c.b. / rusty | 22 | he/it
i am autistic and starlight express is my special interest. i am also a system. this blog is a space for me and my alters to engage with our special interest
minors will be softblocked !! sorry

祝日 / Permanent Vacation

pixel skylines

Discoholic 🪩
wallacepolsom
Three Goblin Art
todays bird
Claire Keane
Cosmic Funnies

Kaledo Art

No title available
$LAYYYTER
Keni
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
tumblr dot com
we're not kids anymore.
dirt enthusiast
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Game of Thrones Daily

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
seen from Türkiye

seen from Serbia
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Brazil

seen from Australia

seen from Türkiye

seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from United Kingdom

seen from United States
seen from Hungary

seen from Mexico

seen from Malaysia
seen from Lithuania

seen from T1
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
@misterfacebothways
c.b. / rusty | 22 | he/it
i am autistic and starlight express is my special interest. i am also a system. this blog is a space for me and my alters to engage with our special interest
minors will be softblocked !! sorry
My Dinah cosplay that won first place at a con last sun💙
I think it’s pretty good for only being my 3rd cosplay (1st one hand made)
def gonna have to do revisions to her tho lol! I hope to get her fixed in time for another con in March😋
(also thanks to Belles domain for giving me refs for the boxes <3)
i'm gonna need you guys to start interpreting pearl's actions from her perspective instead of just being casually misogynistic
im too lazy to color
the other day my friends and i watched the great gatsby and one of them suggested putting on lou bega’s scatman and hatman and here i’ve recreated the magic we experienced that night
I’ll say it I miss poppa. Stex desperately needs a baritone and a good father figure. Media representing black men as caring, good fathers is so rare it makes me sad they took it away. I adore Reva momma I think it was a phenomenal decision. But once she leaves from being momma I think going back to poppa might be a better choice.
also bring back Memphis belle….
I totally agree - the loss of a positive role model of a father figure, especially a mature black man expressing caring, nurturing qualities, is so hard. I can think of a half dozen other "Mama" figures off the top of my head, but characters like Poppa are rare and special!
And yes, musically, the show needs the rich, deep voice of Poppa to balance, especially as "I Do" requires an absurdly high voice for Rusty.
The difficulty is, though, casting the role... how many mature black guys with that kind of vocals want to learn to skate and move to Germany?
But on the other hand, replacing Reva Rice is going to be much harder - actually impossible, she's unique and irriplacable!
some of y'all fundamentally misunderstand my favorite characters but im being sooooo normal and mature about it. i haven't even killed anyone yet
Another sketch from a while back!! 🫣
Question for Starlight Express fans because I have been wondering about this for a while:
Which one applies to you?
Wembley is my favorite and it’s the only one I’ve watched
Non-Wembley productions are my favorite and those are the only ones I’ve watched
I got into Starlight Express through Wembley but now prefer older productions
I got into Starlight Express through older productions but I prefer Wembley
None of these apply to me
Oh man I’m on a roll this week
wusty
I think the big mistake rewrites make in terms of dealing with how Pearl was originally written is they try to make her less mean and in doing so often take away the very little agency she had in terms of picking who she's with.
Let her have a character flaw, let her make feelings based choices that hurt people she cares about, and then let her do something in the final race to set things right again.
Let Pearl try everyone and still decide Rusty was the best instead of just separating the two of them via Control interference.
I'm actually soo embarrassed to post this cause idk the first thing about Starlight Express. But I listened to the cast recordings and the characters sounded fun so I wanted to draw what I think they might look like. I saw a few costume photos while researching the show but other than that I wanted to see what I could come up with on my own before I dive any deeper. The last one is Pearl, hope the others are self explanatory. So sorry if I'm like completely off base on these haha, I've never had to anthropomorphize a train before.
YappingDesign notes under cut:
Would you be able to do a costume breakdown of Bway rusty/Bochum rusty costume
Broadway/Bochum Rusty! OK!
Honestly Rusty is one of the most impressively realised costumes from the design... all the details are there, and it all works!
I'm afraid I can NOT find any pictures of a half-dressed Rusty! Sorry! Seriously it would be useful, as we can see here that his costume is mostly one piece, but his arms are an under-layer.
I know. I KNOW there's pictures of Jamie Golding with that under-layer.... somewhere... but I'm going in circles trying to find them. ANYWAY.
So, Rusty's mysterious base layer is the sleeves, attached to a basic body. The sleeves are painted spandex. (I wonder if it's a backstage video rather than still photos?)
Here you can kind of see inside Jamie's neckline that the red neck panels are - unsurprisingly - attached by snaps. They will line up with the snaps on the main body. Curious that while all the sleeves and thigh panels etc stay on the main suit, the neck panel doesn't? I wonder why.
Just a side note, looking at the mannequin followed by the costumes on the rail, it's interesting how the decoration on his stomach changes. The mannequin costume looks like it's had a few inches cut out to shorten the costume! I always think of that stomach pattern as looking like the Bridge. Whether that's intentional or not, I love it!
Then we have almost all the costume in one piece! The shirt and overalls are attached - in London the shirt was a separate layer but this version it's all one piece that fastens up the back. It's intricately painted, look at all those steampunky details! And judging by the way it catches the light onstage, I think there's a lot of quilting around the wheels etc. I'm not sure how fixed the design is - the one in the background here seems to have different details to the one in the foreground.
But looking at the costume behind there, you can see that the chest plate is held on by velcro all around, and snaps are visible at the top corner. Also you can see the thigh patch is not properly attached - it too has an outline of black velcro, with silver snaps all around the corners. And the ankles on the costume behind are missing their panels, so good clear example of how it goes together!
The sleeves are going to be similar, but a bit more complex. For a while there was one sleeve on display in the foyer, alongside his old hat, and we can just about see (sorry about the reflections!) that the black grill that trims his sleeve is part of the hardware. I suspect it connects to the fabric sleeve just the same as the other panels - lots of snaps and velcro.
Rusty has so much texture going on it can be hard to make out the details! But it looks like his kneepads are held in place using fabric tabs through D rings, that snap back on themselves, and just blend away into the texture. The UK Tour costumes used this technique a lot - a LOT - and in far less subtle ways. Which does have the silver lining of making it very easy to see how it works!
Just focusing on the kneepads here. Joule had D rings on her leggings, and loops that snap back on her kneepads - while Caboose had the tabs with snaps on his leggings, and the rings they pass through on the kneepads. With Rusty it can be a deliberate part of his costume design to have "rivets" for the snaps.
Rusty has plenty of the foam trim that gives most of the characters bold 3D details. This is a lot of hand sewing! I'm pretty sure the rusty orange fabric is spandex, helpful to have the stretch to get smoothly around the curves. The silver trim is sewn on with a herringbone stitch - it's a design feature! Definitely! I suspect the silver is actually a kind of car trim - chrome edging of some kind - rather than something intended for clothing! As is the foam that pads out those details.
Making the solid panels like his chest, thighs, sleeves etc, isn't my area so much - as long as they're sturdy and a bit flexible, you're good. They just need a backing panel with the snaps and half the world's velcro supply installed!
The gloves are half standard leather gloves, with a "gauntlet" of painted, quilted fabric under the moulded wheels. There's a strap - maybe a buckle? at the wrist to adjust.
The belt has more of the raised layers of detail - spandex over foam strips - I would assume there's a solid leather base underneath. Interestingly he doesn't seem to have anything holding the belt in place to the main costume - but the belt and codpiece float and sometimes seem to sit quite low on the performer's hips. I guess you don't want the opposite and getting a wedgie!
The codpiece is another panel like the thighs, this time attached to the front of the belt with snaps, and a strap to attach to the back of the belt.
Elbows! We haven't mentioned elbows! They really are more decorative than protective with the big buffer going to knock your elbow sideways rather than take an impact. But they're a solid foam base, the moulded buffer, looks more like leather than spandex to me.
Construction of the kneepads is going to be basically the same as Pearl, which I went into before - but the curved foam base is covered with the decorative fabrics and painted layer, then vacuum-formed clear plastic shell that's held on with big stitches going right through the pad. A cosplayer on skates NEEDS to be confident to use those kneepads, the costume is less valuable than your body!
Last thing, the backpack. I don't see anything to suggest there's more fastenings than just more heavy duty snaps and velcro. Which does make sense when it's across the main fastenings for the costume, gotta keep it simple if you need to get your actor out of costume in a hurry. I wonder if - although the "shirt" and "overalls" are incorporated as one garment, if the back of the "overalls" isn't a separate layer to allow fastening those snaps more easily. IDK if that makes sense, but snaps are much easier if you can press from the inside as well!
OK. Now I want to go through and find as many pictures of the different paintings on Rusty's stomach as I can find. There's so much gorgeous detail in there that's so easily overlooked!
when i finally finish this drawing of all the coaches then you will see
not a hugely formal post but i'm starting college again and have one wearable binder. i'm currently unemployed (but quite stable with family) however i would really love to get a couple more so i can feel a little better with my clothing in my tiny mountain town. consider commissioning me on k0fi? :)?