Nic's Fursuit Page -- Current Status

I may add some more photos to this page. These are the best of the lot, however, and sufficiently display what I have so far. The fursuit is far from finished, and I'll try to keep this page updated as I make progress.

This is the costume bodysuit. It is largely finished. The ends of the legs, the ends of the arms, and the neck region are not completely finished; I'm waiting until I have completed all of the various peripheral bits of the costume so that I can determine how best to blend the edges of the bodysuit. This is why some of the seams and flaps at the extremities appear a bit loose.
The bodysuit is built upon the unitard, with sculpted foam padding hotglued onto the bodysuit. The fur patches are then glued onto the pads and the unitard. Then I made sure that the edges of the fur pieces were either sewn flat with the adjacent pieces or sewn to the unitard; that's a lot of hand stitchery!

This picture shows the bosysuit from a 3/4-rear angle. It highlights the way in which the foam buildup blends the tail base into my spine. Foam buildup was used to allow the tail to hang down behind my rump, an approximation of the physiologically correct position for a rodent's tail. The curvature of the spine is roughly accruate for a rat, assuming you applied the vertical curvature of the human skeleton to a rat; those of you who made it through those sentences deserve some type of semantic trophy! Whatever the rationalization, I think it looks good. :)

Finally, a shot which shows how the white fur coloration proceeds in inset into the upper thigh. The thigh was widened by foam padding, to better approximate the thick haunch of a rat; the white fur was then extended from the neck, through the crotch, and onto the inside of the thigh to mimick the coloration common in wild rats.