Jacket'ed
Zombies and Ghouls, I present to you:
Geoff's guide to ruining a perfectly good suit jacket for a Zombie-ish look.
1) Head to your local (or cheapest) op shop and buy yourself a jacket to fuck up. My tip: buy one one or two sizes too small.
2) Haggle with the little old op shop ladies for a better price.
3) Drive to the closest empty plot of land. My tip: Half built estates will work a treat.
4) Get some dirt or mud and splatter your little jacket (Being a dry day all I had to use was dirt clumps. Suprisingly they actually caused a couple of holes, although I was throwing them clumps fairly hard)
5) Attach jacket to the back of your car. let it drag on the road and drive around a couple of dirt roads. For me this was up and down a gravel track near the back of my house.
6) Get home, remove jacket from under the car. Chances are there'll be rocks and dirt in the pockets, empty them if you wish. Or leave the jacket on the road and stomp on it. Ending up arse first and looking like an absolute tool on the road is an optional step.
7) Make the jacket look like you've been through some hard times. Tear obvious targets, from school days my first targets were; buttons, pockets and lapels.
8) Grab a stanley knife and make a couple of scratch marks in the back. Put the jacket on and flex your chest/back/shoulders, this'll make the tears look a little realistic.
9) Remove half of one of the sleeves. Fray the ends a little.
10) Remove the entire length of the other sleeve. Grab a hole punch and make matching holes on both the jacket and the sleeve. Sew the jacket back together with some twine. I'm shit so I stapled the underside of the sleeve to the jacket for more support.
11) All zombies have been shot at some time or another. Screwdrivers and a couple of little knicks with the stanley knife can do wonders. A circular fashion would resemble a point blank shot with a shotgun.
12) Mix up some fake blood (Google it for recipes) and apply whereever you want. I've been informed less is more. So I'll be smearing it around the bullet wound, scratch marks and the missing sleeve.
13) Enjoy your brand spankin new zombie garb.
The blood is still yet to go on, will add it tomorra. But now, onto the (shitty quality...have nfi why the camera's being gay today) photos!
Front - I'm gonna "sew" that lapel back up, probably to about half and let the rest flop down.
Back
String sewing
Claw marks
Geoff's guide to ruining a perfectly good suit jacket for a Zombie-ish look.
1) Head to your local (or cheapest) op shop and buy yourself a jacket to fuck up. My tip: buy one one or two sizes too small.
2) Haggle with the little old op shop ladies for a better price.
3) Drive to the closest empty plot of land. My tip: Half built estates will work a treat.
4) Get some dirt or mud and splatter your little jacket (Being a dry day all I had to use was dirt clumps. Suprisingly they actually caused a couple of holes, although I was throwing them clumps fairly hard)
5) Attach jacket to the back of your car. let it drag on the road and drive around a couple of dirt roads. For me this was up and down a gravel track near the back of my house.
6) Get home, remove jacket from under the car. Chances are there'll be rocks and dirt in the pockets, empty them if you wish. Or leave the jacket on the road and stomp on it. Ending up arse first and looking like an absolute tool on the road is an optional step.
7) Make the jacket look like you've been through some hard times. Tear obvious targets, from school days my first targets were; buttons, pockets and lapels.
8) Grab a stanley knife and make a couple of scratch marks in the back. Put the jacket on and flex your chest/back/shoulders, this'll make the tears look a little realistic.
9) Remove half of one of the sleeves. Fray the ends a little.
10) Remove the entire length of the other sleeve. Grab a hole punch and make matching holes on both the jacket and the sleeve. Sew the jacket back together with some twine. I'm shit so I stapled the underside of the sleeve to the jacket for more support.
11) All zombies have been shot at some time or another. Screwdrivers and a couple of little knicks with the stanley knife can do wonders. A circular fashion would resemble a point blank shot with a shotgun.
12) Mix up some fake blood (Google it for recipes) and apply whereever you want. I've been informed less is more. So I'll be smearing it around the bullet wound, scratch marks and the missing sleeve.
13) Enjoy your brand spankin new zombie garb.
The blood is still yet to go on, will add it tomorra. But now, onto the (shitty quality...have nfi why the camera's being gay today) photos!
Front - I'm gonna "sew" that lapel back up, probably to about half and let the rest flop down.
Back
String sewing
Claw marks