Man, that's nice.Ok well, I'm happy, exhausted, tired, bogged out, had to wait hours for someone to come home, then the light went again but luckily I got some in this morning.
I'm so hyped about this. It was so worth it.
I hope you'll take this the right way... seems like that's the way it should be done. Peter Parker didn't use vacuum forming, CNC milling or dye-sub. He constructed the entire costume in secrecy in his room. There's got to be SOME pride in creating something from scratch. Not to say that there isn't room for the "perfect" Spider-Man movie suit replica. 20,000 posts & 8 years later says there's PLENTY of room. You're just on the path less travelled. I designed made my 7-piece Spidey suit completely from scratch with no outside help. It was a challenge & certainly took a while (I'm still fine tuning the design), but the payoff was huge! Granted, I only wear it 2-3 times a year (comic-cons & Halloween), but it's a one of a kind, comic authentic suit. I guess what I'm saying is it CAN be done if you're up to it. If you are, you'll have something to be proud of at the end.
Yep... it IS possible to make a good suit without silk-printing, vacuforming, cnc or something else.
This is my suit i made about 3 or 4 years ago... handmade... it took me 2 years to make. But i'm really proud of it:
The webbing is made out of two layers of latex. First layer black, next layer in silver. Filled some rails, let it dry. That took me about two weeks because my rails were only 1m long and the latex needed about 12hours to dry.
After that i glued every stripe by hand to the suit. This took me about 6 months...
The back spider (i have no pic from it at the moment) was mady with air brush.
The front spider is made of foam.
The eyers are three layers. Two layers with transparent foil with one layer white mesh between it.
The shoes are sewn and glued in swim-shoes.
The only problem is, that the latex react with the silver or with the glue and began to break...
Martin
Thanks guys.
See, THAT's awesome! Not to mention comic authentic as far as the way a guy with a secret identity & limited resources would have pulled it off. Sweet
And although it have been a lot of work, every step was a lot of fun to see in progress.
Right now i began to work on an iron spidey suit.
I've found some work pics from my old suit... there you can imagine, how much i had to do with the webbing:
But that was only my 3rd suit...
Here's my first... made about... hmm... long time ago... i guess, it must been 8 or 9 years... alex ross style. In the beginnings of this thread:
Webbing drawn with water proof pen...
My second one:
Webbing made by hand with window color...
Every selfmade step makes fun... and when it's finished i can say: It's MY suit... may be my suits are not "perfect" like in the movie but they are all done by myself...
What kind of strips are these? Where did they come from? How can I get some now? That's amazing.
I know the Sony file isnt the finished product. I wouldnt be the most creative of artistic talents, but I'm pretty good at recreation. So if I have a good reference, I should be able to make something respectable looking.My actual suit... it's still in progress... iron spidey:
