Poll Into CosPlay? Making or wearing costumes - Do you do it? (20 votes)
I ahev never been against costumes, I dress up for Halloween from age four to age twelve. And four years ago I made a First Order Storm Trooper Hlement and blaster and fakes enough of a costume around that to wear it out.
But over the least four years of going to comic book and sci-fi conventions I really want to make a real costume. I mean research and hand-build a costume. I lwill hand sew and machine sew many pieces, but I will likely have to buy and pull apart some leather cuirass pieces of armor, cutting and shaping of the leather woudl require expensive tools is out of my wheelhouse.
But I do have to costume make what I want because you simply cannot buy what I am hoping to create.
The helmet is actually within my grasp to make with a 3D printer...and hundreds of hours of glueing, saning painting, etc. I will have to buy horse hair or find a suitable artificial substitute.
Fabric, leather, that a bit harder for me because that is where I lack skills. I have some sewing patterns for the under garments (yes, I building custom underwear) and tunic. That sandals I might be able to buy and modify; but armor, helmet, and tunic I will have to make.
I say I am going to do all this stuff....but I am scared!. I'm very lazy or rather I'm a perfectionist so I make a lot of excuses about why "tomorrow" would be a better day to start something. But I REALLY want to do this and ist amount to a 'passion project' for me. I plan the costume in two reeditions. In 350 days I need to have "version one" of the costume ready for Boston FanExpo 2023. In a year later, I want version 2 ready that will be totally cinema accurate.
[The picture does not even show the biggest prop I will be making and ist hints at the character I am playing. Its a dumb desire as a novice but I want to make a "movie accurate" costume that has a tone of detail that dopes not show up in that small picture - knitting, bead-work, dying, and aging of the materials to make it cinema accurate for judging.
I think I can do it! I know I will mess-up, but I still think my plan is solid.
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