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There is nothing quite like the feeling of a costume coming slowly together under your hands. ♥
Pretty much all the sewing on Gambino is done. I may futz with the cape a bit, it's distractingly lopsided at the bottom. I still need to iron it and attach pins anyway, so I might as well.
Started painting the belt emblem gold. The texture is slowly smoothing out under all this paint - it'll never be perfect, but it should at least not look too bad on the costume. I still have to put the black backing and the bobby pins on, but that shouldn't be too hard.
I got a belt, but there's some issues with it. It's slightly too short to actually buckle around me, but it was the only belt I could find that was broad enough. So I'll have to rig up some kind of fastener. It's a good thing I'm going to be covering the actual buckle with the G emblem anyway, because it's going to be ugly back there. XD
Bracelets and pin still need painting, but that's simple work. I'll start on it tomorrow.
Looks like I'll have to dye/style the wig after all, which - since I lack a wig stand, bad me - will involve corralling my dad on one of his days off and making him play wig model. The task of wig-styling seems much less daunting now that I've got the clothes done - the rest is all polish.
Still dunno how or if I'll do the prosthetics. Basically, I need help doing the life cast because clearly I can't cast my own face, but I don't entirely trust my dad or my mom to do the casting properly. Ideally, I'd like one of the NSA peeps to help me, but most of them live too far away for it to be convenient, and I can hardly ever get in touch with Whitney, it seems. D: (I love all of you guys, though~)
So, there's still a bunch of work, but THE CLOTHES ARE DONE and that was my biggest mental stumbling block. If I keep on top of things now, I'm good. ♥
Pretty much all the sewing on Gambino is done. I may futz with the cape a bit, it's distractingly lopsided at the bottom. I still need to iron it and attach pins anyway, so I might as well.
Started painting the belt emblem gold. The texture is slowly smoothing out under all this paint - it'll never be perfect, but it should at least not look too bad on the costume. I still have to put the black backing and the bobby pins on, but that shouldn't be too hard.
I got a belt, but there's some issues with it. It's slightly too short to actually buckle around me, but it was the only belt I could find that was broad enough. So I'll have to rig up some kind of fastener. It's a good thing I'm going to be covering the actual buckle with the G emblem anyway, because it's going to be ugly back there. XD
Bracelets and pin still need painting, but that's simple work. I'll start on it tomorrow.
Looks like I'll have to dye/style the wig after all, which - since I lack a wig stand, bad me - will involve corralling my dad on one of his days off and making him play wig model. The task of wig-styling seems much less daunting now that I've got the clothes done - the rest is all polish.
Still dunno how or if I'll do the prosthetics. Basically, I need help doing the life cast because clearly I can't cast my own face, but I don't entirely trust my dad or my mom to do the casting properly. Ideally, I'd like one of the NSA peeps to help me, but most of them live too far away for it to be convenient, and I can hardly ever get in touch with Whitney, it seems. D: (I love all of you guys, though~)
So, there's still a bunch of work, but THE CLOTHES ARE DONE and that was my biggest mental stumbling block. If I keep on top of things now, I'm good. ♥
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I'm excited, though. I kicked you in the butt about this ages ago. I'm sure it looks amazing.
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It's looking really pretty good! I'm proud of my solution to the petal cuffs. The cravat's too narrow, to be honest, but I can probably hide that. I'm not sewing the damn thing again. XD
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Hey, as long as it works. It sounds like you've put SO much work into it. It has to be awesome.
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I did a little happy glee dance when I tried the shirt, vest, and cravat on together. IT ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD. It'll look even better when I actually bind my chest - the vest was sewn to my bound measurements, so it looks wrong when I haven't bound. XD
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And yeah. I can only imagine. XD;;;