So, a few days ago, I pulled the ol' jumpsuit out of the closet, made a few adjustments, and now I've started working on it in earnest. I BARELY got a single day pass to go this year.īut I'll be damned if I don't go that one fateful day in my Vault 101 jumpsuit. I had to be reminded a few days ago that it was coming up this weekend. We've got Emerald City Comicon, GeekGirlCon, and (as far as I'm concerned) the Holy Grail of gaming conventions: Penny Arcade Expo. Then, my friends, I moved to Seattle and that all changed. So I finished all of the sewing and put it in the closet. I lived in Kansas City at the time! There weren't any conventions closer than Chicago, and if i wore it out on the town on Halloween, I'd be answering the "What the hell are you supposed to be?" question all night. There was a lot of prop building involved, I didn't have the time or money to do the costume justice before Halloween, and (probably the more important factor) I didn't have anyplace cool to wear it. I started making the jumpsuit for Halloween that year and never finished it. Look it up on YouTube if you're interested. You soon find out that is not the case, however, and are forced to escape to the surface to search for your father and brave all sorts of dangers and moral conundrums. The main character starts the game in Vault 101, where (you believe) your family has lived for generations, safely tucked away from the mayhem on the surface. It's an action role-playing style game set in the wasteland that was once Washington DC, 200 years after a nuclear war between the United States and China got a little. If you don't know what in the hell I'm talking about, Fallout 3 is a video game released in 2008 by Bethesda Game Studios. You see, by that time, I'd already put well over a hundred hours into Fallout 3, and it's still one of my favorite games of all time. Anyway, on with the process.Ībout three years ago, I got it into my head that I needed a Vault 101 jumpsuit. So pleased, in fact, that I'm thinking about making a bunch more of them and adding them to my Etsy store.? Maybe? We'll see about that. Remember those Nuka Cola caps I had been painting? Well, it feels pretty good to have all of those done, and I'm really pleased with the way they turned out. And by done, I mean, "These things are finished." Let's start there, shall we?
waiting for shit to dry.īut there's good news, too! Things are starting to get done. I knew that was going to be my biggest time sink, and here I am, glaring at paint and glue and clay. And what am I doing now? Waiting for shit to dry.
I was putting off certain things until I acquired more supplies and putting off other things to work on this new great idea I had, which turned out to be more time consuming than I'd hoped.
#Vault 101 jumpsuit cosplay update
I know I said I'd update "soon" sometime last week, but I feel like I've been really busy. Once it was done, it looked just like this: Once that coat dried, I "scratched it up" with some steel colored dry brushing on the corners and high wear-and-tear areas. For the second coat, I dry brushed the whole thing with a dark olive green, making sure to let the black show through in some of the deep, dirty crevasses. Then it was time for paint! For the base coat, I painted the whole thing black with matte acrylic paint. I used a fairly fine grain sandpaper (240), paying particularly close attention to the areas that would naturally see the most wear and the sharpest lines (like around the screen). That filled in a lot of the foam texture and gave me a good, solid layer to sand. After it was all put together, I put four or five coats of gesso over the whole thing. this is the part where I forgot to take pictures. I also put some screws in some key places, just to finish up the look a bit.Īnnnd. Oh, I also printed out the little gauge for the Geiger counter. I cut out all of the status bars with my trusty X-Act knife and scored some of the lines so the light would shine through brighter. Well, that's a story for later.įor the screen image, I took a screenshot of the status screen of the Pip-Boy in game, resized and brightened it up a little in Photoshop, and printed it out. it was a bit too thick otherwise), and I put the two halves together with some little hinges, also picked up from the hardware store. I filled in the cracks with some wood filler I picked up at the hardware store (mixed with a little water. Again, the green stuff is dry floral foam, the gray and red bits are kid's craft foam, and the cylinder began its life as a Pringles can that I reinforced with some paper mache.
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