Where is the suit being displayed?
pinder91
Sr Member
Apparently at the Director's Guild of America (7920 Sunset Boulevard) for a Netflix event. http://comicbook.com/2015/05/22/daredevils-netflix-costume-on-display-in-la/
RoboTrap
Member
The metal hardware on his helmet, shoulders, and arms are hex nuts. There are also hex nut embedded in his belt. The ones on his abs are "button head" allen key bolts... the heads of them anyway, at least
The parts on his belt and leg straps are slide adjusters, and if about four hours of Google variations of tribar slide/tabular strap adjuster/blah blah blah told me anything, it's that they were likely custom made. Same would go for the flat hooks on his sides.
They're mirrored red lenses, right? They catch the light something crazy in quite a few shots.
sp1derman
Sr Member
The metal hardware on his helmet, shoulders, and arms are hex nuts. There are also hex nut embedded in his belt. The ones on his abs are "button head" allen key bolts... the heads of them anyway, at least
The parts on his belt and leg straps are slide adjusters, and if about four hours of Google variations of tribar slide/tabular strap adjuster/blah blah blah told me anything, it's that they were likely custom made. Same would go for the flat hooks on his sides.
They're mirrored red lenses, right? They catch the light something crazy in quite a few shots.
Definitely red mirrored same as afflecks
So for the slide bar and rib pieces looks like we need someone to 3d design and sell some stl files hint hint ��
With regards to the hex nuts I can't I cant find anything thin enough to use on by suit. Been looking at hex eyelets as I dont actually need them
I thought the cowl was rivets ?
RoboTrap
Member
With that whole hex nut/rivet thing, the designers mentioned in that interview that the suit is covered in rivets, but hex nuts are clearly being used for the majority of the pieces. There are a couple of shots of the cowl clear enough to make out a small hole in the center of the "rivets"
While that doesn't automatically mean they're not rivets (pop rivets often have holes in the center) I can see six sides on this:
For the cowl, you'd want to use jeweler's hex nuts, which are available in some very small sizes
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I've been working on them
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RoboTrap
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Apologies for the double post!
Does anyone have experience unwrapping files in Blender for flat patterns? I started modeling the suit in there so I could figure out all of the oddities in a 3D space, intending to use the UV unwrap feature to create flat patterns. I've seen people do it before and it seemed like a good way to skip multiple mockups (which I can't afford to make) but the reality is that this feature really isn't liking me, and none of the tutorials I've found are helping me out.
And before anyone mentions it, Pepakura is useless for this task as it can't make accommodations for material stretch, unfortunately....
Does anyone have experience unwrapping files in Blender for flat patterns? I started modeling the suit in there so I could figure out all of the oddities in a 3D space, intending to use the UV unwrap feature to create flat patterns. I've seen people do it before and it seemed like a good way to skip multiple mockups (which I can't afford to make) but the reality is that this feature really isn't liking me, and none of the tutorials I've found are helping me out.
And before anyone mentions it, Pepakura is useless for this task as it can't make accommodations for material stretch, unfortunately....
Psycho815
Member
More pictures please!!That's not true brother. I ship to the UK all the time, priority mail, costs around $50 bucks usually. No where near the cost of a cowl or helmet I might produce, those charging more are marking it up, not cool.I'm not where near ready for orders, but I've been cleaning up my cowl. I modeled it, printed and I'm now cleaning. I'll be adding the texture areas after the main body is clean. Then I'll mold, and offer tinted urethane rubber castings, with inked portions.
Graphic Jordan
Sr Member
I will when I have something new to show, just been priming and sanding, priming and sanding. Once I have the textured portions done, and the little gerbils added, I'll snap some pics. AKA before I mold it.
However you can find more pics of the model itself, and the print in it's raw form when it arrived at: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=238243
However you can find more pics of the model itself, and the print in it's raw form when it arrived at: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=238243
E60flip345
Well-Known Member
Thain has been nice enough to model the billy clubs and is giving the stl file for free! http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=240048
afrayedknot
New Member
Anyone? :confused
I dyed mine 3 times. First with Rit black, then with another brand from Joann and a third time with iDye Poly/Nylon black. The Rit dyed the pants a dark chocolate brown and left the stitching and zippers untouched. So, I painstakingly colored all of the stitching and zippers in with permanent fabric pens—went through 4 different types!
The second dye darkened the pants to more of a charcoal color and, again, did not affect the stitching or zippers. In fact, it stripped a lot of the coloring out that I had done by hand; wasting hours of work. The third dye job really darkened the pants (not total black) and darkened the stitching and zippers. Although, they are not black either.
I would recommend a mix of iDye cotton & iDye Poly/Nylon since the pants are cotton and the stitching and zippers are nylon. Do it at least 2 times.
You can see my costume, as well as the pants after dying, up on my Instagram @crouchcreative. I wore it out today for the first time at Phoenix Comic Con. I had been working on this since the Saturday after the show came out and just hadn't posted anything yet. Everything is screen accurate and remarkably comfortable after 10 hours of being in gear.
afrayedknot
New Member
What color were yours originally? They look pretty dark on your Instagram (nice pic, by the way). I'm wondering if it would be worth it to change out the zippers. :unsure
RoboTrap
Member
Weren't people talking about how the zippers were green in certain shots? It's possible that the production had just as hard of a time finding these pants as you all are, and had to make do by dyeing different colored pairs to supplement their supply. Dye wouldn't take well to the polyester zipper backing, so different colored zippers would just be another feature to make yours even more accurate
Has anyone spotted any colors for the zippers beyond green?
Has anyone spotted any colors for the zippers beyond green?
RoboTrap
Member
Of course, but it's still at least the start of a hint that non-black zipper backings would be SA, and give people more options in accurate costumes without having to track down a particular (and elusive) piece. I've had "black" clothing that read as different shades depending on the lighting, but for a pair of pants this expensive, I think they'd go the extra mile to ensure that the polyester and cotton would read the same under natural lighting, incandescent, fluorescent, etc., and with post-pro color grading only doing so much to pull from the existing palette...
It's by no means definitive (I know I'm jumping through hoops to arrive at this point) but I still think it's worth consideration, especially when the black version of these pants are hard to come by.
It's by no means definitive (I know I'm jumping through hoops to arrive at this point) but I still think it's worth consideration, especially when the black version of these pants are hard to come by.
Westies14
Master Member
I've got tan and green ones myself, and I'm glad to have found even those. I'm sure dying them will be difficult. That doesn't mean we should go out of our way to convince ourselves that we have reference at that level of detail - a hint of green on a zipper that mostly reads silver in a color graded shot is just not an indication that there's a hint of green on the wardrobe item. Everything we've heard about the design process would indicate that they had several options of black pants to consider and they chose their favorite. It should take more than what we're discussing here to change that thinking, especially since the pants were made in black and the show wasn't sourcing them when they were as rare as they are now.
That doesn't devalue the other colors if you can find them - I'll be happy to get mine turned black. Let's not let wishful thinking eclipse Occam's razor without better proof!
That doesn't devalue the other colors if you can find them - I'll be happy to get mine turned black. Let's not let wishful thinking eclipse Occam's razor without better proof!
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