Hi I am such a huge fan of your Soundwave cosplay, absolutely legendary and I dream of the day it’s for sale.
Till then I have a most ambitious dream that you might save me a lot of time on. I am a welder and have amassed a stockpile material to make a metal cosplay suit. Do you have templates or drawings or anything really of the Soundwave cosplay?
The biggest trouble I’ve been having is with figuring out his plating and if you had any sort of sketches or planning I could use I’d be eternally grateful. I totally understand if it’s classified/non-disclosable/etc.
You folks are legends among Transformers cosplayers and rightfully so. Most amazing work!!
Thank you! I'm glad you like our work! I don't see us selling our suits any time soon, but we're always glad to help anyone making their own! We have no secrets here
Soundwave's plating is really complicated. One of the pieces that wraps around his side took us almost 3 hours to pattern! There's one thing like that in every cosplay, it seems... I'm not sure where our actual templates are right now, and they would take time to photograph since they're quite large, but we do have a process album that shows a lot of his pieces close up, and how the layers go together. We also used the Art of Prime book, which is sadly out of print and really expensive now. However! One of the artists who worked on it has pages on deviantart, so here is Soundwave's.
A metal cosplay of Soundwave is going to be very heavy, but you probably know that. Ours is mostly foam with a bit of metal for strength and moving joints, and it weighs probably 40 or 50 pounds.
If I do manage to dig out any of our sketches or templates, I'll reblog with pictures, but in the meantime, feel free to ask any questions that come up. I can't wait to see what you make!
~Mod Starscream
