I have a logo… what you didn’t know? If I’m going to repeat this logo in lots of places it would be nice to have a template I can use for spray painting, possibly various different sizes
Well to be fair, I’ve never used the logo but I’ve just made some chainmail jewelry and bought some nice boxes for it to go in …I could write ‘Iceni Design’ on the boxes but as I don’t know if I’m keeping the ‘Iceni Design’ brand I’ve decided to just use my logo.
My first idea is to project this onto aluminium mark it up and jigsaw it out but now I work at a University maybe I could get a digital version of the logo and get someone to lasercut it from acrylic or something for me!
This is an idea I’ve had floating around for a while, since I saw you could get a gas mask for about £15! The model in the image above is an Eastern European M10 (I think). Basically I want it to breathe smoke and light up!
The one above is a polish MP4 about £12 inc delivery from Ebay.
After watching the video below, I’m slightly leaning towards the M10 (or a Bulgarian PDE10 but that’s heavy) purely for appearance. Now to see if I can get one in grey or black!
Breathing Smoke
A few options on the breathing smoke…
A Smoke Detector Tester can with a motor trigger. This is basically a spray can full of fake smoke that is used to test smoke alarms
I would like to mount some sort of low powered (none blinding!) laser pointer if possible but my main concer is getting some RGB LED’s mounted to illuminate the smoke and possibly obscure the eyes!
A lot of the masks come with spare lenses for the eyes so it would be good to have a tinted set for daytime ware.
Possibly the coolest genre of costume that is going and the new film with Tom Hardy is no exception.
Tom Hardy as Mad Max in Fury Road
Some source films, I’ve picked these for the costuming not the quality of film:
Mad Max (all of them!)
Doomsday
Resident Evil
Dredd
A boy and his Dog
The Postman
Escape from New York
Escape from LA
There are plenty of lists of post apocalypse films on IMDB but some of them have a funny idea what qualifies and some have bloody awful taste! First list looks good though!
I’ll add images up here as I find them but basically its all about the adornments! Get a solid base outfit then add multiple layers, extra kit (binoculars, torches, food packs…) then add plenty of affectations (feathers, chains, studs, chainmail…). One final thing to remember is the distressed look, the costume should be beaten up not freshly laundered!
As an old rocker I always preferred East German Paratrooper boots, they were chunkier!
Then you need to beat the crap out of them… see the notes on distressing them below. The best way I heard of doing them was to stuff them with paper and throw them in a mini cement mixer let them tumble round with the left over cement to scuff them up and dirty them!
Ohhhhh may have found a better Gas Mask than an M10… a PC50. An M10 is about £15 though and comes with a drinking straw, so you can drink your beer without removing your costume!
You’ve gone through the apocalypse… there is no laundry service. Some ideas I need to go over yet, the first one looks good, haven’t watched the videos yet.
