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As I know not everyone is BFFs with excel like I am, I’m going to write a full tutorial (we’ll see how long this gets anyhow) on how I build these sizing spreadsheets using something I’m in the process of starting to build. Quick Excel Note: Throughout this tutorial I will refer to cells and what to place in them. I don’t want to assume anything is basic knowledge. So please see the image below: In this image the blue cell is C3 and the green cell is A6. Also yes, you can use google docs to do all this. Using excel to size props/armour:Read More →

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So I wrote this post on September 13th, then promptly forgot about it until October 21st… I sometimes wonder how I manage to build cosplays.  Anyhow. As it seems most of you just can’t get enough of my lame sense of humour… another panel write up! Weapon making Intro Written by Toast Cosplay & TinyChampion Cosplay Original Panel hosted by Toast Cosplay, TinyChampion Cosplay and Featherstone Cosplay Planning: Templating/Sizing: So this one had a fun animation too, just like my armour one. However because this is my blog, you just get images. Cry, it’s okay baby. This is Cloud: Now although this is a niceRead More →

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At Anime Revolution this year (2014) myself and two of my cosplayer friends decided to take on a challenge, running beginner aimed armour and weapon making panels. We had mixed opinions on who they were aimed at, but generally came to the conclusion that we just wanted to improve the general level and props and weapons that we saw around our local conventions. After sharing a few horror stories of things we had seen (eg. a single cardboard layer scythe and things made out of raw styrofoam) we put together our panel. During the panel we were asked as to if we would be willingRead More →

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This is a long purely test post with some remaining rambling about Kirito builds.  Try not to fall asleep.   The shoulder strap and chest piece: AKA how the swords free hung from my back. This was my biggest pet peeve with most of the Kirito cosplay I had seen. Either there was no sword sheaths or they were connected to belts which had nothing to do with the chest strap (and were inaccurate). I also saw a few which had connected it to the chest strap but the chest strap had come out to be thick belts and/or armour instead of just another fabricRead More →

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Blah blah blah <excuses>.  I moved, took a few courses… and now I’m back in gear for 6 months.  I’ll yammer about last year then go get my butt going on this year’s projects.  My cat also passed away, which took away a lot of time from my life (you can see him trying to “help” with my sheaths a bit later on). For my SAO project I tried two different techniques for making my sheathes.  The Dark Repulser, made from foamboard, received a foamboard sheath and the Elucidator, made from wood, received a worbla sheath. This post will discuss how both cases were madeRead More →