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I decided to start this up as a little project, see how crazy some of us fans are! Here's a list of what I honestly do for Hellboy:
-Write fanfiction ( razz not so crazy as devoted)
-Try to interpret other people's thoughts in the middle of a conversation (You're thinking about buying those NPC undies right?)
-Pretend my hand is actually gynormous and rocky while I attempt to hammer in nails (I'll get it this time! YOW! X_x)
-Post in this thread ^^

I don't know if spending extreme amounts of money is so crayz, I'd label that under devotion. When I'm talking crazy, I'm talking about walking around with a toliet seat around your neck going "It's quite obvious it's a breating apparatus!"

Costume, you say Danah?

I've got http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/2848566217_6f3b772713.jpg

I've spent time musing over how to build a Right Hand Of Doom to go with it, but nothing's like to come from that

Also the minatures, but that's more awesome, less crazy...

it's flexibility that's an issue, along with budget - I'd use one of those large tubes you can get for big rodents for the wrist, I think, it's a question of building hands that aren't entirely useless...

Nah, afraid not. But if it helps it's just an off-the-rack jacket and a canvas badge I picked up in a comic shop a few years back, so may be e-bayable...

I'd likely make it a little smaller than cannon. I was thinking of using toilet rolls for the fingers (they strike me as being the right size, and they're easily available, but a little rounder than they should be - hellboys fingers are kinda chocolate-bar shaped), and either nudging them with my hands, or running thin wire from the tips to the palm, so with my hand inside the palm, I can pull the string and move the fingers. Not much, but enough to look awesome.

I mean, my Samaritan is currently just a unmodified NERF Maverick (if they were easier to get, I'd look into customising it - a repaint and some kind of barrel, but they're swines to find in the UK).

Then you have the horns/hair problem - horns could be goggles, painted red/black, but Hellboy's hair's both distinctive and odd...

@McFloss- That could work, I guess. Good idea with the nerf Samaritan- I would recommend a "Frankenstein's Monster" of a gun with different parts from old revolvers, but I remembered that you were English and I'm not familiar with your gun laws.
As for his hair, it's based off of Samurai hair styles from centuries ago.

@Princess- The fingers need to be articulated so the hand can hold things. It would be awkward not having control of your right hand unless you're a lefty such as myself.
I'd be afraid to wear a Johann suit. I would fear suffocation and if not suffocation, then extreme discomfort. Besides, I can't make my head invisible.
You can get Combat Boots almost anywhere, and you could make the gloves with nuts and washers and maybe smallish screws. As with the RHoD, you wouldn't be able to move too much.

That was my impression of UK gun laws, but I wasn't positive.

I was thinking more of the comic-Johann suit than the movie-Johann. The movie one would be possible with a plastic bowl, but vision would be a major problem. I'm a total klutz, I'd trip over everything. I don't know where I'd get a tan canvas jumpsuit...

I've just discovered that I can't take "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" seriously anymore.