DAZCOS US Size Adult Chi Chi Blue Dress Cosplay Costume

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If I would re-do this part, I would have made the seamline less obvious, but I'm still quite happy with how this turned out! And now let's get to the part how not every idea is a good idea and I sometimes think to myself "why did I even try to make this work"?

I started with making this costume for fun, but I was lured into signing up for a cosplay competition with it, so I also had a though deadline where I couldn't remake every part that I wanted from it! This was the base for version 2, I was a lot more pleased with this one and started shaping it more to become like Chi-Chi's helmet!Even though it's a very important part when making a costume and something you can't escape if you want to make helmets/armor/props. Seriously, industry-professionals having a Youtube channel that they use to show how they make their amazing stuff are the best! Because of all the waiting for drying I was going through, I decided to draw a face on the wighead (also because the wighead was already showing a lot of damages because of the heating shaping I did on it), so eh try to not pay too much attention to it.

So, even though I told myself "no more competitions for a while", I signed up for a local competition with this costume.Considering the quite special sized and detailed gloves Chi-Chi has, this was no option this time and I had to make them fully myself.

For some reason I had the bright idea that I could use small pieces of foam to cover the gaps I had inbetween the detailing and the helmet itself. Before this costume I've made 4 pairs and each of them fell apart quite quickly, no matter which tutorial I followed to make them.Lots of people wanted to make pictures of us when we were talking and he even had a "master Roshi approves of this" sign with him. D I always like to make overviews/stories like this as it's also a good diary and memory for myself about such a huge project. Considering the size of these boots, I decided to grab my favorite pair of sneakers and make a pattern around it for her boots. Even though the cape and top are seperate parts, I decided that construction-wise it was better to cheat and put them together.

I had quite a hard time finding the right shade of dark blue, but I'm pretty content with how this color turned out! Making the details for the chest plate made me sweat and curse quite a lot, because it was so small and fragile! I always think it's funny how parts look burned so quickly, but nothing of that will be visible after undercoating and painting! View spoiler Hide spoiler Sorry for the blurry picture of the shoulderplates, but with work-in-progress if my pictures turn out bad, I can never re-make them because I'm already at the next step!In Chi-Chi's character design most of her hair pieces are quite "square" and I decided I wanted to literally recreate this effect. I’ve considered writing up a glove tutorial eventually since I wanted to toss one together for Sora’s (since a tutorial for that is non-existent) XD I’ve come across a few here and there. On the other hand a few things on stage went bad, so I think I'm not that sad about it, as I would prefer not to see it back as I don't feel very comfortable about it. I did a lot of test rounds at home and was wearing the costume since 6AM that morning without any problems and when it was almost time for me to get on stage (around 3PM) parts started to malfunction, so I got quite stressed thinking "what if something breaks or falls off on stage? I got both positive and negative reactions on my color choice, but I think it looks very 80's, so I like it!