Gin tsuba progress II

Hello hello.

Yay more progress! Ari fixed the cracks for me, he filled them in with this white-ish putty filler thingy. He's too kind. ;_;
Tomorrow he said I can coat it with white base paint, although it seemed the one I used before has been used up so I have to use another one that is slightly shiny... and he said I have to sand it after coating. Oh well, after that I will coat it in gold spray paint and then I can focus on finishing the rest of the sword.

Shinso's tsuba fixed

It certainly looks better now, hahah. I'm happy it could be fixed so easily.

Bye bye ~~

Gin tsuba progress

 Hi!

So some few days ago Ari, my stepfather, told me I could make Gin's tsuba out of this 9 mm thick "vaneri" (plywood?) we had lying at home. So I did. I drew the design and he was kind enough to cut it out for me, yay! So after he cut it out for me I went outside to sand it down, oh my god my hands were so sore after that. I remember cursing Gin's tsuba because of it's weird-ish shape, it was so hard to get "inside" those stupid... hnnng, what's the English word for it? OTL Nevermind, you probably understand if you know what it looks like...

It's under a week left to Desucon Frostbite and I still have to fill in all the cracks or whatever you call those parts where the top "part" of the wood peeled off. And then I need to paint the tsuba gold and then I need to paint the whole shoto that I bought as a base for it and do tsukamaki... yes, I'm lazy... but I just figured it's better to modify something close enough than to make it from scratch because the blade itself is normally formed (but short) and besides I somehow knew I would get to stress with it anyway. XD

Here's a photo of what it looks like at the moment:

Yeah, it looks crappy right now. All those lighter parts are those I need to fill in and there's more on the other side. The shoto is just a cheap red oak one. Yes, that's my old Pokémon bedsheets btw. :'D

Argh I hope I will have time to finish this sucker, my school starts on the 10th January too and I need to leave for the con 13th January, eheheh...

Bye!

Sealed state Sogyo no Kotowari sword finished!

 Hello!

Wohooo, I finished it today! Ukitake's Sogyo no Kotowari sword in its usual sealed state. :)
The sword is a modified bokken/bokuto.

Here's the only in progress photo I have:

I did the tsukamaki (read: handle wrapping) some hours ago and recently I went and took some photos. Gosh how bad lighting we have in our house... the only place decent enough for photos is the shower/sauna room, lol.

Whole finished sword

Tsuka close-up

I'm happy with it for now. Might eventually want to add a sheath.. we'll see. Also the tsuba feels a tiny tiny bit too big so I'll maybe remake it one day, but for now it'll suffice.

Sayonara!

Next con: Desucon Frostbite 2012

 Hiiii!

The next con I will attend is called Desucon Frostbite. It will take place in Lahti, Finland, 14-15 January 2012. This is the first Desucon Frostbite to be held, big sister Desucon has been held during the summers for some years (although I haven't attended it yet myself) and Frostbite, as name implies, will probably from now on be held during winters to come.

My cosplays are pretty much set in stone for the weekend. Both days I will be part of a Finnish Bleach cosplay group and naturally that means both my cosplays will be from said series. :'D Here comes the cosplay plans!

SATURDAY - Jushiro Ukitake (Turn Back the Pendulum)

Surprised? I guess not...
So yeah, next in line is the TBtP version of Ukitake or well, ponytail!Ukitake as I like to say. Our Bleach group's main day is on Saturday and of course I'll be Jushiro that day, seeing he's my signature cosplay for the moment.
Because the con is held during winter I won't bring shikai with me this time, so I will just make his sealed state zanpakuto instead and carry it around. It's just way more convenient to be able to carry a sword on your waist instead of having both hands busy holding EPIC_SWORDS_OF_DOOM all the time, although I can't deny I love those things to bits. 

Not to mention whenever I have to go outside I'd rather try and keep my hands warm under the haori and cover my face with a scarf so I can breathe properly because, as everyone probably knows, Finnish winters aren't exactly mild.

SUNDAY - Gin Ichimaru (Captain)

Gin? Yes, Gin.
I'm going to cosplay that always-smiling-sarcasmic-creeper-face-guy. And ironically I suck at smiling...
This will be the first time I cosplay Ichimaru so, err, we'll see how it goes. I'm so used to cosplaying Ukitake (been almost exclusively cosplaying him this whole year, go figure) so I guess it will take some time to get used to acting like an eerie bad guy instead of a happy occasionally coughing candysleeve guy, haha.

See ya there!

I have arrived...

Oooookay, so where do I start? :-D

 I guess this is my... third blog? Oops. Oh well, I will strive to not let this one die out haha. xD

I will report my cosplay happenings here - what anime cons I'll be attending and summaries of those, cosplay progress, dream cosplays, photoshoots etc. Basically anything that is somehow related to the wonderful world of cosplay, wohoo!

Oh, and yes, this time I will be writing in English as you can see lol instead of Swedish or Finnish, which are my main languages. I decided to do it this way because English is a global language (basically, all over the place) and thus more people can actually read all the crap that I will write here.. if someone will do that, haha. :'D So yeah, reservation for eventual bad English but hey, I do hope you will enjoy the ride with me and this new blog!

See you all around! <3