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I wanted a somewhat realistic version of the huntress. The idea is Helena is kind of like a low rent Batman. She doesn’t have the money of Wayne Tech, so she would have to pick up a lot of her armored pieces at sporting goods stores. Also went with more muted purples, and a brownish grey trim rather than white, can’t hide in the dark wearing white. At the time I thought I would keep the open stomach cause it’s sexy, plus it now forces me to go to the gym. My love of food lost out to my love of cosplay.
-The mask was sculpted onto a cast we had done of my face, then we cast that in resin. Eventually we would like to vacuum form it needs to be lighter.
- The bodysuit is made of 4 way leatherette. It is not as stretchy as I had hoped. For the trim it’s actually the backing of this ugly gold fabric I found. I have no qualms about using the backside of fabric if I need too. The padding on the side was inspired by the daredevil jacket, to mimic the direction the rib cage goes. I had the sewing done by Quatumflux,but I designed all the lines of the outfit and pick the fabric.
-The cape is this matte latex spandex. An acquaintance had only a tiny bit left. I fell in love with it and only wish I could find more. It was a total fluke.
- The clasps are sculpted and cast.
- The belt base was a kid’s batman begins belt. We fabricated the additional belt pieces that go to the staff holsters.
-The staff holsters were sculpted and braced to a piece of leather which was shaped to my thigh. The staff comes apart in 4 pieces to fit into the holster.
-The arm guards are kids shin pads which we marred and scratched up, also a panel was added to the under part of the gloves with some ‘decorative’ stitching to make sure the shin guard didn’t flop around on my arm.
- The gloves are women motor cross gloves which we also painted.
- The shin guards are just kids goalie guards, which we again scratched up to make it look like ‘battle’ damage.
- The staff was made out of electrical conduit, air compressor fittings, and cast flashlight for the handles. They can be taken apart into 4 pieces or put together to create the full staff.
-I did pick boots with a platform only because I needed any height I could get.
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