dragoncon2007
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our sixth trip to Dragoncon in 2007. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Kingdom Come Wonder Woman, Boushh, Leia's Endor Gear, Marasiah Fel, and Marion Ravenwood, so construction posts for those costumes are included.
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Movie Rogue came! And Slave Leia updates
My Chinese Sweatshop Rogue costume arrived yesterday (after days of fighting with the post office). It’s kinda nice to just have a costume magically appear on your doorstep, LOL. It’s pretty nice for what it is, and for what I paid. The only problem was that it was too big. It fit kinda ok through the chest and shoulders and…
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Endor Leia and Boushh progress
Got the colouring on the poncho about half done. Got my Boushh pants put together – I just need to put elastic for my foot on the bottom, and do the quilted/pleated/whatever they are sections on the knees (my favourite part of the costume!) But, mostly spent last night sewing on bloodstripes and watching Hot Fuzz. good times.
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Endor Leia, Boushh, KC WW Progress Pics
A new batch of progress pics. Spikes for my Boushh gloves came yesterday… My endor donut (with the unattached bill sitting underneath it), base helmet I need to finish and one of my Boushh boot tops that isn’t finished. More Boushh Boushh armour about to be painted. KC WW helmet molds Endor poncho yesterday, drying in the sun before getting…
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Where I’ll be at Dragoncon 2007
Rebel Legion table – 12-2 Friday morning (Endor Leia) Evening at Bree – Friday night (pink Belle) 501st pic (if I get up early enough)/Parade – (probably Boushh, if not, Wonder Woman) Marvel vs DC photoshoot – 2pm saturday (Wonder Woman) Slave Leia photoshoot – 3pm saturday The Dented Helmet table – 5-7 saturday night (slave leia again, I think)…
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Progress on everything
well, i can no longer get on the internet at home, something is wrong with my laptop’s wireless thingie. I can use dad’s computer, though, but I hate being cooped up in the computer room. I suppose it’s a blessing – keeps me working. Endor Leia – finished sewing the pleated section on the base helmet – donut is finished,…
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KC WW, Endor Leia, Boushh, and Marasiah Progress
Chase clear-coating the Wonder Woman helmet sculpt again before it gets cast. My endor trooper Leia helmet donut as it was yesterday evening – since then it’s been weathered and the red/yellow symbol added. Still needs a bit more weathering, but I’m very pleased. Boushh helmet getting its first shot of paint. Like the endor donut, this has since been…
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Kingdom Come Wonder Woman Helmet progress
Here’s a few more pics of the WW helmet in progress, plus a pic of our workroom I left out. Chase started the sculpt over a year ago – we were hoping to finish it for Dragoncon 2006. Around this time last year we realised there was no way we were going to get it done, so it sat around…
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Funeral Padme updates
I got off work early today… so I came home, ate some lunch, and actually got some work done. I went outside and played with the dye… another layer of dye on my endor poncho, and navy on the funeral cape. If they both stay as they are, I’ll be happy. I think the poncho will be fine – but…
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Progress & Schedules
Well, I wrote out my packing list last night. And right now I’m apparently trying to take 18 costumes to Dragoncon. So, it’s gotta be cut somewhere. At least by 3. I’m ok taking 15, but not 18! Anyway – I haven’t done much lately. Work has been absolutely exhausting this week (I’ve been the only one in the back…
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HP Book Release, KC WW Helmet!
Been busy with Harry Potter stuff — no pics from the bookstore party, since I forgot to get my camera out of the car. I wore Hermione and burnt up, since we ended up standing outside in line most of the night. There weren’t many interesting costumes, either — we had a really good Snape there, an Umbridge, and… a…
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SURPRISE! Marion Ravenwood
We went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Orpheum recently, and I (in the middle of all my other projects) for some reason decided to put together a Marion Ravenwood costume. I drew up the shirt designs in photoshop and heat-transferred them onto the shirt. The shirt I made using leftover fabric and a pattern. Bought the…
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another weekend, another set of mosquito bites
Yep, despite having doused myself with Off last night, I still got about 9 bites while outside dyeing my Endor poncho yesterday evening. I have decided to make a little experiment of them, and trying various home remedies… so far using deodorant seems to be the best. Well enough about that, this is my costume journal not my mosquito bite…
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Updates & Ewok Village Leia Pics!
I’ve been pretty well KO’ed by sinus mess for a week and a half or so now… sucks! I think it’s behind me now, though. Here’s a few quick updates… Doll Leia – got the bottom and top made, the top needs to be fixed (one side hangs funny, need to pick it out and do it again), and needs…
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Dragoncon 2007 plans
Travel for Dragoncon is finally completely arranged! We’ve had our room at the marriott for a while; but we rented our van last week. We paid a little extra to be able to pick it up the wednesday before and drop it off tuesday instead of monday. So we don’t have the rush trying to check out monday and get…
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The Boushh box came!
I’ve been out of town since thursday, and came home today to find my box had arrived! Oooh, the excitement! The fellow who owned it before (who was working on it for his wife, and then they apparently decided not to finish it, and sold me everything they had for it) has already done some work, but it’s still got…
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The Last Big Purchase… a box of Boushh
Well, yesterday, I spent a whole lot of money that I probably shouldn’t have, but in the long-run I figure it’s a deal. I now have the bulk of a project I wasn’t going to even start on for a long time winging its way to me as I type this. As a result, I’m probably going to delay most…
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Costume & Convention Plans
Weekend after next is St Patrick’s Day; we’re planning on going to Atlanta again for their big parade, with the 501st/RL. I’m – hopefully – wearing Queen Amidala, the parade dress. After the mixup last year I’m a little skittish about things falling through again. On top of that, a bunch of our local members have decided not to go.…
