Fallout

Seeing as the current topic seems to be fancy dress and costumes I'll throw this in to the mix. My good buddy Aled wanted to go to a post-apocalypse themed party as the Vault Dweller from the third game in the Fallout series. It's a nice simple costume, primarily because you design your own character's face and build so all you really need is to get the outfit right. The starting costume is basically a jumpsuit and a wrist-mounted computer, here's my attempt for Aled:

The PipBoy 3000 - built out of a Pringles tube card and an assortment of bits and bobs.

 Painstakingly masked and painted - yellow over blue needed lots of coats!

 

 Aled modelling the full ensemble.

Of course Aled ended up wearing a long coat - ideal for the character, less so for the hours I put into the "101" on the back of the jumpsuit!

What did you do, Ray?

A couple of years ago I made a Ghostbusters costume for a party, complete with scratch built Proton Pack. Sometimes I get a little over invested in a project, it took over my life for a bit. This may be why I didn't post any pictures at the time but seeing as it's Halloween it seems appropriate that I dig them out, so here you go:

Everything from Celebrations to toilet rolls... Pepsi Max to Pringles!

  

The wand (with glowing tip naturally!); the complete pack and wand undercoated; the final costume. 

Proton pack sprayed black, drybrushed, dusted, and stickered. The red disks have small lights behind them to make them glow. I was Stantz in case you were wondering!

... and here I am at the party with a (arguably) less authentic but (arguably) more attractive Ghostbuster:

p.s. Adam Savage bought a kit! Never thought I'd out do Adam at making prop costumes!