June 9, 2012

This is the Airship Camille, my "personal dirigible". It is constructed from bamboo, wire, willow sticks, shrink-wrap plastic and paper; it's really quite light to wear, but it does tend to hold my back in a particular position. It does generally work better as an outdoor prop than an indoor one -- indoors you have to worry about avoiding low doorframes and light fixtures!

I originally built Camille in 2010 as a Masquerade competition entry for a local science fiction convention, Arisia, and since then she's appeared at several area steampunk events. For a while she was even on display during the "Steampunk: Form and Function" exhibit at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham, MA. This particular photo was taken at the 2012 Watch City Festival, which is a steampunk festival organized by the CRMII as a fundraiser.

I have a detailed description of how the airship was built here: Creating the Airship Camille

I have been going to science fiction conventions and making costumes for years. The thing I find particularly fun about steampunk is that there's no one "right" way to do it, leading to an enormous amount of creativity in costuming and prop-making.

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