How to Build the Most Intense Big Daddy Costume Ever
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Sounds like a kinky costume, "Whose your daddy?!?"Keane Ng said:How to Build the Most Intense Big Daddy Costume Ever
Remember that guy who made those super-impressive replicas of the Portal gun and Little Sister syringe? He decided to step up his game and make a Big Daddy costume, and he's ready to teach you how to make your own, if you've got seven months to spare.
Propmaker Little Sister ADAM syringe [http://volpinprops.blogspot.com] were impressive enough, but Krix has really outdone himself this time around with his Big Daddy costume for Dragon*Con 2009, a project which took Krix a whopping seven months and a whole lot of labor.
Anyway, if you've got the time and materials to spare, Krix has a detailed step-by-step documentation [http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/2009/09/big-daddy-bioshock.html] of how the project came together. It started with blueprints, which Krix prepared from the 2K Bioshock artbooks, and then went in steps, from the main body to the helmet dome to the drill arm to the dome cage and then finishing touches.
The main body was built from insulation and expanding foam, stretch fabric, fiberglass resin and more. The dome was actually built from a security camera dome (those ominous looking black half-spheres you see in department store ceilings) with the portholes made with silcone. As for the drill, you've got matteboard, aluminum rod, foam, fiberglass resin and a DeWalt 12V cordless drill to make the thing actually spin. Yes, the drill arm works [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5vps6lizg0]. What the hell.
All in all, Krix says the thing weighs around 50 or 60 pounds. Without the arms he could manage walking with ease, but with them attached he could only stand in place for about 30 minutes at a time. Walking outside in the Atlanta heat, he says, "bordered on suicide." There's a reason they call it Hotlanta, man.
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Pretty fucking cool.
Too bad he can't move too well in it but at least he can hang it up and be like "Yeah, I went toe-to-toe with that thing. It wasn't too bad after I pulled that drill out of my arm."
Too bad he can't move too well in it but at least he can hang it up and be like "Yeah, I went toe-to-toe with that thing. It wasn't too bad after I pulled that drill out of my arm."
That guy should get a trophy for that. I've never seen that sort of time or detail put into a costume of any kind
WOW! Did you see that? I mean those chairs must have been stacked at least twenty high!
And the bioshock costume was pretty sweet too.
NO JUST KIDDING. I.Want.That.
And the bioshock costume was pretty sweet too.
NO JUST KIDDING. I.Want.That.
The only way that costume gets any cooler is if he had a horn or something in there that he could use to bellow while he tromps down the halls of a convention hall.
*Thump!,Thump!, Thump!*
"Lets go find an Angel"
That thing is sending shivers down my spine...
That was the first game I bought thinking "I can take this on the hardest difficulty". Turns out the big man in the diving suit who follow little girls around don't like getting shot with pellets by a insane drug addict. Life lesson learned.
"Lets go find an Angel"
That thing is sending shivers down my spine...
That was the first game I bought thinking "I can take this on the hardest difficulty". Turns out the big man in the diving suit who follow little girls around don't like getting shot with pellets by a insane drug addict. Life lesson learned.
Seems a little...awkward...but who I am to nitpick? This thing is awesome on a bun. Made of metal, that happens to stalk protect little girls.
That would be an awesome Halloween costume...
That would be an awesome Halloween costume...
This man now has unlimited permission to shout "Whose your daddy?!" and "I'm the Juggernaut, *****!" at will.
that is an awesome costume
i've seen a couple really good ones for the Big Daddy, i saw one guy do it with his 5 year old kid dressed up as a Little Sister which was pretty neat
i've seen a couple really good ones for the Big Daddy, i saw one guy do it with his 5 year old kid dressed up as a Little Sister which was pretty neat
50 to 60 pounds? Hmm, he could probably keep it in relative ease if he constructed a mechanical exoskeleton, although those are a bit complex to program... retractable braces with wheels on the bottom could help if it's the arms making it so heavy. Or a straight up more physically fit wearer (no offense to Mr. Krix).
