CrystalNeko

Costume :	Steiner Adelbert
Source :	Final Fantasy IX
Progress :	In Progress

Worn At :

London MCM Expo October 2008

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Comments (15)

Costume Photos

Torso armour - journey with the duct tape

Helmet version 2 progress

Reference Picture

Torso armour - 20%

Costume Information

General
Cost :	£12
Time Taken :	7hrs

Description
-Will hopefully debut at Midlands or London Expo providing I can put it on easily- Well, I wanted to work with craft foam more and actually make some armour! I love to experiment so I decided that making a Steiner cosplay would be great for this adventure =D, I apologize in advance if this turns out really sucky 8D; But yeah, good ol' Rusty cracks me up so much. Controlling him at the beginning of the game made me laugh so much the way he jingled 24/7 because of his armour! XD 'clank clank clank' constantly made me laugh, so yeah I wanna cosplay as him ;D [Plus I've been lacking in the crossplay department lately 8O] Haha good thing is I don't need a wig! My hair just hides in the 'chainmail' ;D What makes me laugh [and apparently others!] is that this is a VERY contrasting costume/character to my previous Garnet cosplay! XDD I wanna prove that I can do very manly cosplays AND little princess' too xP [Though admittedly Garnet didn't suit me personality wise seeing as I just wanted to jump about and run into trees constantly ohohoho.. which I did anyway, buuut that's not the point! XDD] I'm most worried putting it on xD; And walking around 8D;; And the fact that I won't clank! D8 [Though I'm not crazy enough to pull off a real metal version xD;] UPDATE [21/07/08] My gosh this is hard work! I bought 3 more rolls of adhesive/duct tape and I used all three to cover the torso armor, guess what? There's still two strips worth of duct tape left to cover on the torso armour! Haha! But I'm not worried, the hot glue still sticks to the chicken wire if I back it up with foam off-cuts. So I've cur and stuck on pieces of the torso armour, I'd say the base is around 40% done maybe? The front's almost complete shall we say - It WAS very accurate when I cut out the pieces, now it's not accurate at all but I'm not forking out more money on more craft foam [unless I find them REALLY cheap somewhere!]. Only reason I stopped is because... I ran out of A3 sheets, woe is me! This is such a haaaard cosplay! Though so much fun! 8D UPDATE [19/07/08] Oh lord, now there really is funky foam everywhere! Took me another hour to finish off the base of Helmet version two. The new hot glue I'm using REALLY hurts, Fifi burnt herself a lot, Fifi saaaad ;-; All worth it though! Version 2 is way more accurate and fitting than my other one ^_^ Though I still think it's too tall, though it took too much effort to make this version >_< Hehe random fact, I built this version over my old one. Therefore inside there were actually 7-8 layers of funky foam!! You wouldn't believe how hard it was to cut away those layers, even with a really sharp craft knife ;_; Fifi was scared that she would cut herself xD; UPDATE [13/07/08] Uwaah! Sooo much funky foam everywhere! I got bored of c/w and decided to do a little more on Steiner. Everywhere I look now there's foam trimmings everywhere, my parents aren't too pleased ='D All I've done is done more re-modelling of the helmet. Only 3 more layers of craft foam to go hurrah~! The helmet is now too small for me again due to all the craft foam built up haha! Need to buy some pale yellow material to cover the inside just to be annoying to my bank account and accurate =3 Progress pictures to come once I've finished the re-modelling and sealed it at least~ UPDATE [04/07/08] I just bought 6 sheets of A3 funky foam... Haven't had time to glue them onto the chicken wire cage yet, will do so once school has finished. So for now cosplay has been put on a halt! UPDATE again [24/06/08 again] Owie!! I have scratches all over!! ;__; shakes fist at chicken wire But I've finally made the base of the torso, now to add the craft foam! Must find some first though!! I basically got a roll of chicken wire, wrapped it around my body to see if it fits, duct tape that in place, cut out arm holes, duct tape that so that it's safe! Then I shaped it with my denim belt [it was the closet thing that was stiff I could find! XDD] to make that waist dip thing... I dunno the armour seems smaller at the waist so that's what I did, make it smaller! I then attacked the chicken wire with my claws I mean... hands and duct tape them in place to make the collar type thing Y'know... the collar is actually pretty tight! It only JUST allows my giant head to fit through ROFL! XD And now my living room is booby trapped with chicken wire all over the place... yeah it kinda blends in with the carpet 8D;; Maybe I should go tidy up sometime xD;; One more trivia... I CAN'T SIT DOWN IN THAT FRICKIN' ARMOUR! D8 Keeps me on my toes eh? xD [Actually I COULD sit down... but then the armour would be up to my nose! 8DDD] UPDATE 24/06/08 Don't need the other updates, I've altered my helmet to make it look slightly more accurate =3 It's now shorter, fits around my head more and it's bulkier and doesn't look like a witch's hat as much anymore! It's still not the most accurate Steiner helmet in the world but it'll do xD. I ran out of craft foam again... jeesbus, all I did was cover the bottom half of the helmet and that took 2 flipping sheets of A3 craft foam! D< Gotta go buy more on Saturday... I need to somehow get some MASSIVE pieces of funky/craft foam to cover that torso... Let me pray to God that A3 will be big enough... but I don't think it will; and I don't think A2 size funky foam exists! XD;

Description

-Will hopefully debut at Midlands or London Expo providing I can put it on easily-
Well, I wanted to work with craft foam more and actually make some armour! I love to experiment so I decided that making a Steiner cosplay would be great for this adventure =D, I apologize in advance if this turns out really sucky 8D;
But yeah, good ol' Rusty cracks me up so much. Controlling him at the beginning of the game made me laugh so much the way he jingled 24/7 because of his armour! XD 'clank clank clank' constantly made me laugh, so yeah I wanna cosplay as him ;D [Plus I've been lacking in the crossplay department lately 8O]

Haha good thing is I don't need a wig! My hair just hides in the 'chainmail' ;D What makes me laugh [and apparently others!] is that this is a VERY contrasting costume/character to my previous Garnet cosplay! XDD I wanna prove that I can do very manly cosplays AND little princess' too xP [Though admittedly Garnet didn't suit me personality wise seeing as I just wanted to jump about and run into trees constantly ohohoho.. which I did anyway, buuut that's not the point! XDD]

I'm most worried putting it on xD; And walking around 8D;; And the fact that I won't clank! D8 [Though I'm not crazy enough to pull off a real metal version xD;]

UPDATE [21/07/08]
My gosh this is hard work! I bought 3 more rolls of adhesive/duct tape and I used all three to cover the torso armor, guess what? There's still two strips worth of duct tape left to cover on the torso armour! Haha! But I'm not worried, the hot glue still sticks to the chicken wire if I back it up with foam off-cuts.

So I've cur and stuck on pieces of the torso armour, I'd say the base is around 40% done maybe? The front's almost complete shall we say - It WAS very accurate when I cut out the pieces, now it's not accurate at all but I'm not forking out more money on more craft foam [unless I find them REALLY cheap somewhere!]. Only reason I stopped is because... I ran out of A3 sheets, woe is me!

This is such a haaaard cosplay! Though so much fun! 8D

UPDATE [19/07/08]
Oh lord, now there really is funky foam everywhere!
Took me another hour to finish off the base of Helmet version two. The new hot glue I'm using REALLY hurts, Fifi burnt herself a lot, Fifi saaaad ;-;
All worth it though! Version 2 is way more accurate and fitting than my other one ^_^ Though I still think it's too tall, though it took too much effort to make this version >_<
Hehe random fact, I built this version over my old one. Therefore inside there were actually 7-8 layers of funky foam!! You wouldn't believe how hard it was to cut away those layers, even with a really sharp craft knife ;_; Fifi was scared that she would cut herself xD;

UPDATE [13/07/08]
Uwaah! Sooo much funky foam everywhere! I got bored of c/w and decided to do a little more on Steiner. Everywhere I look now there's foam trimmings everywhere, my parents aren't too pleased ='D
All I've done is done more re-modelling of the helmet. Only 3 more layers of craft foam to go hurrah~! The helmet is now too small for me again due to all the craft foam built up haha! Need to buy some pale yellow material to cover the inside just to be annoying to my bank account and accurate =3
Progress pictures to come once I've finished the re-modelling and sealed it at least~

UPDATE [04/07/08]
I just bought 6 sheets of A3 funky foam... Haven't had time to glue them onto the chicken wire cage yet, will do so once school has finished. So for now cosplay has been put on a halt!

UPDATE again [24/06/08 again]
Owie!! I have scratches all over!! ;__; *shakes fist at chicken wire* But I've finally made the base of the torso, now to add the craft foam! Must find some first though!! I basically got a roll of chicken wire, wrapped it around my body to see if it fits, duct tape that in place, cut out arm holes, duct tape that so that it's safe! Then I shaped it with my denim belt [it was the closet thing that was stiff I could find! XDD] to make that waist dip thing... I dunno the armour seems smaller at the waist so that's what I did, make it smaller! I then attacked the chicken wire with my claws I mean... hands and duct tape them in place to make the collar type thing

Y'know... the collar is actually pretty tight! It only JUST allows my giant head to fit through ROFL! XD And now my living room is booby trapped with chicken wire all over the place... yeah it kinda blends in with the carpet 8D;; Maybe I should go tidy up sometime xD;;

One more trivia... I CAN'T SIT DOWN IN THAT FRICKIN' ARMOUR! D8 Keeps me on my toes eh? xD [Actually I COULD sit down... but then the armour would be up to my nose! 8DDD]

UPDATE 24/06/08
Don't need the other updates, I've altered my helmet to make it look slightly more accurate =3
It's now shorter, fits around my head more and it's bulkier and doesn't look like a witch's hat as much anymore! It's still not the most accurate Steiner helmet in the world but it'll do xD. I ran out of craft foam again... jeesbus, all I did was cover the bottom half of the helmet and that took 2 flipping sheets of A3 craft foam! D< Gotta go buy more on Saturday...

I need to somehow get some MASSIVE pieces of funky/craft foam to cover that torso... Let me pray to God that A3 will be big enough... but I don't think it will; and I don't think A2 size funky foam exists! XD;

Comments

Oh my god! After Garnet, now you're going to do Steiner!? (not that I'm complaining - FFIX needs more LOVE!!!!) I've never seen a Steiner cosplay before so hopefully I could make it up to Midland to see this! Good luck!

by Cat_Cat on Thursday, 19 June, 2008 - 22:31

Omgggggggggg Steiner is my dream cosplay personally!! :D I wish I could see this, you better take pictures! He's final fantasy's sexiest man ;DD!!!!

by miiol on Thursday, 19 June, 2008 - 23:49

OH MY GOD YOU SERIOUSLY WIN AT LIFE xD

by FreyaCrescent on Friday, 20 June, 2008 - 09:44

LOL *Falls on floor laughing*
You really are the best <3 I want to go as Zidane just to make you do these faces all day!
Good going Fi, I think you look just like Steiner! 8D [Compliment I swear XD]
*Cough* Anywho going well, you'll do this brilliantly :3

by Special-Pleb on Monday, 23 June, 2008 - 21:42

BEST FACES EVER! XD

by MoonLily on Monday, 23 June, 2008 - 21:45

Fi you really are a legend. xD

by FreyaCrescent on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 - 08:49

You are completely awesome. And this will be completely fantastic and epic when it is done! :D

by Silver on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 - 02:18

Haha this is going to be amazing!!!! I can't wait!

by Georgi on Friday, 11 July, 2008 - 14:43

oh wow lookin good, hope it turns out how u want it. well done for doin steiner

by timpey on Sunday, 13 July, 2008 - 22:54

I lmao'd at the "IS THAT ZIDANE AND GARNET? *STOMP*"
I can't wait to see you stomp around for real, you legend xD

by Relion on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 01:14

Eeeee~! This is looking fantastic! I can't wait to see this! (Your progress shots of the armour really made me giggle!)

by Silver on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 01:49

this is looking AWESOME!!!

by GunstarVixen on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 11:03

Wow, people actually laughed at my bad sense of humour! XD
I shall do much stomping about in a few months time ;D
Thank you for the comments everyone! ^_^
Still a lot to do! Move it Crystal! *kicks self*

by CrystalNeko on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 17:27

i think serious glompage is in order

by Defrain on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 18:41

i think serious glompage is in order

by Defrain on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 18:41