Cosplaying!

With only so much time in the day I don't really find the time to post here about what I'm at. Heck, lately I'm lucky if I manage to get pictures of my items before they sell at the Farmers Market (not that I'm complaining!) So, I've decided to use this blog to also chronicle my else-wise geeky life!

So, my main distraction these days has been prepping and researching for my AndrAIa costume from the very awesome show ReBoot!
Here she is:


So far I've got her trident sketched out:


I bought 1/2" dowel to use for most of it, but my initial plan to use a smaller dowel to connect the bits is too wobbly. I had planned to use plumbing fittings, but I was going about it wrong in the store. I now know that the measurement for copper pipping is the INNER diameter, so I actually need to use 3/8" fittings! I shall head to the store soon. Why do I need to do it piece wise? Well, I need to fly with this as I'm making it to go to Fan Expo in Toronto! The max length of any one piece is around 25", but even with that limitation it's looking at a good max of 7 feet! Given that I'm only 5'3", I'll probably scale it to a bit over 6', meaning piece "A" would be about 22" total. I hope to have threaded fittings but we'll see what I find.

For the top I have 1/4" dowels that will go between the main post and the two side posts that I'll attach by drilling a hole and using hot glue to keep it all steady. I have air-dry clay for the details, but we'll see how well that works. I'll be doing a step by step of this taking as many pics as I can!

While for her pants a stretch fabric would be ideal, I found this tissue lamé and had to go for it. I don't think I could get any closer if I tried!!


So, pants will be a challenge and will likely need a zipper. It was also half off, so I got a bunch extra just incase I mess up! I was hoping to find a pattern for like, tight leather pants or something but nadda.

For her jewelry I'll mostly be using craft foam which you can apparently shape slightly with heat. I found an amazing tutorial for making it look like metal, so fingers crossed that it works! I think I will use scuplty for the gems? I will be asking my friend who uses it a lot!

I also have my wig! Need to trim the bangs but I will save that for when I've gotten better at putting it on.


I am also making Bob for my boyfriend to wear (I keep tell people we're going as a bad fanfiction), but I will save those details for their own post!