Better look at how I'm holding the tail up. Another strap or two will be added to the crotch, but for now this holds it pretty darn well.
The best thing if you do this is when you sew the nylon webbing around to fit, make SURE you push it up as absolutely far as you can make it go. I thought I had mine pushed up, but that purple dot is just how much further it went up when put on which resulted in quite a bit of sewing to fix it (the beltloops had to be made shorter, shorter and shorter...)
I ordered some fabric samples from SpandexWorld, the brown is cotton lycra and the pink was for the mouthflaps and it's a milliskin type fabric.
The pink is in the coral color, the piece is so tiny it's nowhere near enough to use for the mouthflaps unfortunately. I could *maybe* get one out of it. Not sure what I plan to do about that, but it's a last decorative bit of the costume anyhow I suppose. It's perfect for what I need, just not enough of it.
The brown feels like it would work perfectly but the color in real life looks like a blackish green depending on the lighting. In this shot it showed up more brown though, but it just isn't the right shade. Spandexworld has a "dark nude" color that's much too light so I guess I might get a sample of that and the white, and maybe try dying it. I don't know what I'll do about fabric now. It's nice and thin and breathable, feels like it will take paint well but I just don't know about it.
It looks much different than it feels, though, oddly enough.
Feather test! I sewed it onto the old sample from Johann's though, by the way. It's just a random one I had around here. It seems like it'll hold well, if you tug straight on it then it'll pull right out though. It holds well when I shake it around, doesn't slide but I don't know about it. I'd rather sew than glue but this is the best way to go about sewing it and it still moves--it might hold better to just bucker down and buy up all the E6000.
I changed my mind about the Velcro and decided to input a zipper, and we did so over the weekend. Way prefer it and I don't recommend velcro for a suit unless it's to cover up the said zipper. It holds the costume better, is slightly roomier and is just generally preferred. Seriously.
You can also sort of see where I pulled the torso foam off. We've decided that the legs need to go before the torso and that's what I'm doing next, although it'll be very hard. :x
