HUUUGE PANTHEON GLAIVE WARRIOR WIP!!!!!!1!!1!!!! part 2/3

First is up SPEAR.  Though I don't have much wip material from it, because It was made in a rush.. basically in two days. Therefore the painting is hideous and the surface is not smooth. But it looks quite impressive from far away, and we are planning to fix it... when we have time.. but for a while I'm going to focus on sewing clothes for me. so we'll see when it's fixed, if ever. But let's move to the main point.

The spear started with a blade. the blade was cut from plywood and it was attached to the broom handle with glue. Then some cardboard was attached with tape and on top of that we sprayed expanding foam. To make those spikes or whatever you can call them (see the picture above XD), we used a separate pieces of cardboard and sprayed then with expanding foam. and then we added them to the main part with hot glue when everything was curved.

The thicker part on the bottom was made with camping mattress and with a lot of glue. It could have been made with expanding foam also, but we were out of expanding foam and in a hurry, so we decided to work with matress.

Half of the shark/wolf cut, half to be cut. 

we covered the wolfshark with masking tape before adding wood filler. at this point clock was something like 6 am and we had to leave at 6 pm to the convention...

With a little sleep we managed to sand it and paint before we had to leave. And it looked something like this:

Though the result could have been a lot better, I was just happy to be able to finish it, and hopefully we can fix all the things before next convention.

Then there is armor. I don't really fancy it. the surface is not smooth. and you unfortunately can see it. But who cares, Let's put it here anyway!

The armor is made with camping mattress and craft foam. It has been bend to the right shape with heat and then glued some details and painted. The chest armor has velcro on the left side and the knee and hand armors have elastic band, so they can be put on and off with those. 

  

so this is how we made the weapon and the armor. stay toon for part 3 which is all about helmet/boots/clothes.

HUUUGE PANTHEON GLAIVE WARRIOR WIP!!!!!!1!!1!!!! part 1/3

so glorious title, but huge props need huge title XD  

so my bf wanted to cosplay as pantheon from League of Legends. and he specifically wanted pantheons most detailed glaive warrior skin. and he also decided to choose champion with biggest props, enormous shield, spear and helmet. at this post I'm going to talk about the biggest part of the cosplay: SHIELD. so Let's not waste any time with this nonsense and let's get to the WIP material!!

In the beginning there was this cardboard. 

Then we cut some slices out of it, to make it more 3D. A lot of duct tape was used during the progress. Also hot glue to make it more durable.

Then we added couple cans of expanding foam. and let it dry. The foam dries quite quickly and it's light, so for a huge prop like this it was perfect material. It's also affordable.

When it was completely dry, we (meaning I) started to cut the edges with box cutter to give it appropriate shape. After that we applied some more expanding foam to the middle for the wolf and cut the shape when it was dry.

Cut, cut, cut

OOOO! It's doneee~

It would have been wiser to attach the handle to the backside before applying more expanding foam to the front, But it worked like this also :D the handle it screwed from the front side, so we had to cut a little from the wolf on the frontside before we could attach the hadle... lalala There is also glue to make it more durable

Then we added even more expanding foam (I don't even know how many cans we used in total) and cut it when it was dry.

Then we feed the shield a little bit of newspaper and wallpaper paste. 

Then some wall filler was added..

I mean a lot of wall filler...

Before painting the wall filler was sanded and all of the "battle scars" were cut to the shield. 

a couple details ...

AND FINISHED!

This WIP probably made it look like this would take only a while to get done, but trust me it isn't as fast to make as it seems. Cutting expanding foam to the desired shape takes forever! and almost all materials we used takes several hours to dry, so if you want to make big props make sure you have time. 

Next is up spear and some armor. stay toon for HUUUGE PANTHEON GLAIVE WARRIOR WIP!!!!!!1!!1!!!! part 2/3

♥♥Tracon 9 ♥♥

♥Saturday♥

I was happy to be able to cosplay Guchuko on saturday. The costume had been just laying on my room ready to be used for months, but because of the wig incident I had to wait till this very day.. The wig was the biggest problem of the whole outfit. It had caused problems even before the convention and it didn't end there. At some point at the convention I realized my hands and guchukos white fur collar were purple. purple, because of the wig. the horrible thin wig had now dyed the white parts of the outfit.(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

Guchuko in her natural habitat

Excluding the wig, Guchukos outfit is very comfortable to wear. I love her cape, eventhough I had to constantly watch the bows and I love the scythe eventhough it was a nuisance to carry everywhere with me. In the end all of the suffering was worth it and infact I didn't even feel like I was suffering at all. I just enjoyed potraying as one of my favorite character ♥～(‘▽^人)

Other than worrying about the wig I went to watch cosplay competitions. I really enjoyed this years show. Usually the mood of the performances have been a little too serious and the joy has been missing. But this year the missing joy was there and I found myself smiling after the performances. It made me want to participate even more in some kind of cosplay competition. I was also surprised by the number of cosplayers on saturday, It has been a while since I have seen so many colorful costumes and so many gorgeous props and details.(=^-ω-^=)

probably my favorite pic of this cosplay

Also later in the evening we had a little photoshoot of Guchuko. There are couple pictures I really liked :3

♥Sunday♥

Luka finding her way to her kingdom

I decided to wear sandplay Luka on sunday since it had been a while since I last wore it. The main reason It had been unused was that the hoop skirt wasn't firm enough and I haven't had time to fix it. I didn't took much photos of this outfit because I think I already have enough decent photos, but I did take couple dreamy shots by the lake.(•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑


Next time I'll make A HUUGE post about Pantheon wip, so stay toon~

Oh, ebay...

Let's talk about ordering wigs from ebay. To this day all of my wigs, I have ordered from ebay, have come in time and in perfect condition. The color has been just like in the pictures and I haven't had anything bad to say. But then Guchuko happened. 

I ordered two wigs from different sellers and I was supposed to put those two wigs together and make the perfect wig for guchuko like that. But I guess ebay had something else in mind. The first wig I ordered came in time... but the color was way off. I thought I could return it and get the right colored wig to replace it and the seller agreed to this. But I never sent the wig since it would have cost me more money to send the wig back than the value of the wig... And what happened to the second wig? well, the second wig never came. I waited for it to arrive over the estimated delivery time and then I contacted the seller. She/He replied that the wig was send to a wrong country by accident and gave me full refund... 

Needless to say I didn't expect both wigs not to arrive and so I had to leave guchukos costume and scythe at home while I went to animecon...

Since ebay had let me down I gave up on the idea of splitwig and decided I would order only one wig and dye it. So I did. Luckily the wig arrived really fast and the color of the wig was right. though the quality of the wig is not the best... there could be more fiber in it.. 

But let's move to the important part: DYEING THE WIG!

what you'll need:
-70% rubbing alcohol (or you can mix Sinol and water like I did.)
-acrylic ink 
-spray bottle
-wig stand ( or something else to hold the wig in place)
-comb
-protective gloves
-clips or pins to hold the upper layers of the wig up
-and the wig of course

step 1. You may skip this if you are using 70% rubbing alcohol. Measure the ingredients Sinol and water in the spray bottle. so that there is 70% Sinol and 30% of water. I used 1,75 dl of Sinol and 0,75 dl of water.

the ink I used

Step 2. Add the acrylic ink. I have no perfect measure of this, But add as much as you think is needed. The color will lighten when I'ts dry so try to make the color a little darker than you need. You can also mix many different colors of acrylic inks in order to achieve the desired color. 

all mixed up (only seethrough spray bottle I could find)

I'd prefer the spray bottle to be seethrough but if it's not I'd recommend to mix the color and alcohol in seethough container first and then move it to the spray bottle.

My beautiful wig stand, juicebottle filled with water and newspaper XD

Step 3. Prepare the wig. Put it in the wig stand and comb it. You can do this also before mixing any ingredients together.

Step 4. start spraying. The easiest way is to clip upper layers and start spraying first to the lower layers and then add some more layers and spray them and so on. Since Guchuko's hair is dip dyed I tried to achieve it by adding more color to the bottom and less on the middle of the wig where the "line" is. Then I used comb to make the shift softer.

Dyeing is very messy so I recommend using protective gloves. They kept my hand clean :3

As you can see the color is already much lighter

Step 5. Let it dry

Step 6. Rinse it in COLD water. then let it dry again. When it's dry comb it once again.

DONE!

Guchuko approves (•ヮ•)

Animecon XI 2014

Saturday:

I was cosplaying Luka megurine in her anti the infinite holic-costume. I'm very pleased with the costume and it was easy and comfortable to wear. And the wig is so so so pretty. Though there was a little bit too hot at the times but that was because of the hot weather. I was originally planning to wear Guchuko on saturday instead of Luka, but the wig for guchuko never came, in fact it was send to the wrong country and I had to order a new one. But I'll talk about that later.

My boyfriend was supposed to wear pantheons glaive warrior costume (from League of legends) But it broke when we tried to put it on in the morning.... and we decided to enjoy the day without pantheon and fix it in the evening so he could put it on on sunday. So we spent the day watching cosplay competition and cosplay date and just hanging around instead of worrying when the pantheon will break down again. 


Sunday:

for some reason it's sideways O___o oh well
(and my face is derp XD)

I was wearing my cutie lolita dress from baby the stars shine bright which I bought from my trip to Japan. The print is my sweet mate kumya's trick or treat by the way. Too early for halloween, i know.. but it's way too cute not to wear it :3 When I put it on I thought that no one would want to take a photo of me since it's a lolita not a cosplay. But surprisingly many came to ask for a photo :O Or maybe it was just because i was hanging with pantheon that we somehow managed to fix during night? 

overall, I enjoyed the con, but it was neither the best nor the worst con I have been to. Next con I will be attending is Tracon and hopefully I can wear guchuko there :3

Guchuko, Guchuko, wip 3

Not much has happened since the last time I posted. I still haven't started making the costume and everything have been pretty much just waiting for me to lay my hands on them... for a month... But I have a good reason for that because I was in Japan so I couldn't do anything! 

It's readyy :3

Scythes size compared to me 

But anyways I have done some little things: I added some paint to the scythe and now I can happily announce that it's completely 100% ready! I also painted the mouths for the horns and added pins for eyes and they are almost ready now. The costume itself shouldn't be hard to make, so when I get to it is probably going to be done in couple days.

They are so cute (´ε｀ )♡

I was planning to make the wig from two separate wigs and sew them together, so I ordered two wigs. the first wig came... BUT the color is wrong ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡It is pink instead of violet ;___;  It would cost too much to send it back to the seller and get a new right colored wig.. so  I must dye it...  I'm still anxiously waiting for the second wig to come, hopefully it comes in time. fingers crossed ~

what I got and what I ordered ;___;

That's how far I have got, next time I probably make an update of guchukos outfit. But before that I need to go to the fabric store~~