Local Comicon Achievement Unlocked!

Well, with only getting 2-4 hours of sleep a night this past week, I was able to get my costume done for comicon this weekend!  Here are the results:

And here are some of the others that were in my category.  The girl beside me is a tier 4 warlock!  She made her imp and she was super nice =)

I won the best in show for the Professional Masters category on Friday and then won in the Masters category on Saturday too.  I even got a little trophy hehe.

Tragically (but also tragic comedy I suppose), on the way out of the con on Friday night, my cloak got caught in the escalator!!!!! D=  I have some repairs to do as it has some rips and grease stains.  We had to emergency stop the escalator to get it out... thankfully it wasn't worse though =(

So, there are some repairs and some last detailing I need to do before leaving for blizzcon.  These things include:

-fixing the one moth that stopped working shortly after arriving at comicon

-parts around tassels having off back

-armor accents on boots

-redo wings (i'm not happy with them... they were a last minute shoddy job)

-cleaning and repair work from damages from this past weekend.

WOOOOOOO  BLIZZCON SOON!!!!!!

2.5 weeks to go to make it for comicon

Eek - I'm planning on entering the local comicon costume contest with Maghda (it's the weekend before Blizzcon).  The main reason for this is that there's a best in show prize of $500... which if I can win would partially offset the cost of making this costume -_-  I'm not sure if I even have a chance of this, but I probably have more of a chance here than at Blizzcon, even though I'm making it because of Blizzcon =)

Anyways, here are some update pics:

Head pretty much done.  Just needs grey accents along the base and gold tip pieces on the horns.

This is what the inside of the horns looks like:

It's like this in efforts to stay lightweight.... and I'm not entirely happy with the lumpiness of the final, but I'm not sure if I have time to figure out a solution.  I may or may not come back to that.

Starting painting.  Here are the arm band pieces:

Also started trying to figure out the process to make the wings flap.  Had a friend over to look at our arduino board and give us programming help.  Here's a cute little motor:

Well, I have a fallback prop...

So, if Maghda fails..... I have TURTLE SHELLS:

I'm just kidding... I won't let Maghda fail!

Here's what they look like with the belt:

The shell pieces won't be "hard attached".... I originally was going to do that, but they're just too confining that way.  They'll be suspended under the belt so they can move out and in as I move.

Oh ya, and here's a pic of more of the "belt":

Some successes, some failures

Successes this week:

Here are some of the arm cape bracer parts, all golded up too:

Also, horn gold accent pieces (yay for gold spray paint):

All of these gold things will get more paint shading/highlighting.  The gold is the base though.



Other success:  Bracers!

I did these today and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.  I was concerned that mixing mediums of fabric and thermoplastic would look bad, but I think it'll work.  Paint job to come when I paint all the other stuff.



Failures:

I got this fabulous pink shiny fabric which was to be those parts on the horns.

To give it some dimension, I spent loads of time sewing pleats and then I sewed the pleats in different directions.. (sorry, not really sure how to explain it).

After all of this though... it ended up looking pretty crappy.  There's just too much crinkle and reflection in this fabric for this pleating style to work...  Alas, back to the drawing board for this portion.  I put the helmet aside while I try to think of a new idea =(

Boooo RL getting in the way of crafting

So today my goal was to get my headpiece completed (in line with my calendar goals).  I usually work Tues-Sat, but this week was a Mon-Fri week.... buuuut I didn't realize that until a text arrived from a coworker at 9:40am asking where I was.  Oops!  There goes my helmet completion deadline =(

I did work quite a bit on the "horns" this weekend though.  Mapping out square-ish shapes on curved horns is more difficult than it seems.  I pinned on the shapes and practiced my tetris skills in the process:

I then created horns to go in these horns made of cotton batting to kind of give it a bit of poofiness.  I sewed between all the shapes.  Sadly my sewing machine could only really do the bottom couple rows and the rest was hand sewing.  Hence each one taking like 5 hours.... -_-

I attached that black trim I used on the arm pieces to the sewing lines and next is making the pink pointy parts and painting the square gems that go in each of the segments.  Wow.. this sounds confusing when I try to explain it.. oh well -_-

To-Do List: ftw or ftl?

So I was away from home for the last 3 days so I wasn't able to work at all on the costume; so instead, I made a to-do list to get an idea of how much is left.  It's two pages long....

And in efforts to not feel totally overwhelmed I put mini-deadlines in calendar form:

Oh, and you'll notice Comicon the weekend before Blizzcon.  That's because I'm making that my deadline if I can.  There's a comicon in my city that weekend and I think I'm going to come out of the closet in my home-city and wear my costume there.  That way, it'll be sort of a test run in timing of how long it takes to get on, makeup done, etc. as well as if there's anything that needs work before Blizzcon.

Right now I'm sitting and hand-sewing the square sections on my helm -_-

Curse you, Blizzard!

It's Blizzard's fault I haven't made any progress this last week  >.<

And this is why:

Yes, I got into the closed beta.

It is way too freakin' fun and addictive.

I promise to do more costume work this week =(