zzz i don't care if i cannot fold it anymore... seriously.

ok painting that can never go wrong tutorial!

and yes you do need it if you're painting repeated stuff... like 20 dragons (5 on each side * 2 fans).





1) so template first (draw before that of course and cut them out)

here i have 3 different types of dragons.


2) template them on the mahjong paper or whatever paper you have (used mahjong since it's the largest piece of paper you'll ever find that's cheap!)



3) paint a gold base (doesn't even matter if you paint it out of the lines you've drawn since you'll cut them out later. i figured.. even if you did paint them out of line on the actual object, it won't matter in the end cos it'll look like it 'radiates'!



4) i used this crayon which is suitable for all kinds of surfaces. brown outlined the dragons and all the stripes or stuff you'll need. doesn't matter if it's drawn out of line, again.



5) yellow outline all the brown parts to give a little gradient and tone down the harsh brown color.



6) use water to go over all the lines you've drawn! shade some gradients as you see fit and it should be ok.





7) what's left is just to cut those dragons out...

sorry my dragon drawing is not very realistic hahahahah

self-abuse!
nah, it's all in the name of my KOREA trip!!! yahoo!!!!!!
it was well worth it.
still suffering the after effects of holding 2 huge chain saws for the whole day, my whole body is aching terribly.
whoever said that it was easy getting in must be SERIOUSLY joking. don't let me whack you!

made my ladybug bag while watching queen seon duk. almost forgot about it.



basically it's just foam as the inside and cloth wrapped by uhu glue/cloth tape. it can open up at the black/red split to store stuff. hoho...



redid my pauldrons so it's more... 3d-like too. had to tear away all the previous tapes... the foam is actually pretty holey, but i managed to cover the holey parts with the cloth and tried to stick the black cloth tape over all the holey cloth and holey foam ww



gotta love uhu glue and cloth tape. gonna use elastic band to wear it on my shoulders.



i'm listening to lee jun ki's j style now by the way. sexaaaaaaay. *_* <3<3 you make me wanna be someone better hohohoho

and my armour i did for a week while watching hong gil dong. speaking of which... it's a really funny drama but the ending had me traumatised for 3 days. gong-jai! my prince! why!!! *gets lovestruck for a while*

ok, back to monster hunter armour. well, it's not very accurate i would say, but it's er... good enough i think for my level. sighs i just can't do anything 100% right. *bawls*

starting off with the skirt since that's what i worked on first. i used those hard type of underlining for the base, and wrapped cloth around them. it's my sewing-free job! all uhu glue! that's why i can watch hong gil dong and do this at the same time.

putting the individual pieces using one of the base strips, this is what i get.



then i did the skirt guard



and stuck them together. the skirt is buckled together using velcro.



this is the front piece of the skirt. used a ribbon so i can tie them to my waist. it's supposed to be underneath the skirt pieces.
now, why does the color look pink here? it's supposed to be orange. ARGHHH.



then i did my hand and leg warmers. ok, i needed to sew up the sides for these. but i didn't sew any of the edges! i used white type to keep the edges from unthreading. i hate sewing curly things actually.



warmers with the brown ribbon glued on.



when i post this it should be completed already. this is the chest plate and shoulder guard. and here i should explain that i used black cloth tape for all the edge lining and clear colored folders for all the colored patterns. this shoulder plate is NOT round enough. clear fail. perhaps i will redo if i'm not feeling too lazy.



here's the corset i did, using the same method as the skirt. it's joined up by machine stitching. too hard to hold corset together with uhu glue.



i did the butterfly pieces for the back and for the headgear.



and the butterfly is stitched behind the corset after positioning it with pins.



then there's the headpiece. actually this is the very first armour piece i did for the whole costume (remember in my previous post i said my helm sucked). it's done using craft foam and wrapping cloth around.



put on the colored pieces separately and lined the insides with white tape so the thread won't uncurl from the edge of the cloth.



i then sewed the 2 pieces together, and did the front cover as well.



the little butterfly goes to the back of the helm. here's the final headpiece with that ahoge sticking out in front (held up using wires inside)



the front shape is still a bit weird. but i AM TOO LAZY now. and i still need to figure out how to make this helm stick to my head. i mean i can wear it now but it's not like tight fitting or anything. it kinda bobs up if i don't find a method to tack it down.



now i only have the chainsaws left. headache...

and boy it's hot when i put all these stuff together...

hmmm? why did i ever get talked into doing this armour? phwehhh...

it is going to take a looong looong while to do this because it's so hard to find reference pictures!! grr.
thank goodness i have a borrowed saved data from maomao... and managed to screenshot my psp. wahhhahaa.

and gosh, does this person even have a name (yes it's named maomao for now, but oh well)?

here's some full views





front views







left views







right views





back views











top views






chainsaw views















phew?
by the way that cat bouncing around is pretty strong. it helped me kill off some t-rexes while i was screenshooting. not bad. although i did faint once or twice from stupidly moving to the poisoned waters.

and that's really too many pictures for now.