Happy Halloween from some of Marvel’s creeeepiest monsters! Go: http://bit.ly/2COK7aR 😱
It’s time to get spooooky! Watch Maniac Pumpkin Carvers transform pumpkins into two monstrous Marvel villains. 🎃 #MarvelHalloween
The Final Post! Day 31 of the Fifth Annual Costoberfest; a celebration of Marvel Cosplay and Costuming from around the World!
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like to introduce you to the Lady Avengers group, including Rosellen Cosplay, Gingersnap, Ekko Cosplay, Lightened Skies Cosplay, Beyond Believing Cosplay, Twisted Reality Cosplay, Xanthe Flora Cosplay, Songbird Cosplay, Torn Pages Cosplay, Ash-Sama Cosplay, Freijya, Kelly and Ria. Plus Moonlit Marathon Cosplay as Singularity, Gil as Wonder Man, Hildrhien as Sif, Lux Laterna as Hawkeye and Jamie Coastworth & Stretch Stockpile as Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2099!
Photography provided by Kaiju Industries, Moonlit Marathon Cosplay, Gil, In2thereview, Lux Laterna and Carlos Adama.
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We want to thank the over 300 cosplayers and costumers that submitted their photos to this year’s Costoberfest! It was a tremendous success with over 150 costumers spotlighted throughout the 31 days. Stay tuned to the Costoberfest Hub as we post even more of the submissions in the next few days. Thank you and Happy Halloween!
For even more, head to http://marvel.com/costoberfest
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*Marvel’s use of all photos are governed by the Marvel.com Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. All photos must be of cosplayers 13 years of age or older. All selected individuals/groups will be required to sign and return Marvel’s likeness release and waiver form.
Its time for our Fourth Costoberfest Spotlight! This year in honor of the Cosplay Cover Variants, we’ll be talking to the cosplayers featured on the variants and their costume-making process!
Next up is a Kit Quinn, who is on the The Uncanny Avengers #1 Cosplay Cover Variant, on sale now!
Originally from the Bay Area but living in LA now, Kit grew up as a theater kid, which has made living in LA super fun. She started cosplaying in 2007 when a group of friends got together to make group costumes, including a large Alice in Wonderland group!
We asked Kit to walk us through making of Wasp!
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Wasp is a character I’ve wanted to build for a while, I just wasn’t sure I could pull it off. She has quite a few different looks and each one has its own challenges, both in construction and in the actual wearing of the costume. It wasn’t until Steven got a few chrome based projects under his belt that I thought we could pull of her armored look. The body suit was a relatively easy build for me. I added a few of my own pattern details on the back and on the arms to mirror some creative sewing I had to do on Steven’s costume; I was short on fabric, and I really like the results. To keep the stream lined look of her costume I hand sewed water shoes into the feet of the body suit. The gloves were made with Velcro to easily slip on and off so I can do things like eat and use my phone.
Now on to the armor! To make the armor we first had to do a body cast of me. I was wrapped in plastic wrap and plaster bandages to make the cast which Steven then laid fiberglass into, to create my double. I was able to use this torso to sculpt the ab plates, but due to a mess up on my part the chest plate had to be sculpted on a body cast I had previously made of myself. Once the two torsos were ready to be worked on I placed masking tape on them and drew out my basic shapes. I then transferred this pattern to paper versions to use to cut the shapes out of Monster Clay that I had rolled out into about a ¼" thick sheet. These cut out pieces of clay were then put back onto my torso where I adding raised details, checked for symmetry, and made sure the angles flowed between the plates. Once I had the shapes where I wanted Steven came in with his more exacting eye and did the final polishing and altering of the shapes.
The next step is to clear coat the clay, and then mold. I made mold walls out of more clay and brushed on about 4 layers of silicone. I then made a mother mold out of liquid plaster. Normally liquid plaster isn’t a great idea for mother molds because it can get heavy and will crack pretty easily, but this mold doesn’t need to last very long, so saving money seemed like a good idea! Once we had the mold I did a junk casting to make sure my mold didn¹t have any flaws and that everything fit. Steven then did the real casting in Onyx resin backed with Free Form Air. We wanted the plates to be nice and light to start since we were about to cover all of them in metal. Once we had the final casting in hand it was time to prime and wet sand to a glossy smooth finish, then off to the chromer!
This is where we made a mistake in our planning. Our chrome guy said we could pre-embed the magnets into the plates and he could basically chrome around hem using this special chrome resistant tape. Unfortunately the chrome still got to some of the magnets and ate away at their strength so Steven had to drill them out and embed new magnets. A valuable lesson was learned there! Once all the magnets were secured into the plates it was a fun game of taping the armor to me to figure out where the other half of the magnets needed to go in the body suit to secure the armor in place. I had acquired some magnets that come in a handy plastic square for just such a purpose as this. I feel a bit like Iron Man every time I get into this costume, with plates flying in and clicking into place.
All together this costume took about two weeks to construct, and was a pretty fun and simple build. The funniest moment being when all our friends wanted to go watch The Avengers, but we still needed to work, so we took my smaller chest cast with us to the movie theater to sculpt in the car!
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As Kit grew up wanting to be a princess, which may not be an actual viable career choice, its through cosplay that she can always dress up as any character she wants and be that person, at least in spirit, for a couple days out of the year at conventions
For more from Kit Quinn, click over to her Facebook Page. and for even more from Costoberfest, swing over to Marvel.com/Costoberfest
Stay tuned to Marvel’s Tumblr as we continue highlighting more cosplayers from our Cover Variants each week!
Photographs by Judy Stephens and Kitt Quinn.
Day 28 of the Fifth Annual Costoberfest; a celebration of Marvel Cosplay and Costuming from around the World!
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like to introduce you to MonSoon Cosplay as Scarlet Witch, MyFanGirlLife as Hawkeye, Stark_will_fix_it_all as Iron Man, Flavia as Black Widow and Jessica as Scarlet Witch!
Photography provided by Andreas Kinder, MyFanGirlLife, Stark_will_fix_it_all, Marcello Mariano and Jessica Palumbo.
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For even more, head to http://marvel.com/costoberfest
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*Marvel’s use of all photos are governed by the Marvel.com Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. All photos must be of cosplayers 13 years of age or older. All selected individuals/groups will be required to sign and return Marvel’s likeness release and waiver form.
Happy Halloween, Marvelites!
Post your #MarvelHalloween costume pics for us to see, and be careful of those zombies…
Marvel Halloween how-tos on Pinterest
Halloween’s just around the corner! Check out our Costoberfest board featured on Pinterest to help get you DIY-ing: http://bit.ly/1njne2W #costumeinspiration
Cosplayers & Costumers, we here at Marvel.com are always super appreciative and constantly in awe of your costumes, time and time again! As is now tradition, we would like to honor the costuming and cosplay community for the time and effort you’ve put toward the Marvel fandom throughout the month of October. For 31 days, we will highlight cosplayers & costumers through profiles, news articles, events and more! Plus you all get your chance to participate! Here’s how:
Every day, starting October 1, we will pick a cosplayer or costumer to profile on Marvel’s Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.
If you’re interested in possibly being spotlighted, send in the photographs* of yourself in costume to: [email protected]
Feel free to submit as an individual or group, but remember only Marvel cosplay & costumes will be accepted. Marvel’s use of all photos are governed by the Marvel.com Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. All photos must be of cosplayers 13 years of age or older.
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To see our previous Costoberfest coverage, check out the below:
Costoberfest 2011 Album
Costoberfest 2012 Album
Costoberfest 2013 Album
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So remember to stop by Marvel.com, plus Marvel’s Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter every day for the month of October to celebrate in everything cosplay & costuming!
And for more information, head to our Costoberfest Hub!
*We will need a signed release (to be provided by Marvel) from the model and approval from the photographer of each photo. All photos must be of cosplayers 13 years of age or older.
The cast of “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble,” coming to Marvel Universe on Disney XD in 2013, got together for a voice record session yesterday…and since it was Halloween, some of them decided to really get into character!
Laura Bailey (Black Widow), Roger Craig Smith (Captain America) and Travis Willingham (Thor) each showed up to the session dressed as their character, and the fine folks at Marvel TV have passed along this group shot of the three actors at yesterday’s record!