Rashguard Logos

Hey guys,

Not everyone wants a blue or purple rashguard, but most people want the rasguard logo.
Since the old costume hep thread has disappeared, I thought I'd upload some logos that I have.
Feel free to use them, I only ask that you credit me for these and don't claim them as your own.
Circles should be 4.25"

Enjoy!

-Awesome Lad

Halloween 2012

Hey guys,

Halloween is coming up and I thought share some aquabats related costumes ideas.
Video HERE.

AQUABATS UNIFORM:

Most of the uniform pieces can be found on the Aquabats website.

Helmet

Mask/Goggles

Rashguard blue/purple

They don't sell the belts, but you can always make one. 

FEOD Power Belt Tutorial (Coming Soon)

Super Show Belt Tutorial (made by Jexis)

You can also make a quick costume.

Helmet: Tutorial from Instructables

Goggles: "Tutorial"

Wristguards: Tutorial

Rashguard: Long sleeve shirt, paint on an A. Or Iron transfer it on.

For Uniform Recourses, Check out the Costume Help Thread on the Forum.

OTHER CHARACTERS:

Sandflea: Video Tutorial/Written Tutorial

Space Monster M:
Shave your head, or put on a bald cap.
Paint your head white.
Paint an M on your forehead.
Wear blackout contacts.
Wear all black clothing to simulate nothingness, and you'll look like a floating head(works best at night).

Floating Eye of Death: Noe Valladolid mad this fantastic costume for comic-con. (1)(2)

I talked to him briefly about how he made it, and heres what he told me:

The Eye was a 3' beach ball,
The tentacles were pool noodles(might be hard to find in off season),
The harness was elastic cord covered in pink duct tape.
The eyeball was help on with large velco strips.
Pink wire was used to hold all the arms together.

Eva Mudlark:

Her costume is pretty easy.
Arm Warmers
Belt(that she wears across chest)
Shorts, of the brown variety
Black and Blue "skinny" belts
Duct tape.
The tan tank top.
The black/grey shirt that's been cut into a tank top.
Glasses.
Boots
And badly apply makeup.

Optional:
Lab Coat
Orange Rubber Gloves

Large Yellow/Mustard Button-Up Shirt
Cheap Short Black Wig(badly put on)

I don't even know how to explain that donut store uniform...

RonMark:
DigiCamo Long Sleeve Shirt
"I AM AWESOME" Shirt used to be sold at H&M, but is no longer made. But you could always paint it one, iron on letters from a craft store, or get it made for you online or at one of those mall kiosks.
Ball Chain Necklace. My guess is around 3/8" diameter
Dog Tags His looked larger than normal one's, but I couldn't find it online.
Studded Bracelet
Jeans
I couldn't find his rings. He has two that are square, with black stars.

Martian Girl From Planet V: 

Paint your skin Green
Silver Underwear/bikini. I'm not going to link to this... you can google it. there are many options
Blue Wig

If you want to be a bit more modest, or just warmer, you could go as one of the "V Girls" from the "In Color!" Pilot.

So there are a few ideas of fun aquabats related costumes. Of course there are many many more characters you can go as, but now you have a few ideas to spark your imagination.

If you dress up as any of these costume ideas or any other Aquabats related costume, send me a picture and a short description along with your name to: FanMadeAquabats@gmail.com

And I will feature it on a future episode.

Stay Rad,
-Awesome Lad

TA!SS! Power Belt Reference

Hey Guys!

I'm currently working on about 10 Power belts rights now, one of them a Super Show belt, I thought I'd share with you some of my research.


The belts that they used for the Super Show are very interesting. They're much more complicated and detailed than they used to be.

Some information about the new belts:

• All of the colors on the belt are different layers of vinyl, cut and sewn together.
• There and three different variations of the belt, two used in Ep. 1, and the other used in the rest.
• There are actually three squares on each side, unlike the two on the design from the '90s.
• Each of the squares has a "Utility" (guitar pick, pocket, etc.)
• The belts were made to custom lengths to fit the various girths of the different 'bats.
• Eaglebones' pick holder is on his left, due to his left-handedness.
• The pockets are 100% real fake pockets.
• The reason they changed belts was that they didn't like the material of the first one.

Here are some reference pictures:
Belt used throughout most of Ep. 1, Ep. 4, Ep. 10(the teddy bear's belt)

Belt used for parts of Ep. 1, Ep. 5 and "action shots"

Belt used throughout rest of series

A drawing of the Pocket layout (the empty square should be a "pocket" as well. The UU is just two little flaps, and the vertical lines are a bar of black vinyl on top.)

I'll add more as I get it, and I'll post about my belts when I'm done.
Talk to you guys soon.

-Awesome Lad

Sandflea Insider Info

Hey guys,

So last Friday I went to the opening reception of the Yo Gabba Gabba Art Gallery at Meltdown Comics(which I recommend checking out if you can). While I was there I struck up a couple of conversations with Parker and Tyler Jacobs, one of them being about the Sandfleas.

Following is some of the fun little factoids about the Sandfleas that Parker told me about.

-The eyes were made out of the same eye used for the Floating eye of death cover. The eyes were stress balls(that I believe he sculpted/designed). They would cut off little bit of the ball, making it flat on one end. They would attach them to the mask using heavy-duty Velcro. (During battles the Sandfleas would take off their eyes and throw them at people.)

-Even though you could sometimes see the veins(like in the pictures from earlier), they were always painted white. The only reason you could still see them was because the veins were raised. The eyes were supposed to be "CookieMonster Eyes", white with black pupils.

-The mouths were attached my giant Velcro with the mouth stuck on it

-Based on what he was saying, with the Velcro and stuff, I'm assuming the masks were like wool ski mask type things.

-There were tiny eye holes in the masks so they could see.

-For the sweater he said to just get a Freddy Krueger sweater, or a striped tee-shirt.

-"And you can't forget the iron-cross necklace."

-The reason the Sandfleas stopped performing was a simple reason: They ran out of eyes, people kept taking them. This tempts me to attempt to cast some eyes and try to talk them into performing again... =]

I just want to thank Parker and Tyler for being nice and telling me info and stuff. =]

For more of a frequent update on what I'm doing, Check out my forum thread.

-Awesome Lad