Howdy y’all.
As this year’s “Frozen Jack Torrance” cosplay was such a huge, smashing success for me, and subsequently I find myself with a dearth of frozen fx make-up and snow flocking, not to mention a desperate need to grow my big beard back, I am going to tackle one of my favorite characters from my all time favorite movies for next year! Kurt Russell’s R. J. MacReady from John Carpenter’s “The Thing”.
Now I realize this has been exceedingly well documented and executed here already by the likes of OutpostPilot452, Vandalia, Boneman, MorbidCharlie, and of course asavage, I am but a tiny bush pilot standing on the shoulders of true giants. But I’m going to give it a go as it involves some building of props from scratch, which I dearly love.
Plus as mentioned, “The Thing” is in my top all time 5. It holds a very special and dear place in my heart as the first horror movie I saw. I snuck into a screening when it was new in theaters at the tender age of 7 and it played a pivotal role in forming who I am today low these many, many, MANY years later.
I’ve begun by finding as close to the cotton Vietnam rip stop olive green flight suit as I can find. While it does lack the government army issue clothing collar tag, I was able to find one in the correct material, color, and zipper configuration. And as a touch no one will ever see but I will know is there, I’ve even labeled it…
Next, as I will be building a “Final Battle MacReady” much like the very excellent Boneman has done, I’ve started on the dynamite stick props. Using typical 1 1/4” diameter wood dowels cut into 8” sticks, I used the screen accurate Hercules labels found here on the forum, some brown craft paper, and water/wood glue solution to role them on, and fold the ends. Then I threw together a quick jig so that I could coat them in wax without touching them. And voila….boomsticks!
The green cannon fusing will arrive Friday to complete these bad boys!
Next up? Some bartender play as I make some Molotov cocktails! Woohoo! Stay tuned.
As this year’s “Frozen Jack Torrance” cosplay was such a huge, smashing success for me, and subsequently I find myself with a dearth of frozen fx make-up and snow flocking, not to mention a desperate need to grow my big beard back, I am going to tackle one of my favorite characters from my all time favorite movies for next year! Kurt Russell’s R. J. MacReady from John Carpenter’s “The Thing”.
Now I realize this has been exceedingly well documented and executed here already by the likes of OutpostPilot452, Vandalia, Boneman, MorbidCharlie, and of course asavage, I am but a tiny bush pilot standing on the shoulders of true giants. But I’m going to give it a go as it involves some building of props from scratch, which I dearly love.
Plus as mentioned, “The Thing” is in my top all time 5. It holds a very special and dear place in my heart as the first horror movie I saw. I snuck into a screening when it was new in theaters at the tender age of 7 and it played a pivotal role in forming who I am today low these many, many, MANY years later.
I’ve begun by finding as close to the cotton Vietnam rip stop olive green flight suit as I can find. While it does lack the government army issue clothing collar tag, I was able to find one in the correct material, color, and zipper configuration. And as a touch no one will ever see but I will know is there, I’ve even labeled it…
Next, as I will be building a “Final Battle MacReady” much like the very excellent Boneman has done, I’ve started on the dynamite stick props. Using typical 1 1/4” diameter wood dowels cut into 8” sticks, I used the screen accurate Hercules labels found here on the forum, some brown craft paper, and water/wood glue solution to role them on, and fold the ends. Then I threw together a quick jig so that I could coat them in wax without touching them. And voila….boomsticks!
The green cannon fusing will arrive Friday to complete these bad boys!
Next up? Some bartender play as I make some Molotov cocktails! Woohoo! Stay tuned.
