Costume: Demon Nurse
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The Demon Nurse
wears basically the same dress as the Bubblehead Nurse. The
big difference is that here the front half of the skirt is almost
knee-length while the back half barely
covers her bottom. Let your creativity flow when it comes to
altering and staining the dress; tea, coffe, paint, spray paint.
Keep in mind though that just like almost all other Silent Hill
creatures the Demon Nurse has no actual blood stains on her
dress. All stains are very dark rust-brown, black and dark gray
with - according to the artwork - hints of yellow and green.
The face of the Demon Nurse is human, with her eyes always closed.
Thus the developers didn't even bother making eyeballs for this
monster as I learned from checking the 3D model.
Her face is pale and her eyelids purplish. The mouth area is
covered in a big red rectangle and the lips are dark purple.
The Demon Nurse's hair is deep black, chin-length with bangs.
Wigs like those are easily found for a very low price, the hat
can be attached with bobby pins.
On the artwork the hat shows a teal line on the top edge, this
detail was abandoned on the ingame version though.
Also the Demon Nurse's index, middle and ring finger are merged
too. Her gloves look like rubber gloves, you can easily imitate
the merged-finger effect by glueing pieces of another rubber
glove over/around those three fingers. Just make sure you wear
the gloves while you do that to ensure that you have enough
room in the gloves later on.
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It seems
like the Demon Nurse might be wearing a pantyhose since the color
of her legs is more gray and at the same time more even than the
color of her arms and cleavage.
Her shoes are white pumps without heel. Those are probably rather
difficult to find, but no one will really complain if your shoes
have a little heel on them.
Also, for some reason the Demon Nurse's shoes are quite clean
compared to the rest of her outfit.
A rusty steel pipe or a fake revolver are good choices if you
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How
Dodo made it:
I made the Demon Nurse costume together with Alessa when
she made her Bubblehead Nurse costume, so they both were practically
made the same way. Both of us bought the (wrong) nurse costume
online and had to more or less make the whole thing ourselves
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I left the original
length of the store bought dress, but had to add the long front
part of the skirt to the dress. Then I ut off the bottom part
of the orignal sleeves and added new ones, simply made out of
strips of fabric that I sewed onto the sleeves. The original collar
also got removed and replaced with the Brookhaven style collar,
made from two front pieces and one back piece. It took me a while
playing around to get the size and shape right.
I found a black wig with bangs that was perfect for the costume,
so Alessa made me nurse hat too, and we used red lipstick for
the red square on the nurse's face as well as the right eye shadow.
Unfortunately we didn't notice back then that the Demon nurse's
fingers are also joined, so I just used normal latex gloves.
The shoes originally were from Alessa's Mary costume, since they
didn't fit Alessa right though I eventuall ended up using them
for the Demon Nurse costume.
To stain the dress I used carefully applied spray paint, acrylic
paint applied with roughly wrinkled up paper towel, splattered
paint onto the dress with a paintbrush and hot chocolate mix.
The body paint was pretty low quality, dilluted acrylic paint.
I don't recommend it since it does not stay on very long and does
not show well in photos unless a lot of it is applied.
The steel pipe I carried around actually really is a steel pipe
from a hardware store, added the ring on the top (made out of
crafting foam) and also added an elbow connection on the top,
then painted the whole thing in rusty metallig colors. The revolver
actually is just a fancy cigarette lighter. |
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