Supanova 2015 write up

About two weeks ago Supanova was on. I decided to go on the Sunday. I cosplayed as Dreadlord from Warhammar in the morning and Sabrina from Pokemon in the afternoon.

While I enjoyed, going I thought the amount of panels, screenings and things to do in general to be lacking. If I went for both days I think I would have gotten bored. I got there just before 10am, and ended up leaving just after 3pm after seeing the Matthew Lewis panel.

One thing I was surprise about was how little I ended up buying. I liked how much there was on offer but due to limited version in the morning while I was looking, I couldn't take as much in, and only went to a couple of stalls in the afternoon that stood out.

 T_T Costuming

 Kiri from Fireteam Serenity Cosplay

Updated Supanova 2015 plans!

With my Dreadlord all finished expect for the dragon with time to spare and having done a test run in most of it. I decided to update my Supanova plans.

When I did my test run I found that my costume is kind of hard to walk around in. Not enough to put me off wearing it, but enough to make me rethink somethings. First of I am considering not making the dragon as it will only be yet another thing to carry around and I think I will have my hands full with my sword.

Second of all I am planning on doing a second cosplay. Yes I know I'm only going for one day. I know I know but I want to cosplay the whole day and lets face it, Dreadlord is not a all day near summer cosplay. My plan is Sabrina from the Pokemon Anime. I am going to make the younger version for one of my dolls and take her with me.

So in the morning I will be Dreadlord and in the afternoon if I get it done in time I will be Sabrina from Pokemon

The Making of Dreadlord

As I recently finished making my Dreadlord I thought I would do a write up of how I made it.

The first thing I started to make was the helmet.

I started off by warping my head in glad wrap and sticking masking tape over it leaving a gap to breath and see out of. Than I drew a pattern on, and cut down the center.

Once off I cut one half into four parts naming each one.

I than traced each part on to paper, and modified each one slightly to get the shape I wanted. I used the paper to get an idea of how it would look once made.

I than cut out each bit out of foam and Worbla, covered it and stick it all together.

To get the added detail I drew the shape I wanted on to paper folded it and cut out. Than did the same foam/Worbla method.

Than painted.

I wasn't happy with the first shoe Armour I made so I remade them with just foam. I covered the shoes I was going to use in glad wrap and marked out the shape I wanted

Than cut it out in foam. For the attachments I used d rings and than scrap bits of foam to stick the d rings to the foam.

All painted

Once again used glad wrap and masking tape to get a pattern for my torso. I used some scrap EVA foam I had for the neck.

For the skulls I drew the shape on to paper, traced on to foam and covered with Worbla.

I also cut out little bits of Worbla for the teeth

I did the same for the triangle shape which I totally forgot to put on till after painting it. 

For the pauldrons I winged the pattern and did some practice runs for the curve to get the shape right. 

The little rings were made out of scrape Worbla and I hanged the fabric up to the pauldrons, to see how much I needed. Once happy I marked and sewed it together.

I did the same for the cape, only this time I used masking tape.

To attachment the cape I used Velcro as I needed a weird shape.

To make those I cut out three strips the same width, put a triangle at one end and than cut a bit off the top of two. I used Worbla for the balls and the skull. 

Once again glad wraped and masking tape was used to get a pattern of my legs. Than cut out a shape I was happy with, and used it to get a Worbla version. Skulls were cut out and covered in Worbla and stuck on. 

Same with my arm and hands.

I attached each part using hot glue

For the sword I made a paper pattern. Cut out on to two bits of EVA foam and stuck together.

Covered in Worbla.

Details added using Worbla.

Once all done primed and painted and its all finished!

Supanova 2015 Plans

With AVcon over for another year I thought I would share my plans for Supanova.

At this point in time I am planning on going just for the Sunday. Some of you may have already noticed over on Facebook that I have already started a cosplay for it. The cosplay I have decided on is Dreadlord with Great Weapon who is a Warhammer model.

I have wanted to do a Warhammer cosplay after seeing some photos of some really cool Warhammer cosplays on the internet. So I went though photos of Dark Elves models as thats the army I started with when I found Dreadlord, and I feel in love with the version with the Great Weapon. I like big props and I cannot lie.

I decided to do Dreadlord for Supanova as out of the three cons in Adelaide I felt that Dreadlord would be best suited to Supanova due to it being a popular expo and its focus being more general than AVcon and I haven't made up my mind whether I'm going to Comic Con yet.