Anyone a Bioshock fan? Today I have been making Splicer costumes for me and the OH for a Halloween party next week. It's been a fun and totally messy experience!
For those not familiar, this is the look I'm going for:
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Rabbit Splicer:
Butterfly Splicer:

And for those who are interested, this is how the process has been going so far:
Butterfly mask:
This one was fairly easy as there's a local art shop that sold cardboard butterfly-shaped masquerade masks so all I had to do was decorate them. A bit of ivory acrylic paint as a base coat followed by gold acrylic paint for the details (applied with a piping bag for cakes!) was all that was required. I used red ink for the blood spatter, but will be using food colouring next time I think as it's a bit darker.
Rabbit mask (in progress):
This is a bit trickier, since rabbit masks apparently are very hard to find. So, instead, it starts with a cat mask:
Tape on some rabbit-shaped ears:
And papier-mache over the joins:
Paint & decorate:
and add some blood spatter (red food colouring):
Done!
Hook Weapons
More papier mache for these! To get the hooks, I started out with two of those cheap and crappy plastic pirate hooks you can buy pretty much anywhere. Then, I took the hook part out and taped on come corrugated card to form the shape of the handle:
Covered the whole load in papier mache:
These didn't dry overnight (at all), so I chucked them in the oven at about 50C for a few hours and it sped the whole thing up.
Painted them silver:
and add the blood:
If I was doing these again, I'd probably use grey paint instead of silver to give it more of a steel look rather than the shiny finish, but whatever.
I'll post a photo of the finished costumes after halloween
