Renee's Darth Vader Tie fighter costume 2015.

Decided to write up this year's halloween costume builds.  Before I do that, I want to post about some of the previous costume builds.  I didn't document them as well as I hope to document this year's builds.  

So here's Renee's Darth Vader Tie fighter (Tie Advanced X1).

It's the same idea as Julia's X-wing costume.  It has suspenders for around the neck to have the ship from.  The cape is from my costume and the mask and chest box are from a hasbro toy from e-bay.  The chest box has a lot sound effects - breathing sound and clips from the movies.

I don't have too many intermediate pictures of the Tie.  It had to come together quickly because I was running out of time.  I painted the strip section black then taped over it and the rattle-can sprayed the rest of it gray.  The raised relief of the pilot window was also made free hand.  I cut 8 trapezoids and then angled them up to a circle.  I had to trim a bit here and there to get them to align.

The grey bars are foam tubing you'd use to insulate a door or window frame with, you by like 30' coiled up in a bag at Home Depot for like $4.

The last bit was to take gray pipe insulating foam and stick it to the leading edge.  Originally I was going to make it go all the way around but I had a hard time getting it to stick without straightening out.

Lord Vader is ready to smite the rebelion and get some tasty candy while (s)he's at it.