So FanimeCon is approaching very fast, and it’s crunch time for construction. The last couple of weeks I’ve spent all my free time sewing, painting, and sanding and I’m starting to have something to show for it finally. (It takes a while for things to get to a stage worth posting progress pictures for.)

It’s right around finals for me as well, so I haven’t been free to blog or post some of what I’ve been up to save for some tweets, so if you follow me on my twitter, that’s were I post pictures as I get a chance.

If you don’t have/don’t like twitter (I understand…I use to think it was useless until I discovered it was great for people who don’t use AIM/chat much like me) you can just check out the photos that I’m tweeting here. More should be popping up soon, and with more frequency, so for those of you who like work in progress (I like them myself- I learn from seeing other’s WIPs all the time) you can see them there without dealing with tweets.

Now, if you have questions about what’s up there, you will have to tweet them to me to get a response right now. I’m neglecting everything until after finals, even email. Twitter is about the only thing I’m still checking because it’s easy. I’m more than happy to answer questions about the WIPs, just don’t be mad if I don’t get back to your email in a timely manner ^__;; Too much stuff right now!

So after all that preface, here’s some shots of Caliburn being roughed out!

This was so much fun to do. It’s my favorite thing about making this costume so far. The sword is made of balsa. The first shot is the hand guard being roughed out of a block of wood I’ve cut to shape with the scroll saw and then filed down more. The second shot it of the sword once epoxied and puttied together. I’ve since then added details to it with an air drying clay. There is some cracking on the clay due to shrink, so once I have it patched up and ready to paint I’ll post another picture to twitter.

I just got my replacement wig (first wig did not have enough fiber even after wefting to get a nice looking ponytail out of it) so I’m trying something different and I’ll be posting post-styling photos of that and the progress on the armor and dress as I can <3

Yue Ying progress shots are on the way as well. This is all I have photographed at the moment, but I’ve made a lot of progress on it. The fabric parts of the costume are almost all complete.

Several hours of hand painting & still more to do!