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Old-Trenchy — Giant Samurai from 'SuckerPunch'

Published: 2012-08-21 13:35:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 2587; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
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Description Giant Samurai from 'SuckerPunch'

In the lead up to the preview night we were invited to at the Palace Nova, everyone was scrambling to get a costume done. It was a simple choice for most of the men as they went with the Zombie German Soldiers but I wanted to do something different and I thought the Giant Samurais seen in the trailer were pretty cool. Unfortunately I picked the crap one

This took two nights to make out of EVA foam floor mats. The hat was made out of three smaller hats and the textured undersuit was just a spray painted woollen jumper (a very cheating method for emulating a chainmail look).

I bought the sword specifically for the costume.

It looks ok in some photos (like this one) but it's not as impressive as it could have been. I may recycle the armour for something else down the track.

Photo courtesy of EmAn's Media Page
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Comments: 5

cimmerianwillow [2012-08-21 14:41:19 +0000 UTC]

i didn't even realize that was a wool jumper, cool idea on the cheap!

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Old-Trenchy In reply to cimmerianwillow [2012-08-21 15:09:58 +0000 UTC]

Hehehe I found the idea online and it was a quick way to make it really. Stick itches and smelled of paint in the cinema! LOL

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cimmerianwillow In reply to Old-Trenchy [2012-08-21 15:21:30 +0000 UTC]

lol it looks good tho. I painted up a cheap pair of khakis for the old man's locust pants and they literally stand up on their own, theyre so stiff.

ugh, i'm so bored. putting off the piddly crap i need to get done for dcon next week...

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Old-Trenchy In reply to cimmerianwillow [2012-08-21 15:33:23 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, so jealous. Dragon*Con is on my bucket list. One day I'll make it over to the US...

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cimmerianwillow In reply to Old-Trenchy [2012-08-21 15:42:45 +0000 UTC]

A friend of mine described it as the superbowl of cosplay lol I wish we could afford to attend some of the other cons at least once, but i'd probably have some kind of crowd induced panic attack anyway lol

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