Sword (Posted 19th February 2012)

D's sword. I sculpted the handle in medium chavant, and the sword was several pieces of plywood cut and glued to shape. I made a two part fibreglass mould for the sword, and cast it in a slightly different method to what I was originally planning on.
First, a layer of gel coat was applied on both sides of the mould, then I fibreglassed the handle, but only layed a strip of fibreglass matting down the length of each side of the handle. The mould was then put back together and fast cast resin was poured into the mould. This gave me a completely solid blade to work with when I cracked open the mould that I could sand down to shape.
I'd have liked to have spent more time seaming the blade and making it perfect but I think its as good as I could get it in the time frame.

Wig (Posted 19th February 2012)

Lex ordered a wig for me and loosened the curls up a bit. I then back combed the hell out of it and styled it into shape and sewed a bunch of extension clips along the hairline.
For the pearl details I literally threaded 3 strands of the wig hair onto a needle and threaded beads straight onto the hair and tied them off. Took ages but it turned out really well!

Sleeves (Posted 19th February 2012)

These were the finished top halves of the sleeves. I had to create my own patchwork and beaded fabrics to match Amanos design. Tried to emulate the silk and black lace/embroidered details as much as possible, a lot of this was my best guess as the design is quite tricky to interpret

Dress (Posted 26th November 2011)

The back of the dress has this really weird detail thats hard to make out, there seems to be all this fabric just bunched up and hanging off the back of the dress, I considered making it a hood but thought that would be a bit ridiculous on a wedding dress...
So instead its just draped fabric down the back. Again a lot of the fabric was dyed, beaded, cut up and sewn together to match her design. I also used a lot of fabrics that Lex is using in her D costume so that both of our costumes have elements that pull through together.

Sleeves (Posted 26th November 2011)

Sleeve detail, all pinned in to place at the moment. I was trying to emulate the fabric patterns on Doris's dress as much as possible, so most of the fabric was hand dyed to match, strips of fabric sewn on and beaded to copy her design.
Its taking ages!

Bones (Posted 19th October 2011)

Lining with the boning, didn't want to boning channels to be visible on the outside, had to hand stitch the 2 sides of the corset together.

Corset is actually finished, just don't have a photo of it yet.

Corset stuff (Posted 19th October 2011)

Bits of the corset all in parts, so many layers to it!

Corset Drafts (Posted 19th October 2011)

Decided to make a corset for this costume that I'd then have various, dresses, skirts and sleeves under and over it. This was my initial pattern I mocked up for it