Day 3 Nagoya City, Brother

so the day before we were told we'd be going to another city, but the schedule was reverted to the original in the morning. doesn't really make a difference, but i do think nagoya city visit is much much better.

it's milla today from tales today, and i realised how tattered my pvc got after i put it on. thank goodness it was only for half a day...

at least it was all in-house and air con today!

visited another office and all the staff was dressed in onepiece costumes... wow

had to do a group photo in the bright sun..

chionged to the shades after the photo session was over

got back to the hotel to change, then got ready for a super duper awesome lunchhhh. there was a bit of time before it so we had a short dessert break with team taiwan in the meantime

and then there's lunchhhhh yayyyyy~ this restaurant is supposed to be specialising in unagi but we ate shabu there T_T it was still nice though!

this food made the trip awesome!!!

love the mochi at the end

and leaving the lunch was the saddest part T_T

then it's time to go for some propa----- visit.

wall of sewing machines!!!

brother's milestones

and some interaction time with the machine and cutter - whee~~

such amazing cutter. after the visit, it was home time~

130831 Milla @ STGCC

so... i was at stgcc early in the morning yesterday in milla. the booths there were pretty awesome, because of the iron man displays. i think it's really the power of putting a hundred of a similar item right in your face, except that they are all of different costumes, which makes it even cooler.

there's the mini versions too (maybe 1/4 of human size?)

and even mini versions, like standard figurine size

hoho. yes you can buy all those there. wooooah. i didn't really take photos of other booths. oh yeah we managed to catch miyuko in her milla costume but there's too many people so this is like the only decent photo yokey helped me took. and the pictures that were posted online by her. i quite like the details of her costume.

ooh there was also a little girl doing a pink mini iron man... so cute!! potential mecha cosplayer in the future???

in the morning, the tales people got to take pictures with Hideo Baba, the producer of the Tales series.

then after the morning event was over, i waited around for our SMLJ peeps to come, and i realised i only took shots with them before i changed out. because they all look so awesome!!!
hohoho さすがSMLJです！

and last pic before i changed out~ tried to make it less yellowish with the rainbow bubbles lol but bleah lousy toilet lighting. hahahahah

our peeps went for dinner at killiney and supper at geylang till almost 2am. it was crazy. but fun!!! (resulting in my headache on sunday gwahhh)

Milla Maxwell WIP

so i started working on my new costume since i could find all the materials i need and i had plenty of time at home. haha. so here's the character, Milla Maxwell from Tales of Xillia.

it was also just nice because i lost some weight and this character is baring a lot of stomach and skin, so i thought i'll fit in well. hoho. so anyway here's my WIP photos.

here's all the materials i got out of my stash. this is for the top and skirt and those criss cross belts she has, the second pic for the handguards and the last for the boots. (i used another shoe as base eventually, one that was about to be thrown off heh)

unfortunately my machine died on me and i had to get my parents to send me the spare one from malaysia. so i could only start to sew on day 2.

starting with the handguards... sewed on all the linings first

the red ribbons were all glued on so the criss cross patterns can stay. attached on the elbow guard that's made from foam.

i actually pasted on the elbow guard wrongly and had to take it out and stick it on again. urgh. so the correct one is on the right.

the wrist guard is pretty easy. did it on the first day.

the boots were pretty bothersome. the base was alright, it's only sticking it on the shoes that had a few problems.

but i managed it anyway. the front flap kept dropping so that has to be glued on the thigh flaps too. again, the criss crosses are all stuck on a separate panel, then sewed on the shoes.

there's also all the funny straps she has on her thighs. i just cut them out from the pvc and stuck rectangular patterns on them.

milla has probably the easiest top/skirt to work on. the skirt is simple enough... just needed to do the criss crosses on the side.

then sew on all the troublesome purple linings.

and hand-painted. i think i did the patterns too small though. but oh well...

not much to be said about the top. i took an unwanted spaghetti strap i had and cut it into half for the base, then stuck all the straps on it. pretty easy. just needed to keep trying it on to make sure i got the positions right.

and the neck collar decorations are all stuck on. easy.

last to be done was the sword. honestly i didn't do such a good job since everything was cut out of foam.

then painted the handle gold, for about 3-4 layers.

tried to do some 'rusting' patches on it but failed. so i just sprayed gold paint on it which made it a bit more shiny. last touch was the ribbons. the sword is not suitable for performances cos there's no backbone supporting it and the blade might just come off. but it's good enough for photo purposes. it's also terribly light!

last was her green hair extension. didn't do a very good job. couldn't find my clear pvc so i stuck it on some spare shiny pvc i had leftover from the sword. lol. not a good choice but i was too lazy to buy. this was to be pinned on the wig anyway. i mixed in 2 different shades of green. so it wouldn't look so 2D.

and that's milla's costume in 4 days. not so bad right? haha. and no shopping list for this since i had everything. keke.