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[morgenes]

Well, it's less than two days to DragonCon and my costume's coming together. I tried to take pictures of my process as I went through and modified the goggles from the original VG800-H5s to try and make them look closer to the original. Here's what I came up with:

Comments

[cyniccat]

Very nice sir. I think yours are the best I've seen yet!

[morgenes]

Thanks! I realized early on that it wasn't going to be a perfect match, but from a distance the coloring is right, and the six vents make it much more similar.

[cyniccat]

I know, I wish I had an extra pair around to destroy for the additional vents. What color did you use to get the tarnished rust color on there?

[morgenes]

I combined gold and black acrylic paints to a dark gold color, putting it on in patches with a thick wash. before it dried I went back with a balled up paper towel to pick up a lot of the excess, giving the pattern that is visible in it. I upped the level of black in it to get the sootier look near the vents.

[deliriumdreams]

I'm still waiting for the paint to dry on mine. It's been about 20 hours. SIGH.

[morgenes]

What kind of paint did you use? I used a Lacquer-based silver spray paint to base coat mine and it was dry to the touch, but slightly sticky in an hour, by the next day it was very dry.

[deliriumdreams]

I used spray paint made for plastic. It did eventually dry, just took FOREVER.

[glaswegian_took]

Looks great! I'm so excited about the Dr. Horrible cosplay this year!

[therru]

An instructible would be very nice!

[petit_rhino]

Did these goggles start out green and plastic? They look shiny! I'm looking forward to the instructions.

[morgenes]

Yes, you can see more pics on my gallery at:

http://haggard.dhorizon.org/gallery2/v/nealsHobbies/costumes/drHorrible

I've posted kinda before and after pics with an extra pair I pulled the vents from (with new vents added) showing the original green and shiny look.

I will work on the instructions after DragonCon.