Cosplay Resources!

Ello! My second blog post specifically on cosplay, this one is specifically for resources for myself and friends.I will update this each month as i find new sites and cosplaying help. 


First of all, The Number 1 site for cosplaying has to be Cosplay.com http://www.cosplay.com
They've got everything, Nice cosplayers, Cosplay pics, A great Forum, A wig store, a Marketplace where members can trade with other members, and of course http://www.cosplay.com/member/263656/ Who, let's face it, makes the site more awesome XD (JK! and someday i gotta finish making my profile on there)

Also here's a very good Guide on how to cosplay, even people who have cosplayed before i think would enjoy reading it.
http://meowaboutcosplay.com/guides_tutorials/howto_part1.html
http://meowaboutcosplay.com/guides_tutorials/cosplay_who.html

And last the same owners of Meowaboutcosplay TR Rose and Concolor (i think) They used to have some very good cosplay how to's BUT they vanished, luckily! i was able to find them and i shall post the links here :3

http://replay.web.archive.org/20100101023551/http://trsrockin.com/mastersword.html A how to, on building a Master sword from The Legend of Zelda.
http://replay.web.archive.org/20090108074340/http://www.trsrockin.com/scalingprops.html A how to on Scaling props for yourself.
http://replay.web.archive.org/20100101071556/http://trsrockin.com/cosplay_plushies.html Just some cool plushies ;3

Kingdom Hearts is AWESOME

Hai, well you should be expecting allot of posts, this thing even is mainly to keep myself a list of stuff i need to do.

1. Work Out
2. Work on my Nerf Armory
3. Finish and post My Nerf Gunz
4. Finish review of Black Butler
5. Write Review on Gamestop PS2 controller
6. MAKE LOUD ANGRY RANT ALL IN CAPS BECAUSE ANIME VEGAS HAS NOT BE ANNOUNCED
7. Post some random character descriptions X3
8. Review Thor after i see it this weekend
9. Spend a few hours in my woe corner on the 7th
10. Write a Cosplay Resources post
11. Make KH props (Keyblade and Paopu fruit necklace for my bestie)
12. Make more RP charries for X-men
13. Report on New Gundam models
14. Post video game collection
15. Post video game Console collection

 And aside from that, I LOVE Kingdom Hearts!!!! This game is AWESOME and i can't wait to keep playing it!

and here's a random video from kenshin XD

That's all for now, i am tired TO BED I SHALL GO! @-@ Also goodluck to my bestie Brindle on here performance tomorrow. I know she'll be EPIC.

The Epic Cosplay List!

Here's an epic list (Mainly for Brindle) Of all the Anime characters i hope to cosplay as someday ^_^

#1 Future Trunks.

Series: DragonballZ.

Character Bio: "Trained by the alternate timeline's Gohan, Future Trunks travels through time to seek help from Goku to prevent the Androids from ravaging the world, like they did in his dark future. Future Trunks is a loyal and uncompromising warrior, and can be slightly cocky at times. He inherited his mentor's do-or-die attitude, as well as his father's brash confidence (though he displayed less of it at different times; it was most on display in his fight against Frieza). He wields a sword of unknown origin and wears a Capsule Corporation jacket." (Taken from http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Future_Trunks )

Progress: WIP (Work In Progress) Jacket (Have), Undershirt (Have), Pants (need new ones), Boots (Need new ones), Belt (Needed), Sword (Half finished), Sheath (Have supplies), Sheath Strap (Have supplies).

Conventions: NON D: but Planned for Anime Vegas 2011!

Notes:

Pic: 

#2 Sebastian Michaelis.

Series: Black Butler.

Character Bio:  "The butler of the Phantomhive household. He is also part of the Noah's Ark Circus, where he goes by the stage name Black. Sebastian often describes himself through the phrase "I am one hell of a butler" (Taken from http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Sebastian_Michaelis )

Progress: In planning process.

Conventions: Planned for Anime Fannatiku 2012

Notes: I'll be cosplaying as him with my very own Ciel! *tackle hugs my bestie*

Pic: 

#3 Pip Bernadotte.

Series: Hellsing.

Character Bio:  "Pip Bernadotte is a the leader of the group of mercenaries known as the Wild Geese. He is an ally of Hellsing and takes a particular interest in Seras Victoria. 

Pip is an average-heighted man with carrot-colored hair and freckles. He speaks with a French accent and is therefore widely considered to be French, although it is never exclusively disclosed. However, Hirano confirms him to be French in the back of volume 6's tankoubon, where it is stated that he is "French and loves boobs". Hirano also mentioned in a recent filler-chapter that he was of Swedish ancestry.

The Royal House of Bernadotte is the current royal house of Swedish, founded by one of Napoleon's marshals: Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. One can assume that Pip was a Frenchman with Swedish connections, or vice-versa. An interesting fact is that the current Crown Princess of Sweden is named Victoria of Bernadotte.

Perhaps his most notable features are his eye patch and long braid. He usually wears a cowboy-style hat with the left side flap folded up; it has what appears to be an emblem of a Griffin on the front. Pip is also a compulsive smoker, and is shown with a cigarette in his mouth more often than not." (Taken from http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Pip_Bernadotte)

Progress:  Unstarted

Conventions: Hopefully Anime Fannatiku AND Anime Vegas :D

Notes: Probably will be switched with my Avin cosplay, so i may be 19 By the time i cosplay as Pip, and Hopefully I'll have a Seras with me *tackle hugs bestie friend again*

Pic:

#4 Avin (Either Legend of Heroes: Tear of Vermilion or Dark Hollow Vampire Avin)

Series: Legend of Heroes or Dark Hollow.

Character Bio: 

LoH: "Avin (Age 17): The main protagonist. He sets out on a journey to find his sister Eimelle who has been separated from him for years. He has a short temper and is very impetuous, but is usually kept in check by his calm best friend Mile." 

DH: "Avin- Avin is a male vampire, He is a bit weird, Even besides the vampire thing. He defends his Friends and he kills those that bring his friends harm"  (I write that like...3 or 4 years ago so of course it sucked >W>)

Progress Unstarted.:

Conventions: Hopefully Anime Fannatiku and Anime Vegas.

Notes: I may be 19 by the time a do this costume Or i'd switch it around with my Pip cosplay. I believe at the end of the video game Avin is 18 or 19 XD so it's not th at bad.)

Pic (Avin's pictures, THROUGH THE YEARS!)

#1 

#2 

#3

(Brindle drew dis for me :3)

Well that's all for now!!

Trunks Cosplay! Work in Progress UPDATED March 1st

Well now i'm updating with pictures :3

My swords!

From Top to Bottom

#1 A wooden sword i made a long time ago, i might try to adapt into Trunks's sword

#2 My first HORRIBLE attempt at making a sword out of foam board. I know it sucks but it was a test >.>

#3 The blade of my second attempt at foam board for the blade. it's not perfect but it's good ^^ i'm going to coat it in a latex if i can so it will be rubberized and probably be stronger.

#4 The CPVC pole i used for the base of the sword, handle, pommel, and core of the sword.

Here's a better pic of the new blade. and the crappy one behind it XD

My wooden sword!

Anyway now on to the cool stuff :3  My Jacket, made by Pan Pan on cosplay.com

And last my boots!! Also made by Pan Pan, even though they don't fit i'll use the design on my own pair :3

Well that's all my updates for now! See ya

Sorry AGAIN

Lol sorry!!! I've been mainly roleplaying and working out XD i need to focus on one post at a time i think instead of starting six and adding a little to each everyday.  Anywho i need to give a shout out to my buddy Knightraven for pointing me towards something on gundam store and more DIS http://www.gundamstoreandmore.com/ban77165.html

The GundamRX-78 GP01! XD Hopefully i can beg some money off of my dad. Although we have been looking at the Mega Scale gundams so we might pick up one of those instead.

In other stuff for a delayed Easter present I'm getting some Manga, Black Butler and Rurouni Kenshin :D can't WAIT to start reading them!!! Also I now plan on cosplaying as Sebastian from Black Butler at Anime Fannatiku next year.

Now i would like to turn a little attention to someone who i'm pretty sure is reading this but won't follow meh blog D: Tosh there's a google following thing on the side bar of this blog.It says Followers :3

Anyway OoO something odd I've noticed in two different Anime openings the opening songs sound like they're from the same Band /Group!

XD i may be wrong or i may be right but here they are

And the other

That's all BYE!

SOOORRY!!!!!

I'm very sorry that i haven't updated in awhile DX I've been working in the Garden, Working on my Trunks sword, Watching DBZ, and watching Rurouni Kenshin! :3

So anything new with me? YESH YESH many many thingz.I need to redo my Trunks sword. Trying to assemble my Trunks cosplay, WHICH by teh way I got the other day!!!! :D I got the jacket, pants, boots, material for sword and sheath. and the undershirt. But i'll do a post tomorrow dedicated to my cosplay.

I've been having a TON of fun RPing Hellsing (a vampire anime) with my Homie.

Since i got that Cosplay naruto sword thing i have been really into Samurai and Ninja anime :3 Which brings me too... 

Rurouni Kenshin Wandering Samurai! 

Once again and Anime i loved when i was little XD Although i was maybe 8, 9, or 10 when i watched it, So i don't remember all too much. I've watched about 4 of the Regular episodes. (Not OVA which i need to watch instead DX) 

Anyway Kenshin is awesome ^^ and it's inspiring my new RP character for Me and Brindle X-men roleplay site. 

Rei Myojin!

Anyway tha'ts it for this post ^^ See ya guys later Bye

Trunks Cosplay! Work in Progress UPDATED April 3rd

Well where to start >.> The good newz or teh bad newz DX Eh i'll get the bad out of the way.

My Trunks sword Ver 1 is kinda fail DX instead of the tactic i was gonna use (witht he nerf sword) wouldn't work, mainly cause of the cost of the Nerf Marauder Longsword. So we took a differen't approach. using Foamboard, CPVC, Duct tape, and cardboard XD Unfortunately i didn't think my first try through very well. the blades shape ended up a bit curvy and not shaped right, but i went with it,  i cut out several pieces of the Foamboard in the blades pattern. and i took three of them and  hotglued them together, then i took the remaining four and glued those together, it looked pretty bad but oh well :3

Then i hollowed out the four layered blade for the CPVC To go into. That actually worked pretty well. and i then glued both the blade pieces together. Then i tried shaping the blade >.> this is where it gets bad. I screwed it up :3 lol the blade is very curvy and looks pretty poor. So i said to hell with it and built the rest of it anyway, so i know how to build the rest without screwing up :3 i'll write up a WHOLE tutorial on it once i start my work over again.

On to the good stuff. I HAZ most of my costume :D The Jacket and Boots (even though they probably won't fit)  will be arriving in 2 or 3 days thanks to the awesome Pan Pan on cosplay.com.  

I also have the Tank top and Sweat pants. so now the only things left that i haven't started work on are the Belt, Sheath, and Sheath Strap. Also new boots if the ones i ordered don't fit. DX

Anyway now I'll just post a few pics here for references on my Trunks Sword XD I DON'T own these nor do i claim to.

Well that's all for now, bye!

I'm alive!

Yesh Yesh I'm still alive, sorry!! I really need to update this more frequently, rather then try going on several different blog posts at once. XD Well the kitty nearly murdered me today. As i was going downstairs and teh kitty charged at me >.> knocking me down head first the last couple of steps.

Anyway now i must tell thee about my trip :3 I went to Myrtle beach last week! with my Mom, Sisters and Grandparents. The drive down was pretty nice and we ate allot XD We stayed at a pretty nice hotel actually and i had my iphone so i took some pics!

The Top of the Hotel with two random cars XD

The 'living room' of the hotel room XD

And the beach from the balcony!!! 

Well the first day was pretty dull, we just got there, explored the hotel and unpacked. I set up my laptop and stuff ^^ and i wrote half of my review for the Dragonball series.

Later once it got to dinner time we went out to Red Robin (YUM) Where i ordered myself the Monster burger, i went to heaven that day XD and i ate the whole thing. Also this burger was so beautiful i had to take a picture

Look at that GLORIOUS MASTERPIECE OF DELICIOUSNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anywho, the next day we went to broadway at the beach!! which is my normal beach hang out in Myrtle Beach, not so much the actual beach. Although i did visit it later that day. Broadway has just about every thing, Build-A-Bear, crappy jokeshops that i love, Some store filled with epic vintage like stuff. (i got a BlackKnight metal sign from there, XD the blackknight from Monty Pythons, The holy grail! "None shall pass!" and "Have at you!" and "I'll bite your legs off!!"  Where repeated many a time that day)

Anywayz then we made our way down to Magi Quest, stopping only for lunch at the Food stands around, Pretzeldogs, Pretzel sticks, and Pizza hut pizza filled our tummyz :3 and it was gooood.

So then we went to Magi Quest, my Grandmom and me i think had more fun then my sister O,O Me and grandmom ran around picking out our new wands, (I got a new epic one :3) and Wand toppers and stuff like that ^W^ And we played till our magic time ran out, After that it was about dinner time, we had wanted to originally go out to house of blues which is at Barefoot landing. (Like Broadway at the beach but less flashy XD it's allot calmer feeling, and it's mainly on this boardwalk like thing over a swamp like thing.) But with our luck House of blues was closed!!!!!! The place was dead empty but i did take a few pics.

Well that SUCKED, considering for the past several years we've been trying to go to that House of Blues, and yet every time something stops us. But anyway then we had to go find something else to nom upon. We went to Joe's Crab Shack! And i had crawfish for the first time :3 they're freaky but tasty.

After we went to a candy shop and peeked inside of this Ghost show thing that i really want to see oOo it looked awesome but we didn't have enough time to see it.

After that my family went back tot he hotel and we swam in da in door pool, and then went for a walk on the beach ^W^ which was awesome.

That was Day 2, now to day three! the final day D: We packed and got ready to leave, but before we left the hotel i used my Iphone to look up if there where any comic book stores around and it happens that i found one :3 just down a few blocks from the hotel.

I went to Corsair Comics! which i must say is a really awesome store even though they're DVDs on anime were overpriced. They did have a cosplay section though!!! which i promptly looked through XD and i found... 

This!!! A wooden cosplay sword from apparently Naruto. My mum bought it for me :3 and I only bought this for the looks cause it's freaking awesome.

 When i picked it up i thought it was a real sword o,o cause the blade looks amazingly crafted. As is the whole sword. I really wish i knew who made it but i forgot to ask. They did have several other cosplay wooden swords, non that looked like Trunk's sword but oh well ^^ and i'll find out who made them next time i go there.

Anyway no on to the rest of the day, we went to broadway at the beach again, we went for lunch at Johnny Rockets which, is, freaking, AWESOME. and tasty :3 then we went around trying to complete the Garden quest for Magi quest ^^ it was long though XD

And that was it ^^ we got back into the car and drove home, also at a gas station i did see something rather odd...

It may take a few times to reread that but M&M STD... STD??? M&Ms with transmitted deceases DX  Oh meh gawd. I HOPE that means something else but my mom pointed it out and throughout the rest of the drive my family kept referencing the STD m&ms

Well that's everything! see ya later!

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

Hiii I'm back peoplez!!!! I'm working on somne new posts and uploading pics now ^^ So i'll have myself a review on dragonball, an update on my costume, A cosplay sword review, and hmmmm maybe a review of Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory, My magi quest experience. and! My dart tag Speedload 6!

Also there's a random song :3 bye!

Goin' on a Trip!!!

Woot, So yesh i'm going to Myrtle Beach for two nights with my mom and grandparents ^^ So i won't be posting till i get back! But I'll be writing them on my Iphone to post when i'm baack :3 and i'll take lotz of pics ^^
I'm writing this up right now as my Iphone updates XD Adding some anime music and tis awesome.

Hm let's see in myrtle beach i'll mostly be chillin' Playing Magi Quest, and trying to beat Legend Of Heroes: Tear of Vermillion (a game very close to meh heart, and hopefully to my bestie friend Brindle >3> Cause i met her with my epic character based off of one in Legend of Heroes, The Vampire Avin! who is also my picture that the again amazing brindle made for meh.)

Hmm um um um... What else! Oh yesh! I found out that, the one cosplay trunks jacket and boot set is available for my greedy purchasing :3 so dats a YAY

Later this week my dads gonna go to TRU (Toys R Us) and he might be picking me up some of the Nerf Dart Tag stuff.

Speaking of buying things, me and my dad picked up allot this weekend. which includes..

Two Star Wars Vintage style action figs, R2-D2 and Lando! Also two comics :3 

This me and my dad snatched up at WalMart in the cheap video game section, 10$ for the Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition! A steal even if it's for the PC 

Lastly, my own knife, not that i really need it. But i still love it, my dad was telling me about how his dad took my dad and his brothers out to get they're own knives sometime. and now it's passed down to me, my dad took me to check out some knives and i picked this one out ^^

Okay so anything else... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Well i have a story to fully upload here for Brindle, I was a Baka and am trying to make things up to her for meh bakaness X3 Also Um i do need to Review Dragonball the TV series, since i watched all of those and i'm now working on Dragonball Z! 

Trunks Cosplay! Work in Progress

Hiya! Me again XD writing up a quick, pretty much notes for myself on my Trunk's (Future Trunks from DragonBall Z) Cosplay for Anime Vegas this year. (and Halloween later this year)

Here are my three reference pics for this costume, just randomly found on google.

At first i was going to try and buy Trunk's Jacket off of a cosplay site, but it turns out that specific Jacket would have been too big for me. Then the other Jacket and Boot set i saw was put on hold *head desk* I sent the owner a message in case the other sale or whatever fall through but i'm not holding my breath.

The first and MAIN thing for this is i need to get in better shape >3> not to say I'ma fatty but i still didn't feel comfortable XD and i think by now I'll fit in the costume pretty comfortably, i'm not ripped but i think i can pull the costume off ^^

For the Jacket i was originally going to get a jean jacket and cut it to size, and add the patch and just use that, but thanks to my loving mother (>,>) she's offered to sew me a Jacket from some other material with a jean jacket pattern.

The undershirt and pants should be easy enough. Black or grey sweatpants, and a black tank for the undershirt.

That leaves the boots and, Belt, Sword and Sheath

The boots, well i'm trying to model them after these http://www.cosplay.com/marketplace/showproduct.php/product/38434/cat/fav
It looks to be very simple, Snow boots covered in yellow spandex and some added fake leather. I'll be searching Goodwill for some cheap snow boots and then i'll just buy the rest of the stuff from a fabric store or something ^^

The Belt and Strap for the sheath will be made from some webbing material (i think atleast >> my mum knowz it) that i can paint or even spray paint to the right colors.

The sword will be mainly foam, actually now that i think of it i could probably use a Nerf Sword and alter it... HMMMM :3 the sheath should just be cardboard, covered in colored duct tap ^^ should turn out pretty well.

Well that's all i have now! I'm going to put a list down there of what i need just so i can keep track.

1. Fabric for Jacket: Needed
2. Capsule Corp Patch: Needed
3. Jacket Pattern: Needed
4. Undershirt: Needed
5. Sweatpants: Needed
6. Snow Boots: Needed
7. Yellow Spandex for boots: Needed
8. Fake Leather: Needed
9. Material for Belt and Strap: Needed
10. Spray Paint or Fabric Paint: Needed
11. Nerf sword for base of sword: Needed
12. Cardboard: HAZ IT!
13. Colored duct tape: Needed