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Kroothawk wrote:(and for obvious reasons I won't link to the Cosplay Daemonettes from Spain )

But I will! Bwuahahahahahahahahaha!

Found this one....

agnosto wrote:Found this one....

Bad ASS! Makes me want to move to Germany(??)

Which squad does the bloke in the mullet and footie shirt belong to?

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 couple have awesome costumes...

Masked One

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.

Kroothawk wrote:

... and the Ugly

to be fair, her costume is actually pretty good.

somecallmeJack wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:

... and the Ugly

to be fair, her costume is actually pretty good.

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.

Kroothawk wrote:The Good ...


... the Bad ...


... and the Ugly


BTW, here another AdMech:


(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...

agnosto wrote:This couple have awesome costumes...

That guy popped up on Dakka once. He was very good humoured about everybody fancying his wife.

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.

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!

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.

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..

thegrav wrote:

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.




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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...

somecallmeJack wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:

... and the Ugly

to be fair, her costume is actually pretty good.

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.

Don't get the thread locked by being tricked into arguing with a troll.

@kid_kyoto: I think someone did mention that at some point. It is a good Chaos Marine suit too.

When people cosplay Marines do they add height?


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I ask, cause at one point I was trying to build Platform boots for my DE costume.

I doubt it, it would be like walking on stilts.

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




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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


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and yes that is a face hugger behind me

some more pics, please oninionise

NICE! Dig the arm thingi! How much farther up your arm are you planning to take that?

well i'm Gonna be wearing a robe hopefully so i wont need to take the chendrites up further. and the shin guards are for my leg

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.

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