And this year's costume projects will be...
Next Dragon*Con is less than 10 months away! Time to get started on costumes!
Every year around this time I make a list of my plan for next year, and this always goes to shit because I lose interest in some things and gain interest in new things until by the time August comes around I've done one or two costumes from my original list and five new costumes I hadn't wanted to do (or known about).
BUT WHY RUIN A GOOD LOSING STREAK? It's time for Dragon*Con 2013 Costume List: Version One!
1) Avengers Loki revamp. This only counts as 1/3 of a costume because it's just fixing up bits and pieces from last year's Loki. I need to put new metal trim on the coat (the aluminum pave is starting to fall apart) and redo all the armor pieces out of something better than foam. I've already bought new leather straps so... that's a start? Also need to make muzzle and shackles because Gay Bane is one of my new favorite things ever.
2) Ringwraith. I knocked Gil-galad off my long-term costume wish list last year so now it's time to tackle this bad boy.
3) Narcissa Malfoy - Battle of Hogwarts coat. This was on my list last year. It's on my list again this year.
4) Something from The Hobbit. I don't know what it will be yet but you bet your ass I will watch that movie and want a new costume. So this is officially a placeholder.
5) Hobbit Elrond revamp. My guess at brocade for Elrond's purple coat in The Hobbit turned out to be right, so yay me! But in the picture in the new book I bought it looks like there's some narrow piping down the front, as well as a collar of the gray sleeve lining fabric showing inside the collar of the coat. So just a couple minor touch-ups here.
6) Disney Prince Loki. Also known as Loki's Jotunheim Sorcerer costume, but I call it Disney Prince Loki because of reasons. Of all the costumes in Thor, this is the one he wears for the least amount of time and has the fewest reference pics. Therefore, I must have it.
Today I went outside and brushed a foot of snow off my car (not exaggerating) to buy fabric for #6. For this one I'm faced with a problem that happens all the time in the LotR fandom: the actual outfit looks like it's a totally different color from how it appears onscreen. Onscreen, it looks black. In production stills, in the video game and on the action figure, it's actually dark green with lighter green sleeves.
I bought fabric, but I was sneaky about it!
Left: olive green stretch buttersoft suede. Bottom right: dark olive sierra suede. Top right: black satin reverse side of the sierra suede. (Also pictured: ugly gold plastic jewels because this costume has about a million of em.)
So peeps, what do I do here? Do I make this costume according to the actual colors in green and use the right side of the sierra suede, or do I go for screen colors and use the black satin side? So many decisions!
Every year around this time I make a list of my plan for next year, and this always goes to shit because I lose interest in some things and gain interest in new things until by the time August comes around I've done one or two costumes from my original list and five new costumes I hadn't wanted to do (or known about).
BUT WHY RUIN A GOOD LOSING STREAK? It's time for Dragon*Con 2013 Costume List: Version One!
1) Avengers Loki revamp. This only counts as 1/3 of a costume because it's just fixing up bits and pieces from last year's Loki. I need to put new metal trim on the coat (the aluminum pave is starting to fall apart) and redo all the armor pieces out of something better than foam. I've already bought new leather straps so... that's a start? Also need to make muzzle and shackles because Gay Bane is one of my new favorite things ever.
2) Ringwraith. I knocked Gil-galad off my long-term costume wish list last year so now it's time to tackle this bad boy.
3) Narcissa Malfoy - Battle of Hogwarts coat. This was on my list last year. It's on my list again this year.
4) Something from The Hobbit. I don't know what it will be yet but you bet your ass I will watch that movie and want a new costume. So this is officially a placeholder.
5) Hobbit Elrond revamp. My guess at brocade for Elrond's purple coat in The Hobbit turned out to be right, so yay me! But in the picture in the new book I bought it looks like there's some narrow piping down the front, as well as a collar of the gray sleeve lining fabric showing inside the collar of the coat. So just a couple minor touch-ups here.
6) Disney Prince Loki. Also known as Loki's Jotunheim Sorcerer costume, but I call it Disney Prince Loki because of reasons. Of all the costumes in Thor, this is the one he wears for the least amount of time and has the fewest reference pics. Therefore, I must have it.
Today I went outside and brushed a foot of snow off my car (not exaggerating) to buy fabric for #6. For this one I'm faced with a problem that happens all the time in the LotR fandom: the actual outfit looks like it's a totally different color from how it appears onscreen. Onscreen, it looks black. In production stills, in the video game and on the action figure, it's actually dark green with lighter green sleeves.
I bought fabric, but I was sneaky about it!
Left: olive green stretch buttersoft suede. Bottom right: dark olive sierra suede. Top right: black satin reverse side of the sierra suede. (Also pictured: ugly gold plastic jewels because this costume has about a million of em.)
So peeps, what do I do here? Do I make this costume according to the actual colors in green and use the right side of the sierra suede, or do I go for screen colors and use the black satin side? So many decisions!