Cluey
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
Quote: theHeroYouDeserve wrote:
This suit is looking fantastic! Always good to see the blue and Greg!
Cheers Chris.
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3/16/2017, 5:40 pm
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Cluey
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
Ive decided to scrap the latex cape, its a bit to short for me and I dont like the look of the seams.
I have since see somone show a technique for creating a cape out of a single piece of fabric by folding and cutting it a certain way, so I plan to do this instead out of a single piece of blue faux leather. I have orded some samples to find the closes match to the shade of blue I want, so I will update as soon as I get the cape material.
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3/16/2017, 5:49 pm
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
This is absolutely awesome! I love the blue and grey suits. Can't wait to see this cape. What are your plans for gloves?
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3/16/2017, 10:12 pm
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
:up :up big ups
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Cluey
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
Quote: Bigbat23 wrote:
This is absolutely awesome! I love the blue and grey suits. Can't wait to see this cape. What are your plans for gloves?
Thanks.
I have ordered some XL long blue plain leather gloves. They are elbow length so I can adjust them to the length I want. They are a womans opra glove which I found on ebay, they do them in a XL size and acording to their size chart they have a 8.5inch / 21cm palm which is a big enough palm size for me.
They are a dark blue but I have some blue and white leather paint to colour match then to my cape once I have the material to copy. For the glove fins I may cut them out of foam or I am thinking of sculpting them, making a mould and casting a set like I did for my 89 suit.
They should turn up next week so I will post pics when they get here. :up
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
Quote: Dave Batman wrote:
:up :up big ups
Thanks
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
Looks Great Lee.
It must have been hard to track down a piece that long and wide.
Years ago I used a black King Size bed sheet.
My guess is that could be latex'd pretty well.
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Cluey
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Re: 80s Comic Version Batman
Quote: efarrell4 wrote:
Looks Great Lee.
It must have been hard to track down a piece that long and wide.
Years ago I used a black King Size bed sheet.
My guess is that could be latex'd pretty well.
Cheers Ed. Its not as hard as I thought it was going be. Most leatherette I found is sold from 140cm wide rolls and is sold by the meter in one continuous lenght so I ordered 3m for about £18 which I thought was really good for a sheet almost 5ft wide by 10ft. I'm 6ft I so i would have liked it a little wider so the cape could be a little longer but this will do for now. I did find someone selling 170cm wide rolls but it was to dark a blue, but I will keep looking. Still £18 for a leatherette cape isn't bad.
Yeah a bed sheet would latex pretty well I would think, but I'm liking the ease of the leatherette method now after my last experience with latexing a cape. :)
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