So as you can tell things have been kind of dead here at ARTRS that’s mostly due to the fact that every waking moment for the past month or so ive been working on a costume for myself.
Well I finally got it done Friday night. So here is the fruits of my labor.
A while ago I came up with an idea to make myself a cool steampunk costume. But I wasn’t really sure why direction to go with. Ultimately I settle on “DUST PUNK” which is like steampunk of the wild west.
The best example of DUST PUNK can actually be seen in the mostly awful Will Smith movie “Wild Wild West”. But I can never just do something simply. No I needed a character and a background for him. So that’s how I came up with Graham Stahl.
Graham was a member of the USArmy before deserting the force to hunt for gold in Wyoming. This didn’t work out for him and he took up a life of crime and started stealing and then cobbling together the things he stole from others.
The main gauntlet on my left arm is an amazing GatlingGun built for me by a fantastic leather worker/steampunker RJ FOSTER. Look for him on my facebook page. Dude is incredible. From there I started messing around and ended up making a leather Bandito mask.
I added some gears and cogs to my straw cowboy hat and fished out my old “armor” that has been gathering dust for years and I was rocking and rolling. Finally I found an amazing nerf gun from Goodwill that I painted into a kind of “golden gun” and fabricated a leather holster for it.
The final edition was some “E L WIRE” that I bought from Amazon for like 10 bucks after shipping.
Graham isn’t a one hit wonder, I’ll keep tinkering with his gear and may add some more E L wire yet!
So thats where I’ve been, be on the look out for updates to MODERN HERO and SAVIOR very soon!
Ric Susman