News & Costume Building

New idea's for an elvencostume

2011-03-01T06:19:00.000-08:00

For a long time I was thinking of making (or buying parts) of an elven costume. The reason is that I enjoy to tell storys for a small- or big crowd. And a good costume will bring a good background to it.

I'm still searching for a good tailor which can help me to make some parts of the costume. And saving some money to pay for the fabrics. With some help of others I can create a new costume which will be a lot more comfy that the sturdy SW outfits.

Darth Vader but now an albino

2011-03-01T05:57:00.001-08:00

Because I have my own kind of style I made this cool outfit. It is based on the comic of SW. Everybody knows that Darth Vader died in part VI, but in the comic he survived and turned to the good side. Of course he had to wear his kit, so a new kit was made in white.

It was kinda diffecult to find all parts of this costume. The standard which I want to apply was that all parts were made by fans and they had to be of the highest quality. After a search which took almost a year I found all parts.

* the ANH helmet which was made in Italy

* Shoulderparts and shinparts custommade in England

* chestpiece from the USA

* buckle and boxes from the USA

* the knigthsuit and cape from Texas custommade

* the undersuit + gloces and codpiece specialy made in Argentinia my the greatest SWtailor who makes all the undersuits of darth Vader. He was honoured that he was asked to make this one because it was the first white undersuit he ever made.

The only thing which wasn't available at that time were the boots. But I found a good supplier in the USA who makes the white matching boots.

What is done with this costume?

I have been asked if I want to wear it when shops are opened. Or when conventions are held in certain places. Great thing is that I have the proper heigth (196cm or 6'10").'

What are you planning to do with this costume?

I keep this costume because it is the costume which has the most fun to wear. And when people or friends are intrested and they want to have a white Vader in stead of the casual darth Vader

in their shop. Well .... just put down a comment.

Are there more ideas to improve this costume?

Of course. It is kinda warm and uncomfortable in the costume, so a good cooling and air system would be great (still thinking of creating one).

Also a good voicebox would be cool, not the casual one but one which can be adjustable in volume and one in which I can link with music.

Woorden uit een hart, Een Hart van een dichter (Words from a heart of a poet, A Poet)

2009-06-18T12:36:00.001-07:00

Smeltend als ijs
vallend als een fijne nevel
is liefde die spreekt
direct in mijn hart

Als leven bloeit
roze en rood.. en Rood
als een roos
een hart waar wij elkaar
ontmoeten
Ja ... ja dat geeft vreugde aan het leven

Nu eindelijk bloeit iets op
wat liefde heeft
als een frele parfum van leven
en smeltende teerheid

Nimmer zal deze liefde, Deze Liefde vergaan
want wij dragen het beiden
het Begin van Dichten
het Begin van Leven

Eeuwig als die Liefde
mijn hart kent
ligt.. en licht deze diamant
in de Handen van de schepper
in de verwonde Handen van de Redder
die draagt Leven
die draagt leven
die draagt mijn leven

Daarin ligt de herinnering
van mijn levenslied
Daarin ligt nu het Begin
van mijn levenslied

Navarro Berton Tartigiere

Costume building

2009-06-01T10:57:00.000-07:00

Hello readers, at last I'm also starting to blog. I started some years ago with making my own movie-costumes. Normally I started with kits such as a shadowtrooper but later on I found my own style in designing & building my own costumes.

The first one which will start as the first one is the shadowtrooper.

Normally you can buy the well known Stormtrooper FX kits. But knowing that my style (which wasn't evolved at that time) would differ I looked for a shadow trooper.

* Another reason is that I'm not the size of the standard stromtrooper.. A little bit to tall (6'10") I knew I would burst outoff that suit ;)

After searching and surfing and a buying frenzy (hahahaha) I found the undersuit and made also the extra's. But there was 1 thing that bothered me. The TX (shadowtrooper) was to much bling-bling. So I weathered the suit for real.It became a battle damaged TX.

28-feb-2011

Ok I have remade this costume over and over again. The last change had been very drastical because I have changed the coloursceme. In time the colours gas faded a lot and also the paint is chipping of now. :(

After a good allover check a new plan has been made.

1. All the old paint will be polished off.

2. A few new latex items will be placed on

A. the shoulderparts. They will look like reactive armor in small packages.

B. There will be a few latex parts on the chest + an extra red shield which will cover a small

part of the left side.

C. a new buckle will be added + the boxed which are there will be newly repainted and

airbrushed.

D. Chestarmor + underarmor will be made a bit wider with latex strips.

E. The upperarm, and legs will be made larger because the size is to small now

F. A complete new airbrush of the total suit + 2 or 3 layers of acrylic protection

G. A new helmet + voicebox.