#democosplay

[protowilson]

heavyweaponsguytf2 took these great photos of me and The Green Perthite Ranger at PAXAus.

You should go look at his FB page. His Wrex cosplay is top-tier stuff!

[protowilson]

Photos by Global Cosplay.

Yeah I really need to trim those boot guards back, and my eyepatch looks like it belongs to a kaiju! I didn't realise it looked that big on.

Dunno what I'm doing in that first photo... square dancing or sommat.

[protowilson]

Here's a picture of how the bomb vest turned out (with the shitty lounge room photoshopped out!).

The hardest thing was probably how to attach that grey box on the front. A few other demo cosplays I've seen seem to avoid that part, and for good reason. The in-game vest seems to bend the laws of reality when Demo lifts that groin flap which pushes the box up, but we sort of cobbled together a way to attach it that allows the box to rotate upwards.

The bombs are attached with velcro to the front of the vest. The bomb heads were originally going to be polystyrene hemispheres covered in car body filler, sanded back and painted, but trying to get a smooth surface is bloody hard. The week before PAX, aeronik found some Christmas baubles that we exactly the right size, so we abandoned the polystyrene and used the baubles instead. The cylindrical stem of the bombs are from the tube the baubles came in. A lucky find!

Now I've got to find a mannequin to store this bloody thing on!

[protowilson]

[protowilson]

Much as I love cosplay, it's always a massive stress-filled rush leading up to the con. PAXAus was probably the most frantic in terms of trying to get stuff ready. The DeGroot bottle was spray painted the night before so we were hairdryering the bastard the following morning to stop the paint from being sticky. It helped a bit, but I still managed to get my stupid finger prints all over the neck of the bottle where I was holding it, so it's going to be sanded back and repainted now that PAX is over. And I can also pick out the car bog and apoxy from under my nails.

[protowilson]

Just making a rum bottle. As you do.

[protowilson]

Hello, I dont know if you were asked this before, so I am sorry in case someone did, but I was curious when you posted the bags from your demomancosplay, which material it is and how you made them, it would be nice if you could tell me, thank you in advance. Greetings, Mariku.

No-one has asked yet. The boxes are made from foamcore and then covered with the appropriate coloured paper. My partner made a set of blueprints for me to follow that allows the pouches to be relatively strong and lightweight, since I reckon they'll probably get bashed around a bit. They have to be light so that they don't drag down my overalls or the bomb vest (which is a real problem with the backpack on my Pyro cosplay). The advantage of covering them in paper is I can easily replace the paper if it gets grotty or torn. You could spraypaint them, but the paper actually hides all the joins and intersecting pieces, which are functional, but not especially pretty to look at!