In the future I would like to try staining this foam a color though, as they're very plain white when the LEDs are off. To get the diffuse light look, I used a semi-transparent foam for the eye centers. I was very pleased in the end with the result.įor the finishing touch, I bought some LEDs which I wired with a watch battery inside the helmet. Considering real copper can have a very blue shade to its rust, I then made a very thin wash in a much brighter blue, and hit the places where the rough paint was to give some more color depth. This I applied in various places to give the oxidized effect. Really key to this is that rust or oxidation has noticeable texture, and to replicate that in paint I first mixed a color I was satisfied with and then added some baking soda, making the paint chalky. Separate from this, I then went back and added the teal oxidation. Alternatively, time in the game industry may have simply made me overly critical of low resolution textures.įor this look I first went with a mixture of copper and gold in several layers, threw on some thinned paint in the seams for occlusion, and then went at it with a sponge and wipe to get that grimy black/brown feel. I think maybe that was because I was art-loaded and somewhat tech-less during grade school though, because in this case I very much enjoyed the process of replicating my chosen material reference shown on the left. When I first got into costuming, I used to loathe painting and just reached for the nearest spray-can. *Ahem* anyway, I was pretty clumsy at first with the foam because I was not used to cutting at angles to get the right bond, but eventually I got the hang of it and from there it was off to the races!
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Imagine my surprise when I walked into a local craft store and found an entire shelf full of various thickness and shapes of EVA foam, adhesive, sealer, putty, all for the express purpose of building costumes. I can remember long ago digging through the back of some local hardware store, trying to find a foam mat that might be useful when cut up, or buying fiberglass and resin from an automotive store. Really the first big surprise was being able to get my hands on materials so easily. The pepakura portion of making patterns was extremely familiar to me since I had actually used those skills to make templates for other things over the last several years. The armor was built with EVA foam, and this is where my retrospective really begins. I had truly forgotten what that pre-con panic work cycle felt like. Initially I had planned to 3D print a gun to paint but again time was my enemy, and I opted for the Amazonian variety of mail-order prop. Additionally the gun prop was purchased online. I didn't make any of the cloth parts myself because I am bereft of sewing skills and anyway did not have enough time. The armor, paint, electrics and weathering were all ad-lib from a combination of pepakura files and visual references found online, with the goal of looking like a titan which had been consumed by the vex and was slowly rusting away. It was built/painted in about a month and a half before DragonCon 2022.
So I want to share the result of my return and my experience of getting back into this hobby after a decade or so!Īlso, Watch This Space! I have a new and much more ambitious project in work for 2023, thread coming soon!įirst off, here are some shots of the finished costume. Fortunately last year I finally felt the time was right to dive back into the hobby, and I had long eyed the unique style of Destiny as a source of many awesome costume ideas.
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And MAN has that come a long way in the last decade or what?!īut, university, and then the video game software industry being as they are, there were many things that kept me discouraged from starting any kind of ambitious costume for a very long time. Back then, myself along with several other members were using a novel paper unfolding program from japan to make patterns for fiberglass armor.
Long ago in the murky past, I was one of the first small group of members of a little site called 405th (I see now its in the RPF bubble!). I call it a 'returnee' retrospective because, although this is the first for me on this forum, this costume represented a return to making costumes/props for me after a very long absence. I'm Alex, and I wanted to share some of my Destiny Vex Titan build from last year, as a bit of an after-project retrospective. Hi Everyone, first time posting here on RPF and let me say that this is an amazing community of insanely talented people!
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