Pick up that can, Citizen - a WIP of a Metrocop
 

City 17 Civil Protection (AKA metrocop) from half-life 2.


It still isn't finished but I have enough parts thus far to actually get the impression. I am aware my hair sticks out of the top, but that is because it is a TIGHT fucking mask. Unbearably tight, actually. They come in one size, but CCCP people have small fucking heads.

To get this straight right away, unlike the Master chief armour I do plan on selling this one on ebay eventually. I need it to fund my IRON MAN armour I am working on for Halloween.
I am tentively coming to a zombie game with as a headcrab zombie.

To do list

• Chest and shoulder reflectors
• Gloves
• duty belt
• combine rank sleeve
• reflective lenses
• head cowl (back of mask)
• voice box
• Get Freeman

I was screwing around with a green screen a week ago using some of the parts I had then. It's was just me screwing around so It doesn't make any sense.

Haha nice, I was thinking of doing one of the Combine Elite but no time or moneh.

rofl I did not notice the cat at first. cats expression "ohh this guys antics".
That mask looks really good. IIRC the HL2 guy was bulkier, so hit the weights and get MASSIVE!!!

edit:
hmm after finding pic, they were not massive at all, just thier gear made them look big.
http://www.mtv.com/games/video_games...alf_life_2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...binepolice.jpg

Not really. This is Civil protection. Those guys are still actual homo-sapiens and are a normal build.

Hahaha!
Original.

I love the cat and the "oh well, gogles fit but ruin the look" expression.

yeah how game legal would it be if you took a pair of safety polycarbonate and cut out circles and epoxy it from the inside of the mask? Then you could keep the original look.

OK, done updating the OP(s) for today. More updates when I get more stuff done on it.

FYI this load out is actually for a short fanfilm I am involved with and we are looking to put together a few more, but we have money troubles at the moment so I am claiming this as my own. I am still waiting on a neck protector from the person I bought the vest because it was missing.

nice, love the cat

Fuckin' awesome! Almost as cool as the halo armor ;)

Nice!
I love Half-life 2, you'll need to edit those shoulders quite a bit, and get two belts if you want to make it look more to the picture.

Give me measurements for the mask, I could make you ballistic lenses :)

Also, those masks are available in many different sizes.

I really like the cat gun, do you think LeGros from shootSOFT can get me one?

this EFG style thread makes me lol

hahah Laser cats are the bomb. :) I wasn't the only person to see that episode of SNL was I?

In other news:

Waiting on a belt and a voice changer. Everything else is assembled. I was planning on having a tape recorded playing overwatch sound files but the MP3 player I was going to use is busted. Sorry it this post was hard to read, I am dyslexianating like crazy for some reason today... (see :( )

The neck protector is still missing because [removed - issue resolved] is being... unresponsive. I am giving him the benefit of the doubt because he seems like a nice guy but I seriously can't wait another month for this because I may have a date with some pirates and aliens on june 14th. I hope I don't have to open a trade dispute if it goes past that.

Lol Nice job, I used to have the exact same mask. Gooood times

MAN HACKS. Installed a voice box into the mask. This was recorded by sticking it against my PC mic.

This is the box I used. I spliced some to build it into the mask.

The monster setting is for combine.

Oh My God!
You are my friggin hero.
I love that costume.
<3
That cat gun is beyond hilarious. lol.
I should make a Gordon Freeman suit and come crowbar fight you

That audio sounds pretty awesome actually. That's all you right?

Yep. All me done live through the cheapo box. Basically switching between the monster setting for CP, Ghost for Overwatch and robot/alien for the alarms and beeps. Since it's shoulder mounted it looks like I am talking into so I can hold onto it and switch no problem.

Man that thing is really coming along. I love it more and more each time I see it.

that audio is freaking amazing!

Need to come up with a better solution for the white though. The duct tape looks awful up close. Can't sew for shit though.

y halo there.

xenu says "time 4 tax inspection"

That's amazing

That's affirmative. I ordered one.

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e.../Smokey079.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...h/DSC_0107.jpg

http://digg.com/world_news/Scientolo...ounter_protest

forget about it!

I think I saw you yesterday (?), I was just walking by with a friend to grab some lunch, and noticed one person in that gas mask.

Move along, citizen.

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...Arrrgh/019.jpg

dispute is over.

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2757/sl381428el5.jpg

Here is a picture of it with the neck protector on my crappy stick mannequin

You can see I redesigned the shoulder strips to be reflective tape on velcro instead of the crappy duct tape job I did originally

I wanna make a Combine Soldier now... thanks alot Moz :P

coooooool

That's awesome dude. You must come up with some nice Halloween costumes. Are you planning on painting the mask?

Now, about that pulse rifle....

No offense but I'd be all "WTF" seeing you on the streets.

What the cop say about your outfit?

Dood. That's some awesome shit.

I've had many requests. but I am not doing any comissions for the gas mask. Not until I can find a local supplier for the voice changer and figure out a way to make the head cowl adjustable. Both of those things would increase the price quite a bit.

I know of the top of my head to by the mask and voice changer locally is already 60-65 bucks. Headphones/sunglasses put me back another 30 bucks and the materials for the cowl can range in the 30-50 dollar range. Depends what I make it out of. (currently considering sheet metal)

Do you really want to spend 150+ labour on a gas mask?

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6...kvsmaskox4.jpg

edit: forgot the cost of rewiring the voice box to accept 3.5mm mini jack

edit 2: thinking of all this interest I wonder how much the thing will fetch on ebay. The reserve would at least be the cost of materials so I could either make another one or pay for my four disfigured and damaged wisdom teeth to be removed.

:(

The cop pic is nothing short of pure gold.
I love the pose and the amused look on the policeman's face.
I'm really interested in hearing what the cop said :)


Reminds me of Harajuku :)

he actually tried his best to ignore me. I couldn't hear shit so if he said something I missed it.

you called for me :P ?

Threw together the dailies of today into a teaser video.

It was mainly a test for duplication. (hint, there is only one costume) and we found a few pitfalls, possibility and restrictions. The final product is at least 2-3 weeks away.

Moz, that is possibly one of the most awesome things I have seen in along time.

Great video!! Even if it's just a short little teaser that's some awesome editing!

this was posted in the Forums a while ago, and well it fits right in here too.

Toronto, City 7 in HL:2

that mod is awful. absolutely awful. Don't play it. It has the difficulty curve of a brick wall. The last level has 300+ combine soldiers and elites and will just crash your computer. (I guess they managed to mess up the respawns so they are unlimited) The gameplay is repetative and drawn out. If you want to see toronto, just put on god mode.

more updates:

Due to technically issues we had to put off shooting the interview, so this footage wont be used, Still unsure if we want to go unmasked or masked, since people might think the CP are aliens and not get that they are just brownshirt humans.


We also found our actor's tom cruise impersonation less impressive than advertised.

I wish I had a gordon freeman kit.

That mod is Beyond Awful... its probably the worst mod made.. and i'm not kidding. I could shit on a warm banana covered with mustard and playing with that longer than wanting to even see that mod.
But I digress....
Video was wicked and Loving the outfit. Keep on keepin' on Moz!

new and improved interview:

may i ask, what the fuck is on your head?

This is hilarious!!! I want a cat gun too, but i think 20pds would be too heavy to carry!!! lol and the cops, lol, he had some good humour, lol Thanks for making us laugh...

Outstanding work Moz!

now its a feature story on Kotaku

http://kotaku.com/5048802/keep-human...ombine-costume

It's someone in BC. Which one of you fuckers was the winning bid?

Very glad to be keeping it in Canada. Especially when it was obvious one of the bidders was a scammer bot who kept trying to outbid the actual person at 20 dollar intervals about 5 minutes apart. Guess they timed it wrong because a real person with actual eBay history managed to slip by.

Going to invest this money into my next film which will involve Halo. I have the costume from last year and now I have the funds to rebuild it to screen quality.

Plus I can actually pay people on my crew which will be nice!

Dunno if I can do another scientology slant in a halo movie but I am not to concerned about that. I wouldn't be suprised if that scammer was OSA anyway.

Edit: if anyone does have an interesting angle to take the halo idea I'd like to hear it.

that's just straight thug

hey, I saw your Metrocop outfit. It looks great. I am very interested on how you made it because I am making my own. Thanks

please can u help me.

i try to make one of my own and i wanna know how did you change lens with mirror sunglass lens. did u pull out original one to replace it or just put it over original.

thanks

you can e-mail me your answer at sven_cote@hotmail.com