Finishing Aela´s costume

Just a few days left till the competition!

I´ve spent a lot of time just figuring out how to attach those pauldrons to her dress. Because in normal life this just couldn´t work at all :D

I decided to make my bracers out of more comfortable material than worbla is. Worbla is so rough that my forearm always hurts and bracer doesn´t stay in its place. This one is made of 0,5 mm craft foam, covered with fake leather (the same I used for my dress). But I´m satisfied with the result.

I also ordered something special .. 

.. my personal dagger, or small sword, don´t really know what it´s called like. It´s used, has a few glitches and originally purposed for LARPing.

Trip costume progress

I hate sewing .. seriously. It´s so hard for me to make a good looking sewing pattern, cut it and sew together.

It´s like a walk through hell..

But. I made a deal with sewing machine and we´re able to cooperate sometimes. So I did Trip´s top successfully!

It fits perfectly. I was really surprised! ^^

And after that I started the painting part. I made it a little bit easier, because those rays were so close to each other that it was nearly impossible to paint them nicely.

But I´m pretty satisfied with the result .. now I´m working on the belt. I did a frame from worbla but I´ve changed my mind and re-done it with craft foam.

Wish me luck! ^^

Tripitaka (Enslaved) - Dragonfly WIP

Today I´m going to show you how I made Trip´s dragonfly.

Right from the beginning I wanted it to be really functional. So I had to buy the smallest flashlight in my life :)

So I bought this small red flashlight which turns on while you turn the upper part a bit. So it´s really cool .. you don´t need to make a special place for a button. And it´s also really lightweight .. :)

You can see the red flashlight in the pic above, standing on wires .. poor dragonfly :D

The best kitty in the world! Yoona the Guardian !

And there are some progress pics .. I made a pattern for wings and add a wire into them to make them moveable. Make the body of dragonfly from worbla and repeated the wire-thing with dragonfly´s tail.

The tail is made from three different parts and you can move it to different angles.

At the end I added a few layers of gesso paint, sprayed the whole body with bronze acrylic spray paint, painted whole body with acrylics. And there´s a "small" clip on side of the body so I can attach it into hairband and hair. Unfornately it is not enough so I have to use another pin to make it stay on place ><"

But in the end I really like the result. What do you think? :)