Thor - Marvel
Character: Thor. Yes, Lady Thor, not Thor Girl << which is a real thing.
I wanted to make this because of how popular The Avengers movies have become. Those Marvel super hero movies have been coming out consistently every year. It's nuts! I didn't bother to see any of them until I saw The Avengers [2012], and then I had to back-track and see all the individual movies [Iron Man 1 & 2, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America]. Anyway, Marvel Comics. The character Thor is based on the Norse mythological deity , and is the Asgardian god of thunder and possesses the enchanted hammer Mjolnir, which grants him the ability of flight and weather manipulation amongst his other superhuman attributes. |
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Obviously, adapting any costume to cross genders has its draw backs, but I did find some comic art from an alternate reality where Jane Foster picks up the Hammer [Earth-788 (What If #10)] renaming herself Thordis. So, this costume isn't a hard stretch.
This is one of the more prop-based costumes I've done in a while. I fashioned all the props after the movie costume, not the comic. All the armor pieces are made out of thick craft foam, that I carved/etched with a hot-knife, shaped, glued, and painted. The clothing is just a corset, cape, leggings, and the Hammer itself was a Target halloween prop. The gauntlets and cape are my favorite part [the finishing touches really do make the costume complete]. The belt was a bit of a problem, the little bottom pieces kept getting bent. Lady Thor has been a very popular character ever since the Avengers movies. You can pretty much buy a whole armor costume set, pre-made, year around. I had a blast wearing this. Pictures were taken at Central Park, Santa Clara, CA. January 2013. Photographer Oscar Cwajbaum. Also worn to FanimeCon 2013. Photos by Paul Stout |
I also made it onto a random webpage.
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