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I was previously undecided on this year's Halloween costume (since the current projects won't be ready in time) but during the drive home one night from life drawing, the subconscious came on the line and was like "Oh hai, you should be the Emperor of Mankind lolololol."

It was pretty near the most ridiculous thing I could think of and doing a serious photoshoot for it was a bit strange because it wasn't really a serious costume to begin with. It is definitely an abridged version - can't really throw together a suit of power armour in a month, sadly.... Dan Abnett writes of Horus wearing something simple like maille and furs for his travelling gear so I went with that tangent.

So, I used my Roman maille, made a red tunic out of the proverbial wool-viscose blend, used my tan linen Viking pants, and made the cloak out of flannel - it looks like pyjama material up close but drapes quite nicely indeed. The brown flaps are actually part of a subarmalis to use the Latin term, which is an over-your-head type deal that is put on after the tunic. You can't actually see it that well here but it's made of a leather-like material with gold fringes. The vambraces are made from ice-cream bucket plastic in between two layers of craft foam with craft foam embellishments. The boots are an old riding pair painted brown - attempted to glue some of the foam on there and it didn't stick at all. For example, the eagles originally had feet but they disappeared in the pub somewhere on Halloween night. And the laurel crown is made with ice-cream bucket plastic, a coat hanger, and brass wire. Thank god for gold spray paint.

Note Regarding the Aquila - I initially took a stab at a lightening bolt device for the embellishments, sort of thinking Unification Wars era, but I couldn't produce anything satisfactory for the life of me. So after a couple of fruitless days, I opted for a generic, single-headed aquila that still bore some similarity to the Imperial version. If this were a serious cosplay project, I would have stuck with the lighting bolts but didn't in favour of getting it finished in time.

Hope you enjoy!

Total Time = About 45 hrs.

The Emperor of Mankind is (c) Games Workshop, of course.
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Mood: Love ~SirGodspeed Nov 25, 2012
found this somewhere on the web, and tracked it down (by... uh, following the address in the picture - I'm clever y'see.) here to leave you comment - love it! Amazing work for a more "manageable" version of the Emperor, if you get my drift. Having a nine foot living god blasting people's minds would be somewhat more unattainable. :P
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~ColonelLiamRoss Nov 25, 2012
Hey, thanks! Much appreciated! Lovely to get this sort of feedback. I would love to do the proper version some day once I get the skills, the money, and the time. But that probably won't be until the 41st millennium at least....
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~MadnessAbe Oct 22, 2012
As awesome as that it, one cannot cosplay as the Emperor. Doing so will cause one to explode from sheer awesomness.

But seriously, this is awesome. :D
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~ColonelLiamRoss Nov 25, 2012
Haha, this is belated, but many thanks! You're probably right. XD
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~thetempegrouch May 29, 2012
You know, this could actually fit in many other historic eras, barring the double headed eagle. Ancient Rome etc.
I know its a late suggestion but perhaps you can put some weird techno-gizmo to make it look more 30k.

I could then totally see the Emperor plotting his armies of techno-barbarians and thunder-warriors on Terra pre-unification.
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~ColonelLiamRoss May 29, 2012
Hey, yeah, good point! Need some tubes or something somewhere. If the hair was shorter, it could totally be an Ancient Roman thing. Thanks for stopping by!
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~williamcll Sep 22, 2011
took me a extra long time to figure out he was the emperor
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~ColonelLiamRoss Oct 15, 2011
Haha, yeah, I can believe it. Sort of have to stand back and squint your eyes.
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~williamcll Oct 15, 2011
also get more armour
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~serjwejgholrjg Apr 26, 2011
For the Eperor :)
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