Obviously, both myself and Justin from Foggy Mountain Forge took some liberties in the design. The club from the cartoon was made from a whale bone or something. I don't have easy access to whale bones, and even if I did it wouldn't be really good for the long term. Hence, this bad boy is made from steel with a steel ball welded on with a wooden pinned handle. A leather wrap WOULD NOT do, and would be very uncomfortable as well.
Just has one more up on his Etsy sight if you want it. Check it out.
http://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/157014771/replica-sokka-war-club-from-avatar-the?ref=shop_home_active
Just in case you where wondering, that is what the club looked like in the cartoon. Rawk.
Me and Court also worked on our cosplays today. I worked on the leather armor patterns for the greaves for the Amon cosplay, and also gathered a WHOLE BUNCH of ref pictures for the spaulders and arm harness too. I'll post my findings on that later.
While I was putting the patterns and picture ref's together, Court was working on my Sokka jacket. Even though everybody hated the shitty ass live action movie, I absolutely loved the costumes Katara and Sokka had for the movie. Counter-culture non-conformist Captain Himself here is going for the movie Sokka look and NOT the "Old Friends" picture ref from Legend of Korra.
I expect some people to bitch about it or simply not recognize, but I really don't give a rats ass. I don't think a lot of people recognize the historical influences they put into the water tribe outfits. From what I can tell, they are heavily influenced by the "Rus" people, who are basically Vikings that settled along the Rus River. Okay, Varangians. Basically the same thing. Read a book.
Get it. Rus River. Russian. Stupid.
I also think there where influences from those Russian-ish people who are kinda like the Inuit who are waaaaaaaaaaay the fuck up there that follow the reindeer around. I can't recall the name of them right now. Uhmm. Lemme take a look.
The Sami? Yeah. I think that's them. I haven't read much about them, so I might be completely wrong, but I really don't give a damn right now. I'll read about them later.
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Huh. There is no way this guy is related to Basil Rathbone. Basil Rathbone was the man. The dude could actually swordfight. This Jackson Rathbone joker can barely act his way out of a paper bag. It was like the crew made some sort of weird archaic animatronic paper mache debauchery marionette on shit strings and just fed it really bad wooden dialogue. Fak.
Plaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Never even finished watching that stupid movie. I felt like it was DB:Evolution all over again. Like throwing up in the wind and it coming back at you. The costume looks awesome though. And on that note of the costume, check this out----
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This is a picture I stole somewhere from deviantart. This guy put alot of work into his garb there. See the similarities? The robe/jacket he's wearing is called a "klappenrock."
So Court took my Kempo gi top (NOT KARATE), and sketched out a pattern based on that, since they are effectively the same thing. Seemed simple enough and straightforward
Now, the fabric I bought for the Sokka jacket is this REALLY expensive upholstery fabric. That stuff was damn near 30 clams a meter. HOLY FAK. That kinda intimidated Court, so she wanted some different fabric so she could do a practice run.
When she first did this, I thought she was going to be making a full sized jacket to fit my full sized tubby ass. Instead, she made this--
Huh. That isn't going to fit. Worked though. The doll (not my doll, that's Court's, named "Soraya") is sitting on top the fancy expensive fabric in the photo.
I wonder if this garment is mighty enough for the God of Thunder?
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| Forsooth! |
Verily. By Odin's beard, it fits!
About to crash out for the evening. Next entry will be the Amon cosplay and maybe I'll post some pictures of my other new toys. That's it for now. Hugs and kisses, mwa mwa mwa. Peace out! Rawk.
--The Captain Himself
----(Me)
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