Making a SS13 cosplay

Helios · Post by **Helios** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:01 pm #23023

My friends and I were discussing this, and it doesn't seem like much would be distinctive enough.
Any Hardsuit cosplay would just be a dead space cosplay
Xenomorph doesn't work
Detective is too generic.
Head of Security will get you confused for Killzone or something.
Captain or HoP will get you confused for generic space pirates

What would be a good SS13 cosplay?

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:07 pm #23025

Jon Riker the lizard wizard space janitor lizard.

Mandurrrh · Post by **Mandurrrh** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:11 pm #23026

Floor length braid and a science outfit with my poppy. Seems legit. Just put a nanotransen badge on.

peoplearestrange · Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:57 pm

ColonicAcid wrote:Jon Riker the lizard wizard space janitor lizard.

I think just a lizardman janitor in yellow boots and and purple cap etc would be pretty obvious. But still you're talking about a game that's pretty obscure anyway. So someone "getting it" might be pretty rare, though when they do...

Also the robotcists could look fairly unique with there jumpsuit and engineers are kinda of unique. That or a nukeops member.

Mandurrrh · Post by **Mandurrrh** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:00 pm #23030

peoplearestrange wrote:
ColonicAcid wrote:Jon Riker the lizard wizard space janitor lizard.
I think just a lizardman janitor in yellow boots and and purple cap etc would be pretty obvious. But still you're talking about a game that's pretty obscure anyway. So someone "getting it" might be pretty rare, though when they do...

Also the robotcists could look fairly unique with there jumpsuit and engineers are kinda of unique. That or a nukeops member.

I think security for sure could.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:24 pm #23034

Security would get mistaken for Star Trek so nah.

matilda · Post by **matilda** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:15 pm #23090

Do Atmos tech, just get a blue toolbox and make that jumpsuit

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:23 pm #23094

Could just do Assistant if you have the yellow gloves, backpack and toolbelt.

Mono · Post by **Mono** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:08 am #23104

Get 5 of your friends dressed as ops and one as a captain. Proceed to have them chase the cap down the street screaming "get dat fuckin disk!"
Bonus points if you get a corgi in on it.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:26 am #23105

Could also do scientist...t hough You could be arrested for buiilding a replica bomb since you'd probably end to find a jerrycan and paint it orange. And it's be a fake bomb.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:57 am #23112

Nuke ops cosplay would be awesome if you could do it right

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:14 am #23121

The SS13 Clown has forever replaced my mental image of Clowns forever, so I am eager to see them cosplayed.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:49 am #23136

Hardsuits look nothing like rigs at this point, they're MUCH more armored and distinct.

Blood red hardsuits are unique as fuck.

I suggest greyshirt with insulated gloves and toolbelt, captain, HoP with ian if you can steal a dog, shitcurity, etc.

I'd really like to see a proper warden cosplay, much more unique than HoS imo

DrPillzRedux · Post by **DrPillzRedux** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:18 am #23141

Cosplay as Dante Smith. Make an ebow, esword, stungloves, and DO NOT TALK AT ALL.

srifenbyxp · Post by **srifenbyxp** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:34 am #23154

paprika wrote: I suggest greyshirt with insulated gloves and toolbelt, captain, HoP with ian if you can steal a dog, shitcurity, etc.

This, be sure to wear a yellow hard hat helmet, sunglasses, and somewhere on the shirt a picture of a waving shirt on a pole with text like "The Grey Tide Rises" on it.
Have your friends dress up as other crew members. Get a clown with the captains hat and a shotgun on the back.

Spoiler:

Post by **MisterPerson** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:04 pm #23195

Go to a furry con as Ian.

Raven776 · Post by **Raven776** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:58 am #23273

I need to get more people I know into this game so I can cosplay with them with this shit. Go as a whole department or a whole crew of distinguished figures (Each Head of Staff, Clown, maybe mime, one+ assistant, quartermaster, a couple sec officers, maybe a chaplain). The best cosplays are group cosplays.

Desucake · Post by **Desucake** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:00 pm #23336

Have a few dressed as Sec officers with batons, and one as a clown, having the sec officers chase the clown while it screams out honk.

Raven776 · Post by **Raven776** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:16 pm #23361

I think the best and most recognizable is having a group of 4 or 5 dressed as nuke ops towing around a large nuke cart at the end of a chain.

It's either that or a security team, but you'd need to custom build those funky tasers to hold (or do only batons which would be easier).

Clown is a bit generic, but that's only if you don't have anyone else around the clown.

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 1:36 pm #24279

MisterPerson wrote:Go to a furry con as Ian.

youd just be mistaken for ein

junkmail · Post by **junkmail** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 4:00 pm #24293

Be a spess doctor or scientist

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:25 pm #24309

you must be cuban pete
the king of the rhumba beat

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:54 pm #24310

but pete³ isnt actually from SS13

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 7:24 pm #24322

Cuban Pete looked like Hitler

callanrockslol · Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:26 am

Either do a generic assistant, so the toolbelt+greysuit+gasmask+gloves+backpack and run around being a shithead or do nukeops and chase someone around dressed as a captain.

The best would be a mime+clown duo though, just honk and smile.

Kot · Post by **Kot** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:09 pm #24535

A guy inside a cube with AI face painted on. Put him near light switch, so he can do AI stuff.

Giacom · Post by **Giacom** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:14 pm #24538

The captain's outfit is unique.

Incomptinence · Mon Aug 18, 2014 1:12 am

Several cyborg costumes, greyshirt demands "law 2 kill yourselfs" or some other classic. Borgs politely refuse then "BORGS ROGUE!" then all the cyborg costumes are destroyed by those wearing them from within. Extra points for MMI props.

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:05 am #24576

Beepsky.

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:18 pm #24619

Kot wrote:A guy inside a cube with AI face painted on. Put him near light switch, so he can do AI stuff.

>near light switch
>not near door

Rumia29 · Post by **Rumia29** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:59 pm #27249

Is anyone ever going to do this so we can get pictures?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:23 am #27425

Any MedSci role perhaps? The jumpsuits and labcoats all have distinct coloured markings on them. Of course have a PDA and/or an ID card.

Or a Security officer with any department's armband. SS13 Sec looks pretty distinct too.

In the end, don't worry about getting misidentified by people who haven't played SS13. It's important that anyone who does play SS13 recognises you.

peoplearestrange · Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:24 pm

So I've decided to go to the London MCM Comic Con as an Assitant for one of the days. OK so I throughly doubt anyone will get it, but even if one person does it'll be worth it. Chancing around anyone that looks like sec being a pain, scream rouge at ANY robot/cyborg.

So far I have a grey jumpsuit and Yellow insulated gloves.
I've seen a couple of good brown toolbelts and I was looking at getting a old "barn" style blue toolbox. I think a black backpack, Nanotrasen arm patches, ID, gold Captains ID as well. Possibly a gasmask. Maybe a red ballon with an S on it? (Though that might be hard to do, even more unlikely to get a squareish one)

Any other ideas for props?
Also names for the Captains ID would be great, so best/worst Captains of all time. I'll put up some designs of the ID cards (matching the crazily un-detailed). And then also the whole thing when its all together.

EndgamerAzari · Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:29 pm

Carry around a label-maker and put insulting/obscene labels on people/things.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:37 pm #118962

peoplearestrange wrote:Also names for the Captains ID would be great, so best/worst Captains of all time. I'll put up some designs of the ID cards (matching the crazily un-detailed). And then also the whole thing when its all together.

for some reason whenever I think of captains, I think of Ty Andrews

it's like how I will always associate assistants with Burer and Rowdy Randy, and warden with Myriam Rathens

Spoiler:

invisty · Post by **invisty** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:46 pm #118985

Cable cuffs and a multitool hanging from your belt.

Other peoples IDs hanging out your back pocket.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:02 pm #119000

Hugh griffin

peoplearestrange · Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:54 pm

Got me a nice blue toolbox now to robust some heads. The plot thickens.

Also yes maybe cable cuffs, a multitool might be a tad harder to make though...

EndgamerAzari · Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:03 pm

peoplearestrange wrote:Got me a nice blue toolbox now to robust some heads. The plot thickens.

Also yes maybe cable cuffs, a multitool might be a tad harder to make though...

Try a stud finder:

Spoiler:

Post by **lumipharon** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:43 pm #119006

You can get a multimeter pretty cheap.
If you're a greyshirt, you gotta have a stunprod sticking out the top of your backpack.

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:22 pm #119009

peoplearestrange wrote:Chancing around anyone that looks like sec being a pain

what could possibly go wrong

srifenbyxp · Post by **srifenbyxp** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:42 pm #119018

give me about $900 ($500-600 for Printing|Color|Misc Materials [$200 for labor]) and i'll make a full size Fluke Op Armor + Bulldog shotgun. 3D printed and color sprayed. I've been meaning to make it anyways for the next comic-con. It costed me $145 after taxes to 3d print a Hybrid taser and all dat shits going to be a tall order. Whoever won my taser that day of my battle royal is one lucky duck.

callanrockslol · Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:26 am

3d printing a hardsuit sounds like pain. Anything involving lots of weirdly moving parts and a 3d printer sounds like pain for that matter.

If someone is crazy enough to go for it there better be freaky red lights in the mask for spookiness.

peoplearestrange · Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:52 pm

EndgamerAzari wrote:
peoplearestrange wrote:Got me a nice blue toolbox now to robust some heads. The plot thickens.

Also yes maybe cable cuffs, a multitool might be a tad harder to make though...
Try a stud finder:

Spoiler:

The line of handyman vs spacehobo is starting to blur even more...
But still, yeah that kinda works.

Cuboos · Post by **Cuboos** » Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:29 pm #119117

Go as a sec officer and have a friend go as a clown, then beat the clown in front of everyone as they all look on in confusion.

peoplearestrange · Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:37 am

So I got my insulated gloves in the post, and just waiting for the toolbox to be delivered.

I'm going to make a Nanotrasen patch (I know its not sprited, but it'll help give the jumpsuit something more). I've got an embroided patch with N on it, and then I'll add the like triangle marks to finish it.

Gloves:

Spoiler:

Toolbox:

Spoiler:

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:28 pm #119376

Are you going to bloodstain that toolbox

peoplearestrange · Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:56 pm

Thats actually a nice idea. I'll crack the old paint out at some point, cheers!

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:03 pm #119395

As nice as that toolbox is, the in-game sprite is a far more saturated shade of blue. I'd consider repainting it to make it look a bit more cartoonesque.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:40 pm #119405

some suggestions i could make/agree with:
-clown/sec chase
-flu cops/cap chase
-clown and mime (maybe in eva suits or something)

are you going specifically for a /tg/station theme or just ss13 in general? nothing really seems to stand out to me as iconic in ss13 that couldn't be easily misunderstood for something else in the op.

it'd be hard to pull off, but maybe a secborg or someshit? i dunno, im not that good with cosplay