Hello from Cincinnati!
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:19 am
Hi,
I loved the show as a kid. Now I want to cosplay as a Cylon Centurion. I don't have any real costumes, just a store bought Sleestak. I was recently at Dragon*con for my second year, and the Cylon costume is the only one that pops! Got chrome?!
So I have been poking around the forum, looking for the armor components. I would like to make my costume from fiberglass, but I'm open to vacuum molded styrene from C.O.R.A.? Is there a solid model file of these parts available? What would really be cool to know is what template and methods they used to make the original costumes.
In what order do you put this together? Does it make sense to assemble the underbody garments first, because everything else has to go on top? Is there a thread for the sewing patterns?
I am also curious what you do for the helmet so that is comfortable to wear for several hours. Someone here has a helmet with tiny holes at the front. I also read a comment about not using incandescent lamps for the red eye, because it produces too much heat. OK, so superbright LEDs it is.
Did anyone ever get their hands on the the original circuit design used for the voice generator? I read a few threads on phone apps, and vocoder replicas that come close to the original voice. How do you determine the good from the bad and ugly?
Sorry for so many questions, just trying to get it all together.
About me: Middle aged technician with experience in electronics and advanced fabrication processes. I like working with metal. Currently I am teaching myself 5-axis CNC milling and trying to finish up my Masters in embedded systems. I cropped my username from "24FuCylon" to "uCylon", to say something about the microchip architecture that I'm familiar with.
Regards,
Jeff
I loved the show as a kid. Now I want to cosplay as a Cylon Centurion. I don't have any real costumes, just a store bought Sleestak. I was recently at Dragon*con for my second year, and the Cylon costume is the only one that pops! Got chrome?!
So I have been poking around the forum, looking for the armor components. I would like to make my costume from fiberglass, but I'm open to vacuum molded styrene from C.O.R.A.? Is there a solid model file of these parts available? What would really be cool to know is what template and methods they used to make the original costumes.
In what order do you put this together? Does it make sense to assemble the underbody garments first, because everything else has to go on top? Is there a thread for the sewing patterns?
I am also curious what you do for the helmet so that is comfortable to wear for several hours. Someone here has a helmet with tiny holes at the front. I also read a comment about not using incandescent lamps for the red eye, because it produces too much heat. OK, so superbright LEDs it is.
Did anyone ever get their hands on the the original circuit design used for the voice generator? I read a few threads on phone apps, and vocoder replicas that come close to the original voice. How do you determine the good from the bad and ugly?
Sorry for so many questions, just trying to get it all together.
About me: Middle aged technician with experience in electronics and advanced fabrication processes. I like working with metal. Currently I am teaching myself 5-axis CNC milling and trying to finish up my Masters in embedded systems. I cropped my username from "24FuCylon" to "uCylon", to say something about the microchip architecture that I'm familiar with.
Regards,
Jeff
- but that is cool.
