For those interested, here's the final product of my Halloween costume for this year.


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Tis the season, so I was looking for some appropriate music to stick in the iPod. Since Goth music and horror soundtracks were my main interests, I started looking around foywonder's B-Sides for some interesting movie tunes and the Goth section on the Free Music Archive.So far the most interesting thing Foy dug up that I I thought was worth downloading was ( Read more... )

I got the helmet painted a nice brushed bronze color, and added some extra color on the lightning bolts on the sides. The spacking did a surprisingly good job of turning cheap paiper mache into something solid and hefty. The downside is that I really should have spent some more time trying to get the surface smoothed out. If I'd taken a little ( Read more... )

After class today I hit the craft store to pick up the stuff I needed to finish the helmet. I bought a seven dollar pack of craft foam sheets, it had forty sheets in it and I've only used about three of them on the helmet. Not sure what else to do with the stuff except to use one sheet to replace my worn out mouse pad and store the rest. I may ( Read more... )