This place is for any questions I have, to be updated at any time. Either way, it means I'm not starting on the helmet until I get it. It's in like china or japan or somewhere far away and mystical. I also bought some ski goggles, thanks to RoxyRoo on the 405th for putting a link to the goggles in her hunter build. SO FAR: I have purchased a thorn hand cannon from Impact Props, to arrive.sometime, and a hunter knife purchased from NexusFX over on the RPF to arrive in the next few days, probably. Hopefully.Īnyways, tips, tricks, and general help-me-do-this-faster-better-stronger ideas are much appreciated. I plan on going off of Impact Props' very quick hunter build, along with the hunter from the Law of the Jungle trailer, and finally, the hunter from the live action trailer, all three are in the attached thumbnails.With all these references it shouldn't be. I've done pepakura with paper and bondo and fiberglass and the like, but never foam, so this is new territory for me.This will take the combined efforts of the 405th and the RPF to get me to finish this as perfect as my perfectionist self will want it, so comments are wanted, needed, and generally cherished forever. Not this time.This time will be different, I swear it!Mostly because I've sunk a lot of $$$ into it already. Because of the material I was painting, it took two coats.I've done this a few times, started a thread and project, gave up, started a thread, gave up, etc etc. Learn from my mistakes, friend.) I covered the mask’s clear plastic with paper, then spray painted the logos on the headband and the fumes mask with the matte black paint. So don’t, uhh, get it on your fingers and then grab the tube again. Then I took a trip to Home Depot and bought a paint fumes mask and a bunch of Superglue. It covered his eyes, but not in a way that would make him uncomfortable. Oh, and breathing with ease was pretty important, too.Īfter digging through some boxes in the attic, I found an old ski mask to use as a base. Nothing more miserable than spending most of your Halloween night, or time at a con, just trying not to walk into things. The one thing I knew I wanted to do was make sure that my kiddo could see out of it. There are dozens of cool styles in the game, but you can certainly create your own, like I did. One last key item is needed: the face mask. Using a round paper cut-out and grey, white, blue, and yellow spraypaint, I created the Four Moons emblem. After considering various established emblems, I realized it would be more interesting to create our own. There was no real guide for the cloak, I just looked at a lot of them online and then did what I thought worked best. Using scissors, I cut and shredded the edges. At our local Party City, I found a kid’s size vampire cloak, then sewed material over it to created a layered, ragged look. If you want to exactly replicate one of the outfits, you can do so, of course.īut you can also create your own, unique version of a Hunter-which is what we chose to do. They wear a range of colors, sport various prints/emblems, many types of helmets, and use multiple weapons. The thing that’s cool about cosplaying from a video game like Destiny is that, even when you’re a specific character like a Hunter, you have a range of options on how to put together a costume. Unless you already have a huge stockpile of random cloth and craft items … which would be very cool, but probably unlikely. The more detailed, the less common the costume, the more it will cost you to make it from nothing. I still maintain that it doesn’t, not every time, but I’ll now amend it. In my previous post, I said it didn’t need to cost the earth to cosplay. Even using things like the cardboard from the boxes the plastic knife and gun came in to make up other parts of the costume, the whole get-up cost me nearly a hundred dollars. After looking at tons of pictures online of both screenshots from the game and cosplayers, I had some great ideas.Īlthough I was right that the mask and cloak would be the most difficult, none of the parts of this costume were easy! It took a lot of thinking outside the box and using random materials I had on hand to create it. The most complicated parts of the costume would be the mask/helmet and the cloak, I figured. But then I started really thinking about it, and not only did it seem feasible, but it looked sort of fun. I can’t deny that I did Google costumes at first, because the idea of creating this from scratch seemed beyond me. When my son first told me he wanted to be a Hunter from the video game Destiny for Halloween (and our local comic con), I was more than a little intimidated.
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