Metropolice cosplay

[Anonymous No.10490700]

What would be a reasonable approach to putting together a good looking costume of this character?

How I see it -

Difficult details:
Mask - Requires a custom mold obviously, no gas mask looks like this. Additionally, an iconic detail is that the eyes should be glowing blue. I would want a soft blue glow, not a super bright one. It doesn't seem difficult to install a controllable brightness cyan/blue LED within the helmet.

Chest - The uniform/coat of this character may require some moderate to heavy work, installing the silver details as well as getting the general seam details and the bulkiness of the upper chest right. May need to find a surplus police or military uniform in black to modify. Not sure what to do about the upper uniform.

Cheap details - - -
Boots - Jack boots. Easy enough to acquire at a surplus store.

Pants - Olive green with one silver stripe along the side of each leg. OD green pants with some kind of durable high visibility silver paint or tape should be easy enough.

Torso belt/tool belt - There are many "tactical" belts that look like this, shouldn't be difficult to acquire suitable belts/props.

Gloves - Self-explanatory.

[Anonymous No.10490701]

A clearer example. Credit to the artist.

[Anonymous No.10490702]

Also, I'm not sure how hard this would be to implement and if it can *comfortably*, but another iconic detail is their voice or vocoder as its known. How could I implement a voice changer into the mask that would sound at least somewhat similar to this?

https://youtu.be/SindqGenIhk?t=146

[Anonymous No.10490744]

>>10490702
Another iconic thing is the ambient "Overwatch" voices. I'm thinking it would be easy enough to conceal a speaker in the form of a radio on the chest or around the back of the helmet powered by a small computer like a Raspberry Pi that would randomly play .wav files of the Overwatch voice as seen here: https://youtu.be/NHSjQRgB06A?t=164

[Anonymous No.10491859]

>>10490700
>mask
look into 3d printing it
pretty sure ive seen 3d models of it on thingiverse
>torso
id say this part will be the hardest
could you get this commissioned?
get a stun stick too. iconic
also not gonna do a combine version from HL Alyx instead?

[Anonymous No.10492748]

>>10490702
You could try a throat mic with some hidden tech that vocodes it (raspi like you mentioned) and shoot it to a speaker. I have never tried this and I'm not sure how practical it would be, but it's an option.
Depending on how the mask is, maybe it'll be hard to hear you and you can just use a normal mic with a loud enough amplifier.

[Anonymous No.10493395]

The jacket looks like a mix of some sort of dark rain coat and a protective vest of some sort. Maybe you could split it like that to make searching easier? The vest would probably still have to be custom though.

[Anonymous No.10497086]

>>10490700
>No gas mask looks like this
There is one, but I won't name it so faggots like you can buy them up.
>Iconic detail
The picture you posted doesn't even have a blue glow, nigger.

[Anonymous No.10497360]

>>10497086
it glows in the second pic they posted. Also they glow in the game, have you never played HL2?

[Anonymous No.10498285]

>>10497360
The second pic, you mean concept art? And I've been playing half life 2 since 2009, I know what metropolice look like stupid nigger. Their eyes are solid black (but reflect light brown in darkness because of how source environment masks work), if you even played the game or at least did a 2 second google search you would know you big black stupid monkey gorilla nigger

[Anonymous No.10498877]

What is your progress?

[Anonymous No.10499268]

Have you had a look on RPF? Pretty sure there are a couple of forum posts on there were making the same thing

Also if you have not already, now might be a good time to get into 3D printing. You can look up models on Yeggi, and I know that Etsy has numerous paid combine mask models too

Will be watching this thread as well, as I am slowly piecing together a combine cosplay too. And here is a guy that is doing the same thing ;^)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHwW-j5zXuxZw3aRGCTXGEQ/videos

[Anonymous No.10499792]

>>10497086
>There is one, but I won't name it so faggots like you can buy them up.
Why are you such a cunt?

[Anonymous No.10500421]

Maybe bulletproof vest? Look up knee high male military boots, might need to make the mask custom, but maybe the jacket could be an Adidas black track jacket

[Anonymous No.10500422]

As well as probably get green denim pants, go for a night stick and remove the side handle to get the look for the stun stick, but im trying to go for a more militaristic look, since well, that's what they look like

[Anonymous No.10500423]

>>10500422
*suggesting a more militaristic, im not cosplaying, I cannot afford said resources, if I could, I would do any femboy

[Anonymous No.10502885]

>>10499792
because it barely even looks like the one from the game desu it's not even worth it

[Anonymous No.10505447]

Ah damn, I just got done with Half-Life: Alyx. There's actually a few moments where you find pieces of their masks and such and can see extra details the original Source engine couldn't render. Let me see if there are any good screens out there. Some of the new designs are amazing.

[Anonymous No.10505448]

>>10491859
>>10490700
https://youtu.be/Fn8mPw1qWkU

3D printing seems the way to go!

[Anonymous No.10505704]

>>10499792
hes probably talking about the russian PMG mask

[Anonymous No.10505705]

>>10490700
Please don't cosplay as a policeman, its disrespectful to the brave men who risk their lives in the line of duty to keep us safe from criminals.
#BlueLivesMatter

[Anonymous No.10505951]

>>10490744

> download overwatch voice files onto phone
> set to play on loop
> stick it in pocket