With lots of help from my friend Christian (Check out his comic!), I got a template made for my Mysterio bracer panels. The panel is actually assembled out of two layers for an extra 3D effect. Layer one is the bottom, with the “circle-hashing”, and the other layer is the frame around it. [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
I purchased a McDavid Cowboy Collar (A piece of football protective gear) and cut the collar part off the back and moved it to the front to help support the sphere. The whole thing fits well over my shoulders, and with the modification of moving the collar to the front and sewing a few [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The photo to the left is my model for what I am trying to re-create. The photo on the right is my first prototype. What’s that you say, it looks like you just cut up a few pieces of paper and taped them together? Well, yes, yes I did. But I verified that they make [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
As you may have guessed from this post, I spent another Saturday cutting the bottom(s) off of glass sphere(s). Yes, plural. I broke my replacement sphere before I was a quarter of the way around. This was due to one of the following reasons: 1) I had placed packing tape over the blade path, hoping [...]
I spent an hour assembling an MK171 digital voice changer kit from Ramsey Electronics for my Mysterio costume. The plan is to place the microphone on a wire inside the glass sphere with the speaker mounted outside so that I can communicate. I will probably have a head operated button inside that gives me [...]
I purchased a football “Cowboy Collar” which I think will be a good way to mount and carry the glass sphere. Unfortunately, I got excited when it arrived, and put it inside the hole in my (previously cracked) sphere before I used epoxy putty to reinforce the rim. Digression: An egg is quite strong [...]
After ordering a tile saw and diamond blade ($80…twice the cost of my sphere! Guess I’ll have to re-tile the kitchen now…) I was able to cut the bottom off of the glass sphere that is going to serve as my Mysterio costume helmet. Once I got away from the hole at the bottom, it [...]
One of my new year’s resolutions is to build a high quality Mysterio costume. In my opinion, the hardest part of a Mysterio costume is the silver sphere that serves as Mysterio’s helmet. Others have used a glass bowl, or tinfoil, but I was not happy with their results, and decided that I wouldn’t commit [...]