Slow updates cause been fighting demotivation issues, but also no streaming cause I’ve been bouncing back and forth between project ideas.⠀
Over the past couple days during the free time I had, I started doing mockups of other armors. This included the shoulder armor, as well as the boot patterns! To do both of these- like most of this costume, I wrapped myself up in plastic wrap and then masking tape and then outlined what I wanted.⠀
One of the interesting things I’ve done with both of these pieces is used poster-board to play around with some of the shaping. For example there is that little ‘lip’ on the armor that tape couldn’t shape, so I played with a piece of poster-board until I was happy. The same went for the shoes that have a 'steel toe’ as I’m going to call them, so I added some posterboard there to give my cheap sandal bases some 'lift’ that I could get the better shape for where the fabric will be going.⠀
Hopefully at some point I’ll get the bodysuit done. I tried to time myself so that the armor was completed before it became too cold outside to spray paint. At some point in my life I’ll work on an armor cosplay where it’s warm outside hahaha… ha..⠀
Again thanks for all those who joined the stream the other day! I didn’t feel too productive, but that might be my anxiety hahaa.⠀
The two things I worked on the stream were forming the bracers, as well as the leg armor. For the leg armor I did the same process of wrapping my leg up in plastic wrap and masking tape, then guestimating where things will sit on my legs. One problem facing is my legs are both thicker, and smaller than the ref images.⠀
I also heated up the armor with a heat gun to begin shaping it. I did get to learn how much heat that L200 works well with. (I also learned I cant use masking tape on it or it will actually rip away the foam ug.) One fun thing I did was kept trying with my heat tool what kinda ways I could put the divits or cuts into the armor. The one angular tool at high heat will work SUPER WELL for cuts once I get to that part of the armor! I’m looking forward to damaging it once everything is done.
No stream last night because I was over doing some mutual babysitting with some cos-buddies! ⠀
While we were hanging I decided to get a jump on cutting out the foam for the bracers. This was done by first tracing out everything twice with a marker on the foam, keeping careful consideration to flip one side for the right bracer.⠀
This was my first time working with L200, and I’ve only worked with craft before. It’s a soft foam, and it appears very porous on the inside which I thought was interesting. But I didn’t have any resistance to my fresh exactoknife (really need a bigger one.) Like its sensitive, yet firm all at the same time. I’m not sure /how/ to describe it.⠀
Once the pieces were cut out, I used contact cement on the inside seams, let that dry, and then made sure to stick it together at my seam markers. And viola! Two sides of two bracers each! Need to clean up the seams a bit, carve me some divits, and then plot how I’m going to attach them, but so far so good.⠀
Want to give a super shout out to all those that joined me on my Twitch stream yesterday, and @cosplaysupplies who is sponsoring this armor build!
It was a super productive day, which was great given how bad I’d been fighting depression. A full draft was finished off the arm bracers that I’ll make of L200 foam.
The process started with making a live mockup on my arm with saran wrap and masking tape. The photos here are my second draft as I wasn’t happy with the first. I used 3 different markers to keep track of my steps= blue for gridlines and draft lines, red for more details, and black for final. I always use black as a final as it allows me to overlay more tape for making other drafts for smaller parts.
From this mockup I was able to make posterboard patterns for the foam pieces, as well as wrappers to make my groove lines with my hot knife. It was a great productive stream and I plan on doing more!
I’m finally getting started on the Warrior Peach by @skirtzzz! It’s going to be a task since I’m very unhappy with both my mental state and my body at the moment, but you know what gonna press through cause I want to cosplay this dammit.
The first task before me was getting the bodysuit ready before I felt prepped to do the armor. Since I can’t wear a bra, I’m trying these Silicone Breast lifts from Hiramex (found on Amazon) to at least help with boob movement underneath the armor. Even though I have heavy cups they are really doing a great job at least reducing boob rash!
With that done I started making a guesstimate on the bodysuit. With some excess spandex from other projects I used the bodysuit pattern from Kwiksew to give me a high collar suit and just didn’t cut out the full legs. Way more fabric than needed, but gave me a starting point. From there I marked off where I wanted to cut away fabric, and then slowly trimmed and reshaped. With my first draft done, I re-cut it from new fabric and re-sewed. To be honest I’m super happy with draft 2, but I’m having crotch issues so I’m going to go with one more final draft and then think about cutting the full suit.
feminism will be reached when nintendo gives us Wapeach and Wadaisy
and they have to be just as deranged as Waluigi and Wario or it doesn’t count. I want some truly awful possum-like women, no Bowsette shit
So they took wayyy longer than they should have but here’s my shot at Wadaisy (left) and Wapeach (right). Blease injoy
YOU UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT THESE ARE AWESOME
I want to play too! Ok so my reasoning behind this is: I wanted to keep Wario and Waluigi’s general shape language, and sort of stick to the Super Mario series’s general design rules. So I wanted to end up with female characters that weren’t Peach copies, who looked fun to play as, and who gave out possum energy. Thank you passionpeachy for the prompt! This was super fun.
As many people were hiding, Mythylin would finally be defeated by this powerful being, and a huge wave would spread out all over the Mushroom Kingdom that would restore everything back to normal with Mythylin defeated.
“H-Huh? Everything’s-a back to normal!” Luigi goes outside and would see a rainbow in the sky to show that peace was finally restored again.
Meanwhile, Princess Peach would be giving a speech after everything was restored back to normal again.
“None of us really understand what just happened and none of us want to. So as the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, I am officially passing the Never Mind All That act. So if anyone goes around asking about the eventsof the last few days… What do we say?”
“Never Mind All That!” Says the citizens and toads of the Mushroom Kingdom.
“And if-you-a break the rules then you’ll be-a sentenced to 10 years behind bars!”
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