Well, there are ones in glasses so may, MAY think about a pair of those under my gogs but not sure as yet.....

Ok so my first update on my costume this weekend, I spent parts of it working on my equipment in between tidying up and things. I bought this from the net which although it looks pretty good (boys back me up) it isn't an accurate representation of the MP5K, so, without going into too much detail why unless anyone is interested, I started my modifications.



Firstly it's a 1:1 scale hollow plastic model so is very fragile and weighs next to nothing, the MP5K as used in Resident Evil and Resident Evil Apocolypse by the UBCS troops weighs 2kg so I decided to use filler inside to bolster the model and give it the right weighting. The insides of this toy vibrate and make sounds so there were some wires etc that I simply left in




Once this was done I could start getting creative, the silencer that comes with it pushes on to the front of the toy but the muzzle isn't right for the real one so I cut this off first, coming back to it later. I knew I wanted it to have three rails, one for a maglite one for a laser sight and one for a holographic sight but I wasn't paying £20 a rail for something that I am really only going to use once so I thought I would prefabricate them out of aluminium. I used a Dremel tool and cut three, 6 inch pieces of 20mm wide aluminium and copied a popular design to make it look meaner than a piece of aluminium by cutting grooves and holes along the edges and removing the four corners to give it character.




I cut a couple of plastic 15mm pipe clips down to size so the maglite was snug, I didn't want to use fastened clips as I thought about my character and I would want to be able to remove the torch easily if I needed to



Using a blank first I had a mess around with the torch fitting and then added the rail mount to the top for the holographic, you can see they are raw with only the holes for fixing currently drilled through;





Once I knew they fit and the rails worked I masked the aluminium up so as no to scratch it, marked it out and drilled my holes, then backed the edges off so they were not sharp and took the corners off. I then spray painted them matt black - two coats, and a single coat of satin varnish spray to stop them getting too knocked about. I sprayed the plastic pipe clips for the maglite too;





While I was waiting for all that to dry I went back to the body that had hardened somewhat now with the filler inside, the muzzle was next but I was scratching my head a bit as to how I was going to firstly plug the hole I had cut in the front of the toy and secondly what I could use to make it look like the movie prop. A couple of google searched later and I noticed the front had a hex like shape, I assume for attachments like the siliencer. I have a quick rummage and found the perfect item, a 9mm socket wrench so I carried out the necessary cleaning on the toy and sealed it in;








After that I went back to my reference picture and filled all the screw fixtures that are not present on the prop so it looks cleaner ready to be sanded back when it is dry and then spray coated;



So now I have to wait I think i'll go watch Dawn of the Dead :laugh:

Quick update, my Umbrella Corporation dog tags arrived today :happy:



Going to get silencers for them and a blank one stamped with something as a keepsake for the Zombie event too

Hehehe...You...me...and my comrades would get along nicely. Look at my pic to see half my outfit in use... >:3

Hahah that's awesome I only just noticed that! I had been looking for an Umbrella forum or something long those lines to post in too - finishing off my MP5K and starting on my Viper assault vest tomorrow when I get back from Batman :happy:

Ok pic heavy apologies it wouldnt let me make a college
First set of shots are making the attachment point for the sling but i think i may change this
Then cutting off the old magazine to install a banana magazine with secondary mag
Masked it up for spraying so the metal parts look glossy like metal
Then put the torch, scope and red dot sight on, i quite like it
Finishing touches will be red masking tape around the magazines for 'live' rounds as homage to Die Hard and a better sling attachment point as well as painting the markings on the trigger frame for the firing modes
Oh and i put my patrol cap with Umbrella pin badge in the shot too :happy:














Part two coming up

And so this weekends update;

Made two grenades
FInished off the MP5
Recoloured my flakjak (mil-spec) goggles
Made my green, red and blue herbs for my med kit, sadly my syringes didn't arrive so that is this weeks task with the sewing machine :happy:

Oh and my fist bump to Die Hard red tape round the mags on the MP5 if you can see it if it came out on here ok