hello Adam here from tested in my cave with a show-and-tell that feels like a
bit of an achievement it's been a long time coming for this one I went to
Phoenix fan fusion con last year and dressed as Captain America in a really
really beautiful Civil War suit that was built for me by
Kevin Gossett and Robert Fitch and that started me on a journey of thinking
about well look I love the suit that they built for me and I loved it so much
I wanted to make a case for it because that's one of the things that I love to
do I make cases for the objects I can't stop thinking about and oftentimes I
want that case to be canon I want it to be part of the world that the object is
from and so I spent weeks nay months thinking what would cap put his stuff in
in Civil War when he sees Scott lying he says alright everyone suit up let's go
I'm like suit up so he's got a van clearly kept stuff is in a case in the
van what does that case look like is it just a black duffel bag because part of
me doesn't think so so I spent tons and tons of time doing
searches on historical luggage military luggage I searched eBay searched eBay
Dakota UK I look to looming in military cases I looked leather suitcases I all
these you know cap comes from multiple times right so you're gonna go with
mid-century World War two you're gonna go with latter 20th century or somewhere
in between it's kind of all up in the air and then I found the case that I was
looking for and it's made by one of my favorite case companies zarg as' I think
it's Argus some Sarge's anyway it was this this is an amazing amazing
thing and it's gonna demonstrate it for you here back in the early part of the
years ago there weren't cardboard Amazon boxes everywhere and you wanted to ship
stuff to somebody you often bought reusable shipping containers I didn't
know this until I started doing research into it but sure enough this is as Argus
reusable shipping container the lid comes off like this and then
well done let's get this up and going the front comes up these two slides come
down and lock in to the front and the back yes some slots bad yeah last one
and I don't know about you but when I see this I think that is where cap
stores his stuff and so I put my my beautiful Captain America costume in
here and there was extra room so I kind of I tried around some things I made a
footlocker for it I painted it still in quite work and then Robert and Kevin
made me a second suit on commission a beautiful Civil War excuse me a
beautiful winter stole Winter Soldier stealth suit I'm getting like so excited
to talk about it I'm getting ahead of myself and when I got that suit I put
that and the Civil War suit in this case and that's still felt like too much it
felt look I just wasn't quite right it was close closer than I've ever been but
still not quite there but this weekend I tackled this problem again because what
I was thinking was maybe it's just too big maybe we just do one suit so this
weekend I took one of my sagas cases and I made it one cap suit size big yeah I
am so sorry I did this filled off camera because it was a fun challenge and it
was not easy I had to take apart the box by drilling out almost every rivet along
one whole end of it actually this end of it you can see the new rivets that I put
in as compared to the old rivets so I pulled off each of this bit of hardware
and then I cut it down on my table saw and reassembled it smaller into an
almost exact 17 by 17 by 17 inch cube the lid I had
to actually slice up the middle and attach back together with these
Frankenstein rivets but this this is the cap case of my dreams it's still a work
in progress I've currently attached I've currently attached a shield plate to it
and a couple of shield level 7 secret stickers on it I have some other ideas
for the kind of signage that's going to go on this and I'm gonna do some
graphical work towards that the suit is in the script I think it's called a
strike suit I think I've come up with a proper acronym for what strike stands
for cuz really it should stand for something right I think I got it and so
I will do a second show and tell of the graphics that I'm gonna do to dress up
this case but let's look inside shall we
red comes right off that has to be the beginning of the display right you got a
CCAP star right up front and know what you're looking at that's look it's not
just a case it's narrative then the iconic back belt harness that holds the
shields then Rogers that's the that's the outside of his jacket there so it
says Rogers you get to see that whole narrative that's it's there then you've
got your pants and then there's everything else you got your boots your
helmet your belt your gloves and your boobs everything you need for a proper
cap cosplay you