"4-legged costume, Royal Sabertooth" by Lilleah Adora West

I know this is borderline fantasy as sabertoothed cats did exist, but they did not exist as royal pets with golden chains and shackles, nor did they ever have capped fangs.

this is by far one of my most extreme costume creations, it is worn by 1 person with arm stilts so they can move on all fours and the stilts include a moving wrist joint. the jaw is on a spring so it bobbles open and shut with ones body motiona, the mane is a combo of a rare 3 inch long rust colored fake fur and hand wefted fake hair. the body is fully air brushed and i also made the shackles and fang caps. the eyes are hand painted plastic domes, the nose and mouth crafted from paper clay, it even has hand made paw pads and claws. the whiskers are stripped feathers coated in clear rubber. all the fur is fake and feathers i stripped were collected from my own pigieon coop.

video of this in action can be seen here  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWPEAyFcoYk

there is no one wearing this in the pictures with it in the tree, it is on the customers duct tape dummy, i did this so you can see the proper fit of the costume as the model in the video is far smaller than my customer.

to see more of this costume as well as 50+ other costumes made by me visit my website at www.beastcub.com