Emile halo reddit4/3/2023 ![]() It LOOKS pretty close to done here, but all sorts of little things to do and honestly I needed to redo the chest because of how badly I was rushing trying to get it done for PAX. Here's where I basically picked up after PAX. Picked the Emile project back up, pretty happy so far and almost done yet again! I tabled it for a few months out of frustration and completed a few other costumes/props instead I'm not even sure people are still checking in on this especially since I haven't posted here in months due to laziness! Bullet pointed updated I look forward to posting the final product soon! (nevermind that he put the legs and shoulders on opposite sides, and forgot the balaclava)Įdit: I'm not sure why this picture insists on posting rotated. I'm glad these things are capable of fitting more than one person. This time around I'll keep it simple and if there are any questions or anything like that, I would be more than happy to answer! Lastly, as a bonus, since I plan on wearing Mickey to PAX, it means my roommate who is a similar size gets to wear Mickey. Last time I made a post I was a little wordy and over explained a lot of things. I'll be a little more thorough and have some better pictures when it's done! But here's where I was at a few days ago and I'm almost done. A few are still taped up, the chest needs some glue and plasti dip yadiyada and a lot of lights need to get put in. Skip forward a few weeks and most of the parts are coming along. I have had the experience of trying to wipe some detail paint across a section and it pulled a section of plasti-dip up. I find it's best to wait a day for things to dry if you have the time. I do a few coats of base paint and let it dry overnight before I do detail work typically. I have a multitude of brushes - most of them very bristle-y and wirey to apply a more natural feel as opposed to slops of caligraphy-esque strokes. I like to use some of the small model enamels for the detail paint. Here are a couple of pieces after some paint. I paint for my job quite a bit so it's liberating to be able to paint what I want for once. My favorite part of costuming is the painting. Here are some of the pieces with wood glue, dryingĪfter some light sanding, plasti dip treatment is applied to all the parts. I went with pretty standard stuff, 3/8" foam from Amazon/Harbor Freight, 6mm and 2mm foam from Joann's Fabric, wood glue for sealing (I like it over PVA), plasti dip for a flexible base and a variety of color spray paints including a few automobile paints and flat enamels. I also stuck to my pepakura roots and used that method for the helmet as you can see here I started off by turning out a lot of foam pieces before I went forward with anything else. That said, I tried to get as accurate as I could based off of the game theater, pepakura-files-turned-foam-templates, and a handy Emile toy I have. I'm impatient, and perhaps too accustomed to pepakura-ing my way to accuracy. I did Mickey from ODST via fiberglass/bondo, a Hunter from Destiny and now Emile from Reach. Not a great habit but hey -Īnyway, this is my third attempt at a costume. Well I'm not great at posting things as I go - I'm a little better at posting things when they're already almost done.
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