It's been a while again, what a surprise. I was so busy for a couple of weeks there it isn't even remotely funny. I visibly lost weight - but I was able to get my cosplay done barely in time for Tracon X and had a great weekend, despite some people-related hiccups and this time not even popping into a single program or lecture... I gotta work up to that next year. I'm genuinely bummed because I didn't go listen to some stuff. Ugh. Oh well.
I might go to Desucon Frostbite next year, as well as Tracon XI of course and maybe the summer Desucon as well. Oh, and Popcult Helsinki. We'll see. I honestly have no idea as to what I'll be doing after the year is over and I graduate, so here's to hoping I guess?
Anyway, my cosplay plans are as follows:
Desucon Frostbite: repeat Tracon X:s Archmage/Krosis cosplay from Skyrim. Finally I get to wear this costume in more appropriate weather!
Popcult Helsinki: Repeat of said Skyrim cosplay, but with a friend who's going to make a cosplay of the Saviour's Hide (F) armour in Skyrim.
Desucon: Nux from Mad Max Fury Road (possibly with Capable? not sure yet)
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| Yes, he is bald. Yes, I will be shaving my head. Yes, I'm going to try and send my hair to a charity that could make wigs out of it for people who deal with hair loss and need hair pieces. Yes. |
Tracon XI: Groot on one day, a Nux + Max + Capable/other wife group cosplay on the other
I could build it entirely out of foam or other more easily available materials, but it a. wouldn't look great and b. would be considerably less durable. If at all possible, I want to be able to attach this thing to my costume so I don't actually have to hold it in my hand the whole time. Obviously I also have to buy some silver decorative cake spray for funsies (and Valhalla).
I'm also getting some decent body camouflage palettes now, and looking at what I could use to build Nux's scarifications and how I could conceal my binding when I wear the costume. I'm doing a Nux that is wearing Mad Max's jacket just in case I end up simply going with sports tape, but I really want to build a "prosthetic skin" part that I could stick over the binding to make it blend with my skin better. I'll see. Probably will be posting updates here sometimes, since I actually have a year's time to work up to the cosplay! I already went and bought a used leather jacket for ~15€ that I can use to distress, it just requires some modding and the shoulder pad. Most of the other stuff Nux wears ("army"-esque pants, pilot goggles etc) I'll be able to buy off a used army equipment reseller in Finland, so that's great. I also have some super dinky old army boots I can use for the costume, even though they're not completely accurate to the source material (you can see on one of the Nux pictures above, he's wearing some sort of laced shoe alright, but it doesn't look like an iron-toe boot). At least I'll get use out of them.
I'm of a relatively proportionate body type, but I want to be able to pull of a "shirtless skinny man"-look in a decent way - so I started working out. Nothing too grand, a 5km jog and bodyweight/muscle exercise every other day. I'll see if I progress into something more challenging at some point. Really I just want to work on my stomach muscles and arms, but I figured why not build my base fitness level up while I do that.
That's mostly what I've been up to... I don't know whether or not I should make a cosplay-building post similar to the one I did on Star Lord with my Skyrim cosplay? I have pictures from the process, I just did it so quickly (a similar-length preparation period as with Star Lord, only about 5 times as much to build and get done) that I don't know the process will be very coherent.. but if someone is curious about, say, how I did the Daedric War Axe or Wabbajack, since I didn't go exactly according to a tutorial this time, I could do that? I don't know. I'll probably end up doing something to that effect anyway, since I want to keep the posts as reminders to myself as well.
For now, bye!
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