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Greetings and welcome! We request all new members introduce themselves here. Tell us a little bit about yourself...why are you here, what are your goals, what is your history in the hobby, what brought you to the Lair...whatever! Cheers!

Hello Hunters!!! Here is a quick step-by-step guide on how I painted this helmet. There are many ways to paint bios and this is just an alternative method to achieve the metallic look. I bought this bio a while back and it was on a shelf until now. This is how I received the bio and the copper color it came with. After washing and cleaning the bio with rubbing alcohol, I used a black satin primer. I added gold leaves mostly to the front of the bio ( I was using a SW photo as a reference for where the shinny parts were more noticeable ) If you never used gold leaf, don't be intimidated by it. Is very simple (just have a vac…

ORIGINAL POST BY: Andrew Marzan - Kithunter I salute you allPast, Present and Future members of the Hunter's Lair.Kevin Peter Hall Honorary Member The P2........ The Original "Lost hunters" from Predator 2 with add on headpieces ala larry kidd From left to rightThe RAM hunter, The Snake hunter,The Elder,The Hippie Hunter, title? not sure(Mech hunter?) and Last The BOAR hunter …

Here's a Huntorial I did back in 2007 when working on my second pair of Predator feet. It seemed to help a bunch of guys back then, so bringing it back here. In the early days of Predator costumers, the artists would sculpt feet you could wear like shoes, but in an effort to gain more height in our costumes, guys would have big Frankenstein sandal soles under those feet. Never looked movie accurate in the long run. So in talking to fellow member Ruffkintoy when he was to begin sculpting his own generic style feet, he sculpted them large enough INSIDE to hide platforming material. Leaving the traditional sized Predator sandal sole viewable from the outside, and not th…

How you preds doing? My son and I started our suits about 3 years ago, due to a divorce it took me a bit longer than I would have liked. Last year we finished our first ever try and they were decent. It was going off pictures, YouTube tutorials mostly. Before I found good people and rhe lair to help us. Fast forward and many people from the lair that are on Instagram have helped us tremendously. I got a set of hands from Chuck that I have not used yet and I got a set from Hurleyfx. Man thise hands are absolutely awesome! They are easy to wear and soft on the skin and freak people out when they touch because they kind of feel like real skin, per say a predator. The first p…

After watching PREDATOR BADLANDS trailer a hundred times over, I just wanted that Sword! as I hope many others do too. So began the journey get the First Sword out to fans before the November release. I present to you Dex's Sword "Hunter's Sword" inspired by the Trailer and the Director Dan Trachtenberg Instagram post (pic will be included) To start I took screenshots of that trailer and post then began digital sculpting as I call it "Digi-sculpt". From there what I could make out of the shape and size of the sword is what I was able make my first prototype 40inches and 4 parts not for swinging around. Then finalized the "digi-sculpt" now measures 32inches and only t…

This is going to be the chronicles of my custom suit build inspired by the Hippie predator of the Lost Tribe as seen at the end of P2. This is what it currently looks like after the last month and a half of working on it... The whole project started with the head... I made some minor customizations to the mandibles of one of my P1 masks, and then painted it in a paint scheme loosely inspired by Hippie. I then made the dreads and dread rings and attached those... Then it was time to work my way down to a body. To get a perfect size based on the concept I was going for and to fit things into my budget,…

King Willie Trophy Head (On a budget) I wanted to make a short huntorial on making a fun prop for display purposes or as an accessory when suiting up, but keep it simple and cheap. This took me a day to put the whole thing together and you can spend more or less time in the sculpting phase based on how detailed you want it to be. Since this will possibly be an accessory when cosplaying, I didn't need to spend a huge amount of time on making the appearance match the original actor Calvin Lockhart exactly, because it'll be moving around and serve its purpose just fine as is. For this, besides an airbrush and paint, which if you don't have, you …

I decided to redo my suit for both body and some armor modifications that be better in a area that tends to get hot so I found a body suit that was a good deal for a nice looking muscle suit with a predator pattern on it and so using that plus a shoulder armor I got on Amazon and a shoulder armor from a skull warrior mask and a little Eva foam armor I made and glued all together and so this is what I now look like in full kit minuse my hand because I was working on my sound effects glove at the time of these photos v15044gf0000d0cddm7og65nbj7tjqjg.mp4 IMG_5222.mov

Hey just wanted to say I’ll be going to Denver fan expo which is on June 30th -July 2nd. And plan on wearing my predator suit on Friday opening day and would love to meet other hunters as well if you happen to be going to the fan expo too. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day so far and an amazing week !

Wouldn’t it be cool if we had a spot at conventions / fan expos where we can be go on “ hunts “ interact with other cosplayers show our work, sell some pices , hand out small 3D printed trinkets and such as well as grow our community with potential new members, as well as bringing members closer together in each state each state represented by a a couple different clans ? No reason why the Mercs should have all of the fun lol. I would love to see the hunters lair in cons and expos again but in a more interactive booth make it look like the tribes camp

Happy 4th of July, have a safe day to you and your families. 🧨

How do I make a predator bio mask? What’s the best material best paint if anyone can help please reply looking to make every bio mask in movies

My Predator 2 Body Skins Project. Completed sometime 2009-2010 Part of this topic if the sculpture itself. But seeing as the major part of the work is in fact the molding process. Figured I would plant it in this section. What I learned from this process: Body skins are a huge undertaking. Duct tape dummies work OK. A proper mannequin would be better. * Sculpt the body skins significantly larger to account for latex shrinkage. Don't make ultracl30 gypsum molds again. Ridiculously heavy. WED clay is perfect for this type of larger sculpt. Sculpt muscles and definition much more pronounced and exaggerated, the forms gets lost in latex rubber. …

Hello fellow hunters, im a new young blood here, just introducing myself, im from Venezuela, good hunting everyone

Hi Im new here. I do some clay sculpting etc. I want to sculpt a Jungle predator bust, but I'm not sure of measurements of the head and face etc. could someone help with this problem. Thanks

Let’s face it owning a latex suit or a silicone suit would be great but some can’t use those due to either finances or health reasons so the next viable solution, of course would be finding fabric options . Now I’m not going to use links because I’ll be sharing pictures but for certain ones like on Etsy, I will be adding the links for. Starting with Amazon. You have this option of a predator suit which is a spandex bodysuit and it looks nice. I’ve gotten one myself but the only thing that’s missing on. It is really muscle padding if you’re not physically in muscular shape and have an average body build but armor can hide it well which Amazon has plenty of options for armo…

Okay so I had a sound effect t-shirt that I out grew but the cool thing about the sound effects shirts is you can replace the sounds with your own sounds instead so I download what free sounds for the predator at the time where available and had to rename them to what number each button was to get them to work and boom 20 sounds at my disposal. two remotes one is for the plasma caster ( white one ) and the other is for my sound effects .still need to weather down some bones and the caster but other then that pretty happy with how it’s coming along. 68524031794__CBFF50B2-B772-43A3-9123-F676B11517C7.MOV 68524041278__AD52437C-A8FC-4DDF-B11A-B554931DE1C0.MO…

Printed myself a new type of smart disk and it’s a lot of fun to open and close . Going to paint soon but for now its red and definitely going to be mounted on my kit some how. 76379529842__5494B2F7-E98E-4C96-B8CE-BC0510E87CBE.mov

This will be a quick huntorial on how to make PVC look like wood. I recently needed to switch the wooden shaft out of my Hippie staff to make it more convention friendly, so out with the wood and in with the PVC... Supplies needed: 3/4" PVC pipe in desired length 60 grit sandpaper 180 grit sandpaper 400 grit sandpaper Metal file Brown acrylic paint Sienna acrylic paint Water Semi gloss sealer First step was picking up a 10' length of PVC at the local hardware store and cutting it in half. I got 3/4" for this project. I then used the 180 grit sandpaper to remove the writing on the PVC so…

Hello, as previously mentioned, I am new to the group and I am building the costume based on what I have available and little by little I hope to be a contribution to the community. I will show you what I have advanced at the moment and I will update as I work on the costume. Greetings, questions or suggestions are appreciated. PREDA.mp4

I recently bought a pretty decent alien costume and though it looks great it can always be better so I decided to do some modifications and redos starting with the head it was alright but fabric teeth is a no no so I made this . It’s looking great and will update with more photos of the suit itself when I get back home

How you preds doing? My son and I started our suits about 3 years ago, due to a divorce it took me a bit longer than I would have liked. Last year we finished our first ever try and they were decent. It was going off pictures, YouTube tutorials mostly. Before I found good people and rhe lair to help us. Fast forward and many people from the lair that are on Instagram have helped us tremendously. I got a set of hands from Chuck that I have not used yet and I got a set from Hurleyfx. Man thise hands are absolutely awesome! They are easy to wear and soft on the skin and freak people out when they touch because they kind of feel like real skin, per say a predator. The first p…

Brothers and sistas!!!..Ok here goes... I had this idea..😆 (reason I laugh is that usually means trouble for many).. Anyhow the idea was, what was the elder before he became the one we all know from P2?.. So I used my project manager skills I had to assemble one of the best build teams ever. It was me, sandy collora, David pea, Larry kidd, Scott Paige and a few others. I got a raw pull of the dead end suit I arraigned for sandy send the molds to david . David pea sculpted the headpiece and i worked with Larry to come up with they early greyback paint design... not many photos existed of its true color so we decided to go with a lighter tone grey. St…

What’s up, I am new to the predator cosplay and really want to be lead in the right direction on a costume. I love all things horror, Halloween and of course predator 🤩