Uncle Jesse or Magneto should I say welcome thank you for bringing your
costume you did all the soft parts all the hard parts yes I did not design the
files I had a wonderful designer that made these for me as well as a crew that
designed this helmet specifically you guys built this helmet this is not a
this is all 3d printed so I have you printed this the crest is resin 3d
printed the helmet is an FTM finish there's a few battle wounds on us from
the colon today but it usually is exactly it gives me an excuse to build
another one and we put on can I see the hole oh for sure we go Eric this is
great I'm talking about the texture on this fabric yes so this is all of the
fabric is Yaya Hans cosplay fabric so this okay yeah so this is a four-way
stretch pleather and it's it was originally
black so I ended up using some shoe paints uh-huh that you can find for
fabrics and spray-painted all of this and the arm pieces and then this is one
of her other hexagon pattern fabrics it doesn't have as much stretch and this is
the first actual suit that I've gone ahead and sewn so how did you like it
mind-blowing crazy experience funny enough I've done this suit now and I'm
excited to go home I want to do it all over again yeah because now there's a
lot I feel like I've learned from doing this actual project yeah doing it all
over again I think I can do it a lot better and maybe customize it from the
original pattern what was the hardest part about putting it together for you
um for me it's this the sleeve to the honestly honestly the hardest part was
learning how to read the pattern itself yeah I work in the apparel industry and
I think I should know how to read a pack I don't I work in software for the
apparel industry and it was wildly complicated another language another
language to learn so I just sort of more or less
and it came out pretty pretty nicely and I'm noticing I think these hard parts
are all 3d printed yeah multiple pieces yes all multiple pieces I've attached
them with elastic some of them are glued together with elastic others are have
magnets associated to them so I can take them on and off more easily I ended up
using these as raw 3d prints okay well so I do a lot a lot of 3d printing and I
wanted to unlike the helmet yeah one that it takes a very long time to remove
all the witness work but what I wanted to do is just show people that you can
still have a really cool cosplay costume without having to do all of that and
this is the raw color as well Oh landing so this is all PLA and it's that purple
from the PLA and I just put clear coat over it and then try to weather it a
little bit with some acrylic paint yeah yeah yeah let me see the Cape yeah so
the Cape is also mechanically connected to this piece which is on top of you
that's there's a lot going on in this yeah and this is the the neck piece is
was not part of the pattern this is something that I just whipped up I have
a mannequin at home that I purchased for this which is probably the best
investment that I've ever made recently it's somewhat similar to my body
dimensions and height so I was able to create a almost a duct-tape version and
put pattern my pattern and sew this together put a zipper in the back but
that's all connected to this keeps connected to this as well and then this
is also connected to this yes yeah all velcro and what I've just learned thanks
to the cosplay repair team that's out here on the floor I shouldn't just rely
on velcro sticking to this I should actually be sewing the velcro to the
game yes yes this alert experience I lots of knowledge around 3d printing and
making cool replica props but not so much sewing is a whole new ball yeah and
the velcro those sticky velcro is super tenacious on a shiny surface but it's
shite against oh yeah anything else oh yeah how long have you been cosplaying
um I the only other official full head-to-toe
cosplay was two years ago here at New York um I did Thor from Thor Ragnarok I
think the trailers had just come out and I again did not know how to sew so I
used hot glue just cut out fabric and polished it all together and it
apart during the convention last was last and I have the full helmet and it
was mechanically I could move the wings and everything like that on the sides it
was a beautiful fun fun experience for me
so you also talk about if I read correctly that you it takes a village
there's a communal yeah that's right with there is a huge community of people
that I point to and rely on for input on these things so Darryl I was watching
his videos on feral moloney America nerd on finishing his Red Hood helmet giving
me a little recap it's been a while since I've read on a 3d printed helmet
and finished it I was relying on Beverly down and I was pinging her a lot on some
of these sewing techniques and tricks and tips so it's amazing and just the
team that's out there of folks that have reached out around creating some of
these files have just been absolutely amazing when it when it comes to
building these things Uncle Jesse this is beautiful work thank you really
exciting and I I really appreciate you highlighting the collaboration and how
much this community shares this information it's always thrills me it's
a huge it's a huge part of it so no thank you for your time appreciate the
pleasure