Success!

It was down to the wire, but I finished the suit! And with less than a day to go before the competition, it was kind of hairy there for a while. Here is the finished product, in picture and video form!

My friend Tim is in the second pic to give you a sense of scale.  He's a little on the vertically challenged side, but I stand about 8"6' at the tip of my shoulders.

As you can see from the video and pictures, I've put a little more effort into the suit since you last saw it. I managed to wire it all up, including two more cathodes on the upper legs, which were made out of some spare foam board I had laying around.  I also put all the lights into the rest of the suit, and finished up the chestplate with a few of the highlighter tubes.  They looked pretty cool in my last round of pictures, so I just threw a bunch more on.  After that I went through and added electrical tape to detail a few areas, and was basically there!

Saturday, Curtis and his brother Mike, and his parents all headed to Turning Stone Casino for their annual costume competition.  There were four categories for costumes (Open, Scariest, Funniest, Team) and Curtis and I chose to enter different categories to avoid knocking each other out.  I entered Scariest (it is a giant attack robot suit, and people were certainly intimidated, if not scared).  I ended up taking second place, losing to a guy in a Ghost Rider outfit, complete with bike - but it was close.  Even at second place, I won $500!  I'll add more pictures of the competition once I get them from Curt's dad, sometime this week.

It's been a really amazing journey, and I'm very glad I made this suit.  We're already thinking about how to improve our costumes for next year, and after a few weeks off to rest, we'll be back at it.  Stay tuned for more, and thanks for reading!