Re: Iracel's Black Panther
HOLA. Betchu thought I abandoned this costume again. No way, Jose. I've been very very hard at work. After finishing my exams and coming home, I've literally just been in my room working hard on this thing all day every day. Honestly I need to make more time for exercising like I was at school, but I have so much to do and the convention is on the 15th. Now, these pictures are kinda bad, but they were taken hastily just to show my progress. Then, I'll explain everything. Take a gander. (I'm clearly not wearing the muscle suit yet.) xD And the head looks so big cuz I put padding in there to define the cheekbones and jawline, but I've since taken the cheekbones out.
So, lets start of with he silver trim. I bought silver and black metallic floss, and it's constructed in such a way that I can sew it into the costume without it looking like it's sewn in. It's hard to see, but I've been sewing the black metallic trim into the pattern and it's looking pretty cool. The mouth part is a motorcycle winter head thing that I repurposed, and I had to sew a leather strip to the front to cover up the "airflow" logo, but it also just looks way better.
Right now I'm having trouble making the mask symmetrical and deciding if I'm going to use lenses or cat contacts/makeup.
It took me a while to decide on a center piece for the necklace, but I found a skull I thought looked pretty cool. I'm not wearing the boots in these pictures but they look good. I still have s much to do it's ridiculous. What sucks is that my black kevlar weave sleeves came in to my dorm two days after I went home. So annoying. So I had to order another one but in grey cuz it was the only one that was eligible for Amazon Prime. So I guess I'll have to try to dye it and see if it will work for at least this convention. So, I'll be taking any questions now. xD jk. I mean, I will. Sure.