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[h0gwash]

I know it's nearly thanksgiving, but I finally got a chance to take pics of our costumes, all made from thrift store finds. Mike is "The barbarian" from Diablo III, and I am wearing 4 pairs of pantyhose on my chest and arms. This costume was nearly as much fun as my pirate costume when I was eight!

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[furr_a_bruin]

Great costumes - I've never had the imagination or talent to create such things, so I pretty much gave up on Halloween costumes when I was 12-13 or so and "cute little kid" costumes lost their appeal. ;)

[h0gwash]

Just thinking of the costume can take a long time. It took me six years to realize I should dress up as the character I'd been scribbling idly for nearly two decades.

It also takes a huge amount of time to build, especially if you can't use a sewing machine like me, so Mike and I will refine these costumes for several years. I built two pairs of fiberglass horns but never got around to incorporating them into the costumes. Maybe next year.

[barbarian_rat]

You and Mike look great.

Glad the Pharmacy classes are coming to and end - a new job is just around the corner ...

Sorry to hear about the Ranchero.

[h0gwash]

I had a lot of fun shopping at every thrift store in town all October. I was surprised at the quality of stuff at the very beginning of the month. Mike's hat was $4.99. My beard wig was $3.99 just a week before Halloween, and I had to trim it down by a third because it was too huge. I also used maybe 7-8 cans of spray paint on the fur, the sheet vinyl for Mike's pleather, my beard, and my chest. I always smell like chemicals on Halloween.

[broduke2000]

Not that I'm knocking movies, but your $3.99 beard wig looks real! It looks much better than alot of older movies that I've seen.

[h0gwash]

I twice got asked "Is that (the beard) real?"

[broduke2000]

Wow! I'm mentally wetting both of you!

Sorry about the tranny.

[h0gwash]

Mike's costume had an unusual constraint, it had to conceal his urostomy bag yet allow for easy eptying, which required a bunch of fittings. Me, I'm glad it's a mental wetting, because piss would make my chest hair run. I'm meeeeelting, I'm meeeeelting!!

[barbarian_rat]

LOL

[progbear]

Aww...you guys are so cute in your costumes!

And I’m glad I’m not the only one who had fun as a pirate as a kid during Halloween.

[h0gwash]

My costume was an interesting investigation into a kind of inflationism- while this muscle suit doesn't inflate and is made of foam shaped with an electric knife, spray glued to a long sleeved T shirt and covered in pantyhose, there was always the very fun question "how big can I make it?"

If I were to do it again, I would make the arms much bigger up top, and be sure I didn't elongate the torso and detract from the barrel chested profile.