When I had initially shared my finished Samurai vest on Instagram, the weekend before the Con, it actually generated more attention than my normal posts since it was the first of its kind (not sold in stores yet). The few people who did recognize me thought the costume was great and would yell “Wake the fuck up Samauri – we got a city to burn!” Maybe a more interesting story though is how my Johnny Silverhand costume ended up in the European Black Market… Most people did not recognize who I was, and just thought I was Winter Soldier from The Avengers. I debuted my Johnny Silverhand at Tampa Bay Comic Con in early August (less than 2 months after the E3 announcement). Overall, it took about 3 weekends to create the arm and vest. The vest was additionally weathered by scratching and cutting it with tools and covering it with black pants and dirt. I then applied the stencil to the vest with a hot iron. I purchased the tactical biker vest online and used the Cricut machine to cut out the 2-tone Samurai stencil on Heat Transfer vinyl. I then hot glued these small finger pieces to a glove and pained the arm and hand with silver and black paints. I layered 6mm and 2mm craft foam to create the shapes and hot glued a bunch of wires to it.įor the hand, I downloaded an “IronMan” Pepakura PDO template from online and used a Cricut machine to cut the finger shapes out of 2mm foam. For the arm I created a template by wrapping plastic wrap and duct tape around my arm and then built the structure with EVA foam. When I was creating this costume back in July, there were only 2 photos and a short 15 second clip of Johnny Silverhand at the time so I used those as reference.
From the debut announcement at E3 I just thought Johnny Silverhand was such an awesome character to cosplay as next!
Shortly after cosplaying as “CyberPunk AKIRA” at the Megacon Orlando in May, it was announced that Keanu Reeves would be in CyberPunk 2077 as Johnny Silverhand, and that there would be a big Cyberpunk 2077 cosplay contest. I enjoy the aesthetic of that film and that it takes place in 2019. Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077 // Cosplayer : JayRosen.Design // Photo : Pathway_PhotosĮarlier this year I had created a cyberpunk costume inspired by the anime film AKIRA with a mechanical prosthetic arm.
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