For Halloween, I'm doing a costume of Cliff Steele, aka Robot man from Doom Patrol. This one is specifically based on the DC Direct / HBO series version, but I've been a fan of the Doom Patrol comics for a long time. This build consists of a head, neck, and a pair of hands, all made out of primarily EVA foam. I should probably also make the shoulder pads, but my leather jacket already has a bunch of stuff on it, and I don't want the hassle. I am planning on doing some wrists to stick out of the sleeves of my jacket. I'm assembling it with DAP Weldwood contact cement, super glue and some hot glue. The paint is all acrylic. I was surprised at how well the metallic effect worked with just a basic studio artist's acrylic. The heavy parts are made from 1/2 inch thick floor mats, and the details are from a roll of 2mm thick sheet foam. The gloves are $2 work gloves from the hardware store. All of the details on the hands are made in the 2mm foam. They are attached to the fabric with the contact cement. The glowing eyes I took from a Halloween mask I bought at CVS. I pulled out the LEDs and battery pack and installed them in my mask. To get the LEDs to look more like eyes and make them less blinding in person (they're crazy bright in person), I made diffusers to put over them. To make them, I used slices of hot glue stick. I heated the back of them with a soldering iron and squished them onto the LEDs. I then painted them with Testor's clear red spray. Behind the eyes and in the mouth, I put plastic screening that is sold for embroidery. It's a soft, flexible plastic that is easy to cut with scissors. it's surprisingly easy to see though.
Here are some of the earlier WIP shots. You can also see the pattern I made by wrapping card stock around my head and drawing on it. The forehead was the hardest part, so I first made an arch over the middle of my head and them roughed the front out with card stock and tape. I then cut it off and cut slits into it to pattern the foam.
This is a close-up of the hot glue diffusers that I put over the LEDs. This is before I painted them with clear red. I wanted to make sure that my mask looked ok even if I didn't have the lights on.
Thanks! Thanks Plow! I'm getting to the wrists today. I have no intention of cutting open the sleeves of my jacket, so I'm just doing thin wrists that fit in the sleeves. Hopefully it will look ok.
Thank you so much! Here are some updates! We're pretty much all done. I just need to do the t-shirt. I was going to use this one, but I need something a little bigger, so the neck hangs lower. I want people to see more of that neck and chest I made.
Thanks guys! lol The patch has been on there for a long time now. The head is a bucket. It slips straight on, and yeah, it's going to get hot in there. I planned on putting some vent holes on there somewhere, but the smooth dome makes it hard to hide them. I'm also going to wear a cloth mask over my face and neck to hide my skin, so yeah, that's not going to be fun either.