rainbow dash
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Yes I'm going to do an elite! Since the Reach Elite files currently showed up I'm all ready to go (well after the unfolding ^^)
I will post the files for pepakura and foam here. (Files can be found in the second post)
And before anybody comes up with that, yes this is my 4th unfinished WIP thread, I'm aware of that.
So the real challenge with this project are the elite's legs. Second difficult part is the elite's head, everything else is pretty common base work.
So basically what I want to achieve is a costume like this
I tried to contact this little genious via Facebook but sadly didn't get any response.
Back to the legs: An elite doesn't stand straight, his legs are kinda bend. I guess doing an elite as you would do a spartan won't look good. So either you make them look like they are bend or use something that's called "digitigrade stilts"
I found a post on the forum from 2009 showing suitable stilts for an elite, please see for yourself
Wow, that was cool, you can even run with this stilts!
Although it would be nice to have one of these awesome Digilegs (you can actually buy them), $900 is just way too much!!
So if I don't want to spend a tremendous amount of money on this costume I'd better do it myself.
While searching the web for a little while I came across many furry-related sites ^^ but finally found a video of selfmade stilts, I'm not sure about the costs, but definitely less then 900 bucks This girl really kicks ass!
(skip to 0:58)
But I guess they're pretty difficult to make (at least for me).
I've found something more suitable, a DIY digitigrade stilts tutorial! The instructions are pretty easy to understand, I guess that could work!
Another very detailed and professional tutorial on digitigrade legs can be found here: Werewolf Stilts, Digitigrade Legs.
If anybody has good ideas how to build suitable stilts or any other ideas for the legs, please tell me.
EDIT (2017): I've updated the dead Dropbox links so files are accessable now again.
I will post the files for pepakura and foam here. (Files can be found in the second post)
And before anybody comes up with that, yes this is my 4th unfinished WIP thread, I'm aware of that.
So the real challenge with this project are the elite's legs. Second difficult part is the elite's head, everything else is pretty common base work.
So basically what I want to achieve is a costume like this
I tried to contact this little genious via Facebook but sadly didn't get any response.
Back to the legs: An elite doesn't stand straight, his legs are kinda bend. I guess doing an elite as you would do a spartan won't look good. So either you make them look like they are bend or use something that's called "digitigrade stilts"
I found a post on the forum from 2009 showing suitable stilts for an elite, please see for yourself
Wow, that was cool, you can even run with this stilts!
Although it would be nice to have one of these awesome Digilegs (you can actually buy them), $900 is just way too much!!
So if I don't want to spend a tremendous amount of money on this costume I'd better do it myself.
While searching the web for a little while I came across many furry-related sites ^^ but finally found a video of selfmade stilts, I'm not sure about the costs, but definitely less then 900 bucks This girl really kicks ass!
(skip to 0:58)
But I guess they're pretty difficult to make (at least for me).
I've found something more suitable, a DIY digitigrade stilts tutorial! The instructions are pretty easy to understand, I guess that could work!
Another very detailed and professional tutorial on digitigrade legs can be found here: Werewolf Stilts, Digitigrade Legs.
If anybody has good ideas how to build suitable stilts or any other ideas for the legs, please tell me.
EDIT (2017): I've updated the dead Dropbox links so files are accessable now again.
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