Dragon Knight: Father of Dragons Photoshoot

I finally got some time, people, and place to get some good pictures of my Dragon Knight cosplay. I'm glad I was able to gather some good pictures at this park.... and of course its not the most embarrassing thing to walk around a public park i full cosplay.... not at all...

World of Warcraft: Doomhammer

So, I've had a couple projects going on at the same time in preparation for having a booth at Anime Conji so I haven't been able to upload any finished projects..... until now!

Here is finally a finished piece that'll I'll be wearing along with a (hopefully finished) original "blacksmith" character. I'll be helping out Trinket Slot with there booth and spicing it up with some of my weapons.

This is the Doomhammer. I didn't get to play much of Warcraft, but its a pretty iconic piece in Warcraft lore. Its always fun to make big weapons and trying to figure out the what to use. I'm proud to say this hammer probably weights no more than 5-6 lbs.

A box of packing peanuts.... what a way to start a weapon.

packing peanuts + expanding foam= eruption of foaminess!

Had to contain the eruption... I honestly thought the box would eplode

It looks like ice cream

adding hammer heads

Cut to install the handle

oh man... this thing was such a pain to sand

umm... winter is coming? wait... wrong thing

Adding resin coating

base coat of paint

Base coat for those shiny bits

TA DAAAA! The 2 dyes of leather look really nice.

Final Fantasy X: Jecht's Sword

I was commissioned to do Jecht's sword from Final Fantasy X. I love many of the Final Fantasy games, so this was pretty fun... and like most FF weapons, I have no idea how these characters are able to wield these huge weapons... Like this one is essentially a huge paddle... Regardless, still fun to make.

Draft and the foam block that I'll use to carve from

With much carving, glueing, cutting and more gluing, the block became this

I always have a internal structure inside my weapons so that they can take some beating. I usually do this by cutting the while weapon in half and installing it. A big worry that I had with this large sword was structural integrity. The holes at the bottom made it pretty weak and as the part that was probably going to hit the ground most, I used steal frame to keep it all together.

More braces for those troublesome holes

2 halves glued together and beveled.

I attached the rings by weaving some thermo-pastic around the ring and through a slit in the foam.... not the most stable, but after the resin coat, it stayed put.

Everything put together, with the design.

Usually, I like to hand paint my weapons with acrylic, but something this size, needed spray paint.

TADA

Dragon Knight: Father of Dragons Armor

So I finally finished to rest of the Dragon Knight armor. I can already tell that I learned a LOT from this cosplay compared to Legion Commander. This project had a lot more detail and complicated shapes. Honestly, that why I picked this skin; I'm not a huge Dragon Knight player, but dragons + knights + shield and sword= AWESOME.

Though I skipped documenting some steps, I think most things are self explanatory. (theres a lot of pictures for this post)

The back of the chest piece.... its kind of like a bra...

I really like the high neck line thing

I forgot to document the making of the shoulder pads.... which sucks because they would actually quite hard, but fun to make

I like to seal the EVA foam with silicon cocking... its messy but cheap and fills gaps pretty well

the last part of painting is adding the low and high lights. For the gold, I like using Raw Umber of the low lights. It gives it a slight dirty look.

The first plate of the outer thigh armor

Cocking

silver

red and gold (the triangle thing is y belt buckle meant to look a bit like my shield)

Butt flap

I put this all together and strapped it onto the belt so this all comes off and on in one peice

Had to actually break down and buy those tight girly work out pants.... ew

A 2 piece guantlet

The pieces behind the gauntlets are bicep armor.

All the upper body pieces (minus the furry vest)

knee pads to stab-eth you with

The shin and calf guard are 2 pieces that hinge together at the top and velcro at the bottom... until i find something better, velcro with have to do

So I tried everything all put together... and was kind of unsatisfied with the chest piece.... I look like a tug boat.

BAck to the drawing board for a chest piece. I liked the top most one, but it didn't look anything like the original, non-gender bent version, so I had to change some things.

Before on the left, and after o the right

The idea of adding fur to costumes is fun... until you actually have to do it. Then it just looks like some furry animal molted in your work space..

Even with my stomach showing.... this thing is hot... maybe in need to install a cooling system.... how ever the hell people do that

The while shi-bang! front

back

So This is just a process post. I'll be sure to post some awesome action shots when I can!