Deathstroke: Armor (plus a small Near update)

The chest armor in-progress

There is a lot of armor on Deathstroke, so I'm not going to go into complete detail, but I will provide you with some (hopefully) helpful insights.

The basic idea is to cut out a whole lot of shapes from craft foam to fit your body, using the original reference as a model.

The ammo is made from corks with mesh straps glued to them, and the belt and "suspenders" are made from straps too.

Here is the pattern for the pouches

The pouches

The pants are jeans, but you should probably get them in black, because we tried painting these and it didn't work so well (we had no black jeans at that time) but they should be scrap jeans because you have to glue all the parts to them and the shirt.

The pouches are actually made from one piece of black
foam that is cleverly folded to look like a pouch. It doesn't have a back, but who's going to see that anyway? So, it's cool. You can use the pattern to the right for reference. Then, you put a little bit of mesh strap through the hole in the top and there you have it.


So, if you follow this method, you can basically create all the armor.

And now for the...

Near Update: The Puppets

So, here are the puppets:          

  I made them out of Das polymer air-dry clay, and they turned out pretty well, but I wouldn't recommend using Das. It's very soft, and doesn't keep it's shape, it also doesn't stick to itself very well, so that posed a problem.
But I still like the result, so all's well that ends well.



 

I can't wait for tomorrow. Can you? :D

2013's Costume: Near/Deathstroke

Okay, so you might have seen a post before about how I'm going to be Red, but as a last-minute change of  mind, I decided that I'd rather be Near from the manga and anime Death Note.

So, if you were looking forward to that, sorry.

Near's costume is not very complicated, so I decided to make up for that by also doing tutorials on my brother's costume, which is much more complicated. He is going as Deathstroke, a.k.a. Slade Wilson, from DC comics.

I might not post for a while because my brother needs to get some craft foam (yay! We all know how much I love that!) for his armor. A LOT of craft foam.

Anyway, happy....September!