium shove all sorts of augments all over, they are not slight of build dudes. I am 6.1, add I need a good 6 inches to even try to wear my DE mask, or I look like a demented dwarf.
well I looked today for a cheap gas mask at our military depot store and they started at $100 but when in doubt go to the hardware store. start at $35 gonna paint that and feed a tube into a water bottle. anyway gonna do up the shin guards again tomorow
Gas masks are not cheap (especially not military disposals ones.) - not down under, anyway. Regular hardware store respirators are a much cheaper option and paint up quite well and don't smell anywhere near as bad.
I'll have to find my pics of a "fallout" themed post-apocalypse halloween party I went to a few years ago (many of my friends do special effects work, so they get to do their costume stuff at work, using their normal stuff).
See those buckles on your coat? Could do something with those. Play it up, rather than just leaving it at "I'd use these to close my coat if it was colder".
Maybe even take belts and attach them to the buckles, crisscrossing over your front, taking attention away from whatever 'normal' shirt you end up wearing.
This link is a website for making your own Stormtrooper costume. While I know that you are making a 40k one, it still has very good tips.
As the owner of a Stormtrooper costume and a general annoyer of "the normals" at GenCon each year, I have a few suggestions that I hope will help.
1. Don't show skin. Are you a 24 year old chick with a firm belly, nice skin, and/or great cleavage? No? Then cover it up. Nothing kills a full body costumed faster than your hairy neck/back/legs peaking through when they shouldn't. Wear something dark to cover your neck. Most stormtroopers are wearing spandex under their gear. Yes, I said it. The truth is out. Also, a black neck piece that you can get at a scuba diver store. Mine cost $15.
2. Don't allow any clothing to show that shouldn't. In some of your pics, you look half-assed. The red shirt in that one picture completely makes you just look like a bank robber that grabbed any old Halloween mask and mid 1990s over-coat that the cool kids wore. If that red shirt is supposed to show, well, it doesn't work. Buttoning up that pirate coat would be 100% better.
3. Details, details, details. The gas mask is a great start. You need something to go over that pirate coat. The red sash that on the Kamaazar posted below your pictures would be a nice addition. As would a purity seal on your spear-thingy. The hand/gloves look is OK, but the duct tape is distracting. Is there any way you can get your hands on a pair of cheap but large, black, leather (or cloth) gloves that you could cut out the fingers and most of the back of the hand? You can keep the duct tape, but having just a little peak out from under the gloves, along with the wires on your fingers, would look sharper.
That's all I got. Post pictures and stuff. Good luck!
I think I may need to drag my end of the world custom stuff out and do some photos!
Do you have access to swapmeets and the like? Also are you good with hardware? You could improve the gloves by going to the electrical section of a hardware store and picking up some cheapy bits too. @Kronk posted a good link, as I suggested the body-glove, I think that site has places to get them Also you could use/modify some of the heat shaping plastic stuff to make your leg armor too.
I despise that image. She's a talented designer, but gets dissed for not being Olivia Munn. I guess geeks only appreciate pics of girls that like 40k if they can spank to 'em.
(and for obvious reasons I won't link to the Cosplay Daemonettes from Spain )
the first one (The SOB) is a great costume, If I remember correctly it is her boyfriend pushing her to wear it so that makes it his fetish and his threads about it seemed sort of creepy...
As for the Despoiler pic. It s a decent costume. So because she isn't anorexic and doesn't choose the stereotypical "jailbait/attention starved" costumes most female cosplayers wear she is somehow bad or can't like 40K? Most of the dudes I meet who play 40K are fat nerds. Glass houses...
I'm still waiting for someone to do a decent ork costume...
Those german guard guys are pretty hardcore. The guy in the peaked cap is the one that builds all the armour and weapons. Last I saw he was building a full scale hydra flak cannon and it looked incredibly well done.
His guard stuff is pretty amazing to be honest.
agnosto wrote:This couple have awesome costumes...
That guy popped up on Dakka once. He was very good humoured about everybody fancying his wife.
She may have a good body, but I hate two-toned bro-ho hair, and will discount her for that period, even kinda kills the amazing costume. However Dig the fething Commisar Chops!
Karon wrote:Your individual opinion doesn't really mean anything when judging looks on a wargaming forum, however.
TBH, I could have gone without the chops....they look so silly.
Just making the comment that not everyone likes the same thing, someone above generalized, though I would chime in on where I stand comparatively. As someone how has designed, built and photographed props, costumes and sets, I have a very very judgmental about looks of "models" on a micro scale. A lot of the "ZOMGZ HAWT!!!" Models look that way because some photographer was good at make-up and Photoshop skills, not cause the chick is hot.
As for a costume POV the Chaos Chick above hit the nail on the head, and it looks awesome, even if she isn't "ZOMG HAWT!" and she probably has more brains than every hot bottle blonde Model I have ever worked with does. The SOB costume is again Awesome, and the woman has a great body for it, however I have worked with her type before on a professional level. A woman that copies and wears a Bro-Ho hairstyle, is a Bro-Ho and will let you know exactly what she thinks about "EVERYTHING" a little to loud.
I think the silliness of the chops gives them appeal..
Karon wrote:Your individual opinion doesn't really mean anything when judging looks on a wargaming forum, however.
TBH, I could have gone without the chops....they look so silly.
Just making the comment that not everyone likes the same thing, someone above generalized, though I would chime in on where I stand comparatively. As someone how has designed, built and photographed props, costumes and sets, I have a very very judgmental about looks of "models" on a micro scale. A lot of the "ZOMGZ HAWT!!!" Models look that way because some photographer was good at make-up and Photoshop skills, not cause the chick is hot.
As for a costume POV the Chaos Chick above hit the nail on the head, and it looks awesome, even if she isn't "ZOMG HAWT!" and she probably has more brains than every hot bottle blonde Model I have ever worked with does. The SOB costume is again Awesome, and the woman has a great body for it, however I have worked with her type before on a professional level. A woman that copies and wears a Bro-Ho hairstyle, is a Bro-Ho and will let you know exactly what she thinks about "EVERYTHING" a little to loud.
I think the silliness of the chops gives them appeal..
Your generalizing blondes, and girls with "Bro-Ho" hairstyle in a negative way, what are you trying to prove? You're saying because some blondes are dumb the others are as well? Those with "Bro-Ho" Hairstyles is a dumbass and generally annoying?
Yeah, ok.
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Heh, I just thought they stood out in a silly way. The rest of the costume is very well built and maintained, and is generally serious, and then you see his face with animal furred bootstraps for something on his face.
I actually generalized about people that use BLEACH on their HEAD to change the color of their HAIR; people that seem to think that smelling large doses of a proven HARMFUL FUMES in small one bedroom apartment bathroom, with no ventilation is a GOOD IDEA. I never said anything about natural blondes. I also said MODELS, and some are smart. These are the models that spend about as much time behind a camera as in front of one, so I consider them Photographers, not Dumb Models.
You generalized all that, to blondes as a whole for me. You also seemed to miss the fact that I was speaking from my experience, not for the world as a whole. Two-toned hair in Southern California, marks you as a type of person, it is a way of identifying with the Desert Rat crowd... for feth sake these people are proud to call themselves BRO-HOS. It would be like me, I have a mohawk, getting offended if someone called me a Punk, when I have a mohawk because I am an old school punk and identify myself as such.
Unless you are a woman that uses bleach to dye your hair, two-tones, in Southern California that is not a fan of going to the desert, and has a huge amount of ambition to become a doctor or Lawyer, or any other profession that requires a NORMAL hair color, I suggest you not get so defensive about what I said about a very small SUB-SECTION of the Southern Californian population I have personally had NEGATIVE first hand EXPERIENCES with.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And as an aside, now that you mention it they would look way better if they were his hair and not a make-up prop...
Am I the only who noticed she has Abbadon's hair? That really is a pretty good cosplay, dunno why the h8.
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thegrav wrote:
Flashman wrote:
agnosto wrote:This couple have awesome costumes...
That guy popped up on Dakka once. He was very good humoured about everybody fancying his wife.
She may have a good body, but I hate two-toned bro-ho hair, and will discount her for that period, even kinda kills the amazing costume. However Dig the fething Commisar Chops!
I've seen some SoBs with that hair so she don't lose no points from me.
well i worked a little on the costume today. Brought the gas mask and redid the shin guards and painted em. As said ive called in a few favors to help make the robe but for now ill stick with the coat, which i wont alter EVER i like my coat to much for that.
Ialso made some 'chendrites from tubing and an arm strap
Automatically Appended Next Post: i also found a skull phone today but ive got no money :( if i can get that gonna attach a laser light it and some gubbins
Automatically Appended Next Post: and yes that is a face hugger behind me
If you wear a robe, consider carefully placed 'random' tears that show off bits of electronics beneath.
Does the character type you're playing (I'm not familiar enough with the filthy, deluded Imperium to pin down an exact costume translation, but I think I get the idea) use a familiar sort of thing? You could get a fake crow or something similar, give it a mechanical lens eye, bits of metal in its wings, things like that...
i'm trying to get my hands on a plastic skull. The filthy imperium uses peoples skulls for stuff. Shove a booster thingy in it and some guns or paper printers and youve got a servo skull.
Some of these pictures are hilarious! The thing that strikes me about all these, is that a costume doesn't really make someone a convincing commissar/space marine/etc. When a high-budget film is produced, there's a casting department as well as a costume department. Even the guys shown here who've put plenty of effort into their costumes still look a bit stupid IMO. That's because they tend to be pale/chubby/scrawny. Good example, that guy dressed as a commissar next to the sister of battle: he's put some effort in, but frankly he looks like a super spindly guy wearing someone else clothes and beard. If you wear fake muttonchops, you need to look like the rest of your face could actually grow a beard. If you wear a trenchcoat with epaulettes and a big collar, you may want to have shoulders and a neck somewhere in there.
I am planning a case mod with a Servo skull in the futures... when there are robots. Even if the pipes don't go all the way up make sure you provide a support structure, or they will weight on you, and look clumsy.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I had another cosplay meetup today with everything painted, a gas mask and NO red shirt. just a black shirt inside out
blood angel wrote:I think the abado-chick is great.
Back in 2005 I made, and helped make, three life size space marine suits.. some of you guys might remember
Oh cool. You wouldnt happen to have any pics of those still would ya?
And I agree on the Abbaddon chick. People are only bashing her because she isnt smoking hot SOB chick. But I too remember when that guy that made her outfit and his Commissar costume came here. He was joking about how his fluff had to incorporate his mighty chops. It was rather funny
Am I the only one that thinks this is a very short baby step away from losing all your dignity and running around a uni campus pretending to be a vampire or worse dressing up like an animal. One could, however, argue that dressing up as an animal or said vampire meant you had no dignity to begin with or it was beaten out of you from a young age.
fullheadofhair wrote:Am I the only one that thinks this is a very short baby step away from losing all your dignity and running around a uni campus pretending to be a vampire or worse dressing up like an animal. One could, however, argue that dressing up as an animal or said vampire meant you had no dignity to begin with or it was beaten out of you from a young age.
Well at said cosplay meet up we sat on some stairs out front of a casino, a major people traffic area. I danced the kan-kan and yelled (not quite yelled but you get the gg) at people when they wouldnt clap.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Probably the worst thing thats happened to me in my cosplay life happened yesterday.
But first i wanna say STUPID OLD PEOPLE!
Now i will explain, here in Redcliffe we had the opening ceremony of a brand new bridge yesterday and to mark the occasion i went in cosplay mainly due to the fact of i coulsd and i wanted to have fun. So i walked around for a little got a few strange looks but most were positive comments and i even had a few photos taken.
I walking back up the beach when a security guard stops me, tells me to wait and about 4 police come up saying something like 'We have received complaints about your costume you have been frightening some of the old people and staring at people.' bs! the only reason they complain was because i looked different and how could i stare at people i was wearing sunglasses. the only time i did stare at people was when they stared at me to long. AARGH!
Automatically Appended Next Post: And to top it all off they tell me to go home leave all the stuff there and if they find me wearing that stuff in public again while the festival is on i will be arrested. Did i turn my back for a second and suddenly Australia becomes a fething dictatorship? What happened to freedom of expression? What happened to free will? I even asked the guy iif i could keep on wearing my long coat there and i swear he wanted to say no.
I'm all for people cosplaying if that is what they are into.
However, do it in private or at a public event geared for such things (conventions, etc.)
When i owned my game store I had a couple guys that always came to friday game nights in cosplay and proceeded to walk around talking in bad accents for hours. It was funny/interesting for about the first five minutes...
Nothing is more annoying then cosplayers in public who think they are being clever...
And to be honest Masked-one your costume is easily rather confusing. Mostly because you don't look much different then half the skater/emo loiterers hanging out around the local 7-eleven to be honest.
So the mask simply made you look like a skater/loiterer who might be up to something since most people don't wear gas masks at public gatherings...
Masked_One wrote:here are those photos i could find
Automatically Appended Next Post: Probably the worst thing thats happened to me in my cosplay life happened yesterday.
But first i wanna say STUPID OLD PEOPLE!
Now i will explain, here in Redcliffe we had the opening ceremony of a brand new bridge yesterday and to mark the occasion i went in cosplay mainly due to the fact of i coulsd and i wanted to have fun. So i walked around for a little got a few strange looks but most were positive comments and i even had a few photos taken.
I walking back up the beach when a security guard stops me, tells me to wait and about 4 police come up saying something like 'We have received complaints about your costume you have been frightening some of the old people and staring at people.' bs! the only reason they complain was because i looked different and how could i stare at people i was wearing sunglasses. the only time i did stare at people was when they stared at me to long. AARGH!
Automatically Appended Next Post: And to top it all off they tell me to go home leave all the stuff there and if they find me wearing that stuff in public again while the festival is on i will be arrested. Did i turn my back for a second and suddenly Australia becomes a fething dictatorship? What happened to freedom of expression? What happened to free will? I even asked the guy iif i could keep on wearing my long coat there and i swear he wanted to say no.
Oh my...lol. Nothing against cosplay here but let's think this through;
1. Dressing up in a hooded sweatshirt/long coat
2. Wearing what could be taken as a gas mask
3. At a bridge opening ceremony
4. In a post 9-11 world
You're lucky you weren't tased =p. However, next time security stops you stay in character. If they ask you why you are dressed that way, tell them that the God Emperor wills it and they are heretics, then post their reactions.
blood angel wrote:I think the abado-chick is great.
Back in 2005 I made, and helped make, three life size space marine suits.. some of you guys might remember
Oh cool. You wouldnt happen to have any pics of those still would ya?
And I agree on the Abbaddon chick. People are only bashing her because she isnt smoking hot SOB chick. But I too remember when that guy that made her outfit and his Commissar costume came here. He was joking about how his fluff had to incorporate his mighty chops. It was rather funny
yeah..
you can scroll back and forth a couple of pages on this link for the rest of the pics. Sorry I don't have some better ones available (here at work)
look ive said i still dont have a red robe and i'm gonna hopefully make a head for the power axe, ive had to do this costume on a low budget and ive gotten good comments about it. if you dont like the costume fine. youve been saying it looks jumbled. fine how is it jumbled? i mainly pic up these pics so i could get feedback on how i can improve it. someone said get bigger shoulders cool, i will eventually
Masked_One wrote:here are those photos i could find
Automatically Appended Next Post: Probably the worst thing thats happened to me in my cosplay life happened yesterday.
But first i wanna say STUPID OLD PEOPLE!
Now i will explain, here in Redcliffe we had the opening ceremony of a brand new bridge yesterday and to mark the occasion i went in cosplay mainly due to the fact of i coulsd and i wanted to have fun. So i walked around for a little got a few strange looks but most were positive comments and i even had a few photos taken.
I walking back up the beach when a security guard stops me, tells me to wait and about 4 police come up saying something like 'We have received complaints about your costume you have been frightening some of the old people and staring at people.' bs! the only reason they complain was because i looked different and how could i stare at people i was wearing sunglasses. the only time i did stare at people was when they stared at me to long. AARGH!
Automatically Appended Next Post: And to top it all off they tell me to go home leave all the stuff there and if they find me wearing that stuff in public again while the festival is on i will be arrested. Did i turn my back for a second and suddenly Australia becomes a fething dictatorship? What happened to freedom of expression? What happened to free will? I even asked the guy iif i could keep on wearing my long coat there and i swear he wanted to say no.
With it only just past the 5th anniversary of the London tube bombings where witnesses said about seeing wires hanging out of bags and coats I think you were lucky not to have an armed response team jump on you... You really need to think about where and when you wear that stuff.
Masked_One wrote:.
Did i turn my back for a second and suddenly Australia becomes a fething dictatorship? What happened to freedom of expression? What happened to free will? I even asked the guy iif i could keep on wearing my long coat there and i swear he wanted to say no.
dude, you did say Redcliffe, right?
As in Redcliffe, QLD?
Queensland has NEVER been particularly democratic or a haven for free expression. It's been (outside of the Gold Coast and certain areas of Port Douglass shire) a haven for conservatives (and old conservatives at that - ask your olds about the "white shoe brigade" who used to 'run' QLD sometime) for a loooong time.
Still, hood AND gasmask in a public area for the opening of an infrastructure piece is a bad move. Even if we aren't the US, the police still regard someone in a hood and mask as someone who is probably up to no good (reasonable suspicion) - as someone who wasn't a threat wouldn't need to conceal their face, neh?
(The whole "you have nothing to fear if you've done nothing wrong" is a cornerstone of our governmental philosophy.)
Still, at least it wasn't Melbourne. You'd be bleeding to death on the footpath from 3 dozen bullet wounds (two cops would have reloaded).
[Melbourne police were bombed a couple of times, so they are a tad jumpy these days.]
Yeah but batman is "batman" people know him .
they dont know some emo kid with a gas mask and a stick with wires duck taped around his legs and arms.
its the same reason that i went as rambo to a "army" themed club night and didnt wear my kevlar and full battle rattle.
As for the costume the stand out features of most admech is red robes /hood .big cog symbol / and those mech arm things. and bionics . to be honest you just look like some kid from "the tribe" tv show..
DUDE what did i just say? ITS NOT FINISHED! also 2 other things i'm not a faggy emo, and i wasnt wearing the hood so i wouldnt look suspicious. ive mentioned the costume incident to plenty of people and everyone of them says it's bulls.
Masked_One- take a look at photos of trouble makers in crowds from all around the world, you'll find the majority of them are wearing masks of some sort, hence the reaction of the older people and police. I know you were not there to make trouble but how did the rest of the crowd know that? These days people will always assume the worse and police, unfortunatly, need to assume the worse.
agnosto wrote:This couple have awesome costumes...
That guy popped up on Dakka once. He was very good humoured about everybody fancying his wife.
She may have a good body, but I hate two-toned bro-ho hair, and will discount her for that period, even kinda kills the amazing costume. However Dig the fething Commisar Chops!
I do believe that young lady is held up as the Gold Standard of female 40k cosplay. I mentioned SOB to my gf once as kinda a joke and next thing I knew she's looking up pics online and gak. I think I may end up having to put one together for her. She is big into Halloween constumes and gak. I'm just trying to figure out where in the hell she could wear such a thing. She's really hot so could pull off just about whatever the hell she wants, but still....
I might do it just to do it. Was thinking of lost-foam casting the shoulder pads in aluminium just to do it.
The problem is that your not in a recognizable costume so all the police saw was a grumpy adloescent who wants to hide his face in public .
not someone in a pop culture costume or somthing that screams dress up !
i would suggest you ether wait untill you have finnished the costume to a recognizable level .or only wear it at events/ conventions or work on your displacement field /power armour first so that when the police do get trigger happy you get your armour save...
I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:Some of these pictures are hilarious! The thing that strikes me about all these, is that a costume doesn't really make someone a convincing commissar/space marine/etc. When a high-budget film is produced, there's a casting department as well as a costume department. Even the guys shown here who've put plenty of effort into their costumes still look a bit stupid IMO. That's because they tend to be pale/chubby/scrawny. Good example, that guy dressed as a commissar next to the sister of battle: he's put some effort in, but frankly he looks like a super spindly guy wearing someone else clothes and beard. If you wear fake muttonchops, you need to look like the rest of your face could actually grow a beard. If you wear a trenchcoat with epaulettes and a big collar, you may want to have shoulders and a neck somewhere in there.
Some of the best soldiers in history are do not come out of central casting... Napoleon & Carlos Hathcock come to mind instatntly.
I do agree that the best visual effect is to look like the Idealized version of a charcter.
I made a commissar costume myself, its a fun hobby but a lot of people forget its cosPLAY not cosLIFE ...
Holy Emperor there Jet! Nice setup. You look like Jet from Cowboy Bebop joined the service. The pics are great too! Those in service to the Emperor do not smile! Nice stuff!
. But dont get your hopes up on my costume being any good 
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Just making the comment that not everyone likes the same thing, someone above generalized, though I would chime in on where I stand comparatively. As someone how has designed, built and photographed props, costumes and sets, I have a very very judgmental about looks of "models" on a micro scale. A lot of the "ZOMGZ HAWT!!!" Models look that way because some photographer was good at make-up and Photoshop skills, not cause the chick is hot.
