I spent all day finishing up feathers and gluing them onto my pauldron. I also painted some gems and finished my belt buckle. I tried my hand at making fake fire... the first attempt didn't go so well, however, but I think what I put on my pauldron should work. I cut, formed, and glued each individual feather onto the shoulder piece. The top part seemed a bit bare to me, so I decided to make it look like it were on fire using hot glue. After my failed first attempt placing the hot glue directly onto the foam, I decided to string the hot glue on wax paper and peel it off before gluing it onto the foam. I made five series of hot glue "flames" and attached them to the bare portion of the pauldron with more hot glue, filling in the empty sections with pieces I had cut off from the longer portions.
I'm hoping to get it plastidipped tonight and then I'll paint it during this week. Still on the agenda:
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I started off today with what I thought was the easiest part of the cosplays - the belt buckles. We decided to use the Mystic, Instinct, and Valor symbols from Pokémon Go so that it's more obvious what Pokémon we represent.
I started with Zapdos (Instinct) because it looked like the easiest to me. It's angular with all straight edges. I started by printing out the symbol, then used scissors to cut out the large basic shape - a sort-of triangle. I traced this onto 0.8 cm (5/16 in) EVA foam. I then cut it out with a box cutter. With my rotary tool, I beveled the edges before using my heat gun to smooth the edges out.
I may go ahead and do Articuno tonight, as well, and if I'm feeling ambitious, Moltres. If I can do that, then tomorrow I can get them painted and then BOOM, they're done! I'll be sure to try and update everything as I work! Stay tuned! I started my newest project today with plenty of time to finish. This project is for Katsucon, which is in February. Now - I do have to make three cosplays before then (one for me and two for friends) to make this concept work, but I think I've left myself enough time to get them done. Fingers crossed.So what is this concept? Well.. it has to do with Pokémon and Star Wars. A mashup, actually. I've had this concept brewing in my head for awhile, but it required having more people involved and it never came together... until NOW. Yay! So we are planning on doing gijinka-Jedi-versions of the legendary birds - Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno - as well as turning some mandalorians into Pokémon hunters. There may also be some Team Rocket sith and a Mewtwo in there, somewhere. I'll be trying to record most of my work log on this one. I always say I'm going to, and then never do.. so I'm gonna try my best with this one. In fact, once I post this, I'll write up and post the first work log! I'm so stinking excited!!I leave for Otakon in four days, and I'm proud to say that Sinon is 90% done. All that's really left to do is attach everything and costest her, though I did forget a small armor piece, but that will literally take me an hour to do, so I'm not too worried about it. I'm meeting with my friend, Katastrophic Kosplay, to do a shoot on Tuesday of Sinon in a really awesome state park in Harrisburg, so I'm really pumped about that. She shot my Rogue pictures, which turned out awesome. So here it is, my last Sinon update, complete with pictures! Things in red haven't been started, things in purple have been started, and things in green are done. There's some progress happening, though I worked today for hours and I didn't get anywhere.
I leave for Otakon in just about a month, and my goal is to have Sinon done by the end of July. I want to get some shots of her at a local state park before Otakon, so fingers crossed that it gets done. I'm ALWAYS working on an outfit the night before a con so.. we're not doing that this time!
Things in red haven't been started, things in purple have been started, and things in green are done. There's some progress happening, though I worked today for hours and I didn't get anywhere.
I updated my Sinon To-Do List!
Things in red haven't been started, things in purple have been started, and things in green are done. There's some progress happening, though I worked today for hours and I didn't get anywhere.
So, here's the TO-DO list for Sinon. Things in red haven't been started, things in purple have been started, and things in green are done. They are in no particular order, I just looked at the above picture and started listing things. I think it's mostly in head-to-toe order but, meh, who cares?
We're CRUNCHING hard over here. I got all of the lacing put into my pieces - and ripped out an eyelet in the process SO now the lacing for the shin guards are decorative and I've added in three pieces of elastic to keep them on. Rolling with the punches, baby. I think I'll get this stuff done on time. I'm leaving Wednesday night to travel to my parents' house before departing Thursday morning from there to head up to Sandusky (because it's like eight hours from my house and four hours from my parents'). So.. I have today (from like 2pm on) and tomorrow (until 6-7pm) to do the rest of this stuff. The scythe is what I need to work on ASAP. Still on my TO DO list: add velcro to the hip plates add loops to belt for hip plates may need to cut off one of the talons on each shin guard as they may impede me... walking fix the clasp on the necklace attach loincloth to belt w/ velcro woodglue/water wash the scythe sand the scythe plastidip the scythe paint the scythe shape and paint nails (brown) SO! With one week left until Colossalcon, I've finally decided to start finishing up and assembling my Kabutops armor. I made gloves (for the first time EVER) and added elastic to the hand pieces. I also added the lacing to the two bracers and the two upper-arm pieces. I attached the headband to the headpiece, as well, but that isn't pictured. Still on my TO DO list: add lacing and velcro to the hip plates add lacing and elastic to the shin guards may need to cut off one of the talons on each shin guard as they may impede me... walking add lacing to the breastplate fix the clasp on the necklace sew fabric to belt and figure out a way to cover the clasp attach loincloth to belt - sew or velcro?? woodglue/water wash the scythe sand the scythe plastidip the scythe paint the scythe shape and paint nails (brown) |
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