Remember Igor from Iron Man 3? At over 7 feet tall, he was pretty hard to miss!
Lots of us thought this was the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the Hulk Buster armor, but Igor is a brand new armor variant just for Iron Man 3.
Mario Murga has been making homemade costumes for years, beginning with papier mache and getting more and more complex. Eventually, he began with pepakura (making things out of intricately folded and shaped pieces of paper, which are sealed with tape) and has been on a roll ever since.
This year, Murga has designed the one and only Igor armor in life size! (picture gallery at end of post)
“The inspiration for his Halloween costumes are smiles, he said. He has three sons, all born seven years apart, ages 16, 9 and 2.
“I’ve always wanted to do something creative, something that would get a smile especially out of the kids,” Murga said. “The first time they saw it, they were just in awe.”
Creating costumes has run in the family since he was kid. When his cousins and sister were in school plays growing up, his uncles and aunts would make costumes like flowers and butterflies out of transparent cellophane paper and wire hangers.
He honed some of his paper mache skills while making piñatas for family members as a child and eventually decided to take a stab at costumes. He said he had always been playing with paper as a kid and now he does it as a profession, working in packaging design.
Murga said he hopes his costumes spark an interest in working with paper; he doesn’t see paper mache very often and wants to keep it alive. It’s something he tries to use as much as he can; a couple of dragons heads he created are on display at his son’s school.
This might be the last year he builds a paper costume for himself, though. Starting next year he is planning on making smaller scale versions for his sons.”
Check out this gallery of the project so far!
Source: KSL
