Screen shots, for art…

So. There really does seem to be very little to see in the way of how the chest piece fits together.

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So I’m now completely confused as to where I have posted what but here we go:

Foam shopping success! That lime green mat was super cheap and will be used, see notes below 😉

Madame Foamy! So named for obvious reasons 😉 This will make several projects infinitely easier!

The extra foam on her back has been filleted back to approximately my size and now she is at least useable if not pretty! A new skin will be added once I can. But this was enough for right now…

So, project progress!

I may have my own personal preferences for methods of costume production. The trend towards traditional and long lasting. For good reason. I can’t make all the things all the time so what I do make I want to last forever because I have -50 health and thus can’t just make another copy at will.

But I also know there are techniques out there other use and use well and if I am to judge them fairly I should have some hands on experience.

So I have started making the Blood Dragon armour from Mass Effect (2 and 3, but 3 as I have my Lizzie Shep running around in it and can get references) and side by side with my own techniques I’m testing out folding and scaling in pepakura (I did have Blender on my old comp to try and make 3D objects from scratch but haven’t set anything like that up on here). But most people use in game models. That said I have tried wrapping my brain around modeling and I know it’s that step further- like drafting/draping and using a commercial pattern or making vacform bucks and using preformed parts.

So I’ve used a small model as a start and got it to scale and made sure I liked the overall effect. The rest of the process is much like what I have already done with Shae- except that was hand drafter on the form. So I can leave the paper where it is now 🙂

The next step will involve using foam as a base to fiberglass over. So again I’ll get a handle on how to glue and fit with foam but I’ll be using it as a template rather than final product.  I have an idea on how to really make this relatively fast and not require too much sanding….

Foam and paper 🙂

So I’m now completely confused as to where I have posted what but here we go:

Foam shopping…

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andariel-sirene:

solflames:

Sidenote I LOVE YOUR VOICE <3 <3

Not so much unattractive as not really reflective of me. It’s extremely high and girly and my singing voice has too much damn vibrato (it used to be a very flat tone, dunno when the vibrato went nuts). And yes I used to speak too low in an effort to be taken more seriously.

I also sound like I’m trying to affect an accent, but it’s mainly a matter of growing up with three distinct regional dialects (yep we have them in NZ) and trying to be understood when speaking. It’s not RP and I still drop into unaccented vowels regularly and roll my Rs sometimes like a good Southern girl. But it’s really not a broad Kiwi accent. 

Oh yeah and years of singing lessons where you have to record your lesson and play it back? Uck- hearing both spoken and singing voice. But I am able to pick my voice out in choral/group recordings.

Which to choose, which to choose… So it’s less Pink Space Armour as it is Amethyst Space Armour 😉

My eyes are expensive. And sore (not totally related unless the yellow dye was contaminated). More contact lenses to try and it does look like I’m SOOL when it comes to fx lenses with a script. Sigh. I have ranted about this before. So won’t.

I managed to rescale (drag and drop) a template and find (yussssss!) my Shae Vizla template for the chest and back (I think) and turn it in to a pdf. The greaves have been tidied, and I saw the shoulder bells and display layout. Once I have the chest reshaped (the main reason for Miss Foamy getting chopped) I can put the files somewhere handy.

But now, I am totally exhausted and about ready to stop typing.

My eyes are expensive. And sore (not totally related unless the yellow dye was contaminated). More contact lenses to try and it does look like I’m SOOL when it comes to fx lenses with a script. Sigh. I have ranted about this before. So won’t.

I managed to…

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I have fish and auto feeder so…… fish!