The official Teen Cable cosplay post
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rallamajoopA couple of months back, I posted reference pics and cosplay plans for a teen Cable costume. This is how it came out.
Teen Nate was my Sunday costume for this year's Supanova - conveniently both the only big Perth con which features Western comics related events as a big part of its attractions and held in the perfect time of year to spend the day wearing a big, warm coat. The bad news: though Deadpool cosplayers are usually easy to find around Supanova (and those lucky bastards over in Sydney even got a stripper Deadpool this year), I didn't find a single one to take photos with on Sunday this year. ;_;
The good news is we still managed to get some decent photos taken in a quick shoot around the back after the cosplay comp.
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pinneagig gets credit both for taking all these photos and for painting on my scar, which unfortunately had partially rubbed off by this stage of the day.
Here's how the full costume came out, both with the coat done up and hanging open.
Random trivia: you may notice the the coat bulges quite a bit when done up. This is because it turns out that when you cover your belt in big, bulgy pouches, it does not want to do up properly anymore - and this even after I'd cut down to only two of the things. /things you get to ignore when you live in a world of comic-book physics
The eye was always the first thing people noticed on the day. It's not photoshopped in - I was actually wearing a white contact lens on that side. Here's a pic that shows it off a bit better.
The white lens is completely opaque so it left me functionally blind on that side. While this meant I probably missed a lot of stuff going on to my left, you stop noticing it's there very quickly. The less fun part was that it's fair bit larger than the lenses I'm used to and started to stick to my upper eyelid after a few hours of wear. Not fun, but overall not nearly as uncomfortable as you'd probably expect.
A few more pictures:
As for the rest of the costume, the coat was made from scratch and was what took most of the time. The hand I made by covering a pair of gloves with strips of silver pleather. Knuckles were made out of craft foam and covered with more pleather. The neck is more pleather strips glued onto a fabric base and held in place with double sided tape. Finally, to get the right effect on the wig I bought a standard short brown wig and stitched some white wefts into the fringe, then backcombed the shit out of them until they deigned to stay up.
So that's my teen Cable costume, and if anyone does happen to know a Deadpool cosplayer in Perth who'd be up for a photoshoot with a crazy crossdressing fangirl, you know where to find me.
Teen Nate was my Sunday costume for this year's Supanova - conveniently both the only big Perth con which features Western comics related events as a big part of its attractions and held in the perfect time of year to spend the day wearing a big, warm coat. The bad news: though Deadpool cosplayers are usually easy to find around Supanova (and those lucky bastards over in Sydney even got a stripper Deadpool this year), I didn't find a single one to take photos with on Sunday this year. ;_;
The good news is we still managed to get some decent photos taken in a quick shoot around the back after the cosplay comp.
My sister
pinneagig gets credit both for taking all these photos and for painting on my scar, which unfortunately had partially rubbed off by this stage of the day. Here's how the full costume came out, both with the coat done up and hanging open.
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Random trivia: you may notice the the coat bulges quite a bit when done up. This is because it turns out that when you cover your belt in big, bulgy pouches, it does not want to do up properly anymore - and this even after I'd cut down to only two of the things. /things you get to ignore when you live in a world of comic-book physics
The eye was always the first thing people noticed on the day. It's not photoshopped in - I was actually wearing a white contact lens on that side. Here's a pic that shows it off a bit better.
The white lens is completely opaque so it left me functionally blind on that side. While this meant I probably missed a lot of stuff going on to my left, you stop noticing it's there very quickly. The less fun part was that it's fair bit larger than the lenses I'm used to and started to stick to my upper eyelid after a few hours of wear. Not fun, but overall not nearly as uncomfortable as you'd probably expect.
A few more pictures:
As for the rest of the costume, the coat was made from scratch and was what took most of the time. The hand I made by covering a pair of gloves with strips of silver pleather. Knuckles were made out of craft foam and covered with more pleather. The neck is more pleather strips glued onto a fabric base and held in place with double sided tape. Finally, to get the right effect on the wig I bought a standard short brown wig and stitched some white wefts into the fringe, then backcombed the shit out of them until they deigned to stay up.
So that's my teen Cable costume, and if anyone does happen to know a Deadpool cosplayer in Perth who'd be up for a photoshoot with a crazy crossdressing fangirl, you know where to find me.
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Date: 2011-08-19 12:49 pm (UTC)That said, maybe I should have a word to Lisa about that.
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Date: 2011-08-19 03:24 pm (UTC)I think it would be a smashing idea
I feel like your icon is challenging my icon to a sexy deathglare contest
Date: 2011-08-19 03:45 pm (UTC)...which photo do you think needs a glowy eye the most? One of the two full-body shots, maybe?
I'd say "well that calls for an escalation", but I appear to have started on my sexiest deathglare
Date: 2011-08-19 03:53 pm (UTC):nodsnods: Yeah I figured it was something like that.
... oh my GOD, why hasn't anyone crossed Cable and Deadpool with First Class yet I CHOOSE YOU
or one of the ones with your hand outstretched to the foreground. Makes it LOOK like you're trying to do something, anyway.
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Date: 2011-08-19 03:59 pm (UTC)yeah, I know continuity doesn't matter to them (TWO EMMA FROSTS!) but it matters to me, damnit!Almost related: did you catch Origins on TV last week? =D I finally got to see it the whole way through a second time without the bloody plane landing early before the climax!
Yeah, I would have gone with those, but my hair is kind of hanging in front of the relevant eye there
and in my defence, how was I supposed to know it was doing that?Re: This is good, because I think I did too
Date: 2011-08-19 04:10 pm (UTC)...Origins was on TV? uhm, I basically don't watch TV at all so uh yeah, I totally missed it. I think I have a DLd copy somewhere.
hmm, that's true! Well in that case I think you should use the full-length shot that doesn't have cars in the background.
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Date: 2011-08-19 04:18 pm (UTC)pff we could totally shop it so the cars are levitating!Re: This is good, because I think I did too
Date: 2011-08-19 04:21 pm (UTC)hahaha
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Date: 2011-08-20 04:32 am (UTC)Re: This is good, because I think I did too
Date: 2011-08-20 04:46 am (UTC)I also cannot possibly buy Charles as being more than mid-twenties because MY GOD they make him stupid on the subject of Raven's body issues, and that doesn't make any sense unless you assume he's young enough to still have some growing up to do. But that's more of a side issue.
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Date: 2011-08-19 08:14 pm (UTC)(Or, more specifically, where will you be when I finally get my Deadpool cosplay together?)
Excellent job!
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