Shinju's Workshop

It’s been three weeks since I started working on my Athena from Saint Seiya costume. As I expected, things turned out to be more difficult than I thought. In theory, everytuing seemed perfect, but in practice, well… lots and lots of problems emerged.

I finally managed to get some time to share them with you, so if you encounter them, you don’t have to go through the same ordeal.

Since I completely finished a small part of the armor, I thought I should post all the steps that it went through, together with lots of photos.

The part of the armor that I started with is this one

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So many conventions lately!
That leaves me in a pretty unusual situation: Not enough time to make a cosplay costume for each of them! It usually takes me a few months to make a costume, since I’ve been looking for challenges, and sometimes they can be pricey, so I have to adapt somehow…

But I still want to participate in cosplay competitons! What do I do? I adapt older costumes. That seemed as the best choice.
I always loved my Yoko Nakajima cosplay. Maybe because it was the first cosplay I did with my heart (I didn’t care much about the previous Matsumoto, except for the big boobs) and because it was my first cosplay to participate in a competition.

And thanks to a friend of mine, my boyfriend and I started reading the “Twelve Kingdoms” books. And I fell in love again with this wonderful world and with Yoko. And since we are going next week to HoldfenyCon in Budapest, I took out of the closet my old Yoko cosplay. And to tell you the truth… I was horrified!

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