February 14, 2013

For those who are curious how we made our Claymore cosplays, well here it is. (short description..sculpting, sanding, bondo, sanding, shaping, sanding, painting, sanding, buffing...waxing LMAO)

Done in my brother's and mine's shop by foayasha and me.

These were worn to WCS 2012 US prelims.

I will not be doing a write up on this cosplay, we take credit for construction but not the idea, some of it is universal knowledge, but sword construction method was developed by Volpin. In any case he documented and wrote up a detail for these cosplays so in depth information please see Volpin, we took inspiration from him.

AND YES!!!!!!!!! My butt was in the shop for day in and out (when I wasn't working) for over two months in order to complete these; furthermore, I made two steel bone corsets and the clothes. I was so tired by the time the con came, it went by toooooooo fast. It was extremely painful to wear these for 13 hrs straight the day of the prelims, I still have bruising around my abdomen and hip bones. (i'm a slow healer) But it was so worth it, I learned so much and I am ready for my next few armor cosplays, only gonna get better from here.

See the making of here.

Cosplayer: MarikaSan

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