Costume Stuff

Costume Stuff 

SPOTLIGHT:  I swear it's bigger on the inside

If you’ve been to Spotlight before you know it’s not your average type of shop. The. Place. Is. Massive. and full of every different type of cloth known under the sun (among other things). To give you an idea on size, Spotlight is like the Bunnings Warehouse of all things involving thread. Walking through the doors and being confronted by rows upon rows of hundreds of various sorts of special fabrics and who knows what else, I realised how little I actually know about what to look for. As someone who doesn’t know the difference between any sort of fabric, this was fairly intimidating.

I’d been there with a friend once last year. The place was *exactly* as daunting as I remembered

One of the ladies that works there was able to help me out with selecting some fabric. There was also the issue of being able to sew the cloth together later on. I dont own a sewing machine. I found the answer in the next isle.

Holding up the tube of glue I asked:

“Hey, I’m too lazy to sew stuff together, will it work just as well if I just use glue instead?”

“absolutely” answered the assistant. By the surprised look on her face, maybe no-one had asked about using glue instead of sewing stuff together before. Maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t. I dont know much about how costume making works, but I'm going to trust in the professional advice given to me by the department store clerk on using glue being okay. Time to find out.

Sometime last year, a friend of mine and I made plans to make Spartan armour like the Master Chief uses in the Xbox game Halo. Construction started this year and she finished her's several months ago. This has involved a lot of time and effort so far and I’m nowhere near finishing (hopefuly by November).
 

Papercraft helmet. It's a legitimate strategy.

I’ll be making the armour out of foam, hot glue, PVA glue, paint, plasti dip ("it’s really cool stuff": http://www.plastidip.net.au/), blood, sweat and tears. And I’m starting from zero experience level. Fun fun fun.

On a side note, I accidentally cut my thumb with my stanley knife while cutting foam to size. To put a short story shorter, superglue is magical stuff for holding you together.   : )  

Anyways: cosplay. Armour that will look *awesome* but not skilful enough to make it yet, which brings me to a side-project:

Jaune Ark cosplay (much simpler armour. A good starting point)

For those of you that know about RoosterTeeth.com and Red vs Blue, congrats for being a person of refined taste and quality. You'll probably know  that Roosterteeth (henceforth referred to as RT) recently started branching out into making an animated series called Red White Black Yellow or RWBY (pronounced ‘Ruby’).  For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, I recommend checking out their most recent series here: http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=7872. Their work has improved greatly over the last ten years and its nice to see them branching out into other forms of animation. I have highly enjoyed the RWBY series so far.

Rooster teeth. check them out. really cool stuff.

Note: pictures will be added for this post later.
*UPDATED* pictures added.