Huntress – Birds of Prey (Bruce Timm style)

Made for: Superman Celebration 2009

Background: I’d had some Bruce Timm art of Huntress saved in my “Costume Possibilities” folder for a while, and finally had the chance to do it.

Journal Entries: Read more at my Huntress tag

Patterns Used: None

Leotard:
I bought the purple knit fabric online with the intention of dyeing, but I liked the tone of it so I decided to leave it. I made a couple of mockups of the suit with leftover spandex from other projects. The suit is lined, and I added the white trim, made of white spandex material.

Cape:
The cape I also made without a pattern, it snaps closed at the neck in the back. I originally sewed on some velcro in the front to keep the center vertical stripes lined up, but didn’t like how it looked so I removed it. All of the white trim I made out of white spandex.

Accessories:
The boots I bought online and made boot covers for. The belt was a belt blank dyed lavender, it snaps in the back. The belt accessories were all just random pieces found in the junk drawer that were painted and attached. The armbands and legbands he made using resin pieces, painted and attached to elastic. The crossbow was bought online and taken apart, and for the gloves, I made the upper section, then bought a pair of wrist-length gloves on ebay and dyed them to match (so I could take off just the hand section instead of the whole contraption if I needed to).

Mask:
We made a cast of my face, which was interesting. Once that was done, we vac-formed a piece of plastic around it, cut out the shape of the mask, and painted it. It’s nice and lightweight, I like it.

History: I’ve only worn this a couple of times, because I really want to go back and re-line the cape in a darker purple one day… so I keep putting off rewearing this until I finally get to doing that.

Progress Photos:

                       

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