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pockysquirrelBEHOLD, LIKE A COSPLAYING PHOENIX I ARISE FROM THE ASHES OF FAILURE AND ACHIEVE...VICTORY!
Congratulations, Pocky! It's a head!
This morning, in a last-minute surge of motivation, I went to Michael's, bought a whole bunch of new crap, and then spent all afternoon assembling it into this. No more molding. Fuck molding. This was BUILT, out of craft foam, Model Magic, and a mutilated baseball cap. I've accomplished more on this costume today than I have in the past three months. I'm not going to say it's perfect, because it's not. The proportions are off and it's rougher than I'd like. But it's SOMETHING. And right now that something is drying in preparation for paint and detailing.
Meanwhile, for the first time since I started work on this godforsaken thing, I got to work on something OTHER than the stupid head:
Here is a brooch-thing. It wasn't a seashell after all. I might never have known WHAT it was, were it not fortptigger and her shiny screencaps. Right now it needs baking, painting, and a pin back.
Seashell belt. I could weep for joy.
I'm not out of the woods yet. The head still needs a lot of work, and I've not even started the tunic yet. But there's hope, dammit, and there wasn't much of that before.
Congratulations, Pocky! It's a head!
This morning, in a last-minute surge of motivation, I went to Michael's, bought a whole bunch of new crap, and then spent all afternoon assembling it into this. No more molding. Fuck molding. This was BUILT, out of craft foam, Model Magic, and a mutilated baseball cap. I've accomplished more on this costume today than I have in the past three months. I'm not going to say it's perfect, because it's not. The proportions are off and it's rougher than I'd like. But it's SOMETHING. And right now that something is drying in preparation for paint and detailing.
Meanwhile, for the first time since I started work on this godforsaken thing, I got to work on something OTHER than the stupid head:
Here is a brooch-thing. It wasn't a seashell after all. I might never have known WHAT it was, were it not for
tptigger and her shiny screencaps. Right now it needs baking, painting, and a pin back.Seashell belt. I could weep for joy.
I'm not out of the woods yet. The head still needs a lot of work, and I've not even started the tunic yet. But there's hope, dammit, and there wasn't much of that before.
