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Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi
Costume Information
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| Cost : | too much.... |
| Awards : | Audience Choice - MCM Expo May 08 1st Females - Paris Japan Expo 08 |
| Time Taken : | 100+ hrs |
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| Im not hugely happy with this to be honest! Theres a lot of things I want to remake! - full explanation of how everything was made, apart from obvious things like the belly wrap, arm socks, undershirt and waistcoat! Boots: Buckram and pleather with gold enamel painted details, row of hook and eyes on inner leg as joins. Craft foam raised details. (Thank you to MangaChild and Ailsachan who helped me out with this!) Trousers: Made stencils and sprayed the design on the fabric, underneath trousers are a pair of cycling shorts with rolls of stuffing attached to them to make the outer cloth swell over the top. Headress: (Not in the order I did it!) Chicken wire dome lined with felt and paper pulp on the outside smoothed with sandpaper and unibond. Theres a lot of lead in the front to push the weight forward and balance it. Sun Ray shape cut out of plywoor and mounted on the back of the dome with wire punched through it. Then with a lot of maths involved worked out the paper patterns for the pyramid shapes on the plywood, glued those down. Front cap and side frills all madE of craft foam again with a lot of pattern cutting and working out, peak is made out of plastic sheet. Whole thing then sprayed and bits of it hand painted.....PHEW! Chest Plate: Did this while wearing binding. Cut up an old waistcoat to shape and fitted. Copied its patterned onto buckram, cut these out and attached them to the waistcoat. Attached rib like shapes out of buckram over the main chest area. Then glue gunned pleather over the entire thing, pushing it into the gaps between the ribs. Necklace: Paper and glass beads threaded onto bead wire. The amulet was made out of polystyrene backed onto mounting card. Smaller beads looped round it. Varnished it all then spray painted Shoulder Armour: Paper template, then cut it out in buckram. Covered each section in craft foam, then glue gunned it all together. Sprayed the whole thing black. Spent 6 episodes of 'shipwrecked' painting on gold enamel details! Stitched front corners onto waistcoat with fishing line. Shoes: Used soft slippers as under shoe. Baught long brown fur and combed it flat, using hair spray. Cut out the pattern of the shoe from the brown fur and stitched it onto the slippers. Then used hair mousse to flatten the hair down and keep it a bit more solid. Facial Hair: Paper templates, copied these in latex, stole some of my mums hair and pain-stakingly stuck little sections of it onto the latex. Once all was dry I trimmed it. Attaching it with spirit gum. Belt: Consists of belt, leg armour, skirt and front flap! Armour and belt made out of craft foam, spray painted with enamel details. I had to spray on the design for the skirt same as i did for the trousers, then pleat it and attach it to the inside of the belt. Front flap is leather with black spray to create the tiger skin pattern. Has a rop running along the front that ties under the belt. | |
Comments
Amazing work so Far!!!
The print on the boots and the legs are spot on you really are 100% on the mark i think you need to add references so everyone else can see just how accurate it is!!!
Seeing you with a goatee and mustachios will be funny and Jakes face will be even funnier XD
Needless to say i cant wait to see the complete cos
Oh wow! Your costume looks really great so far! I especially love the head dress! =D And your trousers are amazing! They poof out so much! *o*
Just wow... you can tell my awesome influence is rubbing off on you. Just kidding lol it's looking totally amazing, not so keen on you being a guy but I'll let you off this once. I'm astonished if I'm honest, looks like you're going to own yet again!
*bows down to you* on the queen of cosplay!!!!!
i cant wait to see it totally finished!
O_O Wow... That head dress is amazing... I'm in complete awe of your skills. *-*
woooooo awesome-ness! there is no other word!!!!
cant wait to cosplay as nene with youuuuu!
That is a most impressive looking headpiece!
Can't wait to see the finished thing.
Wow this is looking crazily good already. I love these types of games so much (even really bad ones like Kessen) You're so lucky to be getting a beard!
Come on Laura post some more pics =p I cant wait to see more progress!!!
you should run around with ure head down XD see how many 'L' cosplayers you can get XD make a game outta it :P
That beardy thing is so jokes xD And I LOOOOVE that helmet! Cant wait to see the rest of this!!
wow looking good wow amazing lol
"It's pretty pants" erm no, it's a pretty damn awesome transmogrification! :D
aaah laura...this costume is FANTASTIC!!! the headpiece must be heavy though...?
**WOW**
i think i just peed myself a little
this is fantastic hon!!!
Seeing this costume in real life was so awesome! It was funny how I could see you from across the corridor when queuing because of the headdress xD
Congrats on winning Audience choice! =D
Oh my... HOW did I miss you?? This is unbelievably amazing!! xoxo
wayy to spot on lmao YOOOOOOO
Fantastic! I love this costume sooo much! You look amazing ^^
Congrats on winning the audience choice at the masquerade! You guys rock so much!
Sands, AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
absolutly incredible!!
I have to say when Jake said you were cosplaying a middle-aged man with a beard I wasn't convinced...but you did an amazing job! Your hard work certainly shows and I nearly didn't recognise you lol
Was one hell of an amazing costume! better in flesh! i soooooo love the helmet!!! >_< cant wait to be your cosplay wifey!!!!
Now Hideoshi Toyotomi appeared in the Onimusha series ~ but I think that its just a coincidence ~ Either way the name makes me smile since I LOVE Onimusha and also I LOVE this costume! tres mucho <3
My only concern is how you got through doors^-^;;
Kya! but I'll probably wear Reith in October for one of the balls/ one of the days ~ though I also fancy going as Oyu from Onimusha 2 <33
Sorry to not see you! But theres always October!! ^-------^//
What masterpiece will you out-do me with for then? hehe xoxoxo
Awesome work. Love the headdress and the details on the rest of the costume. I bet you found it strange wear the 'tach. Lol!. Congrats on audience win.
amazing cosplay i can see alot of detail in it. it looks incredible, well done