A very Pixar Halloween

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#34

Cool! What parts did you visit?

The torso is effectively finished!

Finishing it off was tough, which was all down to the chest/shoulder plates. I started out by taking flat cardboard and making a (very) rough shape for the chest plates. I do not have many photos of this, because I wasn’t convinced while I was doing it that this would work. I made the shoulder plates separately with the intention of fusing them together with papier mache (since they are supposed to be one piece).

Here is the initial, and admittedly quite shoddy picture of how I started out:

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From there I had to glue it onto the torso, which was quite difficult. Mostly because I was attaching it to an area of the torso which was quite thin. Not entirely trusting superglue to do the job, I turned to epoxy which was messy but did the job well. When it dried I then topped it off with superglue.

This wasn’t the last job before applying papier mache, however; I was very unhappy with the quality of the shoulder plates, so I tore them off (thankfully I had only used box-sealing tape up to this point to join them on). I redid them from scratch and once again joined them to the torso. Once this was done, I could apply the papier mache:

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Once that dried, with the aid of a hair dryer, I was able to apply the silver paint/red lining:

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And that’s where I’m at. The torso is done, I have the cape just about finished too thanks to my talented girlfriend. I’ll post those up soon. Today being bank holiday Monday means I need to get the bulk of the work done, here’s hoping that happens!

EDIT: I just realised that, in the last photo, there is a hint towards Ciara’s costume this year. Brownie points for whoever guesses :wink:

#35

Ugh, I can’t find the hint to your friends costume! Frustration!

I went to Dublin, Waterford, Blarney, County Clare, County Cork, County Kerry, and we drove through Limerick. So mostly southern Ireland, I loved it!

#36

Wow, you covered a good bit of ground - I’m in Cork myself, good to hear you passed my neck of the woods.

The hint is in the top right - the two blue things - also quite relevant to this forum :slight_smile:

#37

Is she going as Mrs. Potato Head?

Also, your Zurg costume looks awesome so far!

#38

Or Mr. Potato Head?

#39

But Mrs. Potato Head doesn’t contain blue parts!

What could it be…?

#40

One of the aliens or Flik?

#41

Bingo :slight_smile:

#42

yay, I win! Actually, I was inspired by Buzz&Woodyforever, Just changed the gender.

#43

Why did your girlfriend choose the Mr. instead of the Mrs.?

#44

Because Mr. is so much cooler :slight_smile:

Also, she’s making an eyepatch so she can switch between Mr. Potato Head and the dastardly One-Eyed Bart :wink:

#45

that is so awesome! you better hurry up though. :slight_smile:

#46

Man, that was a close, close call.

Sorry I haven’t updated in ages, I got so tight on time that I abandoned production photos for the most part! I haven’t had much time in the last few days, on Thursday I was graduating and I was away for most of the weekend. I only came home at around 3pm on Sunday, and I was straight into finishing the costume.

Ciara’s Mr. Potato Head looked incredible (I wasn’t too shabby either I don’t think :slight_smile: ). Alas we didn’t win the competition, but the general reaction was absolutely amazing. I’m depending on others for photos because I couldn’t physically carry a camera, but as soon as I get photos I’ll put them straight up here.

Thanks for following my progress :slight_smile:

#47

As promised, a few photos from last night:

#48

Great job on both man they look great :astonished:

#49

Your costumes look great! :smiley:

#50

Awesome job man!! I knew they would turn out great! You should have won!!

#51

Is the guy in the Buzz costume drinking a beer? That’s something I thought I’d never see! :open_mouth:

#52

This is too awesome! Great job!

#53

Very effective work! although, this was a long time ago! do you still have the costume?