My 1/1 scale Zira outfit

[jessica]

Status:
Chimp shoes: 100% complete.
Green jacket: 100% complete.
Brown undergarment: 100% complete.
Wig: purchased!
Hair pieces: augmented!!
Brown nailpolish: purchased.
Apemania Zira Appliance...painted! Needs to be glued down onto my face. Yay!

Purchased: grease makeup, Pros-Aide, additional hair pieces, black tooth enamel, makeup fixative, pancake makeup

Unveiling: February 28, 2009!!!

I am so excited. Once I'm glued under the appliance, let's see how long I can take it. Hopefully for an entire day.

[txteach]

I can't wait to see you in it. you should post a pic of you in your UFO moonbase outfit. Very sexy.

[Hotfoot]

What a Tease you are!

[Lynn TXP 0369]

Here is a site to help you out if you don't already know about it.
Display Mannequins
You can get stuff for your outfit there to if needed..

Lynn

[Mikey]

I can't wait to see it !!!

[jessica]

I keep changing my mind about the color of the brown underdress. Should I go with a lighter brown as from Escape or should I go with a darker brown as in the actual 1968 movie? Ugh!!! Decisions...decisions!! I am sooooooo confused.....maybe that's why I have not started the undergarment yet.

[kryptosmaster]

Why be like every other Zira? Just hit the thrift store and you can be 70's Zira.
Rich

[jessica]

That outfit is for 2011 (if I can manage to keep my shape).

2010 is going to be Ape-O-Naut Zira.

[kryptosmaster]

Actually now that I think of it, that Escape pantsuit (or whatever it was) would be a pretty neat outfit for a Mego Zira.
Rich

[jessica]

Why be like every other Zira? Just hit the thrift store and you can be 70's Zira.
Rich

http://philippe.heurtel.info/ImagesSinges/F3Zira.jpg

I can easily MacGuyver this outfit, including the swing jacket, since I've already made it in 1/6 scale.

And...I can re-use my chimp boots! Bonus!!

[thunderbolt]

This thread is usless... WITHOUT PICS!!! Can't wait to see it. And now I want to see the UFO moonbase pic, too!!

[Bizarro Amy]

This is going to be great Jessica. Do you ever go to comicons or cosplay events? I think you'd be a big hit.

[jessica]

This is going to be my first ever comicon, the Wondercon in San Francisco this coming February. The makeup artist/actor, Dan Morgan, is also going to be in full ape regalia and he will be wearing a chimp outfit made by Paula Crist for Bill Blake, including his shoes so I will officially have a "date." (Thought I would have to send out an SOS to the Apes Yahoo group to see if somebody would appear as Cornelius for me, but Dan saved the day so I won't have to go it alone. Dan said he was mobbed last year and that's kind of neat and scary at the same time.)

[GAFan]

Can't we see some in progress pics of the pieces? Could be in the Custom section, but I'd like to see them. Also got to include before and after pics in February.

[jessica]

Cornelius at Wondercon, courtesy of Flickr. (That's not me).


This is me under the goop to get a lifemold:


Me with Apemania's raw Zira appliance on my face before it's been properly painted and glued down. I have no idea how the Zira appliance will look, the one that Tom Rubalcava will sculpt. Dan will cook up the foam latex and it should fit like a glove since it will be sculpted over a cast of my face. I hope it looks just as good if not better. I anxiously await.



The chimp boots that I made. It is a pair of pink clod hoppers covered with Crayola Magic Sculpt and then covered in a rich brown fabric. A zipper runs down the back of the shaft for easy on and off.


A closeup of the chimp inner sleeves which I wove:



Here are the boots in the process of getting a rubber sole, a cut-up car mat. I was going to use leather but somebody had reminded me that wet leather on tile floors are very slippery.