WC Week Ieyasu

A very VERY late post! Sorry guys, I guess I've been busy so now that it's finally weekend....
you'll see Ieyasu Tokugawa from Sengoku (Basara) Gakuen!

We had this large group at Tracon 2011 and was one of my favorite times I've had while cosplaying! A long time being overweight this was a time that I had gone down in weight and was pretty happy thou it was a bit embarrasing with my stomach showing but also a time that I was not ashamed to show it! Which was a great feeling of relief! Of course over the years it's been jumping up and down my weight problems but not near the heaviest point that I've been, it is still a struggle but slowly I am starting to accept and like my own body...

Go and check it out at World Cosplay! And tomorrow I'll submit another Ieyasu picture and then starts a new week! Can you guess which cosplay I'm gonna post next?

Back to Ieyasu, we did also have a photoshoot in early 2012 which I have posted about, look it up here!

Second time on Tilt TV

I completely forgot that I was interviewed (again!) by Tilt TV but at Tracon 2012 this time, first time was at the old Manga Cafe. It was funny when Milla called and said that I was on the tv and I was like "WHAT? xD".

Anyways about the video clip, I sound so mad, tired, pissed off, angry! xD But I think I was completely happy xD but I did need to speak quite loudly, almost shouting, so that my voice would be heard through the helmet.

Oh what can I say, the camera likes me xDDD

Tracon 2012 Afterward

Last weekend was Tracon and I could say that I did my most epic cosplay to that convention, but sadly it was breaking apart all the time! I'm talking about Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep,Ventus Keyblade armor version!

I entered the cosplay competition, sadly I didn't get any prize, one of the judges gave me some feedback critique and the only thing she missed was that there wasn't the metalic feel to it, I completely agree and tried my best mixing the colors and other stuff but time just wasn't on my side. The competition was very hard cause there were so many other good cosplayers and when I saw 'em I knew that I wasn't even near the top three. It was a good experience and I was a bit calmer since I couldn't pretty much see anything when I was on stage, the only thing what was hard was to find the x marked spot where to pose and then to leave the stage, luckily everything went well. Plus the backstage people were very nice and I loved my cosplay mom and dad ;D They really saved me and it was nice that I knew them from before so I wasn't scared to ask them anything.

I didn't put my normal Ventus outfit on Sunday, I was exausted and cold and just wanted to enjoy the rest of the convetion without needing to think/worry about what I was wearing.

All in all the convention was great, it hasn't been this exciting in a long time! Now for some pictures (photos taken by Densu)!

 

Ecca one over and out! :D

After this I don't want to do bodysuits and armors at least for a while xD

One week to Tracon

Holy crap... so much to do!!!
For Sunday I'm now sure that I'll be cosplaying Ven, I just redid the armor so that it would match the shoes and also am making the Wayfinder. Instead of doing these things I should be concentrating on my competing cosplay! But it's nice to take a break from it cause it's really hard and stressing, all the more reason that I should finish it quickly!

Just heard some bad news...the weather...will be rainy...FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-, this sucks D: I wanted/NEED good/AWESOME pictures!!!

Oh yeah my new Wayward Wind is awsome!! A lot better that my old one, it's lighter and has a smoother surface~ But someday I will redo the chain... cuz that is just a quick solution...

Solving and destroying

Yeah the Wayward Wind is coming along nicely~ It's a lot lighter and not as thick as my old one, I'm really happy about it even though it's not finished yet! Still has to finish layering with "softis" and then glue, after that it's ready for paint! We'll see if it needs another layer of glue after the paint to get a bit shine on it, that was something I noticed that has to be done with the armor since it's not anymore going to be painted in only gold and silver so it doesn't get the shiny glitter so to say but the glue solved the problem very well.

In process and trying to blend the right color and also testing how it looked on the surface, the reason why I decided to layer it witch softis to get it more even but first to the store to buy materials!!!

Here you can see the armor, really having a hard time getting the right color and you can see how dull the suface is. You can also see the color difference it's going to get.

 
So as some problems got solved, other bigger problems came on the way...
I fucking can't cut fabric right on the first go so I have to buy more, guess if you can find it in a fabric store now? Nope, NADA, NIX, NOTHING!!! FUCK!!! Yeah...

For now I'll just try to do other things and calm down...And maybe come up with some other material that could replace it or look for a store online...

I'm also incredably happy that I got the shoes (almost) done!!! (Just needs a bit paint and then the glue layer.) But I was really worried because I had no motivation to do them, and then I did them like in two days!!! "Like, wow, I did them...WTF! :'D"

So now the only things that I worry about how to do on my cosplay is: How am I going to fasten some parts of the armor to the suit? Should I sew them or what? Will the glue hold? Will the armor stretch enough when I put it on and while moving? This is the biggest issue... and hopefully it would solve easily and fast! Tracon is coming with lightning speed and I'm nowhere near ready!!!

Tracon: "Oh shit..."

Yeah I signed up for the cosplay competition a while ago and struggeling with my cosplay. One day I was nervous an stressing so much that I actually sat on my prop which then broke so that it couldn't be repaired, trying now a new technique to do it and the first attempt failed... trying to come up with different ideas to do it! And the results can hopefully be seen tomorrow...

Most of the armor is done, did the shoes today and maybe I'll redo the helmet, then ofcourse everything needs to be painted and some parts need to be attached to the bodysuit "somehow" *sigh*. That's probably the hardest and most stressing part... And so with all this stress and lots of other worrying things I've been really depressed, one day it was completely horrible and almost decided not come at all to Tracon but luckily Densu cheered me up! Just thinking of how much fun we'll have the day before the convention just makes me smile! It will be just me and Densu and KINGDOM HEARTS!!! So for us it will kinda be like three days of awesomeness xD

Also I probably don't want to be two days in a thight hot bodysuit in which it will be even hard to sit in but I can't come up with a cute or sexy cosplay outfit. There is an idea of doing a casual!fem! version, at least for the evening party.

As for sunday, not sure what cosplay to wear, maybe Ventus cause I don't have any decent pictures. The only pictures that I have is when I finnished it except the shoes and the wig was just a test wig so it was horrible!!!! So we'll see if I have the energy to drag it with me :'D Because the cosplay for the competition will take a lot of space, the thought of how I'm going to carry it whole in one piece seems impossible xD

OH! Some of my friends are going to performe "1800: Alkujen ja loppujen aika". Most of the people I haven't talked to in ages, almost for over a year or so, except for Nuuttii whom I keep in touch on messenger (I only talk to two people on messenger like regulary :'D) and recently Jansutti since we meet at Vesacon which is really nice~ One day I did run into Piraattitomaatti and we talked for a long time catching up. The rest I haven't seen or have seen and just waved to say hi but it would be nice to talk too also :3 But back to the performance! I probably won't be able to see it because of the competition, if only it could have started one hour sooner!!!