Shift, no doubt you’ve heard of it, but not so many people have played Survivors and find out what actually happened. Hope (plus a few remaining scientists and security guards) to save all You have been assigned to assist in an experiment involving a new Gordon Freeman a research scientist working at theīlack Mesa Federal Research Facility, a decommissioned missile base. Should already know the basic story- but Ill tell for those that have been
Next, my wife had some old modeling wire mesh that I glued to the visor just to get a base for the foam.Of the most famous games ever made, released on the PC way back inġ997/’98- it was considered groundbreaking and winner of 50 awards, I knew I wanted to have the whole thing mounted on a flip-up face protection visor, so I went out and purchased one of those at Home Depot. Fortunately for me, this was a good project on which to learn this lesson, because the added bumpiness makes it looks better, in my opinion. One crucial detail I learned the hard way, however, was that fiberglass resin acts as a solvent for foam. But, I researched a few things and forged ahead. Being brand new to this method, I was actually quite unaware of what a pain in the ass fiberglass can be to work with. Having seen it done in other admirable props, I decided to make the plunge and go foam / fiberglass for the first time. I considered sewing a plushie together, perhaps with some kind of gloss to it so that it was squishy yet had a sheen like some kind of organic, but I ultimately settled on something more solid. I refused to use the headcrab hat that Valve sells, as that seems to simple a cop-out. It took me a fair while to decide how I was going to approach the headcrab and what I ultimately wanted to use for its construction. That's easy enough to find and acquire, though. The fingers are elongated and usually blackened, so a simple gloved solution presents itself. I'm forgoing the eviscerated torso in the interest of time, because the headcrab itself will likely be fairly time-consuming. I opted for the former, so I required a lab coat. In Half-Life 2, they were just civilians in civilian-issue clothes.
Both headcrabs and the sad sods whose minds they've taken over (hereafter referred to as headcrab zombies) are enemies in the Half-Life series of games.Īs noted above, in Half-Life 1, the victims were formerly scientists at the Black Mesa research facility. So I opted for another iconic Half-Life costume: the Headcrab Zombie.įor those who don't know, headcrabs are small annoying quadrupedal parasites whose bodies consist of a big udnerbelly mouth and no eyes. These little buggers walk around and lunge at you, with the idea being that they swallow your head and (through some implicated cranial penetration) bend you to their will. Also, I'm losing my hair a bit and nobody wants to see a balding Gordon. Now that we have a house together and I have room to do extensive costuming, I'm back in business! So what do I do? A Half-Life costume! But I've seen some Gordon Freeman costumes online and, honestly, not many impressed me. But life wound up making me put that project to rest when I moved to a small apartment with my (then) girlfriend (who is now my wife) and space was simply not available. Originally, I wanted to do Gordon Freeman, and I even got so far as printing out the giant pepakura model and started gluing a bunch of cut-out polygons together. So for a long time I've wanted to make a Half-Life costume.