Why am I doing this

My mission to build a 1:2 scale, wearable, articulated warrior bug costume from scratch and for cheap. Feel free to ask: this tumblr is a kind of tutorial as well

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Classical Puppets 【-Bunny In Peony Garden-】 #QiLolita OP Dress

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Armor Dresses // Chotronette on Etsy

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Here’s something I don’t think I’ve talked about before - using Reflective Tape as a substitute for LEDs.

The effects of LEDs are often overwhelmed in bright environments, like direct daylight, with flash cameras, or under strong stage lights. It’s a bit of a bummer going to all that effort for them to not show up visibly. We knew we were likely to encounter all three of these situations with our Borderlands costumes, so we tried out reflective tape as an alternative. Instead of being overpowered by strong lights, it ends up shining even brighter!

(It’s a lot cheaper too)

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that's an AWESOME idea, can I ask what exact product you used here? It looks like it has a slight blue hue, while I only see them in the default gray.

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sundays are for worbla

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biomechanics is the new sexy

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Here we go again

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T + kibaszottsok hónap:

újratervezés

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Ééééés... MOST

JÖTT EL A PILLANAT, amikor feladom, és elengedem az áprilisi határidőt

25% az esély, hogy reálisan elkészülnék áprilisra, de ahhoz valószínűleg rommá kellene dolgoznom magamat egy olyan projekten, amit élvezetből kellene csinálnom, ÉS egy csomó dolgot kapkodva/igénytelenül kellene megcsinálnom.

Rendkívül nagy fellélegzés!

egyelőre lehetőleg ne reblogoljatok, lécy :D

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battling executive disfunction: a step that I was mortally afraid of and kept postponing for weeks ended up taking only 8 minutes, presented none of the expected problems and it was immensely gratifying.

:(

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That feeling when your idea works on the first try

a lone teardrop rolling down my cheek

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Random stuff that will play an important role later in the bobbing mechanism

This blog is a very slow work in progress :D

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This garbage proto-mechanism took way too long to assemble, it still has some hiccups, looks like shit, but IT'S WORKING!

mwahahaha

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analogue CAD* is not for the faint of heart, kids

*(CUD?)

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knee deep into fabric choices, you also gotta think about the princessy bits

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I sincerely love the curves on this lady, but these beautiful outlines are really difficult to copy. I have to bow before the designers at Amalgamated Dynamics.

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Did some design work today, sketching out the outlines. My living room is quite big, but this thing is truly HUMONGOUS (Hamilton CD for scale).

At this moment it spans some 3 meters, "toe to toe". At least seeing it together like this gives me some motivation to start working on it in earnest.

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I am saved

Would you believe this tiny something is one of the most important parts that I wouldn’t have been able to manufacture myself. Luckily, fellow tumblist David came to the rescue!