10-11-2009, 04:09 PM
With halloween on the way I've decided to get round to puting together a costume I've thought about for a long time - my own maniac costume inspired by 80's slashers - in fact it could be thought of as an extreme Jason Voorhees makeover.Instead of Jason's famous hockey mask, I've always like the vintage Mylec hockey mask - so I picked one up, sanded it with coarse sandpaper, cut it with a stanley knife and weathered it up.I paired it with a cheap(ish), good-quality full head halloween mask - "Prince Charming" from Don Post Studios - this one's especially good because it has no slit up the back and it just looks like an 80's slasher.At the moment I've got it on a display head with some spare plastic eyes I had.<img src=\"http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/msbillen/Maniac1.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/msbillen/Maniac2.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/msbillen/Maniac3.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/msbillen/Maniac4.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" />The rest of the costume is to come.....