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And finally, the full cosplay! The wings were heavy, but it wasn’t too bad for short periods of time. I participated in the masquerade and won the award for best recreation!! I’m so happy and amazed and pleased. I put so much hard work into the cosplay, barely finished on time, and had a blast at the con. It was so much fun. I have quite a few notes for myself to edit and improve my cosplay for the future, too. But for now, a break from working so goddamn hard. 

Again, I’d like to thank my dad for helping me by printing and milling parts for my cosplay and giving me his expert opinion on construction and Pizoobie for the wing and staff files. 

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Casual Toothless cosplay I threw together last-minute for this year’s Anime Detour (already had the sweater. I’m not a god). Just threw on a black wig and some face paint and voila! Toothless! It was a surprising hit. Guess everyone loves a classic.

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Mercy WIP master post

Neck stuff and boots

Breast plate and leg armor

Wig styling

Wig and outfit test

Back piece, leg armor, and breast plate work

Halo, arms, and gloves

Wings

Hip feathers and back piece

Staff part 1

Staff part 2

Breastplate details and armor test

Putting it all together

Setbacks & workspace

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Pattern for the hip feathers out of paper, then made and shaped them out of worbla. Glued cardboard to the back for stability. I used velcro to connect it to the breast plate. 

I decided to use the spine to support the wings, so made that pvc arrangement and glued it to the back piece (which you can see I made bigger than my last WIP of it). I ended up using straight connectors instead of 45 degree ones since I think it looked better overall. After shaping the back piece with cardboard, I covered it with a couple layers of worbla, made the diamond out of pink foam and covered it with worbla too, then bondoed and painted the whole thing. Sorry, no more wip shots of it since I was pressed for time and forgot. I made the back spine out of aluminum foil that I glued into a small piece of pvc and covered in worbla. For the odd lacing up the back I painted black craft foam silver and glued it onto the spine. I used buckles and straps to connect the breastplate to the spine and velcro to connect the shoulders. 

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Milled the wings out of pink insulation foam on a ShapeOko router. Unfortunately the router wasn’t big enough to do the entire thing in one go, so it had to be cut in half and then glued together. My dad did all of the milling and the pattern for the wings came from Pizoobie (thank you so much!!). Feathers were traced out on paper, then cut from plexiglass, spray painted with frosted glass spray paint, then fluorescent yellow spray paint. A hardboard core strengthened the wings and a pvc pipe was heated and smushed flat to attach the wings to the back piece. The wings were covered in epoxy after being milled and glued together (twice to ensure that they were covered entirely: spray paint melts the pink foam). Gorilla glue was used to glue the wings together and holes were drilled in the plexiglass so the glue could expand into them and lock them into place so they wouldn’t be pulled out (same thing with the pvc). Finally, the cracks were filled with bondo, sanded, and painted over. 

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Halo base was worbla, then pink insulation foam to get the shape of it. Epoxy to harden it and protect the foam, then primed and spray painted (no pic of it spray painted). Dip dyed yellow fabric to get the gradient on the arms, then glued white vinyl onto the sleeves and painted them with fabric paint. The symbol was printed out and attached with contact cement. Gloves were satin opera gloves I cut down and glued painted vinyl onto the knuckles. For grip, I added dots of puff paint onto the fingers and lines of it onto the palms. Worked real well.

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Styling the wig! It turned out pretty good IMO, but the hair is a little chunkier than I had hoped. But for the first time actually really styling a wig, I think it turned out pretty okay. The base wig was the Jeannie wig from Arda in Champagne, because they were out of Titanium Blonde.

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Couple pics of my finished Azula cosplay and a bonus Sunday cosplay of College!Azula. Unfortunately, couldn’t find any better shots of my regular Azula cosplay.