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Heyo, I'm Kat.
I'm 27 years old, live in the Quad Cities area of IL/IA, work as an associate manager at a movie theatre, and have been cosplaying since I was 13- making my own cosplays for over a decade- although I've never made any armor and my prop making has been very limited. I'm on a tight budget (yay adulthood!), and so I tend to hunt for deals when it comes to cosplay supplies.
This year, I'm on a convention hiatus (I usually attend ACen and a couple more local cons), and I'm super salty about the hiatus (the cons are my vacations from real life- without them, I get no vacation) so, thanks to the encouragement my boyfriend constantly pushes my way when I voice my doubt in my ability to craft armor, I intend to use this year to add some skills to my cosplay crafting arsenal! The learning process and all the research and trial and error will keep me busy, as well as giving me the skills to better myself at my longtime hobby!
My dream cosplay for the longest time has been a full set of FemShep N7 armor from the Mass Effect series- for my first ACen a few years back, I did a dress variant of the armor, and then a couple years later, I did a Victorian dress variant of the armor, both with my precious Viper sniper rifle prop that my dad helped me build. While it was satisfying, I NEED the full suit of armor, haha!
I stumbled across this website when I was looking for armor assistance and patterns, and here we are! I'm not sure how often I'll be posting, as I tend to mostly use my phone for everything and am rarely on a computer, but for anyone interested in following any progress this armor/prop newb makes, I'm definitely gonna be posting progress updates to my instagram and facebook page. I'm amazed (and a little intimidated, lol) by all the awesome people on here, and hope to learn a lot from this place!
See you all around! ^_^
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Heyo, I'm Kat.
I'm 27 years old, live in the Quad Cities area of IL/IA, work as an associate manager at a movie theatre, and have been cosplaying since I was 13- making my own cosplays for over a decade- although I've never made any armor and my prop making has been very limited. I'm on a tight budget (yay adulthood!), and so I tend to hunt for deals when it comes to cosplay supplies.
This year, I'm on a convention hiatus (I usually attend ACen and a couple more local cons), and I'm super salty about the hiatus (the cons are my vacations from real life- without them, I get no vacation) so, thanks to the encouragement my boyfriend constantly pushes my way when I voice my doubt in my ability to craft armor, I intend to use this year to add some skills to my cosplay crafting arsenal! The learning process and all the research and trial and error will keep me busy, as well as giving me the skills to better myself at my longtime hobby!
My dream cosplay for the longest time has been a full set of FemShep N7 armor from the Mass Effect series- for my first ACen a few years back, I did a dress variant of the armor, and then a couple years later, I did a Victorian dress variant of the armor, both with my precious Viper sniper rifle prop that my dad helped me build. While it was satisfying, I NEED the full suit of armor, haha!
I stumbled across this website when I was looking for armor assistance and patterns, and here we are! I'm not sure how often I'll be posting, as I tend to mostly use my phone for everything and am rarely on a computer, but for anyone interested in following any progress this armor/prop newb makes, I'm definitely gonna be posting progress updates to my instagram and facebook page. I'm amazed (and a little intimidated, lol) by all the awesome people on here, and hope to learn a lot from this place!
See you all around! ^_^
