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Costume Photos
Sculpting Begins
Referance - Created by builderofwords on DA
Mantis Dolls Progress
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Costume Information
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| Cost : | I should stop looking |
| Time Taken : | 30 hours |
| Description | |
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| I am poor at making battlesuits I am poor at making foam armor I am poor at working with resin I am poor at working with LEDs And so the quest to lose my sanity begins! I'm not really sure why I am attempting this but its been in my head to make it for ages and even though all my skill is in fabric cosplays I really want to give it a go. My main reasoning is I won't be doing a UK con for at least two years so I won't be rushing this cosplay by any means. The second reason is I would love to do a beauty unit photoshoot with Odangochan and Nomes as their Laughing Octopus and Crying Wolf simple blew me away! The third reason is I can see myself being more likely to accomplish screaming mantis than rageing raven. Also I do like a challenge and the learning curve it offers, even if it is steep. Wish me luck......I'm gonna need it! | |
To-Do List
| Make Fabric Legs (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make Backbone (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make Helmet (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make gloves for duct tape arms (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make/Buy Preying Mantis Patch (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make Foot housing segments of legs(50%) | High | Planned |
| Make Fake Feet (10%) | High | Planned |
| Make Arm Backpack Thingie (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make Fake Arm Blades (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make Real Arm Weapons (0%) | High | Planned |
| Make Clay Sculput of armor ready for casting (20%) | Medium | In Progress |
| Make Arms out of duct tape (75%) | Medium | In Progress |
| Complete Psycho Mantis Doll (50%) | Medium | In Progress |
| Complete The Sorrow Doll (50%) | Medium | In Progress |
| Buy FSBE LBV Load Bearing Harness (100%) | Low | Complete |
| Make Leg Stumps (0%) | Low | Planned |
| Find Material/Paints for Metallic components (25%) | Low | Planned |
| Buy LED components (65%) | Low | Planned |
| Make Body of the Suit (0%) | Low | Planned |
| .....And Breath | Low | Planned |
Shopping List
| Wooden Mannequin base for puppets | £12.00 | Bought |
| Black PVC x 1m | £8.00 | Bought |
| Dark Grey Bi Stretch (Underarmor) x 2m | £4.00 | Bought |
| FSBE LBV Harness w/assorted pouches (eBay) | £32.67 | Bought |
| 10xCoin Battery Cages | £1.99 | Bought |
| Breadboard Jumper Cables | £1.76 | Bought |
| Wire (300m Red & 300m Black) | £20.00 | Bought |
| 8kg Air-Drying (Sulphur free) Clay | £18.00 | Bought |
| Assorted MDF pieces (from Garage) | £0.00 | Bought |
| 1m heat shrink tubing 1cm - 0.5cm diameter. | £0.70 | Bought |
| Moulding Silicon 2 Kg | £66.00 | Bought |
| Easycast Casting Resin 1.9Kg | £33.00 | Bought |
| Rotothane casting resin 1.9kg | £38.00 | Bought |
| Black Polyurethane Resin Pigment | £5.00 | Bought |
| 5x SPST Toggle Switch | £0.93 | Bought |
| 10x 5cmx7cm Circuit Board | £1.48 | Bought |
| Foam camping mat (becuase australia doesn't have pound land :() | £4.80 | Bought |
| Kwik Sew Pattern 3052 | £12.00 | Bought |
| Roll of Cling film | £1.00 | Bought |
| Duct Tape | £5.00 | Bought |
| Milliput (shipped from England :'() x 5 tubes | £12.00 | Bought |
| Pointe Ballet Shoes | £18.06 | Bought |
| 200 x 6mm Silver Rings | £0.85 | Bought |
| 50x11mm Glue Sticks (from england :() | £9.24 | Bought |
| Silverline (Like Dremmel) Rotary Tool with Tool Bits | £33.00 | Bought |
| 50g Roll of 0.6mm Lead Free Solder | £5.39 | Bought |
| Soldering Iron (40w) + Sponge + Stand | £8.62 | Bought |
| 50x 3mm Red LEDs | £1.75 | Bought |
| Black Cotton Drill (Sorrow Jacket) Offcuts | £0.00 | Bought |
| 4xMolle Grenade Pouch Tan | £0.00 | To Buy |
| Preying Mantis Patch | £0.00 | To Buy |
| Steel Boned Underbust Corset | £0.00 | To Buy |
| Chameleon Spray Paint | £0.00 | To Buy |
| White Polyflex Vinyl | £0.00 | To Buy |
| Large Diameter PVC Pipe for Legs | £0.00 | To Buy |
| Thin PVC Pipe for Spine | £0.00 | To Buy |
| Flag Bracket | £0.00 | To Buy |
| Total | £355.24 |
Journal
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Sculpting Begins (Posted 30th January 2013) So I finally sat down today and started getting to work on sculpting. I had been putting it off as I have never really worked with clay before and I was worried about stuffing it up. I took it slowly and am pleased with the results so far. I used a sulphur free clay which has a drying time of between 24 - 72 hours according to the packet. It was also called school's clay if that helps? It was built onto a duct tape cast of my shoulder and carved with the back end of a plastic spoon and a pencil. This is only my second experience with clay but I much prefered this over the horrid white stuff I got from Hobby Craft and used last time. The single shoulder scupt took about 4 hours T_T I have a 6 or so other pieces left to sculpt and I will be working on these over the coming week ready for casting. Hoping to get mould and casting supplies tomorrow. Hopefully all goes to plan :) |
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Arm progress (Posted 6th July 2012) Mantis's design features six fake arms. I had originally intended to make them via a different method but after making a duct tape dummy of myself and relising how easy, cheap and light weight they are I decided this the option for me. The arms will each be made out of duct tape stuffed with newspaper and then finally I will make gloves for them and cover them with the gloves. This way all eight arms will match since I will need to make gloves anyway and I am more confident in my sewing abilities than my casting abilities (though I am aware I will need to get better at casting for other aspects of the cosplay.) Here in the photo is a husk of a right arm and a completed left arm. The left arm pictured is the highestmost left arm that the mantis dolls will sit from. I may find that I will need to reenforce the arms so potentially a couple of layers of paper machie in the weaker areas may occur (or this may also occur to bulk out the muscles as they look a little weak atm :S) Once these are complete I will begin to work on the body of the suit itself as I have some nice grey bi stretch fabric which I bought to make the Peacewalker Sneaking suit and then making the main panel out of foam and some mystery shiny metal looking fabric I am yet to obtain. |
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Making mantis's dolls. (Posted 27th March 2012) I am gonna start off this cosplay by making mantis's dolls. Mainly so that I can feel good that I've started something and also if I fail at this cosplay completely I can dress up as snake and attack ppl with the puppets. I will be making the puppets out of artist mannequins. I will be making the jacket for the sorrow out of fabric but the rest of his clothes will be painted on. I will drill a hole in the back of each puppets head to fit the red leds. Will update one the puppets are made but at this stage I have just ordered them - waiting for ebay to deliver. |
Comments
OMG exciting! I would ADORE a shoot with you! If you have any questions re: construction DM me, I actually thought about this one before I chose Octopus and I can pump TheKillingDoll for ideas as well ^_~
Thanks for the offer I will definatly be messaging you when I get stuck :D (which will probably be often :P) but will so be worth it once it's finished :D
Yay! You put it up. So exciting. I will make sure not to recycle any of the parts of Crying Wolf for the next two years. Hopefully by then I'll have the skills to revamp the costume.
If you make the beauty suit too let us know so we let you know how we did ours (Odangochan is the Queen of dye) and then we can all match.
Excellent idea to use drawing armatures for the dolls.
We need a Raging Raven!
I will definatly let you know about the beauty suit. Especially since this will hopefully end up in an expo masquerade I'll need something to wear during the day :) But gonna attempt the armor suit first :)
O.O
*adds to watch list**
=P
This is going to be awesome :D
Oh wow, good luck with this!
And I love that you're making the dolls to go with it and your progress on them =)
Love the little psycho-mantis doll thing. Looks great. I've also got the exact same sewing machine as you :D Look forward to seeing it finished.
Thanks everyone :D And @ Kata-San: Your the second person who has the same machine as me - that's pretty awesome :D
well this is one I'm certainly looking forward to. It goes without saying that this will be EPIC XD
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSS, You are gunna own this :D Cannot Wait To See It :D
I want that sorrow doll!!! maybe i'll make one to stick in my room...
Such a good call on the artists dummy!
The duct tape dummy seems like an awesome idea!! Really can't wait to see this - good luck, and this is going straight on my watch list...
The arms look so good already, great idea! and hnnng, I've always wanted to do a Beast, a whole group would be amazing ;_;
Can't wait to see this finished!
This is looking to be insanely epic!
@ Relion - well we don't currently have an Raging Raven *Cough* Hint Hint *Cough* But yeah the beast suits are a mammoth task hence why progress has been slow but gonna get stuck in soon - so much planning T_T but will be worth it if if I can pull it off :)
This will be AWESOME! got my eyes on this!
This is going to be epic! absolutely brill! xxxx
*____* can't wait to see this wish I could bring my laughing octpuss
Wow! This is going to look amazing!:D