This year I bought DREDD 3D and absolutely freaking loved it!
Of course whenever I love a movie this much, I just
have to put together one of my "budget" costume builds.
"Budget" is relative. I tried to keep close tabs on my spending and to date I've spent over $800 on this build (with the helmet and motorcycle suit taking up the most funds).
So starting at the top.
This is my Pannaus Props Dredd helmet. Completely finished by Fulvio- I did nothing other than add a wee bit of steel paint dry brushing on the battle damage grooves, and add some internal padding.
My scratch made vest, and motorcycle jacket.
The vest began as a leather vest I found at a second hand store. Going off the dozens of pics on the RPF and the web, I eyeballed some templates for the armour plates:
The plates were then created with multiple layers of craft foam:
And finally attached to the vest with Fabric Fuze double-sided sticky tape. This stuff is like gummy glue sticking to everything incuding the scissors used to cut the tape with! However it is great for fabric/leather and items that need to be stuck, but remain flexible.
Some close ups:
The Dredd badge is a promotional metal pin (offered at SDCC), and unfortunately undersized.
Shoulder bells were created from a hockey chest pad and sewn directly to the leather vest.
The Wings and Eagle were again three layers of craft foam. The pics don't really show it, but I used three different shades of gold (including one that was more on the green side), and then weathered with a black wash.
The Crown. Not my best effort as I think it turned out more like a Shell gas station logo.
The "bicep" armour actually started out as what was going to be the knee pads. However as luck would have it, I felt the knee pads looked better on my arms. I still had to shape some craft foam rather than using the existing hard shells the knee pads came with... mostly because I couldn't get any of every type of spray paint to stick to the damn off white shells. I even tried "dyeing" them with straight Rit-Dye!
Here is what the knee pads originally looked like to give you some idea:
My belt. This is one thing I plan on improving. It's more a hodge-podge of on hand items (some from my Grayson Robin costume).
The holster is again made from craft foam.
The Medkit is craft foam as well. You can't really see it, but there is a red cross symbol embossed in the foam (albeit the craft foam has "memory" and so the cross is not as pronounced when I first embossed it). The flashlight ring will eventually hold a bunch of ziptie handcuffs.
The "breaching mine" holder started out as a handcuff case that I cut portions out of to look like the mine holder (I will get around to spraying it green). The buckle is metal from ebay.
My Lawgiver is an "Air Zone Quickfire 6." (Many thanks Doc!
)
Sprayed with satin black, then given a misting shot of flat black, and finally dry weathered with steel paint.
The motorcycle suit (just kidding on the CENSORED block
).
Now some full shots!
The boots are New Rock "Reactor" boots. Again reused from my Grayson Robin costume along with the gloves. I plan on buying the V4 Leathernext gloves, and eventually more accurate boots (although I "do" like the slight height increase my New Rocks give me... from 5'5" to something like 5'8"
).
Here are a couple of decent pics from Fan Expo in Toronto last month:
Got to meet Karl Urban at the Expo! While it
was the autograph line and I could only spend about 10 seconds with him, he did say "Yeeeessss! Awesome costume!"
So things I want to improve- definitely getting an accurate sized badge, and increasing the size of the chest armour plates (way too small, even though I was trying to "not make them too big" on purpose because of the undersized badge). I still have to create some accurate knee pads and elbow pads. And like I said, improving the belt with the "missing" items (gas grenade, flash bangs, door breaching mine).
Oh... and because I just couldn't resist...
I AM THE LAW!!!!!!!Kevin
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