Hey, Tested. It's Adam and I am at San Diego Comic-Con and it's a momentous day
for a couple of occasions. One, it is the 49th anniversary of the moon landing and
that's just amazing and awesome and cool because I love NASA and I love space
exploration. Two, it's because I am about to hit the floor in this year's cosplay
and my cosplay is shockingly spacesuit themed. I chose to make the very first
space suit if you look up the first space suit you're gonna be really
impressed this guy Wiley Post who had a white eyepatch and was this badass pilot
in the 1930s realized that he couldn't fly high enough unless he brought his
own atmosphere with him and he convinced BF goodrich to build him what they
called an anthropomorphic rubber suit that fit his body and he flew above
45,000 feet in this suit and I replicated it antacid of course we shot
videos of the manufacturing process and we will put those up on tested but for
right now I'm gonna get dressed up to play this is the first part this suit it
might not look like much but if you look closely you'll notice that everything's
quilted and multi-layered and in order to match it I went through over a
thousand yards of upholstery thread to put this together you'll see in the
video we post I got enough sewing to last me for
several months I was literally didn't want to look at my sewing machine when I
was done with this baby this is only the second time I'm putting this on I put it
on to make sure it worked in the shop and then I packed it up for Comic Con
right before I put the upper part of this suit on I'm gonna put the boots on
because it's gonna take a bunch of lacing I believe that I managed to find
the exact boots that Wiley Post wore in 1934 and they're just a simple set of
Red Wings which happened to have 11 eyelet holes going up their sides they
were all over eBay I found a pair I liked had Freddy polished them up
several times until they looked just like the ones in the Smithsonian nice
little found part there I wasn't as bad as I was fearing
seriously except for tying a pair of shit the biggest part of putting this
costume on is tying the shoes this might be and hadn't occurred to me until now
the easiest to wear cosplay costume I have ever put together look at that when
I went looking for reference material there's some amazing reference material
Wiley Post was even in a film called air Hawks in which he wore his suit on
camera and I got footage of that but Wiley Post's original suit is on display
at the Smithsonian and it's on display and we'll post this photo right here
yeah it's on display in a seated position and there's a really cool
reason for that it's because the suit was made to fly a plane in so it not
made to walk around he had to be able to pressurize the suit while sitting so it
was optimized for that it meant that it was almost impossible for him to walk in
there's photos of him walking to the plane with the suit he's walking like
this because he can't stand upright because it's built for sitting I like
that kind of design thing uh all right I've got to put this guy on here
I could use help for some reason here we go Nomar chant stepping in ladies
gentlemen ah I am almost ready to complete this costume which is a pair of
gloves and a helmet but I'm gonna be sweating a lot in that helmet so I'm
going to do my standard comic-con thing and putting in one contact lens why one
well if I put in both contact lenses then I can't look at my phone for the
duration of the cosplay and I'm actually helpless to read anything so I put one
inch for distance viewing and I leave the other eye out so that I can see
close up because I'm nearsighted that was way too long an explanation for a
simple contact lens alright these gloves were made commissioned by
me by this amazing Etsy seller who goes by the name like Linda they do the best
gloves this is right now I'm commissioning two other pairs of gloves
from them and they made these just from the Smithsonian photo and did all the
weathering actually I did wear these from one episode of mythbusters' jr. to
get the weather a little more involved and this is it here comes the helmet as
I said we covered the building of my wiley post helmet on tested and we're
gonna put that video up but the thing for you to know is that this is helmet
right here weighs maybe about a pound and a half it looks heavy and it looks
metal in fact it's all sheet plastic worbla and camping mat foam I found I
found the nut that wiley post used is actually a early dive suit nut from the
early part of the 20th century I bought one of them
it cost me $70 and then we cast multiples and put them all the way
around this to make it super accurate but we cast them in resin so again
everything on here is super super light that makes it much more wearable here we
go
all right I think we're ready let's go exploring
yes yes yes how are you nice to meet you thank you you two men
all right that was a successful walk this mask is actually this costume is in
and of itself quite comfortable it's very lightweight it doesn't cause me any
physical distress but oh here's the yearly reveal of just how sweaty I can
get in a costume yeah Wow that it is not a practice for the
claustrophobic I don't get claustrophobic but you if you could look
in here and see just how much moisture there is inside this helmet that's just
been dripping down my face the whole time the the front glass has been fogged
since almost the moment I put this helmet on so everything had rings of
haze around it but it was awesome people really dug the costume I don't think
anyone figured out what it was I ran into a no-face that was beautiful and
got the inspiration from our build which is so cool I took a picture with him in
my spacesuit now I'm enjoying the breeze across my face feels like freedom
thanks for watching this video if you were watching it in thinking boy I wish
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