#space cosplay

[fenokami]

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[ggericosplay]

Stars, Stars, and More Stars

To give the Space costume some more lolita vibes I made stars to hang from the hat and her skirt. I made a lot!

To make the perfect stars I took paper and traced around a few star-shaped cookie cutters on some printer paper. Once I had enough outlines I then stapled the printer paper to parchment paper. Fun Fact, hot glue doesn’t stick to parchment paper. It does stick to wax paper, foil, and saran wrap. Also if you have a mold that hot glue will stick to and you don’t want it to. If you coat the mold in alcohol (rubbing alcohol) the hot glue won’t stick to that either. ^^

Once I had the template made I then traced the stars in hot glue, giving me pretty little starts. 

And then filled the stars in with more hot glue. If the glue was hot enough it would all mold together and make a very nice clean looking star. If not then there would be bumps. As of right now, I don’t have close up pictures of all the stars that I made... :( But I will be sure to show them when I show the finished Space hat.

[ggericosplay]

Planet Attempt Two

For my second attempt, we decided that I was going to make the planet purple and silver, that way it would match the hat. Cause we smart. lol

I obviously started out the same way, styrofoam balls cut in half and lots of sequins.

Look at all the pretty sequins. lol

Again lots of hot glue and sequins burnt me on this one as well. Seguins are made of metal and so it hurts when you put them on hot glue. This time I didn’t make any rings, we decided that it would be too much when I put all the stars that I made to go with her costume as well on. So This is the finished project. We did end up using this one. 

I do admit it does look a lot better in purple than it did in red. 

[ggericosplay]

Planet Attempt One

To make our hats a little more Lolita-like we decided that I would add a couple more things onto the hats, so for my mothers, the space hat, I decided to make a planet. She wanted that planet to be Mars so I went with a red and gold theme. 

And so began the work or making a planet.

First I got some styrofoam balls from Walmart and then chopped them in half. I wanted the whole ball in case I messed up or just needed to make another one, I would have more to work with. The next step was to cover the whole top of the half ball with sequins. this took a lot of time.

I decided to use red and gold, due to the want for it to mere Mars. Any spaces that were left open I would cover with gold and silver sparkly, to give it a star-like effect. It turned out pretty well, and this was the most time-consuming part of the whole thing. I took me two days to complete and several hot glue sticks. I also ended up burning my fingers a couple of times. 

The next part would be to add some rings to it, figuring out how I was going to attach them and what they should be made of was quite tricky. 

I had lots of colored pipe cleaners and decided that they would make pretty good rings.

I thought about doing orange and yellow first turns out that clashed way too much, but now I know how I want the pipe cleaners to sit. Next to figure out what colors look the best. 

After looking at all my options I ended up going with Black and the Shiny Red. Not only would it match it would be pretty and shinny, all very important factors. Next on to how on earth I am going to attach them.

I decided to carve out the inside of the half-circle so that I would have a good place to glue them as well as have an anchor point for them. The only issue was that now my styrofoam ball was leaking all over me and everything else that I was working on and so I would now need to do something about that as well. 

In the end, I decided to hot glue some foam into it so that it would have a backing and a cover.

With that, I was able to glue the rings in so that they would sit nicely above the planet that I had created. 

And here is the finished project. In the end, we didn’t end up using this one, but I did learn a lot from it. When I put it with the hat I found that it clashed a lot and my mother didn’t like it so I scrapped it, I might use it for something else some other time. 

As you can see it doesn’t quite go with her hat. I didn’t think it looked too bad, and I was kinda annoyed. This took me over five hours in total over two days to complete. It would mean that I would need to make another one. Though this does go back to me having two styrofoam balls. ^^ 

[ggericosplay]

So I have tones of pictures of all the progress that we went through, but it’s been a long month so they are just kinda sitting on my computer. I promise that after the con is over I will put them up. That will be a couple more weeks. I think that they should all be up around the first week of September! And then, of course, all the pictures We will take of us in full-on costume. 

[ggericosplay]

This year I am doing Steam Punk Lolita and I thought that it would be fun to show some pictures of the process. Since we actually started working on it before the week before the con! Good job Ggeri!!

First up we got the Space hat, it’s kinda like a Top Hat but it’s a little smaller. that is okay though, My mother who will be donning this one is totally okay with that.

Up next we have my hat and it’s more of a mad hatter look to it. It curves and it’s a little bit taller than the other one. I also have bat wings that I am totally in love with, As you noticed I am the one modeling both of the hats for these pictures. I unfortunately didn’t get any picture of the actual process of creating this sorry. :’(

Now comes the hard part, I have to figure out what I want to go on the hat that will make it more Steam Punk. We have a lot of gears that I went through and sorted based on what went with what. Once that was done I then needed to figure out how I was going to glue them on. Should I use hot glue or should I use this fabric glue? In the end, I decided that the hot glue would be what I used. I just don’t have enough patience to wait the four hours to have the fabric glue when the hot glue will be done in a matter of minutes. Yeah, it creates bubbling that I’ll show you better in a second, but it works so much faster and if you can see the glue then you are way to damn close. 

So next is to put all the gears and stuff on the leather that will go around both of the hats. This took a lot of looking at things and seeing what fit and what didn’t. Seeing what would work with what and how it would make the hat look better. This probably took me the most time. Just because I had to put it on and then snap a picture just in case I couldn’t remember what I had set down and where it went. 

Finally got it all glued together, as you can see the hot glue liked to bubble making it rise up through the holes in the gears. It wasn’t so much an issue except with the smaller gears and I have to say I burnt myself like four times, due to my own stupidity of course. I would set the hot glue gun on the side that my dominate had is and then tap myself with the glue gun. it was quite painful thank the lord it was just a small tap and I didn’t hurt myself all that much. 

There is still quite a bit left to do with the hats but for now, this is the complete hat with all the gears. I think that in total this probably took me about an hour and a half. But I can’t be completely sure due to the fact that I didn’t time myself.

This is the Space outfit with what we have so far. We still have a jacket and corset to finish as well as a few more items to go with it.

The same of course can be said fo the globe outfit. There will be more to come once we have them all out. Thanks for sticking around! 

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[zerostiel]

I was at anime boston on Sunday and I cosplayed as space but I walked around with a sign that said ‘ask me about space pickup lines’ so I would really appreciate it if you guys could help signal boost this and/or send me fanmail with any posts I may be in so I can try to locate myself please !!! This is a picture of me (the only real one I have of myself, oops) with the lovely tumblr user starshaming !! So if you've seen me in a post or saw me, please feel free to let me know, it'd be very much appreciated, I'd love any and all photos !!