The Vancen
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I'm new here and I'll sort of use this to introduce myself. I did this cosplay last year for a con in Toronto called Anime North. First one I ever did so im probably overly proud of it. It's Nicholas d. Wolfwood from the anime version of Trigun, also known as the Wandering Priest. I did this one because I felt it would be a fairly easy thing to do, since I have black hair, and I hate wigs, the clothing aspect could be taken care of from my closet, (the only thing I needed outside of that was a black dress jacket), and my first name is also Nicholas. It was too perfect to pass up. The biggest thing to do was obviously the Punisher. A 6' tall, (scaled to me at least), cross made of pine and fibreglass. I made it out od 1x2 pine screwed together and then I covered that frame with fleece I had bought in a roll from a local fabric shop. Why fleece you ask? Well, it was something I learned when working on my rustbucket of a car, you can use fleece, (the stretchier the better), in place of fibreglass matt. It'll stretch around what ever you stick it to and is, in my opinion a heck of a lot easier to work with than actual fibreglass. Cleaner too. It took almost 2 litres of resin to soak it through entirely because the fleece soaks it up so much but it was ridiculously strong. Once it dried, I smoothed the edges with a die grinder and shot it with some black spray paint to make it an even colour. After the paint dried I wrapped it in canvas like in the show and tied it with roughly cut strips of vinyl. Since the show is set on a different planet in a gritty sort of Western setting I dragged it around my garage a few times to get it a bit dirty. All said it only cost me about $120. That's Canadian by the way. It took me probably 9 to 10 hours to build the cross not counting drying time. I really love the fact that out of the three other Wolfwood cosplays I saw that weekend mine was the only Punisher that didn't look out of proportion or in the need of Viagra by Sunday afternoon. The only downside was when someone tapped me on the shoulder and I spun with it on my other shoulder and 20 pounds of wood and fibreglass collided with their noggin. They were cool about it thankfully and still wanted a picture with my buddy and I who were wandering together. He was going as the main character from Trigun, Vash. Sorry if this dragged on too long, don't hesitate to tell me off, I really have no idea what im doing, I just like to build stuff. Cheers from Canada eh?
