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pockysquirrel So after the contact lens debacle, I took a break. And then I procrastinated a lot. And then I realized that I'm leaving on vacation in three weeks, and then PMC happens like, IMMEDIATELY upon my return. Aaaaand I panicked.
Cue my partner in crime coming over on Friday night and us molding my head. AGAIN. This time, we dried the paper mache one layer at a time, AND I put the mold in the oven for extra drying power. And things came out slightly misshapen, but workable, I thought. So I finally got to move on, finally got to get out the clay and start sculpting.
...LOL nope.
I ended up punching a large dent square in the middle of the paper and clay replica of my own forehead, and if that ain't symbolic of how this entire process has gone, I don't know what is.
So I now have 2 weekends of work time left, and absolutely zero costume. I'm still half tempted to try again with a different technique, and half tempted to say fuck it all and not have a costume for this con.
Either way, I've already - suicidally, perhaps - settled on my next over-ambitious cosplay effort. Which will be a full mechsuit for TFCon 2015.
I never learn...
Cue my partner in crime coming over on Friday night and us molding my head. AGAIN. This time, we dried the paper mache one layer at a time, AND I put the mold in the oven for extra drying power. And things came out slightly misshapen, but workable, I thought. So I finally got to move on, finally got to get out the clay and start sculpting.
...LOL nope.
I ended up punching a large dent square in the middle of the paper and clay replica of my own forehead, and if that ain't symbolic of how this entire process has gone, I don't know what is.
So I now have 2 weekends of work time left, and absolutely zero costume. I'm still half tempted to try again with a different technique, and half tempted to say fuck it all and not have a costume for this con.
Either way, I've already - suicidally, perhaps - settled on my next over-ambitious cosplay effort. Which will be a full mechsuit for TFCon 2015.
I never learn...
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Date: 2014-07-21 04:33 am (UTC)Also, I really want to know what your TF con cosplay is.
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Date: 2014-07-22 03:05 am (UTC)Stupid head. >.<
As for my big stupid mechsuit idea that I'm going to regret the second I start working on it? I wanna be this guy:
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Date: 2014-07-22 03:18 am (UTC)As for the head, how about switching tactics? Instead of the silicone, what if you use pre existing materials, paint, sew, and alter? Use bakable clay for the Face peices and maybe sew the head part? If you make something like a skull cap and I don't know the word, but put ridges in it like a quilt has to get the texture? Or even maybe just paint on a baseball cap without the rim? I beleive you can do this.