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Post by afterlight on May 12, 2009 22:20:05 GMT 10
rowan casting rips swastika necklace in silver is all well and good but how do you think that will go down at school cos you need the metalwork room
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Post by p0rtalman on May 12, 2009 22:35:54 GMT 10
Wal wouldn't mind as long as i explain its for a costume.
And besides, he gives me free run of the place, I do it all myself.
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Post by afterlight on May 12, 2009 22:45:48 GMT 10
lol kk
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Post by Battosai on May 19, 2009 0:23:34 GMT 10
Well, time for an update on Kenshin...
Both good and bad news...
The good news is my Hakama pattern and Rigid Collodion (The make-up appliance I'm using for the scars for Kenshin and Squall) arrived in the mail today. So I'll be heading into town tomorow to get some nice white material to make my hakama with and other material to wrap up my reverse blade sword's hilt with when I finish making that.
Bad news, well more like super FRUSTRATING news is sewing Kenshin's kimono tonight, while sewing that strip of fabric for the collar type thing, sewed it it the wrong way on so now I have to unpick the entire thread by hand....and that length of thread it double my height....I'm gonna be up late tonight....
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Post by RAVE420 on May 19, 2009 8:09:35 GMT 10
awww.... you'll be ok, we all have to unpick insane amounts of thread at some point.
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Post by p0rtalman on May 19, 2009 10:31:39 GMT 10
My mum has some trick she does when unpicking stuff, it takes her no time at all... although I'm afraid i don't know how she does it ;D
Oh, and i assume you have a quick unpick? If not, buy one!
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Post by Battosai on May 19, 2009 11:51:50 GMT 10
If by that you mean one of those little stitch ripper things then yeah I have a couple, a small one and a big one.
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Post by afterlight on May 19, 2009 12:05:34 GMT 10
if it was sewn with a sewing machine just using a strait stitch you take out the bottom thread then the top thread just pulls straight off
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Post by Battosai on May 19, 2009 17:39:50 GMT 10
...You couldn't have told me this last night after spending too hours pulling up every iindividual stitch?
Oh well....
Bought all my wood and paint and stuff to make my sword today as well as my hakama and juban material plus some blue ribbon for my wig and other bits and pieces for wrapping my sword hilt and scabbard with.
I'm also making my own zori since I cant find any online accurate enough.
At the rate I'm going everything will be 100% made by me except for the wig and contacts...
Hmm question. Does anyone know where in or around town I can find somewhere that sells sheets of solid plastic, strong but a bit flexible? I need some for the hard bit at the back of my hakama and also I'm thinking of making the shoulder piece for Squall using something like that.
I'm thinking of checking out Clark Rubber but just asking here first in case I go off on a wild goose chase...
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Post by p0rtalman on May 19, 2009 18:08:27 GMT 10
How thick do you want it? My first suggestion would be styrene, i have some sheets around the place, i order a fair few of them at a time, I'm sure i have some spare lying around.
For Squall's shoulder piece, is it supposed to be a bit of armour, or does it look like heavily padded cloth? If its cloth, just get some very heavy interfacing (we have some really heavy stuff left over if you want some)
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Post by Battosai on May 19, 2009 20:48:45 GMT 10
Well the hakama needs a stiff piece of something in the back of it. Squall's shoulder pience is like heavily padded cloth but I want it to be pretty hard and not move around or be floppy so that's why i was thinking about hard plastic.
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Post by p0rtalman on May 19, 2009 21:13:06 GMT 10
Ill bring down some of the spare stuff i have when i go home this weekend. I'm pretty sure there's some lying around the place.
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Post by greenzaku on May 21, 2009 14:05:31 GMT 10
Battosai: I used plastic from plastic file folders to make armor in my samurai warriors cosplay. That should probably work for the backing of the hakama.
Update on TF2 Sniper: Modifying a black polar fleece vest by hand, so far so good, no unpicking, but I'm used to handsewing already and make two metres of progress every hour. Am very excited about recent update and will start collecting jars.
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Post by Battosai on May 21, 2009 23:43:01 GMT 10
That's a good idea  My wig arrived for Kenshin today. Looks great though wierd at the same time having long red hair... With a bit of styling it should be perfect  Also finished my Kimono today but I may need to shorten the sleeves a bit. I'll get around to taking a few progress pics if anyone is interested.. Can't wait to see how your TF2 cosplay turns out greenzaku. So how are everyone elses costumes coming along? |
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Post by edelric on May 22, 2009 0:14:16 GMT 10
well i got most of my random anime school girl cosplay together!
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