| Aaaaah! Another Dust cosplay! I would love to wear mine again, albeit with a much better head kinda like the one you're doing. But, alas, I'm not that good at making fursuit heads (yet!). Gotta do some learnin'!
And yes. The Blade of Ahrah IS going to be the toughest part, especially if you're planning on fitting LEDs inside to have the runes light up (I was trying in vain to figure all that out right up until the day before I travelled down to MCM London and had to go without).
Another tricky part is getting his hat (it's a Korean satgat, apparently; which makes sense as the Korean characters for "Dust" are part of the game's logo) the right size. At the time, I couldn't find a convenient auto-calculator, so I had to find instructions and do it manually. Which was fun!
But here, just in case you've not got onto the hat yet! http://www.had2know.com/academics/cone-construction-calculator.html
R = The desired radius of the final hat.
L = The desired height of the final hat.
Entering those will give you...
L = The radius of the circular piece of material you'll start out with.
θ (theta) = How many degress will be left over once you cut the chunk out of the circle to fold it into a conical shape.
So, for example, if you wanted a hat 21 inches in diameter and 10 inches high, which I think were the measurements I used for mine, you'd need a circle of material 30.46 inches in diameter, then measure/mark an 88.34 degree angle on said circle and cut it out. Though this WILL result in a pretty big hat. Then again, the head I managed to make was also pretty big, so it sort of evened out.
Anyway, thought I'd throw some personal experience into this comment, just in case! Sorry it got long-winded and full of numbers! The cosplay's looking awesome so far! :D |
