Mid Century Spaceman Costume (Planning Stages)...

[BAK55]

Those look great! If only we had the physique like that and what we had once upon a time when when we were younger men. :lol

 

[DanBackslide]

I'm one of bak55's "crew members." We did a bunch of sewing today, and my daughter got some pictures:

 

[melw44]

Cool those look good!
Mel W.

 

[Larry Young]

I love the bottle of Lagavulin in the background of the second pic. What every spaceman needs.

 

[BAK55]

Actually, it was a bottle of Laphroaig Scotch that we had toasted to our departed WWII fathers for Memorial Day.

I must add that I'm very proud of the wives of this crew that volunteered to put my vision of this custume together!

 

[Ghost Host]

Really cool! What about your boots?

 

[BAK55]

The plan is to use common black combat boots with the legs bloused. It would have been something used in an old sci-fi movie.

 

[OB10]

Sorry I missed the sew-off show-off. But, just for grits and shins, and to test out a new demo piece of software, here are DanBackslide's promotional behind the scenes pics as they would have appeared in a vintage pulp magazine, in all their grainy, high contrasty glory.

http://www.therpf.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54959&stc=1&d=1306731692

 

[markt1964]

Apologies for the thread necromancy... I stumbled across this thread during a google search about costumes such as what is being discussed here, and I was wondering what was used to make the above belt?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[BAK55]

Apologies for the thread necromancy... I stumbled across this thread during a google search about costumes such as what is being discussed here, and I was wondering what was used to make the above belt?

Thanks,
Mark

The belt was made out of an EVA foam shop mat I had found at Sears. At first I had no idea how to do this, so I have to give a nod of credit to all the foam armor builders on this forum for the inspiration.

 

[Ken Lee]

This is such a great costume. Really amazing work. Also apologies for thread necromancy, but something this cool should be applauded.

 

[brianelliot2020]

Where do you buy the acrylic spheres?