Jet Jaguar and Rodan
By: Jordan Twining

Jet Jaguar
2nd place in the G-Fest`2000 Costume Contest

Costume Height: 6 feet, 4 inches

Made for: The G-Fest`2000 Costume Contest

Made of: Body is made of foam rubber and fabric. Head is made of chicken wire, paper machete, duct tape, laytext paint, seam cement, spray paint, popsicle sticks, wood, glue, and buttons.

How long it took to make: About 4 and 1/2 months

How I made the suit: My costume was very difficult to build, especially the head. The arms, legs, chest, waist, and neck were all foam rubber sewn inside different colors of fabric to give it that bumpy look. The helmet, however, was constructed completely different. I started off by taking a cast of my head with chicken wire, and built up on it with paper machete to get the shape of the head. The teeth are spray painted popsicle sticks glued to the inside of the head and the eyes are an old see through halloween mask. The antenna in the head are pieces of wood I cut out and glued on. The bolts in the head are old buttons I found and glued on. After I got all that done, I added a layer of seam cement, which wasn't very good cause the helmet began to crack. So instead I added a few layers of latex paint and finally added gray spraypaint.

Rodan
3rd place in the G-Fest`2001 Costume Contest

Costume Height: 7 feet, 1 inch

Costume Wingspan: 8 feet, 6 inches

Made for: The G-Fest`2001 Costume Contest

Made of: Body is made entirely of foam rubber with some duct tape and lots of glue. Head is made of ice cream buckets, a small soccer ball, paper machete, pieces of milk jugs, duct tape, seam cement, laytext paint, and spray paint. Claws and eyes are made of wood.

How long it took to make: About 3 months

How I made the suit: This suit was even more difficult than the Jet Jaguar suit, especially the body. The head was reletively easy to make now that I had the hang of it. I started off with two ice cream buckets and a small soccer ball all duct taped together for something to build up on. Then I built up on it with paper machete and pieces of old milk jugs to get the shape of the head, beak, and horns. Then I covered the whole thing with a few layers of laytex paint and added a little seam cement here and there to fill some cracks. I then spray painted it the color I wanted and added the eyes which were made of wood. Everything besides the head and claws (claws were made of sanded down wood) was made of foam rubber. It took a lot of glue and duct tape to get this thing to hold together and it seemed to do pretty well except for a few stress spots where the costume liked to rip a little.