Marvel Girl and Other Costumes

         It dawned on me after my nice harsh rant in my last post that I completely forgot to post anything on my Marvel Girl costume!  Unfortunately I haven’t been able to snag a new camera (I will have one before DragonCon, hopefully before Metropolis *crosses fingers*) so that said the only couple of pictures I have are either off my phone, or that someone else took.  (To the Deadpool I was clowning around with, I want those photos!  They have to be hilarious!)  

         And yes, that’s a Paizo Goblin you see with me.  He is now an official part of every costume I wear, and assuming I have time, I’ll dress him up to match me.  Oh hush up I’m a girl, if I want to play dress up with my goblin I will.  

         Now I did say other costumes in this post.  I’m currently working on a Nightwing for Metropolis.  That said I’m afraid Zatanna will probably go on hiatus till next year.  Originally I was going to have her for a DC shoot at Anime Iowa but a friend pointed out FandomFest, and their line up is absolutely stellar!!  So I cancelled my room for Anime Iowa and grabbed one for FandomFest.  I wish they hadn’t have fallen on the same weekend, maybe next year I can do both.  For those of you who are curious I’m not doing the Dick Grayson Nightwing, I’m doing the Cheyenne Freemont version.  Here’s a shot of her costume and how far I am on drafting it.  I really like the look of it but I don’t know how many people will recognize me.  Okay, they will probably recognize me as Nightwing, dunno how many will be able to say its Cheyenne.  

         

         Ok so I said I’m making Cheyenne.  I have an Ash from Army of Darkness in progress for a local Renaissance Faire in progress, plus I have every intention to have Hawkeye done this year for DragonCon.  I am so terrified of using latex, I’m not gonna lie that’s half the reason I haven’t finished her, but I just think it will be so awesome.  :/    I’m also trying to pull together a Rarity for a friends birthday party where she wants everyone as a pony.... yea go ahead and judge me.  That said Rarity is kinda bottom of the list.  I have a costume for G2 Comics I am currently working on.  I can’t really divulge details other then you will probably see it later this year :)   And to top it all off, I’m also working on a wedding dress for a friend.  That I have some time to get done since its a winter wedding, but I think we all know how I am about wanting everything done so I can get going on other projects.  

         

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Costume update!

So been working on a couple of new costumes, as always.  Currently I'm trying to get my Marvel Girl finished up in time for a convention next weekend.  I have a couple days off work between then and now so lets cross our fingers.  I think all that's left is some detail work on the belt, a last bit of paint on the soles of the shoes, boot covers, a few seams on the leotard (plus redoing the entire neckline to match hers), and gloves.  And I've never made gloves in my life.  Yea looks like I'm gonna be doing a few late nights.  I have quite a few progress pics of it on my Flickr, I'll hopefully post some finished shots after the con next week.

Now I've also been working on some upcoming costumes, I have a Zatanna in progress for a con midsummer which I'm thrilled for though by the looks of things I'm gonna burn up wearing.  Hard to believe that you'll be hot wearing so little am I right?  Thing is she is in quite a few layers, though at first it doesn't seem it.  Well okay I'll take that back, it depends on what version of her you decide to make as to how many layers you'll be suffering in.  And I keep playing around with a White Phoenix costume.  I can't get the emblem on her chest to look right.  I want it a mix of the two that you always see, I don't like one because it just looks like a triangle, and the other is somehow off.  That and I don't like the version with the black underneath.  We'll see if I can ever get anything sketched out that satisfies me.

The one I'm currently researching like crazy is Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft.  I have an idea of the material I want to make it out of, though I'm not sure how I can get all the colors right, I don't know if it will take paint very well.  But the thing I'm more excited about is using EL tape to make it glow, though I'm running into a few issues with it.  Her suit is skin tight, which I don't have any issue with, but I can't figure out where to hide the battery pack.  My first thought was to do something a bit awkward and just have it in my top between my boobs.  Then I thought about it and well, how could I turn it off?  The suit will go up my neck, not like I can just toggle it off and on at will.  I mean yes I can run to the bathroom to do it, but lines are long at any con for the bathroom, and I have no idea where the seams will actually be yet, so I may very well need a hand to get into it.  My next thought was to hide it in my shoe, if she wore a wedge heel then I could use a regular heel and hide it there and cover it with material.  Then I talked to the bf who told me for a better reference picture of the Ghost uniform to go hunt down some Nova art.  So I did.  Nova is heels (yay!) but there goes that idea.  So now I'm back to square one, which means back to my fit that even with the release of Heart of the Swarm I still can't get any reference pictures.  Really Blizz?  I'd love a model of her, life is so much easier when making a costume if I have a figure to get down and inspect.  If anyone has an idea or suggestions, OR knows a damn thing about EL tape I'll take some pointers.  All I've learned so far is I'm gonna need it to be a parallel and not a split.

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