NotNice
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Hi all, recently I visited a great fantasy-festival, had a lot of fun and now a couple of friends and little insane me decided to visit the same festival as a group of pred-hunters
I have lots and lots of costume-making experience *couch* since I glued some elf ears to my skull for that festival.
But I am rather handy with all sorts of materials and I have enough creativity... I hope
Anyway, I am also a bit of a psychic and I see, I see, that I am the idiot, uhm, I am granted the honour of making most of the costume parts for everyone in our group. That means at this moment 7 helmets, 7 armours, 7 dread-thingy-head-pieces, and so on. Guess what? I am so looking forward to it! And I am not alone, my lovely husband and me are going to make this a team-effort
I searched the forum, found de pepakura-helmet, the awesome armour-templates, more great templates, and lots and lots of good advice that will be a life and time-saver for us
We are not going to make bodysuits, at least not for now. Nor are we going to make the face-masks. If we can get the helmet and the dreads nice and jaw-dropping we will be pleased. First we are going to make one helmet, and one armour, starting out with cardboard try-outs and learning by trial and error. And we are going to be daily visitors here, search for inspiration and tips and new ideas
But.... I also want to know your deepest, darkest secrets...
costume-making secrets that is, the little handy tips that make others go "mmmmmm handy..."
Like, when you are painting, do not place your coffee next to your brush-water, it does keeps the water clean but it adds a strange flavour to your coffee...
I have lots and lots of costume-making experience *couch* since I glued some elf ears to my skull for that festival.
But I am rather handy with all sorts of materials and I have enough creativity... I hope
Anyway, I am also a bit of a psychic and I see, I see, that I am the idiot, uhm, I am granted the honour of making most of the costume parts for everyone in our group. That means at this moment 7 helmets, 7 armours, 7 dread-thingy-head-pieces, and so on. Guess what? I am so looking forward to it! And I am not alone, my lovely husband and me are going to make this a team-effort
I searched the forum, found de pepakura-helmet, the awesome armour-templates, more great templates, and lots and lots of good advice that will be a life and time-saver for us
We are not going to make bodysuits, at least not for now. Nor are we going to make the face-masks. If we can get the helmet and the dreads nice and jaw-dropping we will be pleased. First we are going to make one helmet, and one armour, starting out with cardboard try-outs and learning by trial and error. And we are going to be daily visitors here, search for inspiration and tips and new ideas
But.... I also want to know your deepest, darkest secrets...
costume-making secrets that is, the little handy tips that make others go "mmmmmm handy..."
Like, when you are painting, do not place your coffee next to your brush-water, it does keeps the water clean but it adds a strange flavour to your coffee...