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 Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 8:12 am
What parts of specific costumes have caused you the most trouble in the past? Was it a sleeve that just kept falling apart, boot covers that wouldn't stay attached, wigs that failed miserably, or fabric that kept jamming your sewing machine? Come gripe about parts of costumes that kept you up at night cursing the heavens.
Also, feel free to talk about obstacles you have encountered while wearing a costume, ie. not being able to walk through doors, getting blisters, etc.
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 12:09 pm
Most of my difficulties come from making costume bits.
My current headache is going to be the chainmail for Justin's Link costume. He's decided he's actually going to make individual rings and solder them together.
I am of the oppinion that he can do it himself.
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 5:36 pm
the hardest part for me and my Kimahri costume was the laytex (sp) cat face and the face paint.
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 12:36 am
I have a hard time with props T.T (I have 2 broken staves!) Anything that I can't sew together...ugh it falls apart on me. I decided hot glue is the evil of all evils and I will never use it again >.< It has caused so many things to fall apart. Any suggestions on better glues? For say, when I need to attach velcro to wood, or fabric to painted clay? I think I'm going to try cement instead...but that doesn't sound like it would work on the fabric part so well.
Also bootcovers used to be hard for me but thanks to Gren's bootcover tutorial I've got em pretty much figured out and had a couple successes ^^
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 11:45 am
Biggest problem I have with my cosplays is the budgeting. I like to have elaborate, practiacal, realistic costumes and dont like having money be an issue, but being a broke college student, that is a problem. I've had to improvise on a few cosplays because of that. (My "Random Jedi no.1" costume was mad of an old martial arts gi and Riding Boots the Robe was the only part I actually had to make.)
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 10:44 am
I've done the 'random Jedi 'stume. It was pretty spectacular, too. But then I sewed the whole thing by hand, and yeah. It was painful. I have gauntlets made out of leather, and a really nice cape-thing with sleeves, and a long brown skirt with thigh-high slits over dark brown tights and some sort of tea-dyed cmisole thing. I coloured my hair with crayola markers and brainded it in parts, and made a really long padawan braid out of a pieve of my sister's hair (which is longer than mine.) It looked pretty spiffy. I wish I had pics of it. razz
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 12:55 pm
Jadeelf I've done the 'random Jedi 'stume. It was pretty spectacular, too. But then I sewed the whole thing by hand, and yeah. It was painful. I have gauntlets made out of leather, and a really nice cape-thing with sleeves, and a long brown skirt with thigh-high slits over dark brown tights and some sort of tea-dyed cmisole thing. I coloured my hair with crayola markers and brainded it in parts, and made a really long padawan braid out of a pieve of my sister's hair (which is longer than mine.) It looked pretty spiffy. I wish I had pics of it. razz hehe, I'll post a few on the guild forum when my friend Holly sends me the pics of my Jedi costume... The costume itself is still in progress, as I have to dye the shirt black (Yeah, I'm an Evil Jedi twisted ) and I'm still waiting for my $260 lightsaber to arrive (Parksabers.com kicks a**!) Your padawan outfit does sound quite spiffy^_^
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:46 am
Probably hand props. I'm still doing a lot of expeiramenting with them, and expeiraments lead to a lot of failures, or eventual breaking. I think I finally have figured out a method that will give me the ability to re-cast my props in different materials, according to con regulations, and make them sturdy enough to hold up to even the most brutal convention wear and tear (No more broken keyblades in the trunk of my car. Yaay!)
There's not a lot of material ont hese sorts of things, and most of it is for theatre props, which are meant to be used in a VERY different situation. Con regulations and their constant fluctuation also pose the problem of making me figure out different ways to make props according to need. I've been able to get them con regulation in the bast... but not sturdy as I would like them. Big pain in the a**. Bunch of money gone to waste. Curse you, security, curse you. XD
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 12:47 pm
Gren1618 Probably hand props. I'm still doing a lot of expeiramenting with them, and expeiraments lead to a lot of failures, or eventual breaking. I think I finally have figured out a method that will give me the ability to re-cast my props in different materials, according to con regulations, and make them sturdy enough to hold up to even the most brutal convention wear and tear (No more broken keyblades in the trunk of my car. Yaay!) There's not a lot of material ont hese sorts of things, and most of it is for theatre props, which are meant to be used in a VERY different situation. Con regulations and their constant fluctuation also pose the problem of making me figure out different ways to make props according to need. I've been able to get them con regulation in the bast... but not sturdy as I would like them. Big pain in the a**. Bunch of money gone to waste. Curse you, security, curse you. XD When it comes to the hand props, I am so glad I took metal shop in HIgh School. I like to look for characters with weapons I can make in that fashion, mainly because you don't run as much risk of breaking it and depending on the prop, it sometimes looks nicer^_^ As for theatre props, I have seen some good ones, and some horrendously awful ones xd (welded steel tubing made into a Claymore...They would've been better off using an SCA approved one since the stage prop weighed about 15 lbs more than the real thing) While most con's have the no live steel rule, depending on how well you make it, you can get away with it if the steel doesn't look like steel...there are ways, but they take time and money. Gren, what did you guys make the keyblade out of if you don't mind my asking? Oh, and your Heartless Riku cosplay kicked major a**! (ok...I think that is enough a** kissing for one post. xd )
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:58 pm
The keyblades were PVC pipe, fiberglass, and then foam over that so con security would let the weapons pass (This is squishy. Your prop is fine. Har har.) The PumpkinHead v.2 involved PVC fiberglass, hot clue (whole handguard was cast from hot glue) foam, mat board, model magic, hardware, and plastic chain.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:32 pm
Oh wow, Gren. I'd never thught about that, with the con regulations. How terrible.
They won't allow us to use metal blades anymore at NdK, so I get where you're coming from. There go my dreams of a nifty metal fan for my geisha costume.
...Although I wonder if fans count....
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:17 am
Lena Emerson I have a hard time with props T.T (I have 2 broken staves!) Anything that I can't sew together...ugh it falls apart on me. I decided hot glue is the evil of all evils and I will never use it again >.< It has caused so many things to fall apart. Any suggestions on better glues? For say, when I need to attach velcro to wood, or fabric to painted clay? I think I'm going to try cement instead...but that doesn't sound like it would work on the fabric part so well. Also bootcovers used to be hard for me but thanks to Gren's bootcover tutorial I've got em pretty much figured out and had a couple successes ^^ Epoxy! It's not flexible, but it's amazing. There's also what we like to call "Death Glue" in the costume shop (if you use it indoors without ventilation, it can kill you), but I don't know what it's called. The tube is yellow with red cap, print, and a bear on it, I think. Apparently there's a similar glue at JoAnn's that I just discovered. The Aleene's Platinum glue. It contains the same death chemicals as Death Glue, so probably works just as well, plus it's flexible.
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:16 am
Yeah, Epoxy resin works wonders...If you dont mind cheapness...Duct Tape works wonders on anything!
As for staves...I recommend going to the Hardware store and buying a dawl rod (wooden Staff looking thing). These can be carved into, cut, and joined to other things. They arent expensive either, My nyoibo (Goku Staff) was made from one and only cost about $1 in total.
But glues...yeah, I'd also go Epoxy.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:04 am
If you have to join pieces for a staff or something, you can also attach a metal rod to the joining part on the inside, if they're hollow.
We've done that before to fix tents.
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:51 pm
Minute detail. I love to do it, but it gets tedious. ESPECIALLY when you don't have the best reference photos.
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