The official Teen Cable cosplay post
A couple of months back, I posted reference pics and cosplay plans for a teen Cable costume. This is how it came out.
Teen Nate was my Sunday costume for this year's Supanova - conveniently both the only big Perth con which features Western comics related events as a big part of its attractions and held in the perfect time of year to spend the day wearing a big, warm coat. The bad news: though Deadpool cosplayers are usually easy to find around Supanova (and those lucky bastards over in Sydney even got a stripper Deadpool this year), I didn't find a single one to take photos with on Sunday this year. ;_;
The good news is we still managed to get some decent photos taken in a quick shoot around the back after the cosplay comp.
My sister pinneagig gets credit both for taking all these photos and for painting on my scar, which unfortunately had partially rubbed off by this stage of the day.
Here's how the full costume came out, both with the coat done up and hanging open.
Random trivia: you may notice the the coat bulges quite a bit when done up. This is because it turns out that when you cover your belt in big, bulgy pouches, it does not want to do up properly anymore - and this even after I'd cut down to only two of the things. /things you get to ignore when you live in a world of comic-book physics
The eye was always the first thing people noticed on the day. It's not photoshopped in - I was actually wearing a white contact lens on that side. Here's a pic that shows it off a bit better.
The white lens is completely opaque so it left me functionally blind on that side. While this meant I probably missed a lot of stuff going on to my left, you stop noticing it's there very quickly. The less fun part was that it's fair bit larger than the lenses I'm used to and started to stick to my upper eyelid after a few hours of wear. Not fun, but overall not nearly as uncomfortable as you'd probably expect.
A few more pictures:
As for the rest of the costume, the coat was made from scratch and was what took most of the time. The hand I made by covering a pair of gloves with strips of silver pleather. Knuckles were made out of craft foam and covered with more pleather. The neck is more pleather strips glued onto a fabric base and held in place with double sided tape. Finally, to get the right effect on the wig I bought a standard short brown wig and stitched some white wefts into the fringe, then backcombed the shit out of them until they deigned to stay up.
So that's my teen Cable costume, and if anyone does happen to know a Deadpool cosplayer in Perth who'd be up for a photoshoot with a crazy crossdressing fangirl, you know where to find me.
Teen Nate was my Sunday costume for this year's Supanova - conveniently both the only big Perth con which features Western comics related events as a big part of its attractions and held in the perfect time of year to spend the day wearing a big, warm coat. The bad news: though Deadpool cosplayers are usually easy to find around Supanova (and those lucky bastards over in Sydney even got a stripper Deadpool this year), I didn't find a single one to take photos with on Sunday this year. ;_;
The good news is we still managed to get some decent photos taken in a quick shoot around the back after the cosplay comp.
My sister pinneagig gets credit both for taking all these photos and for painting on my scar, which unfortunately had partially rubbed off by this stage of the day.
Here's how the full costume came out, both with the coat done up and hanging open.
Random trivia: you may notice the the coat bulges quite a bit when done up. This is because it turns out that when you cover your belt in big, bulgy pouches, it does not want to do up properly anymore - and this even after I'd cut down to only two of the things. /things you get to ignore when you live in a world of comic-book physics
The eye was always the first thing people noticed on the day. It's not photoshopped in - I was actually wearing a white contact lens on that side. Here's a pic that shows it off a bit better.
The white lens is completely opaque so it left me functionally blind on that side. While this meant I probably missed a lot of stuff going on to my left, you stop noticing it's there very quickly. The less fun part was that it's fair bit larger than the lenses I'm used to and started to stick to my upper eyelid after a few hours of wear. Not fun, but overall not nearly as uncomfortable as you'd probably expect.
A few more pictures:
As for the rest of the costume, the coat was made from scratch and was what took most of the time. The hand I made by covering a pair of gloves with strips of silver pleather. Knuckles were made out of craft foam and covered with more pleather. The neck is more pleather strips glued onto a fabric base and held in place with double sided tape. Finally, to get the right effect on the wig I bought a standard short brown wig and stitched some white wefts into the fringe, then backcombed the shit out of them until they deigned to stay up.
So that's my teen Cable costume, and if anyone does happen to know a Deadpool cosplayer in Perth who'd be up for a photoshoot with a crazy crossdressing fangirl, you know where to find me.