Dragoncon has come and gone and I've had a brilliant thought. A lot of my friends are Doctor Who fans and I've seen some affordable Ood masks online. I'm orchestrating a group Ood cosplay for next year's Dcon!
I hope to have the prototype costume prepared by Halloween. Currently I have a mask on the way and am researching outfits from various online vendors.
I wont be matching the Ood suits from the show. That's just difficult, expensive, and tedious. However, since the Ood were servants to a variety of people, I'm sure there were Ood out there in different uniforms. So I'll be looking at inexpensive serving jackets, pants, gloves, and shoes. The cheaper I can make the uniform, the easier it will be for my friends to put it together. I'm going to try to keep the cost down under $100 for the full setup. If I can achieve half of that, I'll be ecstatic.
The mask I ordered is located here.
The mask will require some work. Possible alterations include:
Gluing in a piece of flesh toned fabric along the back seam and also a couple of magnetic strips so that things like the back of our necks and hair aren't visible. The strip magnets will keep it all in place.
Cutting out the eyes, sealing the existing eye slits, and dropping in some LED lit carbonate lenses for EVIL OOD mode.
Adding a little structural reinforcement to make the mask less floppy.
Gloss coating the face tentacles.
I'll be posting updates periodically. Hopefully I can get somewhere around 10 of my friends to do this with me and make a real presence at Dcon.
