I would also sandpaper the rubber edges that are around before painting.

This is awesome. Love the gear, might catch a sword with it. It's pointy bitys look like they would hurt

I like a little bit of "Goon Tape" under the 550 cord. Just my taste Also, I spray painted a version sparkling pink color. I call it the "Fairy Godmother's Wand". I'm weird like that. The only thing I would say to improve your toy is to make some way that you can index it by feel. Ergo, as an example, figure out the optimal or favorite way to hold the club. Place a brass tack into the handle where the pad of your fore finger would be. You feel the brass tack with your fore finger and you know you are gripping it, correctly. Fun build, though. Hope you never have to use it. Hello from San Diego California.

13:30, if the knife was just a little smaller, that actually would be an okay place to have it. I have a leg holster for work, and I keep my utility knife right there. Comes in very handy cause its out of the way, and easy to grab even when sitting in a car

Does this work on standard shirts? What about leather?

I found a car tire on the side of the road. Yeah it'll be a lit harder to cut through, but its what I have, so it's what I'll use

Second hand sofa leather? That gives me ideas, but I'm hesitant to cut up dad's old couch.

5:40 I would love to wear my medial reenactment Gugel everyday! But Imagine the looks you get 😂😂

This was a great piece to be shown how to make, that rooster is rad. I hope you have an awesome New Years 🎉🎊😀🎉🎉

Damn that thing is based.

I like it!

So I actually wanted to comment on at 5:08 about the size. I wear body armor every day for work, that is actually very close to real size. People often think that body armor covers your entire front, when in reality it only covers your major organs. So it ending just below your ribs is actually accurate. One of the main reasons is you still need to be flexible. Having your armor come past your ribs limits your mobility. All in all, really great job. Yes its a "costume" piece. But throw a steal plate in there, reinforce the stitching, and make the straps wider and you got yourself an actual piece of armor. Yeah it wouldn't be exactly "tactical", but it would work Keep up the great work

What a cool design, thank you for the video & inspiration!

That's really sick dude! I've been thinking there is a niche for unique & aesthetic plate carriers!

This is so helpful! Thank you

Thank you so much. This was so helpful.

can you please show how to make a vest 🙏

love this you are way too funny

For my distressing a use a drywall saw. it pretty quick

Hi there, can you offer any pointers for a person not larping as a soldier. I am a dowdy little female who has in mind being a trader. What might be a few good pointers for the underpinnings of such an enterprise? As always, love your videos, new and old.

Were you just going for the look or were you intending to carry all that dirt and filth with you? Most likely people would not like to have you next to them.

Love it 👍

This was great, another well appreciated video yesss 😃👏

Interestingly, the application of the fabric paint should actually strengthen those newly distressed fibers along the edges. Patina + Hidden Reinforcement = Winning! Great vid, great tips, thanks for another really useful guide. Looking forward to maybe meeting you at WW one of these years. =)

nicee i recently use your tips for a costume

This is really stupid to do to a new jacket! But also totally brilliant and even though I wouldn't dare, it looks really cool. I always loved the way the jackets from escape from New York, Indiana Jones or Mad Max looked. However, I would recommend to never treat leather with regular oils used for cooking since they can rot, whereas leather conditioners, waxes and oils do not.

Maces are great,i am about to make one,i already got a 2 feet long x 1,5 inch thick oak stick and 6 iron flanges

Is it acrylic or oil paint ?

I always appreciate when you upload, because the information and explanations keeps me on the wright track. Excellent 😃 thank you

You could add a quick release clip or if your going post apoc go with a airplane extender belt as a quick release instead of over the head. Quick release would be by your shoulder. Just don't forget to distress it.

I think character backstory and world play a huge part in this as well. I find that when someone refers to the "staples" of post-apocalyptic costumes, that simply translates out to tropes from Mad Max and Fallout. There can be great post-apocalyptic settings where clothing is not frayed or distressed and repurposing is done on a smaller scale. For example the film Steel Dawn starring Patrick Swayze is set in a post-apoc world, but it has been long enough since the disaster that civilization has had a chance to rebuild somewhat. They are capable of crafting clothes and armor in most civilized areas and forging metal to make weapons. There is enough water to bathe and clean clothes. I think what many in the community don't understand is that, like fantasy, post-apocalyptic is a very open genre without really heavily established conventions which gives people a lot of room to play around with costume design and worldbuilding. The only actual requirement for anything post-apocalyptic is that it must be set after some kind of cataclysmic event and that current civilization must have fallen. That's about it. I know I'm going to get some flack for this, but I really think this adherence or as he put it, genre specificity, is more of a hindrance than a help when it comes to anything post-apocalyptic and that includes costumes. Many of the pieces I see posted are interesting, but there is no eye for whether the setup of the suit is logical or not. Keep in mind, the first priorities for actual post-apocalyptic characters would be practical ones. Does clothing protect against the elements or provide camo? Is armor not only useful against attack but also easy to wear and move in under extreme conditions? I hate to say it but the recent Fallout games as well as Fury Road and Furiosa have actually been a detriment to the genre rather than a help. They are silly and over-designed and no human would ever think to build them or wear them. The original Road Warrior costumes certainly showed some ornamentation, but nearly as overdone as those in Fury Road. to make it worse, these films sacrifice story for spectacle. Hell, Fury Road wasn't even scripted, just storyboarded and it really shows. A lot of the elements and worldbuilding look cool until you turn your brain on and start to try and figure out how they would happen. Why have a bunch of suicide bombers with exploding spears when it has been established that you have unlimited ammo from the Bullet Farm? Why not share water and resources in exchange for military service? So much was spent on dazzling the eye that nobody thought of any of this. We don't even know for sure if Fury Road is a sequel or an outright reboot. That's how little they focused on writing. I know the goal of costuming is to create something original, but if the same staples are use over and over, even the most outlandish designs become cliche' and fade into the background. Go back and take a look at the Road Warrior sometime. George Miller spent hours writing detailed backstories for every character in the film and that shows in the way they are designed. The defenders at the compound wear white armor and simple clothes with no spikes or heavy ornaments, the raiders wear mohawks and spiked football pads as well as police gear, not because it just looks cool, but because these clothes and hairstyles make them look more savage and intimidating. the Feral kid wears fur an has frizzed hair to make him look more animalistic. Even Max's iconic outfit is reminiscent of the fallen samurai or wandering knight, a tarnished hero. In Fury Road i was bored to tears because both sides looked too much alike. It was cluttered, not original. Bottom line, if you're going to create a post-apoc costume, I think more attention should be paid to how the character's look informs their overall theme and design concept as well as their place in the world being used rather than just using the same old tired methods for every costume. I like football pads and tire armor as much as the next guy, but when no one even considers the fact that since rubber is made of petroleum then it is far more vulnerable to fire or that in a desert, at least during the day, it will be very sweaty and can cause rashes, then we need to start re-examining the genre. The beauty of post-apoc is that its free and open. Let's not make it into the dime a dozen cookie cutter stories that are plaguing high fantasy these days.

I think the word you are looking for is, mood, or maybe tone, or possibly feel - all intangible things that are part of the story, or focus of the piece.

I mean if you were going for the Metro style, it could fit in decently with some specific detail changes

Context does matter for sure. You can make the case for STALKER games to be post apocalyptic, despite literally the entire world beyond the exclusion zone being fine. But the world you inhabit in those games has seen several catastrophes and a total breakdown of society and laws. So it is a localised post-apocalypse, kind of like The 100.

context matters This would not work at wasteland weekend xD

Thank you for post-apocalyptic innovation in all kinds of places and their combinations

By watching this you have given me ideas on how to fix a too long belt! Thanks! It will be a fun activity + something new to try.

Love how on the Knippex is written "do not cut steel" xD i won't do what you tell me!!

instructions unclear, now wanted in 4 states.

great work, peak design!

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