I know Firebat has a RDF dress uniform costume that he had made many years ago and I am starting on a Captain Gloval (sp ?) costume. I have the beard for it already ! Anyone else out there thought of doing anything for Robotech ? Maybe a Zentraedi would be neat !

I've given thought to trying to do a Cyclone Battle Armor.

Now that would be very cool. I had thought briefly about doing something like the Saber Cyclone out of some of the black ABS plastic I have, but we need to finish the vac forming machine first...

now i want to watch my robotech tapes, sadly they are BETA....

maybe i will re read my novels.... i loved Robotech.

anyone have pics of the Robotech costuming, i would love to see.

I think I have some in my collection....somewhere I've seen one other person at Dragoncon a few years ago, also with a RDF costume! Looked pretty good too !

Oh...and they do have the whole series on DVD if you're interested !

MMmmm, Robotech....I remember i would watch that before I went to school...had some of the toys too....man that was a long long time ago..

I've seen the one with rick hunter, then the tanks with the robotech masters and such, and the ones with the invid...but thats all I've seen..

and the DVD I have found were always after the ones that I saw...& I want them first

I've had a cyclone project in the works for over a year. It was shelved becuase ther person and I working on the project were having issues over whether to design it to transform or not and construction material.

I may pick it back up again. I have a helmet that I was modding and chest armour. But the chest armour was canabalized for my Jin Roh Armour.

i want to work on a Cmnr Beetai, with me Being 6'5" i make other look Micronian as it is

Commander Breetai would be very cool to do and not too hard, I would think.

Just the other day I found a pic of a guy in a Rick Hunter costume. I'll try to post it up later.

I've always wanted to make myself a set of Southern Cross armor to wear to AX. Unfortunately, I really don't know how to vacform nor do I have anywhere to do such a project. Maybe one of these days. . .

Since I don't have any vacforming capabilities I had toyed with the idea of making a Mospeada costume like Scott Bernard's. It seemed simple at first but the more I looked at pictures of the Mospeada costume the more difficult I realized it would be. I at first thought that I could possibly modify some sort of existing clothes to match but looking at it closely I realized that it would have to be made from scratch; so much for a simple costume to make.

As far as Macross goes, Harmony gold had a Rick and a Lisa costume on display at AX this year. They were made by a professional costume maker from a heavy cotton or wool, fully lined and looked very nice. The only thing that I didn't like about it was that the turtle neck that they wear had a zipper in front, otherwise it was a very accurate costume.

The cyclone riding armour would be easier to construct then the cyclone armour. You can use Hockey padding as the base. I was in the process of starting mine when I did a 180 and used the padding for my JR.

I always hated Rick Hunter....

Towards the end of the series, he was much cooler. Right as the SDF-3 was launching...

When I used to play the Robotech RP wehad created the "Rick Hunter Assassination Squad".

Good times... good times...

My wife was going through some of the book (she is thinking of GM'ing a Sentinels game) and suggested a Regent costume. Hmmmm.... *thinking*

I wanted to do cyclone riding armor too. Just never tried to do it. I don't have much experienced with thermo forming.

Vacforming is actually the easiest part of the whole project. The hard part is getting the molds sculpted correctly! That is the hard part!

If you have the room for vacforming it is, but living in an apartment there's really no room for all of the molds. postives, and the vactable. If I had the room I'd love to try my hands at vacforming, but alas. . . I don't suppose that anyone in SoCal would be interested in trying their hands at trying their hands at vacforming either Cyclone ride armor and/or Southern Cross armor?

Robotech rocks

Room? One of my old roommates and fellow Hi-Impact member, does his vacforming in the kitchen He puts the vac table on the kitchen table and uses his oven for the heater box. I bet all of his cooking has a special flavor!

I heard of a guy who vac formed in his bathroom because the vacuum cleaner made so much noise. He actually rigged his bathroom heater to pull out of the wall, sit inside a metal and wood box that fit inside his bath tub and his table sat on the toilet! Not recommended and not well ventilated either !

I do have a balcony that I could work on but my main problem is where to store the vac table when I'm not using it and more importantly I don't have room to store all of the forms that are needed in making something like armor. I could probably manage small things but a full suit of armor would result in a lot castings to store.

This would have to be a group project. Best to have someone with a garage to set up a local "shop" and then work on them during the weekends.

I recall someone on the ASAP boards actually started the Cyclone riding armor. They did get about half done as I recall. Now I'm going to have to look again...

Edit:

Okay, these images belong to Commodore Starska and/or reddeltawolf at the ASAP boards.

These are smaller images. The full size images may be seen by just copying the URL of the image, and remove the "-s" which I'm assuming is for "small." I'm also pasting the description of the items from the ASAP posting. If the owner(s) want it removed I'll do so.



Robotech cyclone armor, legs one up one down, chest & back, shields, one topside one bottom with arm guard.



The boots are 19in. long and a 6in. platform which are packed with styrofoam. The shoes are bolted on and are easy to walk in. If you look closely the circular parts go in and out to support the upper section when extended.



The chest plate and back are held together with four wellnuts, two above each sholder, and two plastic buckels.



The shields were designed to slide up the forearm guard incase I fell.



In the show the parts went together with a latch very similar to what is seen here. I used abs plastic to simulate them.



I started to paint the chest and back armor blue, but never finished.



Inside the lower leg there isn't much room with the springs.



Another closeup of the latch.



The traction on the bottom of the boot.



Leg with thigh.



Another view of the leg with the thigh.



Here's one from a cosplay forum in the Phillipines...



Geocities images of same costumes...

http://www.geocities.com/costumedfreak/cyclone3.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/costumedfreak/cyclone2.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/costumedfreak/cyclone1.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/costumedfreak/cyclone6.JPG

Russ

Okay Rip, I finally found the Robotech costume thread. I am currently thinking about doing the Invid Enforcer as a costume. Due to some help from Palladium Books, I now have enough info to create it. I would recommend to any person who is looking for some informative imagery of the Cyclone armor to get a copy of the RDF Field Guide from Palladium Books. (It is intended for their Robotech RPG, but it has some VERY good imagery to use for costume creation ideas!)

Here is the first batch of pictures of my Cyclone costume at its debut at DragonCon 2007.

http://www.chrislee.tv/costuming/anime/cyc...set1/index.html

I won Best Novice in the Masquerade costume contest - there were about 60 entries and what looked like about 3000 people in the audience.

Kari Byron and Grant Imahara from Mythbusters were the emcees... and I was exhausted by the time it was over so that's why I look goofy in some of the pics...



If you're interested, the project page for the costume on my site is:

http://www.chrislee.tv/costuming/anime/cyclone/

Rockin! Now change it into bike mode!

OK gimme another year to work that out...

Or at the very least, make it so that the missile bay doors open and close by themselves and add extendable blades to the arm shields.

Already on the list.

What you see in the pics is as far as I could get it done in time for DragonCon.

Nice, can't wait to see the Mk II version of your Cyclone in action.

Are the front of the chest missiles flat, or angled? The "originals" were angled slightly.

That and the converted paintball helmet are the only not 100% aspects. Very dang impressive
and well done!

So how much for a kit?

No, the wife would kill me.

So seriously...

What made you finally decide on the YB version as opposed to the battler or
any of the other versions? Having the model kit?

Again, well done!

Russ

One of these days I'm going to have to seriously attempt to make a suit Southern Cross ATAC (think 15th squadron) body armor. A bit ambitious for someone whose never casted or vacuformed anything in their life but it would be cool if I can pull it off.

Very very impressive work! How in the hell did I miss that at D*Con???!

Thanks!

I'm working on hinged covers for the rockets. They could use some more detail work, too.

The helmet was a last-minute-throw-something-together thing before DragonCon. I plan to do a proper sculpt and vac-form helmet in the near future with tthe help of a friend.

I have been contemplating offerring a kit of vac-formed parts. We'll see how that goes.

I just think the Yellow Belmont version of the suit is the coolest with the katar swords and the round arm gauntlets. The other versions looked too squared-off to me. Just personal preference.

Thanks!



I don't know dude, I was 7 feet tall and had 4-5 handlers running around! Seriously though, we only brought it out on Sunday for Masquerade and afterwards in the Marriott lobby late night.

You know, if you wanted to go really crazy (and not to mention spend a lot of money) you could replace the dummy mini-missiles airsoft grenade launchers BB shower grenades. Of course, I'm not sure that many cons would appreciate you having an airsoft BB launching costume very much, but it would be fun to see though.

With a live action Robotech movie (theoretically) in the works this would be a great opportunity to further Anime Hero.net and start a group project for Robotech costumes. The easiest to do would be Macross and it's likely going to form the basis of the movie but we shouldn't rule out Southern Cross or Mospeada costumes either. As more details on the movie come out and it looks more like the movie is actually going to happen we can try to get in contact with Warner &/or Tobey's production company about providing atmosphere at ComicCon and Dragon Con. If we can get this to happen it would help to promote the site as a whole as well as potentially getting more activity in the Anime Hero side of the site too.