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- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43why do i have the feeling that dude spends a LOT of time in that costume. i mean, it's cool, sure but .. yeah.
- LtCarter47, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38wow, that font is ***** annoying
- ntnwwnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Where the hell is the "HOW TO"?
All I saw were pictures of him in the suit. - culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36It could be the 8000 pictures he posts of himself wearing them. Just a guess.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35As a side note, nate will never get laid
- zclip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Yup. Impact is one of those typefaces that should be deleted from computers worldwide. Along with Papyrus, Comic Sans and Papyrus.
- tripm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I like the girl whos costume is "someone kicked me in the face"
- Zinite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Who's got claws? Oh yea, that's right... NATE'S GOT CLAWS!
- phatvolvo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+131) have powers of abnormally fast healing
2) get adamantium fused with your skeleton
...
3) profit? - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Well, those claws are a lot better than the previous post about Wolverine today. At least these don't look like knitting needles
- pixelsoup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13natedogg?
What a dork. - desimaniac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10its not him..its the claws...
- DannySpace, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Awesome!
Below, you will find accurate plans on how to construct Wonder Woman's jet airplane!
Have fun with them! - AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What's his name again? I don't think it was mentioned enough for me to remember.
- garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well you know something is wrong when they are all drinking Keystone light....
- arthurbarnhouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6depending on the state, rt seems like your begging to be arrested in this costume.
- culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I can only imagine how much fun it would be to show that transformation off a couple hundred times at a party.
- slammerama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I dont know what was more scary, the fact people use that crappy font or that there are people like him living amonst us.
- kida001, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8what a ***** loser
- AngryBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Maybe its the 8,000 pictures of himself, or maybe that he refers to himself in third person, but something about this guy screams narcissism.
- calderson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Chicks dig claws, especially dudes that spend 40+ hours making them - "allow myself to cockblock... myself"
- tafkase7en, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's safe..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that's pretty strong coming from a digger
- websyndicate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5sorry but its alittle gay
- kazuhiro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Nate is the new Star Wars kid.
- ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lol, i noticed the cheep0 beerz too.
nasty. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nice costume, I probably would have covered the mechanical bit with longer sleeves or something though
But then I don't have the imagination or drive to do anything like this is the first place - evolseven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what?? all i get from your post.. is that no one cares that a drunk guy has claws on.. and something about having unprotected sex with some coffee..
- inotocracy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sigh, lol
- Sesse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He had cutlery tied to his hands with strings. ;p
- xSPACEMANxSPIFF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What a KNOB
- RWVolkl158, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A friend of mine who recently graduated from Purdue's engineering program actually made a set of pneumatic wolverine claws, getting him banned from the engineering workshop or whatnot for the rest of his college career except for very restricted/observed periods of time for his senior design project (luckily he made these later in his college career)... They were totally worth it =)
- hifiDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's a readable version of the important text since Impact rendered that page unreadable:
As many of you know, Nate decided to be Wolverine for Halloween...
Many of you may also know that Nate spent ENTIRELY too much time working on the Extendable / Retractable claws for his outfit, as well as the outfit itself. The outfit was visualized, conceived, and conceptualized entirely by Nate, as were the claws. However, Nate did pick up quite a bit of help along the way as friends came forward to participate in the creation of what many said was "The most accurate costume I have ever seen..."
For this reason, Nate's special thanks goes out to (in no particular order): Diane, Zarah, JJ, Jamey, Nate's Grandpa, Lauren, Nate's Mom and Dad, and the 3rd Person Perspective. Now, let's begin the journey...
Nate used Photoshop to enlarge an image of Wolverine's claws from the X-Men movie that he had downloaded. This allowed him to print out the image until it fit exactly onto the 1" x 1/8" Aluminum Flat Bar that he had purchased for creating the claws. Once the basic shape was on paper, Nate traced around it onto a piece of wood that he had cut to 1" x 13", which was the calculated maximum length of the claws. This length was determined to be the longest length that could fit on the back of Nate's forearm. Once the wood had been traced, Nate gathered up his aluminum and headed to his Grandfather's barn, where he cut the wood out on a band saw, sanded it on a vertical standing belt sander, and used it to trace out the aluminum claws. The aluminum claws were then cut out VERY CAREFULLY on the band saw and sanded lightly on the belt sander. The next step was to put each claw under the wire brush wheel to give them a "brushed aluminum" finish, which Nate determined would look closest to "adamantium", which Wolverine's claws are actually made out of.
The next step was to mount the claws to a ball-bearing track that could be hooked to the back of Nate's forearm. The track was created from a sliding keyboard tray. The slider on the track was modified to be much shorter, and use only 8 ball bearings. Bolts were put through the slider on the track and then some galvanized metal was bent and hack-sawed to make the right shape for attaching the first claw. This required drilling holes through each galvanized metal piece and matching holes in the first claw. Once the first claw was fitted to the track, 2 other claws were then drilled to match the first, and 3" and 3.5" bolts were used with nuts, split washers, washers, and locking nuts to to space the claws apart and keep them tightly affixed to each other and subsequently to the track. Once this was complete, screws were added through the bottom of the track so that the slider could not slide out of the track (to avoid killing innocent bystanders). Pictured above the the fully extended claws on the track.
The next step was to create a way to attach the tracks to Nate's arms. ...and Nate thought growing facial hair was hard! The eventual solution was to cut fabric left over from creating the pads for the X-Men suit into harnesses for the claws. The piece under Nate's wrist buttons into place so that the claw tracks can be held VERY tight, but still be possible to put on. The fabric was sewn to the tracks through holes that Nate drilled in key locations. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Turn off the flash!!! Turn offfff the flaaaash!!
- xakaxunknownx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so OLD!
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks, dad
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1- He needs a howto for the costume. It's ugly.
- Just before the last picture, did his claw come out on the girl on his left... Look at her face. - ericeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He's either going to hurt himself, hurt someone else, or not be allowed into comic-con next year...
Either way, interesting little device-- just hope he doesn't slice his hand open. - steponsnyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1could we get some video?
- elvisdechico, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1next fark photoshop cliche, right there
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sharp retractable objects certainly go extremely well with one of Halloween's most famous past-times: drinking till you can't feel feelings.
- aule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried, I can't even RTFA because of the font... brutal
- DFrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool pics, but that guy is way in love with himself. Dang. It's very gay.
- marklar69, on 10/12/2007, -14/+15OMG hes the coolest evar!!111
- PhantomZmoove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Right! My fault, I guess I should have re-watched it again before commenting.
Sorry about that. - zeiben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What a tool
- giveaphuk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i think these are heaps cooler..
http://modblog.bmezine.com/2006/08/10/wolverine-or-freakboy/ - sillywampa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just hope he doesnt accidentally extend those while in a crowd. Or if he has them out and suddenly sneezes and stabs himself in the face. ouch. really cool costume, great ingenuity to create them, but damn that could be dangerous.
- HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1very.. very..old...link...
but hey! XD
I love the idea, but what I did notice is that the inverted colours make him look more like NightCrawler, than Wolverine :P - chess007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If someone made plans as to how to make claws (not as to how to make wolverine claws which would get your ass sued) they could sell them online and make $. Or if you want to make it to the digg homepage do a step by step workup on makeing retractable claws, and post them somewhere. :)
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