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We used a little push button so I didn’t have to do much to turn it on and off, and put it in the top of the chest plate. These have a skeleton of wood, actually, with worbla covering them, but first Mario did some electrical stuff and attached LED strips to the underside of the wood, where it’d be shining down on the wings, and we made it so that the wiring would be able to connect and disconnect from the wiring in the chest plate. We cut holes in the back of the chest piece to allow the wings to go through. Since we like making me suffer with wings, we modified a sports bra and added on worbla covered steel square rods that the wings would lock into. Ugh seriously, I cried over this thing so many times. I altered the hood several times on me, and when I sewed it, I top stitched far enough away so there was a kind of channel for the wire to go down into, and then sewed it shut after that. Here’s a crappy illustration of roughly what the hood pattern looked like. I later decided to only put wire on the parts that wrapped around my arms, since the wire is really hard to control and it can look really wonky if it’s too long. What you see above was the practice with the pattern, and with wire all the way down it. This was easily the most difficult part of this costume, I wanted it to be as seamless as possible so I did it in two long pieces. I don’t have any other progress photos of it, sorry. Mario punched rivets and leather straps into the back so that it could be strapped shut, and here you see the easiest part of the costume: the skirt. I don’t have a photo of it with all of the details on it unpainted, but I was starting to build up the details here. I then just built up on the corset, mostly taking the details from the in-game model, which we also used the colors from.Īnd same for the corset, I drew in some details, made a pattern with paper, and cut out the worbla and attached!
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Here we’ve finally got it to where I wanted it, and those lines you see are where the chest piece overlap the corset. I was pretty obsessive about exactly how the corset needed to sit so it actually took us a little while to get to this point.
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Don’t try to shape your worbla in one big piece, it won’t shape nearly as nicely if you break it up (just like with sewing!) and you can easily cover the seams later if you want. Those seam lines are where we broke up the pattern to make it easier to shape, and it seriously helps. What are they called that doesn’t sound completely silly?) This is also with the boob cups added in. The photo above shows Mario pushing together two pieces we didn’t make them overlap at all, if you heat up the worbla and push the two pieces together, they’re strong. One layer worked just fine for us, though.
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We only did one layer of worbla over a layer of craft foam, but if you’ve got the money to use two, then two layers is doubly strong. It was taped together to make sure it looked okay and fit my dress form, and underneath you can see the beginning of my skirt being patterned out. This looks like crap right now but I promise once it’s all together it looks awesome. We did the same thing to make the corset. We actually avoided the areas where my boobs are, though, so that we could shape the worbla in there correctly. The pattern for the breastplate was made by wrapping my upper torso (and over my shoulders) with saran wrap and then with tape. A note about forming worbla over things: Make sure it’s at least double thick, because worbla will tear if it’s stretched too much. The breastplate consists of four separate pieces that were seamed together with the worbla to make the shape that goes around me, and the boob parts were made by forming the worbla over a large plastic dome (well, pick one according to your shape, since you don’t want it to look really weird). Here’s what the pattern looked like once it was cut out and put on foam. I really liked how the stomach part, kind of shaped like a corset, looked like a separate part and tucked under the top part of the chest plate, so Mario and I drew out the patterns based on that: