Fantastic Foam "Stone" Golem suit

[Buck-Beaver]

Check out this YouTube video of a stone Golem costume someone made for a live-action RPG.

Apparently it was constructed from 5 foam mattresses, with over 50 sticks of hot melt glue (yeesh!) and 8 cans of grey and black spray paint. The foam was glued in large thick sheets to a fabric bodysuit, and then they carved the cracks into the foam surface.

Pretty cool!

 

[puppetise]

dude thats sweet i would love to build sumthing like that

 

[biblebetty]

boy that must have taken a looooong time to make!!!!!

 

[puppetise]

it took 100 hours to make between 3 people

 

[Melonpool]

How much do you suppose that thing weighs? Mattress foam tends to be rather heavy, doesn't it?

 

[ChinoXL]

here is something i found off of their forum

The foam is not layered. We made sheets of it that were about 15cm thick (or whatever half the thickness of a mattress is), and wrapped them around the bodysuit, gluing it on. The seams have material glued over the top to stop the pressure of the wrapped foam from tearing them open.

Each leg is one sheet, the torso is one big sheet with a hole in the middle for a head (with filler foam up the sides of the torso), and the upper arms are a small sheet each. Once we had glued the sheets on to the body, we stuck on a few more pieces to fill in areas like the groin, and to cover over gaps in places like the shoulders. Then we carved the foam to give it a more humanoid shape, and carved cracks into the foam.

The head is also a single rectangle of foam, wrapped around with a seam along the top and back. Chin, nose and eyebrow foam pieces were added. Then head was carved with more shape and cracks.

http://www.mordavia.com/img/2003_05_photos/golem_construction.jpg

that's also a pic of the beginning stages of construction

 

[Teenager's]

That's pretty interesting....even though it looks HUGE.....it's not so big....Height wise...according to the other pics anyway.....

 

[BorkBork]

So cool!

 

[doctort13]

Looks like something that GWAR would build. Cool!!!

 

[Teenager's]

I like that, thats cool....I wanna try to make something similar....but you always need a good design...and it's hard to just come up with a large costume to build...