The Aradani Crew has been working on their Old Republic Star Wars costumes, Check out the articles about their creation!
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And man was it fun. My review will be posted on conspyer soon, but until then enjoy some photos and videos!
So I asked Laura to marry me yesterday. We drove out to Joshua Tree national park while we were visiting in Los Angeles. We went up on top of the Little San Bernardino Mountains and I launched my plan to ask her. I gave her a hardcover Fellowship of the Rings book which had been hollowed out. Inside I had placed her ring inside a little envelope that said “One Ring To Bind Them”. I got down on one knee and asked and she replied “Yes, yes, of course!”
I guess I could have been wearing elf ears, then it would have been a little dorkier. 
See the photo below to see the book, inside and ring!
One Vintage Ring to Bind Us. I Don't think Sauron would be rocking this style though.
Just uploaded the photos from the shoot the other day, before I bit the dirt. You can find the complete gallery at the bottom of the article below.
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Isn’t she pretty?
or how a good costume dies.
So Laura and I were out getting some photos of my Dragon Age 2 Hawke costume when I thought it would be a good idea to get some action shots. Then looking down the hill, I though, “Hey I bet I could get some good speed if I ran down the hill.” Because a day after it rains it is the best idea in the world to making a running leap downhill in full armor with a 6′ polearm.
I look almost epic at first...
What I hoped to look like...
Hit the jump to see an animated version of me trying to make the jump…
Hey everyone,
As you know I have been working with my friend Dane on a side project called Conspyer. Its a convention schedule site, which has fandom schedules, con reviews and more. I always write up a review after each convention, but we are in desperate need of people to submit photos to us for each convention.
We are attending MidSouthCon in a few weeks and we really want to get a lot of photos from the con. So if you are going and don’t mind sharing your images (you retain all rights, we just want to have them up on the site), please contact us through our contact form: Conspyer Contact. Or you can just email us a link to a flickr/facebook/ect account after the convention!
Also, if you attend a lot of conventions and take lots of photos, we would love to feature other conventions of yours on the site. We are looking for a official Conspyer photographer (it doesn’t pay at the moment) so if you are interested, send us a mail through the above contact form.
Thanks, and see you at con!
mike
So a group of us is planning to cosplay a Fist of Trollocs this year at JordanCon. These creatures from The Wheel of Time are mixtures of human and animal stock, bred magically to serve the Dark One, hehe. Because they are made from various animal stock, we have a lot of freedom when it comes to design, masks, and look. Our goal is to make the costumes look relatively similar, except for our faces. One of us will be a vulture, the other a wolf, and I am working on a boar costume.
I just finished up my gauntlets and bracers. It was very fun to work in a very organic style and not worry about symmetry and clean tooling. I got to cut, shred, and mangle the gauntlets as I made them, and it was… well fun. More pictures to come as the costume comes along.
Both gauntlets
Bracer without Gauntlet
Sneak peek at some Trolloc weaponry. We purchased some “boffer” Spartan swords online, and then using Gorilla glue, a hack saw, and some spray paint, we modified them heavily to be not Spartan, and be more menacing and rough. I put boffer in quotations because while these may be foam… I would never, ever want to get hit by one of these.
Assorted Trolloc Blades
So the Kickstarter for my Steampunk blaster is going really well. One of the reward tiers has a gunbelt included and I just finished with the prototype yesterday. If people like it enough, we may put it up on the website with the gun.
Front view of the gun belt.
Back Side of Gunbelt
Just posted up our newest products. They are genuine leather belts, which would be great for your Sci Fi or Steampunk costumes!
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