Going to attempt to make a tf2 pyro costume but i require some help

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**The Noise Marine**

As the title says , I'm am going to try and make a Team fortress 2 Pyro costume but i havent got a solid idea how to make the main suit , i was thinking about buying a chemical suit and paint it red , ten adding details such as the darkened parts near the pyro's feet and the pyro's decal .
I have got the Gloves and the boots sorted , and i will make the "harness" with the grenades and oxygen ( i think its oxygen ) tank soon . But i need help on the main suit and the gas mask because it doesnt look like a gas mask i've seen before.

Thanks alot , i will get a picture up of the pyro soon

**Mr Nobody**

You could use a fire fighter suit or a hazmat suit, that should look close enough.

The gas mask looks like it's from WW2, but those usually strap on to the back of the head, so I don't know.

**The Noise Marine**

I was thinking of a Hazmat suit , But some of them don't have the head thing that comes off ( most Hazmats have a full body suit )

**htj**

I hope you're not going anywhere warm. Wearing that get up will be sweltering.

Have you looked around any local army surplus stores?

**The Noise Marine**

I have but i will look again its just the side respirator bit which is gonna be the pain and the tinted lenses

**BlapBlapBlap**

Uh, Surplus Gas Mask and a swimming cap?

**htj**

Could always paint up an old carton of some sort, with holes poked in it, and stick it to the side of a respirator?

**The Noise Marine**

I might get a black Gp-5 gas mask and add one of my spare filters to it

**Kilkrazy**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmYX_SmwP8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90_w8DipOOI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_5IcvwuEbY&feature=fvwrel

**The Noise Marine**

Good videos , thanks i will definitly get a black gp-5 and add a filter . but i cannot decide between making the normal flamethrower , the backburner or the rainblower .¬.¬

Same goes for melee weapons normal axe , axtingusher or the lolichop D:

But im having the flare gun

**azazel the cat**

Here are two links to the type of gas mask that you're looking for. Last year at Comic Con I saw someone in a picture-perfect TF2 Pyro suit. I'll try to find the photo and post it so you can use it as a reference.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/S10-GAS-MASKS-FILTERS-SIZE-3s-/280915261111?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item4167dab6b7

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/M04-Wargame-Airsoft-Dummy-Gas-Mask-Cosplay-Protection-Gear-AEG-GBB-BLACK-/290737395905?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b14c98c1

**The Noise Marine**

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Russian-USSR-CCCP-civilian-black-rubber-gas-mask-GP-5-/250531375986?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a54d56b72

I'd say this is more close to the pyro's gas mask as i already own a s10 and they are the gas masks the sas wear and the pyros has a strange snout like bit to me , thanks anyway would be really helpful if you could get that picture up .

I have found a chemical suit online but it is a greenish color so i was thinking about painting it red but i dont know if they is some sort of special paint or if you can even paint chemical suits ?

Automatically Appended Next Post:
The suit problem is fixed , i didn't think about looking for "boiler suits" and BANG found a red one first search !

Just need to get some black paint or spray pain the darken the areas around the legs

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MENS-DICKIES-REDHAWK-ZIP-FRONT-COVERALL-OVERALLS-BOILERSUIT-WD4839-ALL-SIZES-/370584196173?pt=UK_BOI_ProtectiveGear_RL&var=&hash=item56488a144d

**azazel the cat**

The guy was sans mask at the time.
(I hate it when people complain that it's too hot in their costume. It's San Diego in July, what are they expecting? I'll never decline to put my helmet on for a photo, my costume's hotter than anyone's.

)

Anyway, I thought I had two more, but I must have got rid of 'em, so this is the only photo that I've got left.

I dunno if that image is showing up, so here's the url to it.
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6064/6037367624_0033992ecc_z.jpg