kit_summerisle

Well, the cosplay was a success. More or less. :-) I won the popular vote, so I can go to VIECC (Vienna Con) with the tickets, but I realized just how little i can move in it. I couldn't go up the steps to the stage and had to stay on the ground. Stairs weren't the only problem. The organizers promised me beforehand that I could move around, because all the doorways were wide, double doors - but in  fact all those had one half closed and locked, so I had to fit myself through those small spaces and every doorframe broke something off of my armor. Ohh, and they lost my music and I had to wait nearly a minute in front of the audience while they found it and started to play. You know how embarrassing that is? Other cosplayers had  this problem too, so it wasn't just me.

But all in all, I enjoyed it. There was another LTL costume (a warhammer one) and I learned a lot about how it was done professionally. Not from cardboard, that's for sure! :-)

This was me on the Con, in Stargate:

Making an armour is surprisingly difficult, even from cardboard. I've been doing it for three weeks now and I had to redo nearly every piece after trying on and I'm barely halfway through with the whole thing.

fun fact: I actually considered doing it out of aluminium sheets. the only argument against it was the price of aluminium. Cardboard is free (I'm collecting boxes from nearby supermarkets), so it wasn't really a competition. :-)