Cosplay Day Nightmare Tales

So I rolled outa bed around 1030am and Court got up an hour or two later.  Slowly started pulling shit out to start the day of cosplay crap.  A buddy of mine named Chris was on his way over to provide much needed assistance with the Amon cosplay stuff.  Plus, I had given him some coin to pick me up some needed supplies from Tandy Leather way the hell out from Surrey.

The original pattern I made a few days ago for the Amon greaves and knee cop.  I was originally proud of this.

And then Chris just farted this out in like two minutes.  Fak.  Irritated.  

This is the earlier picture of his unfinished pattern.  We later added those stirrup things from Amon's greaves.

Court working on the Sokka robe thing.  Also called a "klappenrock" if you read books.   

Got the leatherbending master at work here.  All honesty, I've been trying to keep watch on what that guy is doing so I can try to pick some of it up.  He just blasts through all of this like it's nothing.

We managed to get all the main pieces cut out for the greaves, including the knee cop and those little square pieces on top.  Most of the vambrace is prepped as well.

I decided to take charge of the dying since it's pretty hard to screw that stage up.  The gloves here are for Christina's Tifa cosplay.

We bought some leather gloves from Wal-Mart, and Christina cut the fingers off and sewed the edges up to help stop it from fraying.  

Methinks after the cosplay stuff is done, I'll do the same thing except I'll dye mine a dark brown (likely "British tan") for SCA combat to wear with my demi-gauntlets.  







The last dying project of mine had my hands look all wonky for a few days.  Gloves be a good idea.









The Tifa gloves all finished being dyed and being left to dry for a bit.  On the upper right we have the Amon greaves with the edges dyed.  

After the greaves are done drying, I'll be taping the edges up and then using the British-tan dye to color the rest of it.  

I got similar work done on the Amon gauntlets as well.

Aaaaaaaaaand Courtney with my 90% finished Sokka robe, minus the trim and all those other accessory do-dads.  After she got this far, she stated she had to stop or she would have to murder someone.  Verily this seemed fair.








We got a fair amount of crap done today.  Chris will be coming over again on Sunday to help out.  We will be assembling the Amon greaves (with cops), finishing the vambrace, and hopefully getting around to cutting out and assembling the spaulders.  Spaulders miiiiiiiiiight be a bit of a push but I think we can get it done.

Throughout the week I'll be finishing the rest of the big chunks of dye work before Chris comes over.  If I feel confident enough, I might take a crack at the Katara belt, though, methinks I will have to defer to his experience for that one.  I don't want to screw up a big chunk of leather like that.  

As for the Tifa gloves, Christina wants to sew two big buttons on the gloves to serve as "materia."  I never actually noticed that before until Christina pointed it out to me.  

Huh.  Makes sense.

So that be it for now.  Kempo class tomorrow night, so might be able to get some dying work done on Wednesday or maybe Thursday evening.  Anime convention is coming up fast, so gotta get this bullshit done asap.  

I know my robe is going to be an expensive pain in the ass.  That costume in the movie had SOOOOO much detailing on it.  There is no way I can get that done before the convention, so I'll have to wing some of it.  Hopefully it will turn out fine.

That be it for now, since it be bedtime now.  Hugs and kisses, mwa mwa mwa, and thanks for reading.  Rawk.

--The Captain Himself

Manly Chris