The Kreator
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Kreator's Arkham Asylum suit! (New Event Pics)
Well, I've been planning on throwing something like this together for a while, and today seemed like an appropriate time.
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I picked up some basic gray primer and put down a few light coats over my old plasti-dipped latex Artsee1 generic muscle armor. Once dried, I penciled on the emblem, "seams" and "rivets" from the game.
Wearing an inkmonkey black lycra undersuit, then Eastbay gray compression tights over that. Then the latex armor facade is strapped on for the legs and torso. Eastbay black trunks over that.
For the belt, I'm using Inferno's RD urethane Begins belt.
Cowl is the classic Inferno cowl and neck piece - the cowl's forehead is as close to the Arkham Asylum game forehead as any cowl out there. Will need to trim the square edge of the neck piece a bit to get an accurate shape. Will also be adding a lycra dive hood to fill in the neck/cowl gap which isn't visible in the photo, but does appear from other angles.
Cape is my own Begins walking cape, with a high quality moleskin fabric.
Gloves are Nitestar 89 gloves with resin armor plates.
Boots (not pictured) are Gotham 100s with DavidYR1 leather 89 boot armor applied.
For the picture, I used Photoshop to enhance the pencil lines and emblem I drew on the torso itself. I'll get more pics once I paint those on later in the week.
I took quite a few pics, but this was the only one that came out good enough to post. And being that my house has no AC and it was 90 in here, plus I'm taking the pics myself with a timer, and my cats are freaking crazy, and then to top it off my camera battery was dead and I was charging between pics..... this was not a fun photo shoot. I'm just glad I got one that works. 
Anyway, there's quite a bit more I want to do with this, but for one afternoon of work, I think it's looking pretty nice.
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Re: Kreator's Arkham Asylum inspired suit!
F'n awesome bro, you have a nice selection of pieces now, cool to see these custom suits. Nice job on the armor.
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Re: Kreator's Arkham Asylum inspired suit!
Question... Did you add suade pointer fingers to those gloves? I didnt' think nitestars came like that.
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Re: Kreator's Arkham Asylum inspired suit!
Thanks, I've got a lot to change and modify, especially after playing the demo for a long time last night and studying the character model in detail. But it's coming along nicely. Several new pieces I'll probably start building, and will be sculpting latex hand armor to go over the 89 gloves to make them appear more like the in-game gloves.
The suede is all part of the original 89 gloves. These are awesome and I'd highly recommend them to anyone wanting 89 gloves. Mine are size Large, so the only thing I might change is going to Medium since the fingers are a bit big on me.
I'm also going to tweak the chest emblem a bit more before I paint the final one on. Looking at it from different angles, it looks a bit different and I think I sketched this one a bit too wide and thin, but not bad for freehanding it with a pencil.
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Re: Kreator's Arkham Asylum inspired suit!
I could swear the gloves nitestar has up on his site (superherogloves.com) dont have the suede finger. Did he recently fix that? Because they never had the accurate finger, thats what kept me from buying a pair years ago. Well, that, and the ribs on the back of the hand not being at an angle. Kinda why i'e been looking for a pair of Daividyr1 gloves, cuz they are exact copies. Fill me in if you will on these nitestar gloves you have.
-Kevin
P.S. If I can make one suggestion on your suit... Pull the chest up a little bit. Pecs are a little low.
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Re: Kreator's Arkham Asylum inspired suit!
I got these gloves directly from Jerry last October. Not sure if they were different prior to that run or not. But I love them. Great gloves.
As for the chest, yes, I definitely agree. The strap that goes around the neck is too long so no matter how much I pull up on it, it slides back down. This actually works well when I used this torso for my 89 suit, since it had room for the emblem and cowl to overlap the cape properly, but when it doesnt have as much cape/cowl overlap, it looks quite large. I have a spot of velcro where the emblem attaches, and if I put velcro on the Inferno neck piece, that would help hold up the chest in better position but would raise the cape up further. So I'm going to redo the strapping all together.
I think the new neck I'm sculpting will also help offset the big chest look too. That is if I can get it done, molded and cast in time for the game's premiere. Well, in any event, I'm having so much fun with this costume, I'm sure I'll continue building on it and improving it even after the game's release.
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As a fan of this suit, I think you've done an exceptional job. Keep going brother.
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Re: Kreator's Arkham Asylum inspired suit!
Thanks, Brin! I hear you're also putting one together? Can't wait to see how it turns out.
I'm hoping to add more accurate details and accessories over the next couple weeks. Last night I stopped at the hardware store and picked up some screws that I think will work very nicely on the armor. But first I need to darken it a bit and pin stripe in the seam lines. I'm almost thinking airbrushing the shadows might work well to darken it, but it's been a long time since I've worked with my airbrush and would hate to screw it up with so much else to do and such little time before the game's release.
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Well done! Going to go pick up the game in it?
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Re: Kreator's Arkham Asylum inspired suit!
Yep, the owner of our local GameStop has asked me to appear in costume for the event which we are coordinating with a charity of some kind. I think they'll be quite surprised that I worked on an all new suit just for their event, and I hope to add more accurate details over the next couple weeks to get it closer to the game's suit.
One thing that is a big disadvantage with the gray tights -- they show sweat a lot worse than with black tights... Luckily, the rubber armor covers almost all the visible area but I'm trying to figure out how to do the knees better. The edge of the rubber armor stands out against the gray tights more-so than it did when it was black on black too.
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