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basically, wing it. I halfway measured and cut long parts for the arms that you sew into tubes. Widen it out on one end where it attaches to the main part. I measured height, and approx width and cut half for the back, and a front half. I then cut out the design for the semi-transparent fabric, and cut it out of the front half. Then, alot of sewing. Leave alot extra on your measurements because it will come in handy in the end.

ill look at that site...i just bought a pattern online and 41 pages later i am even more lost...i may just scrap this whole thing and give up...i hate that...urrrrrrrrrrg

Dont give up, ignore the long drawn out instructions and focus on the pictures. Sometimes, that's the best way to attack a pattern. I just had to do that with a Matrix jacket my sister wanted for her costume out of Brocade. Jeez I hate that stuff.

Originally Posted by sikntwizted

basically, wing it. I halfway measured and cut long parts for the arms that you sew into tubes. Widen it out on one end where it attaches to the main part. I measured height, and approx width and cut half for the back, and a front half. I then cut out the design for the semi-transparent fabric, and cut it out of the front half. Then, alot of sewing. Leave alot extra on your measurements because it will come in handy in the end.

I agree. This is a great way to whip together a costume.

If you can't sew, try using hot glue as a quick fix. I've never tried it but I've heard it works really well.

Thanks to some long hours by my mom I think my costume will be done by Halloween. Here is a picture taken when I was doing a test fit. The sleeves will have tattered cloth hanging from the bottom to cover my arms and a more shear fabric will be sewn in where you can see my head in the middle of the chest. I know the mask looks too small for the body but it all I have to work with this year so decided to add some red LEDs to the eyes to make it better. I'm also going to have some type of belt around the waist so the costume doesn't look so square.

Grats on a good build bro. Now, go scare the snot out of some tot'ers. Hope the wife's ok.

Thanks, the wife is doing good. Surgery went well. She had to have some titanium implanted but it is healing nicely.

Ok, the night went very well. I scared many TOTers. We didn't get any good video of the costume while scaring, it was too dark. But, here is a little video we tried to get. It starts off really dark but you can kind of see it by the end of the video.

YouTube - costume

Not bad man. Looks like you have better head movement than me.