I definitely can't wear this costume anymore. We actually made them in such a way that we didn't need to bind or anything for them because they sort of acted like a corset/binder all on their own. They were also so form-fitting up top that I couldn't lift my arms up beyond a certain point; I could barely touch my own face. And living in FL, we did almost die of heat stroke a few times taking pics outside... so yeah, don't do that! 😂
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We finished everything in time for MetroCon '08 except for the weapons which we completed at the end of October.
All of the leather material aspects are made of car leather which is a lot thicker than most other fabrics because it had, not only a leather top, but a cloth underside. We made the coat first, but used the wrong needles and broke about 4-6 of them. We made our own pattern from a form-fitting jacket we had and extended it to the appropriate length. Each piece of the side design was separately sewn into place on a piece of organza. Once it was a whole piece, we sewed the whole thing on the coat. We purchased the custom zippers from ZipperSource.com. The wrists were crafted with wooden bangles purchased at Michael's and hot glued into place. The boots were made from on-sale Keds and a cover. We made a pattern to get the leather to be form-fitting and hot glued the covers in place. We already had costume gloves and the pants were merely tights. We made the big shoulder armor pieces out of cardboard, polyfil and a bit of furniture foam. The little ones were just stuffed. We hand sewed the little ones to the big ones. The straps were also hand sewed to the armor and the snaps were stomped in place (literally). The wigs were purchased from eBay seller CosplayWig.
Kadaj's weapon was made out of Balsa wood and my father, a carpenter, crafted it. Kat finished it off by wrapping the hilt and adding the black and white ribbons. Yazoo's weapon was made out of spruce wood and bits of metal for the trigger, trigger guard, hammer, and site. I used a hot glue gun to make the designs.
Working on a battle damaged version of Terra’s lingering will armor, I’m calling it broken will. It’s based off the old cinematic BBS trailer. I 3d modeled and printed all the armor pieces. I’m almost done painting them just a little more weathering to do. Next will be to work on the custom undersuit.
heeey long time no post-- but I needed to show the world that I actually made a Selphie cosplay, well, this was in 2022 now. But I wanted to share it here cuz I loooove this cosplay and I know I have some old mutuals who love FFVIII as much as I do! 💛
It's @thenickscast's Great Magicite Fight charity weekend; what better day to share some new Gau from Final Fantasy 6 photos from last year! I wanted to finally do a new photoshoot with all cosmetics: fangs, ears and claws. It's always hard to wear them all together for Gau at conventions, especially if I don't have Raph around, or if I know he would be wandering around separately from me XD
📸 my partner Raph, edits by me
Character: Xion
Series: Kingdom Hearts: 365/2 Days by Square Enix
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I actually had help from my friend, Axel, in drafting and making the coat and chains. They also made my Keyblade! This was supposed to go with their Axel and our friend Nikki's Roxas, but we never got any photos. 😂😂😂
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The wig is a Monica from Cosworx in color 1. The underclothes I wear with the coat are simply black tights and a black tank-top. The gloves are just thin costume shop ones. I got the boots from... Amazon, maybe? I don't remember. 🤔
We got our leather from SyFabrics. Zippers were from orgxiii.org, which doesn't exit anymore. Lame! Pattern is Vogue 1266 altered. The hood is a custom pattern we made. Beads for chain for the hoods were crafted with Sculpey and copper wire. Chain was bought at Home Depot. Everything was spray painted for a nice, even look.