/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Here's my leg in a stilt. Making legs to completely cover the stilts is too expensive and would make them disproportionate. I was thinking about wrapping the "calf" and "foot" of the stilts in white burlap for the mummy look, then painting the "shins" gold, or putting decorative armor plates on them. Then the skirt would cover MY legs.

Thoughts? I welcome any creativity y'all can offer.

Also, I won't use this trip outside my own threads ;)

Fake legs.
http://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-male-leg-mannequin.html

>>7816399
You could disguise the stilts as individual columns, so you could look like a statue while posing. If you made them look broken, it would be kinda ancient ruins-ish, so that would look cool.

>>7816407
Anon, look at the width OP's stilts, there's no way they will fit inside a mannequin leg.

>>7816407

I'm not sure I could get those inflatable legs to work...

Another reference pic

Illustration of my idea

Fellow stilt walker with same stilts.

There is no way. Your going to look very unproportional or it will look weird in general.

I like the column idea >>7816409 had.

>>7816895
Hmmmm with further thought, you could get away with black pants [dear lord make them yourself and don't just add fabric to preexisting pants like that one awful slederman] and maybe do boots on the bottom? Or just a flare like normal entertainer stilt walkers have.

>>7816895
>>7816898

What about a skirt, going from my waist to my knees (the character's mid-thigh)? That might even things out. I also have forearm crutches I could make into longer arm prosthetics.

>>7816399
Why not make digigrade stilts for something more canine?

http://www.instructables.com/id/Werewolf-Stilts-digitigrade-legs/

>>7817147
Fuck, that looks awesome.

>>7817147
Do this and go look up the fursuit tutorials around it.

most stilt walker I know wear giant ballgowns and fluffy skirts, but well, they're all female.

This might give you a bit of inspiration
http://www.therpf.com/f24/goliath-gargoyles-costume-w-i-p-206093/

>>7817147
Does anyone have any experience with these? How difficult are they to walk in? I was looking at using something like this but I'm worried about falling over or being unstable in a crowded con setting.

>>7817388
You have to practice

>>7817395
Not that anon, but that doesn't really help. Are you going to have to constantly focus on holding your balance? If someone knocks into you off guard, are the feet going to lose their footing? What if someone accidentally kicks the stilts? Will they tire out your legs after standing in them all day? Are they comparable to wearing heels?
How fast do digigrade-enthusiasts suggest your top speed be? Should you take tiny baby steps? Can you sprint? How long do they suggest you wear them for? If you step on an uneven path, how easy is it to recover, or are you going down? What do you do when you fall down?

Of course you can get good at them, but how difficult are they to get good at?

>>7817388
It'll take you about a month to relearn to walk in them and strengthen the right muscles for smooth walking. If you use that tutorial, I recommend making the "foot" a semi-circle shape like in the picture instead of flat so you can lean and balance better.

Go full Stargate and make them into crazy futuretech covered in random hieroglyphs and shit.

>>7818419
Nice