We headed up to Johann's today to get foam for the tail, it was 50% off today so I was quite pleased to stock myself up on it! Hopefully I can finish the entire costume without needing more, however I do intend to go up there again for fabric glue once we get that far along I'm sure. The foam is mostly 2 inch, one sheet of 3 inch and it was a fantastic deal. Originally we were going to get cheaper, white foam however Johann's doesn't sell any in more than cushion size and Hobby Lobby was closed (on a Sunday, which was something I hadn't even thought about personally).
Plus my old pile of foam which is only slightly touched. For the feet I used some one inch from the roll and an entire scrap of 2 inch. I messed up a lot, though.
Foam detail.
My now complete pile of foam. And yes, I used the tail elastic to hold that roll together.
Since I had comparisons of the other widths, heres three and two inch compared. The three is mostly to wrap around the base of the tail, will save some gluing.
The feet! I realized I hadn't taken a picture of them side-by-side. I still intend to make the inner left toe (right foot) smaller to match, though.
I left the room for a bit and my dog decided to take a seat on the nice foam, ahaha.
The materials! A hot glue gun--all this time I had never imagined hot glue being the best glue for the suit but after having to go outside and use the E-6000/Super 77 every time, I'm glad to have bought the gun. It's got two settings so hopefully it won't melt the foam (or my fingers). More E-6000 and Super 77 as I'm lower on it, glue sticks, elastic for the jaw when we get there and a pin cushion because a different dog decided to chew our old one up, ahaha.
Last time we got elastic we bought the wrong kind--I saw a Caninehybrid video with Riley talking about different types of elastic and what worked best. We bought woven elastic instead of knitted, but we've got other places in the plans to use the woven so we didn't need to return it. Here are the differences you can find. The knitted will say KNITTED elastic, obviously.
The lines go horizontally, are very thin and not very noticeable. It looks like waistband material.
The woven elastic says so, and the lines go vertically instead. They are thick and wide, and the stretch isn't as easy as the knitted.
The fabric we found at Johann's. I still can really only see buying it online instead of Johann's due to different factors, but we may end up purchasing one of these (although I kind of doubt it, it's not really what we want).
Details:
They're both 100% polyester.
The one on the left is very thin and light but at the same time feels almost like pleather. It's very shiny and it looks great in person but when the light hits it and it shines, it looks very ugly and fake.
The one on the right (suede) feels like it could be painted, but the one on the left does not.
The shiny, pleather like stuff. I love the color to it but I just wish it weren't shiny. We've wanted to get 100% cotton because that will breathe better. This stuff surprisingly feels like it would let air through.
HD pictures of fabric whoaaaa. I don't think we'll use it though, due to the shininess and the scale pattern just doesn't look right either.
We got quite a bit of fabric for just 85¢ apiece.
The other stuff is very soft, not much like a dinosaur but to paint it it's probably going to need to be soft. It feels somewhat like carpet, although it's suede. The color is just what I like but it's pretty thick, heavy and I don't think it would breathe much at all. It also don't really like the way it looks but it seems practical.
At conventions, people use unnecessary flash a lot. I also intend to wear this for Halloween. So naturally I went into the closet and tested to see how the fabric looks with the flash.
It looks pretty good from afar, but not so much upclose.
With the shininess to it, it just doesn't look good. At all, really.
I dunno. Any opinions on it? The suede will be airbrushed with color variances, design and such to add realism to it.
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