As I was mentioning in the last post, I am starting a project. A video blog on making cosplay costumes. And since I will be part of the jury at Otaku Festival in May, I thought I should make a cosplay costume and also show the world how exactly I am making it. This is a tutorial targeting the beginners, since it has everything explained in detail, but also for any other cosplayers who like to share experience with other of their kind.
So, here is Episode 1, the Introduction to the whole series:
And for now here’s the list of the things I will use for the accessories I will make:
Geta shoes
- An oak-tree or any hard wood plank/board, preferably at least 30-40 mm thick
- Wood stain (ro. baitz)
- Varnish/Lac (optional)
- Nails/Screws
- A small piece of yellow fabric and some cotton wool
- Some rubber sheets for the soles
Tabi socks
- A thick fluffy black fabric or any black and thick hard fabric (about 40 /150 cm)
Round necklace
- A round mirror (around 10-12 cm diameter)
- A 30-40 cm diameter ball or bowl, used for shaping
- Plaster or polyurethane foam or any filling material
- Wall or wood putty
- Acrylic paint - light and dark golden
- Matte transparent acrylic varnish
- A simple “dirty light blue” thread
- A small piece of wire
Necklace (beads)
- 6 round beads, 7-8 mm diameter
- A tear-shaped bead, ~ 15 mm length
- Some “invisible” thread
Sword
- A piece of wood (~40/5/3 cm)
- Wood putty
- Polymer clay
- Plastic gem stones
- White artificial hair
- Scarlet/brown, white and gold acrylic paint
- matte acrylic varnish
- Cat bell (4 cm diameter)
- Dark blue string (~20 cm)
The scale
- 1mm thick plastic sheet (50/100 cm)
- Double sided tape
- 2 screws
- Some thin string
- Plastic beads and gems
- Putty
- 2 cat bells (~1.5 cm diameter)
- Hard transparent piece of plastic
The medicine box
- thin pressed wood boards (MDF)(3-4 mm), with a dark brown wood finish
- pieces of wood for assembling
- small nails/screws
- metallic wall corners
- knobs for the drawers
- big ring + knob to attach it to
- gold acrylic paint
- matte varnish for acrylic paint
- thick red string (around 2m long)
- 2 red tassels (ro. ciucuri)
- ~ 2cm thick white rope (~ 1 m long)
Other things
- 4 round elastic hair strings(something in between light blue and teal)
- Elf ears to buy from the internet
- Long fake nails and purple-blue-ish nail enamel
this is a good start for a cosplay tutorial, you pointed out exactly what you need for a good start and explained it out perfectly.
Nice… good thinking with the tut
Thanks, guys. There is a lot of work behind making a complete cosplay costume and those who really want to start doing it should know. Plus, it’s good to see the details in working on something, you may encounter problems that are left out in other tutorials…
Wow you never seize to amaze me. And good choice, since I really like gender benders. A dentists dream come true, brilliant. Good luck
Gongratulations on the first video, professional and neat
I hope you’ll keep them coming ! Thumbs up from me 
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REALLY COOL! 8D
This looks good
Nice work guys!
So good to see you
And this will be pretty useful for every cosplayers 
but I’m almost crying here, cuz half of the tools showed up there it’s not achievable for most of the cosplayers…
Also, good luck on the next Mondocon!
Hello, Ayla. Actually, the 2 most expensive tools I showed in the video are the sewing machine and the dremel tool. The sewing machine cost me around $100/ 80 Euros/ 350 lei and the dremel tool was around $70/50 Euros/ 200 lei. The hot glue gun was $17/ 12 Euros/50 lei and it was among the expensive ones, I found some with $7/ 5 Euros/ 20 lei. Groups of cosplayers can gather up money and could buy this stuff for all of them if it is really expensive. A solution can always be found!