yo dudes! my costume is coming along, slowly but surely
I've been working with epilepticsquirl for a couple weeks to get a decal design for my katana. he shipped them off yesterday, so I'll be getting those soon

I have also been carving out the hilt/tsuba for the sword lately and I'm hoping, by the end of this week my sword will be completed! woot woot!
one thing I have finished finally are the gun charms. Now, bear with me, I'm a starving college student, so I don't have 50 bucks to blow on some real gun charms off of ebay, though they look awesome. I also don't have an oven hot enough nor the brain capacity to put together my own porcelain charms, so, what do I choose to go with? Masking tape. haha yep, masking tape. So, obviously they're not gonna look exact, but I tried my hardest! I just used masking tape, elmers and super glue, acrylic paint, and finished off with a coat of clear nail polish

so here's a pic of my finished product:
all that's left to do with the charms are to put hooks on them and the chain, then whalah! i'm done with that haha
what's great about having these masking tape ones, is that I've dropped these guys a couple times and they just bounce all over the place, no breakage! haha