My Full & Complete P1 Costume Tutorial - How To From Start To Finish

BPW - you need to start your own post!
No one wants to put up their work and have you hijack their posting.

You'll get the opposite reaction you're looking for if you keep doing the same thing over and over.
The members here are pretty tolerant of someone learning by their mistakes but when you do it +6 times, is it really a mistake??
 
Ok  it's been awhile since I have posted , however does anyone know  a way or can you instruct me as to repair a tear in the waist side of a latex pred suit. It split about 2 inches stright down and I dont want it to tear further down.  If theres a instructional video somewhere here please direct me as I need some help.

Thank you

CCPREDATOR in Texas
 
Ok few things need to be said here...

The last post by the person who started the thread was in 2011...and was reserecret by someone..however It is good to have an old post highlighted that is imformative..

The post has continued to be reserected by members who have posted their own question and esentially hi jacked the thread instead of starting their own.

Snake14 pointed this out...

Predator 1cc..did you even take the time to read the previous posts!!..wtf
 
sulaco1967 said:
Ok few things need to be said here...
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Your right Sean!

It is terribly rude and inappropriate to to hijack someone else's thread with videos of your own suit, or questions that can be answered with a simple search.  Seems to me that's common sense.  If you want to show off your suit, start your own thread in the appropriate category and have at it.  I'm quite sure many more people would have seen and commented on your video if it had been posted correctly.  As far as fixing latex, did you try searching?  If so, and you didn't find the answers you were looking for, start your own thread asking for help.This forum has rules and guidelines that clearly spell out what is and isn't appropriate, and both of these issues are covered there.  Take a minute to read them, and the chances of making "noob" mistakes decreases dramatically.  If you were asking the creator of this thread how HE fixed a tear, that would be different, but you directed the question to "anyone", therefore making your post a hijack.  I'm not trying to be a dick about this, (if it had happened in one of my threads you would see how much of a dick I can be) I'm simply trying to help keep things in order.  Read and follow the guidelines and the Lair will be a much more pleasant place for everyone.  

Brian
 
The moderarators for the site are pretty thin on the ground at the molment and it has been asked if members will contribute in highlighting issues within the site. I spend a lot of time on here and will highlite to anybody who does not follow the basic integrity of the site. When I log on to the Lair I go to new content and have read everything posted in the last year..

soooo. it is really iritating when members regurgitate old posts, spam..or post whore

Rant finished

me
 
NeXus 6 said:
Hey members of thehunterslair!

me (NeXus 6 from germany) started by reading a lot of the articles here in the forum and deceided then to build my own pedator1 costume...

Here are the results... The pics with the full suit, armor, bones, feet etc. on will follow !

I documented most of the steps (lost some of the early pics) and now I like to share this with this great great community! ...and sorry for my por english :-/

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1. Bought some cheap neoprene surfer shoes & a can of polyurethane foam (uised for sealing windows...)
2. Stuffed the shes with some old socks ans sprayed the foam all around the shoe
3. let it dry (some water sprayed on the foam helped to speed up the process)
4. cut out the basic form auf the P1-Feet, then get step by step closer to the final look
5. make some nails from FIMO, insert a thin piece of plastic (old yoghurt pot) to get a slit in the FIMO
6. FIMO in the ofen, get it out glue the plastic peace in there
7. sand the foam
8. put latex on (2 - 3 layers of thik latex paste)
9. let it dry then cut slits in the latex and foam, plug the FIMO-nails with plstic strip in there (hot clue)
10. paint it with acylic paints, I used airbrush colors
11. Seal it with LIQUITEX MATTE VARNISH (I prefered matte cos I didnt like the shiny style...)








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1. Put some heavy high socks (tubes) on
2. make a tape dummy, covering the whole leg
3. pull leg out and stuff it with paper or old clothes or something
3. use newspaper and a white children glue and cover the leg with 3-5 layers, let dry
4. put resin on the dried cast, inside and outside (I dindnt use resin mat, just the fluid.)
5. put some filler / surfacer / putty on the cast to create a surface
6. Cut it up/down in a nice shape and around to cut the lower part from the rest
7. hot clue a fomie part / spacer in the lower part
8. clue foamies on the cast more r less similar to the original
9. put PLASTIDIP (I used a can) on the cast with foamies
10. paint it with hammerd silvermetal spray can and after that with transparent airbrush color black








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Basically I followed the wonderfull Mr.-I tutorial(!)
I just discovered that the suit shrings arount 10 %, so buy a suit with a little space!

1. Make a tape dummy
2. cover the whole suit with thick latex paste not the thin milk 2 times
3. cut the chest with a sharp knife and fill the muscles a little bit with foam rubber / sponge rubber and stitch it togehter
4. Create more body muscles (8-pack) with cutton pads and styrofoam balls for pimples / spots / hickeys
5. put latex on by tapping the latex with a piece of soft foam rubber on the suit min. 2 times
6. use colored latex to paint the big areas, like the dark back, its way better then airbrushing everthing later on
7. paint the whole suit with airbrush (semi-transparentI) color mixed with PROS-AID adhesive
8. For the big areas like the back, I used a pattern t get these black / brown stains
9. after finishing with the paint seal the suit with LIQUITEX MATTE VARNISH or PERMA-WET GLOSS Coating
10. Throw a (fishing) net with a 35-45 mm mesh size over the suit closed starting with the legs
11. Leave a V-cut out pen in the back to get in to the suit
12. dummy stuff out and wear it
















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I got a cheap sideshow resin cannon from a e-Auction and used it here.

1. I used a thermal insulation for heatings and bend it with a hair dryer (hot)
2. cut out some fomie parts fr the sharp edges, hot clue them on
3. closed the side with foamie, but make sure to have some supports clued in
4. put some technically looking stuff on
5. cut out the backside from fomies and hot clued a stripe of 2mm hard plastic on the inside
6. create a key keyhole kind of mounting socket (to be able to take of the big medi kit)
7. hot clue the other part of the key keyhole on the medikit
8. create the shulder cannon holder / bridge. I made this from two parts of foamie and a hard plasic in the same shape
9. cover everthing in children white glue
10. paint it with hammered silver metal and create the used and dirty look with black semi-trans. airbrush paint

















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1. I bought a simple wooden box from a handicraft store
2. cut support foamies for the curved top outside the box electrically looking stuff
3. I printed the alien letters on a transparent print foil
4. soldered some led and cables and swithes together and adjusted them in to the gauntlet
5. reserved some space for 9V battery in the inside
6. coated everthing with PLATIDIP
7. painted with hammered silver and black airbrush color
8. sealed it with LIQUITEX MATTE VARNISH











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1. Bought a small tool box for srews, nails etc. and a drawer slider
2. followed the tut from here with some importand modification
3. mount the slider on the tool box
4. messured my armwide and hot clued a foamie sleeve on the tol box
5. cut out the blades from hard plastic and hot clued them toghether
6. assembled everthing
7. put technically looking foamie stuff on the gautlet
8. coverred all the foamies with white childeren clue
9. paited the blades aluminium silver and the gauntlet hammered metal silver iwith black airbrush paint
10. sealed it with LIQUITEX MATTE VARNISH












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1. cut out the parts from foamies and closed the insides of the spikes
2. hot clue them toghether
3. cut out the covering with the hole for the tube, I used a cap from a bottle of coke
5. covered them with PLASTIDIP and sealed open cracks
6. painted them in hammered silver metal and after that with black airbrush color





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1. I bought imitation leather / leatherette with a snake-reptile pattern
2. stichted toghether the lether and slide in a thin piece of platic in the same lengh to give the leather support
3. cut the leather tube in to the needed lengh
4. created a belt buckle from FIMO and placed a tap in the thickest part in the center
5. painted them hammered silver with black airbrush color semi-transparent
6. I riveted oon end of each leather belt strap and assebled the buckle with a srew trough the holes
7. I messured with a old bed sheet my pants size and cut that from the leather
8. cut two more layers from the leather and stichted them on
9. belt buckle is made from foamies attached with a strip masking / crepe tabe
10. covered the real beld buckle (on the back side) with a simple blend from leather
11 make everything look like used with black and brown semi-transparent airbrush colors
12. sealed it with LIQUITEX MATTE VARNISH










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1. messured with board and transfered on to foamies
2. clued the different layers together, hot clued some stuff on it
3. drilled a hole into the armor for the tube from the shoulder belt
4. scraped some scratches with a soldering gun in to the foamie
5. coated everthing with PLASTIDIP
6. painted with hammered matal silver and after that with black airbrush color






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Hey I'm a Noob here and just joined the site I'm such a big fan of the alien and predator movies although the costumes look complicated to make i have confidence that i can do so with your guide and others as well except im not good with building **** or ever made a costume really from scratch, jus from parts i took from a halloween store and mashed it together what i wanted it to be.. Im a girl so I want to make a female predator costume..hence the username ^^  I would like to get started asap so please tell me whats best to use for my case if you need measurements to help u let me know:D
 
First off, welcome to the Hunters Lair.  First thing I recommend is heading over to the introduction thread (http://www.thehunterslair.com/topic/20822-new-members-introduce-yourselves-here/) and introducing yourself there.  We also urge new members to become familiar with the rules and guidelines here to help your time here be more fun and educational (http://www.thehunterslair.com/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules).  There's already tons of great info here, and the search can really help you find what you're looking for.  When I first started I did allot of reading, and took allot of notes.  I literally was a member here for a year before starting on my own suit.  I've seen so many people want to jump right in and start building, only to run into problems, get frustrated, and give it up.  I understand being excited, but building a pred suit can be a long, complicated (not to mention expensive) process, and the more you know, the better your chances of ending up with something that you can be proud of.  Instead of looking it as a whole big complicated project, I broke it down into smaller projects, with the goal being to put them all together in the end into a completed suit.  Make sure you have your budget in order, and have all the necessary tools and supplies ready to go.  It sucks to start on something, only to find out you did it wrong or don't have the materials/tools to finish (I learned that the hard way).  The most important thing I learned was that you can never have enough information, and that all the info I needed was already here, I just had to ask questions and search for it.  Just about anything you need to know to build a suit is pinned in the threads under this one, so I would start with spending some time reading.  Good luck, and most importantly, have fun...that's what this is all about!

Brian
 
 
thank you so much i shall read those guidelines as soon as i can:D i need all the help i need I'm more of a visual learner tho than reading stuff when it comes to making things work on projects i just would like some examples of stuff i can use that are household items possibly to make it way less expensive and easy and just as good do you feel me? like hell my profile pic is one idea i have for a costume which looks like it can be made very easily cept for the headhair
 
I'm so glad I came across this thread; the visuals are extremely helpful, and the end results from the cheap materials are phenomenal! This also answers a question of mine about how to install the led light in the gauntlet. I'll definitely be referencing this. Thanks for sharing! ;)
 
This tutorial is awesome! You did a great job and this was a great help to me. Will be using this as reference for the armor for sure! 
 
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