Getting close...

Comic Con is in less than two weeks. I have about 3 working days left to get the wings together, and about a week to do the chain mail.

Slightly freaking out about the fact that the costume isn't done yet, but its getting there.

Over the weekend I finished all the painting and sprayed everything with an acrylic sealant, which did wonders to the costume and made everything really nice and shiny. I was worried about the paint, because on the pieces that are rounded and will be bending a lot the paint was cracking whenever I picked it up wrong. However, once I sprayed on the sealant, the texture changed and it became malleable and stopped cracking. So glad I decided to spray all the pieces with that stuff. Thank you Mod podge.

Here are some picture updates from last night, when I started putting everything together:

Hooray for getting things together! The sword is looking great, all the lights are installed, and its now fully painted. The chest has the tabard and the circles attached, and I set the velcro for the shoulders. I can't glue the shoulders down, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to get in the chest.

I may need to alter the shoulders, as they are huge when I put them on and may be too beefy looking as is, but I'll figure that out later today when I do a wear test.

Back from vacation, and super duper productive

So after defending my thesis, I went on a vacation, and got back just last Tuesday. In the past week, I have gotten a lot done. Everything still needs paint, but the bulk of the armor is now done, and the wings and sewn items are the only major things left to fabricate.



So far, I've completed the shoe/foot armor, as seen to the right. It's made from foam and worbla, the heel is attached to the arch piece by snaps, so it can rotate. Everything will get elastic attachments to the shoe.



Next, the lower leg and upper leg armor have been completed, although I don't currently have a picture of the upper leg armor. I'm going to add more velcro to the lower leg armor so that it doesn't bow out as much at the back.












I've also completed the knee pieces, the forearms, and the upper arm pieces. Most is foam, the forearms are worbla. To the left, you can see progress pictures of the forearms, with all the detail complete on one of them. They've now been gessoed and are ready to be sanded and painted.

What's left to do is the hand armor (need to make the gloves for that) and the upper thigh plates that Tyrael has. I have a pattern for those, so I just need to cut, form, and detail those pieces. I'm hoping to get that done today, so I can move on to painting and sewing. I have a week basically to finish, as I'm going away for labor day next wednesday. Then a few days before the convention for any last minute stuff.

However, based on how much I've been able to accomplish in the last week, I'd say I'm in a good place to get everything done in time. Bring on the costume competition!

I'm done!

With graduate school! Done! That took forever. On to bigger and better things (maybe).