Emblem (Shingeki no kyojin)

So I was looking for the emblem on etsy and the price isn't in my price range, the small ones were ok but the big one on the back is a bit pricey so I found this tutorial which doesn't look too hard but I believe it will take quite a bit of money.

Owner of tutorial- http://neptunyan.deviantart.com/art/Attack-on-Titan-Emblem-Tutorial-Survey-Corps-444395703

Akame's skirt

So I finally started working on Akame's Cosplay and in about 7-8 hours of work I got her skirt, it took me a lot longer than I thought it would, I just started working when I got home around to 6 and next thing I know its 11, I personally really enjoyed working on it and I wanted it to finish it that evening but my back and hands were killing me :( so I finished it the next day. It's kind of finished I just need to add the wee straps for where the belt goes. 

Lightnings gloves part 1

Top of Lightnings gloves
Materials- craft foam, straws, toothpicks, hot glue, acrylic gold paint, mini pearl stickers.
Everything else is self explanatory, just glue everything together and paint it a couple of coats of paint.


Step one









Step two








Step three








Part 2 will be the gloves themselves :)

Progress

Here's some progress on Lightning's gunblade that I have been working on, and yes I do know there's a bunch of flaws in it like you can see the lines of paper from paper mache I did -.-
 for the base of it I used normal craft foam, which you can find in the kids craft section, I found mine in poundland, and I just place one beside each other and used masking tape to hold them. Then I just drew them on with the template I made.


Next I did the paper mache, I also forgot to add more craft foam too make it look 3D at the start, and i did paper mache again over the whole thing.

I painted the whole thing using normal acrylic paint and I'm done I think I might make the dark grey a lighter grey colour. Over all I think it turned out pretty well the only thing I don't like about it is probably the way i painted it meaning I'll probably repaint it.








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