AFWVG - Asylum Straitjacket

The first of the 'clothes' costume parts is pretty much finished - The Asylum Straitjacket.

The design got tweaked a bit during construction - it got mirrored and the 'WVG' on the back decided that it wanted to be in leather.
It felt like I was doing 'real' leatherwork, hitting a lump of shaped metal into the leather to spell out letters instead of just hitting a different lump of metal to put in holes or hammer in rivets. Fun stuff.

Since straitjackets are generally sturdy beasts, I got some denim for this, since it is particularly hardwearing. The denim then got treated to a most lovely tea-bath, but I imagine it was probably less than impressed to be left in a box of cold almost-water overnight. Such are the trials of a straitjacket...

The front and back of said straitjacket. After it was all put together, it was thoroughly distressed (poor thing...) with a bunch of sprays to give it that horrible and grimy look. The most grime is on the elbows and shoulders, since this particular straitjacket ties your hands up on your shoulders instead of around your waist. Why? Because I thought that would be more interesting. And I don't know how to escape from that kind of strait-tying (Unlike the standard way, which I can. How do I even know that? Not a clue.)

Also, having the arms up makes my lovely cog nice and visible. I'm quite proud of that section. It's a lot smaller than on the design, but I like it like this. It's less BAM! STEAMPUNK! than having a massive cog just whacked on there. Yes, I want a bit of steampunk in here, but not that much.
The buckles are rather nice too, I like to think, and they serve the purpose of making the jacket slightly tighter. Just slightly. Maybe I should have put them further apart...
Never mind, eh? It looks good, and that's all that matters. It's not like I'm going to be actually using this to restrain a mad person.
Though, if that event just happens to occur, I'll be more than sorted. It's not too unlikely, actually, with the levels of strangeness people are getting as the deadline gets closer.

And just because, here's a photo of me in my wonderful straitjacket. 

On a sidenote, I now have a real live website! 

Ooooh, exciting.

Only not really.

All my fancy stuff is now hiding at http://infected-illusions.com/, and this blog is over at http://blog.infected-illusions.com/ as well as on blogspot. Go have a look. There are some nice, pretty drawings. And some nice, pretty animations. And some nice, pretty photos.

(...am I selling it yet?)
That's gone now, unfortunately.

Pyrate

Got myself a new, quick project. I'm (hopefully) going to make this outfit for the next Emilie Autumn gig I go to on April 13th.
Planning on having lyrics from Insects vs. Robots' Fire in the Sky on the sleeve and back of the jacket.

Bring out the fire
What's in your mind?
Do you feel alive?
The sky is on fire tonight 

AFWVG - Plague Mask II

Updates on Stockill's plague mask!

On the right is the first costruction - craft foam, duct tape and those goggles. That got chopped up to make the pattern for the leather version.

The lenses for those goggles ended up being the lenses in the final version too, but the 'goggle' parts were made from wonderflex. Amazing stuff.

And the (almost) finished version. Veg. tan leather, coloured with antique stain and joined with brass rivets. I'm thinking that it's quite good considering that it's my first leather project. The finished version (which will be photographed eventually) has a few more rivets and has been waxed to give it a nice, almost shiny finish. Somehow, it looks more like 'real' leather to me. Strange, since it is real leather.

AFWVG - Plague Rat

FINAL DESIGN