I've been collecting potential materials for my OPERATION SUBTLE EPSILON cosplay projects, and TRYING to make some actual progress... but so far, that progress has been fleeting at best.
For example: My
animated Princess Zelda Doppelganger tiara was getting close to completed, but the paint I got for the top metallic coat isn't what I would call
acrylic. It was more like model kit enamel, with a strong chemical smell to go with it, rendering my crafting space next to unusuable for a whole evening, AND it seemed to react with the actual acrylic undercoat, spoiling the finish. I'm now stripping the whole piece back to the raw Worbla.
Status: REVERTING.
The earrings for "Mirror-Zelda" - I made entirely new earring jewels from molded Worbla, and painted them with model kit enamel. Two coats of matt red, two coats of gloss... and they look great, with the Worlba texture giving them a kind of coral look. Success!
Not such a success was finding the "findings" for said earrings. I got some clip-on backs, but they had absolutely ZERO grip, so those were a bust. I looked online for alternatives, and found something I much later learned were referred to a "ear-screws" - like a teeny tiny vice to screw together on your ear-lobe. The
precise kind I needed were VERY hard to find, but I
have ordered some. Checking through my boxes upon boxes of useful bits, I did find a SINGLE one of these fittings... a worst case scenario, worse even than looking and not finding...
Status: IN PROGRESS, AWAITING MATERIALS.
Waistcoat for Mirror Zelda - I have suitable leather, and even a rough pattern. I will draft a paper pattern and check it out later today!
Status: ADVANCING!
Terraxia "Choker" - A fairly simple piece, I thought. Faux gold leather over Worbla, fasten with velcro... but
noooooooo. I spent a whole lunch-break sewing a "sleeve" to go over my Worbla core, only to poke two holes in it while trying to turn it right-side-out. I've remade the core, more to my satisfaction, and I'm just going to hot-glue the bitch.
Status: REVERTED. AWAITING MOTIVATION.
Bonus piece: "Formal" Dragon Mask - I'm applying Worbla like modelling clay over a modified blank masquerade mask - the same as the one I used for the base of my "Hachijuku-Chan" mask - to create a draconic head-piece with dragon-like facial feature around the eyes and down the nose, and featuring detachable horns curving back over the sides of the head. So far, it's going well, and I'm hoping to make some progress with the horns and their "sockets" on the main mask. A lightweight alternative to the Big Dragon Mask, with which I haven't made any more progress, but definitely not a replacement.
Status: ADVANCING.
***sighs*** Yeah, one step forward, one and a half steps back, I guess. My feeling is that I
have to count each of these set-backs as a learning experience...
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