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I definitely died! I died, and then I woke up.

This Thursday night I'm feeling like another Sunborn shoot, so how about some cool Laudna shots with @becky_dickinson?

#cosplay #cosplayers #critical role #critters #cr3 #laudna #bells hells

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I have to say, for someone so small, you've got some serious balls. Thanks. That's not the first time I've heard that And if you survive, I'm sure it won't be the last.

It will have been a tough fight but clearly @ghostcat_cosplays's Avantika was no match for the dope monk skills of @kiwi_cosplays_ Beau!

#cosplay #cosplayers #critical role #critters #mighty nein #cr2 #beauregard #beauregard lionett #avantika

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And besides... you know I’m in love with you, right?

This Thursday night @cosqueenie and @luciathepeachcosplays are back as Vax'ildan and Keyleth!

#cosplay #cosplayers #critical role #critters #vox machina #cr1 #keyleth #keyleth of the air ashari #vaxildan #vaxleth

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Oh no this poor thing... She looked like that before she died (Travis proceeds to lose his shit 🤣)

When you're shooting Critical Role cosplays of course you have to recreate some trauma! And seeing as we've had @blue.jasmine.cos playing Pike in this role in the past why not now show off their amazing new Laudna with @chaosfauncosplay in the wheel looking perfect as Pike!

#cosplay #cosplayers #critical role #critters #vox machina #bells hells #cr3 #laudna #pike trickfoot

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Hello, dear listeners...

So today I have been out with a wonderful group of cosplayers doing a Wolf-359 shoot around London, and what better to post on this day than shots from our Wolf-359 shoot at Megacon!

@ghostcat-cosplays as Dr Miranda Pryce

@confusion-doodle as HERA

@owenisamassivenerd as Daniel Jacobi

@delaneytalks-tostatues as Dr Alana Maxwell

@kiwi_cosplays_ as Doug Eiffel

@daiyaoowadaisntdead as Dr Alexander Hilbert

@kaiidth_cosplay as Renée Minkowski

@magpieclaws.cosplay as Rachel Young

#cosplay #cosplayers #wolf 359 #doug eiffel #isabel lovelace #alexander hilbert #daniel jacobi #renee minkowski #rachel young #hera #miranda pryce

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One man's burden is another man's gift

@chaosfauncosplay cosplaying the chaotic faun that is Fearne Calloway? Of course she was and of course she looked amazing!

#cosplay #critical role #critters #cosplayers #bells hells #cr3 #fearne calloway #cr fearne

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I've pulled many of my tactics from nightmares that I've had. They keep you on your toes

Can't believe I haven't already shared these shots of @wildfaecos from MCM last year. This first shot especially was one of my favourites from last year!

#cosplay #critical role #critters #cosplayers #bells hells #cr3 #laudna

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Hey, guys. I found out something, too Is it that you're gay? I think I might be gay

How about some more TTRPG goodness for you this week with @aimee.dickinson.98 as Kristen Applebees from Fantasy High! Kristen really has such an interesting character arc through both freshman and junior year that Ally plays out really well.

#cosplay #cosplayers #fantasy high #d20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #kristen applebees

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How to Make: Electronic Wings for Cosplay

Hello Everyone! It's been a while since I last uploaded a written tutorial on here and since I just finished and wore my Dame Aylin cosplay this last weekend it seemed appropriate to jump back in with a tutorial on one of the costume pieces!

Her wings were the star of the show this weekend and I know a lot of people were curious about how I made them! A huge source of knowledge and inspiration behind these wings was this video by Axceleration, I made a few changes to the frame shape and electrical circuitry for mine but her tutorial was a huge stepping stone to give me the confidence to tackle them myself!

Health and Safety:

When working with Sintraboard (as well as other thermoplastics) it is incredibly important you wear a respirator as well as goggles when heating, moulding and cutting it. The fumes this plastic will give off when heated up are no joke! Make sure you're in a well-ventilated space!

Basic tool safety knowledge is also really important! wearing gloves when using power tools can be more dangerous in most situations, so always be aware of where your hands are vs where the tools are. Always cut away from yourself and take things slowly, don't panic.

Electrical safety! You're working with live wires and circuitry! make sure your hands are dry, you aren't touching the bare wires at any point when they are connected to a power source, and if you choose to solder anything, make sure you're wearing heat-proof gloves and a mask in a ventilated space!

Tools

Wire stripper

Screwdriver and wrench

Dremel - I recommend the Dremel 3000 rotary tool personally! Some essential Dremel bits you'll need for this include, a sanding bit, drill bit (smaller or same size as your screws/bolts), and a small/narrow cutting bit. These will usually come with the Dremel!

Heat Gun (A hairdryer will not get hot enough to heat the Sintraboard!!)

Pipe cutter (alternatively you can use a hacksaw for this!)

Hacksaw

Ruler

Scissors (for cutting fabric straps)

Materials

Heat shrink Tubing

2 core electrical wire

switch (you want a three position, six pin switch, like this one, even better if it has the Screws on the pins! otherwise you'll need a soldering kits to solder the wires to the pins.

2x 8AA 12v Battery Holders

2x 12v Linear Actuators (Mine had a stroke length of 100mm)

21.5mm PVC Pipes (I got 2x 3m Lengths)

2x 21.5mm PVC Pipe straight couplers

6mm 8"x12" Sintraboard

Nuts/Bolts/Screws (I used M5 bolts for the base & Actuator connectors and M6 screws to attach the hinges to the pipes! You'll need Washers for every Nut & Bolt!)

Hinges (I used 2.5cm wide hinges that were skinny but long so they would just about fit along the PVC pipe! 3" gate hinges would work!)

50 metre Polythene Jiffy foam roll (in retrospect this was ALOT of foam, you could definitely get away with maybe a 20-30 metre roll! I now have a load leftover XD)

16 AA Batteries (I used 16 and had enough for the whole day with them on, I think They'd probably be enough for another half a day-full day too! but have spares just in case!)

Webbing strap ( I went for grey to match my base suit colour!)

Buckle - as wide as the webbing strap you use!

3 metres of white cotton fabric (or whatever colour wings youre going for!)

Optional

Zipties (for cleaning up the wires)

Lets Go!

Sintraboard is this wonderfully stable thermoplastic that is relatively easy to cut into (with the right tools) and when heated allows you to mould its shape! I started by using a mannequin and heating the Sintraboard with a heat gun for a few minutes to make it pliable, I recommend using gloves for this part as the materials gets VERY HOT! Press the board into the shape of the mannequin's back, taking note of the edges especially! you want this board to sit as comfortably to your body shape as possible as it makes a huge difference to how long you can wearing the wings for in this backplate is comfy!

Once shaped, I placed it against my back to make sure it was a good fit, heating again and making any alterations I needed (again don't place bright hot plastic to your bare skin! wear protective clothes and wait till its slightly cooler to do this, with the help of a friend!). I then took a hacksaw and rounded the corners, before sanding the edges with my Dremel! Try to avoid cutting off loads, just enough to make things less likely to snag.

3. I then cut in four holes, wide enough to feed my webbing strap through, two at the top and one on either side below where my arms would sit! I measured the webbing strap by firstly feeding them through the top holes and pinning them, and then bring the strap over my should to everything sits where it should and seeing where the strap hits the side hole and cutting the length there! you'll also want a strap that attaches across the chest, meeting in the centre with a buckle!

4. After sewing the straps closed I was able to move onto the PVC pipe structure! This may change slightly depending on the finished shape you want but I needed the PVC pipes to come out from inside a breastplate so had a particularly angle as well as character references to work with! I began by heating the pipe over my heat gun and flattening a portion of it under a heavy object so it would sit much more flush against the backboard and sit better underneath my breastplate before moving onto securing the first portion of the structure to the backplate. This mainly involved lots of try-ons and measuring to make sure the angles were correct and symmetrical and was quite fiddly but well-worth the effort! I'll include a diagram of the general shape I went with below:

5. I wanted my wings to be relatively modular for ease of travel so I needed to make sure certain portions of them could come away from other parts easily, so I popped a straight coupler on the top of the pipes that were attach to the breastplate, this also meant I could slot the breastplate over these shorter pipes and wear everything correctly! Then these second pipes slot on and at the other end they are attached via hinges to the longest portion of the pipe 'skeleton', Diagram below:

6. Now that the skeleton was put together, it's time for the electrical stuff! It's a good idea to figure out where your circuit is going to lay on the skeleton - consider if you want the battery packs mounted the the backplate or, like me, put them inside the actual wings in removeable pockets for easy access and removal for battery changes. all your wires will go through the switch so deciding where you want to place that is very important! Mine was placed just over my shoulder on the front side, mounted to the PVC pipe with a metal cover I drilled a hole into to slip the switch through and then drill through the pipe.

I've included another diagram below that explains all the electrical circuitry, including which wires go on which pins on the switch!

Important to note: The linear actuators need to be placed and bolted into the PVC pipes at *exactly* the same angle on each side, any slight deviation will lead to the wings going up wonkily! So take your time and make as many adjustments as necessary.

7. You can extend your wires by adding on the electrical wire, just match the colours, and put heat shrink tubing over the connections to hide the live wires! I ended up zip-tying the wires into organised bundles once the wings were done to help keep everything safe from snags.

8. Now its time for the Wings themselves! I drafted my base pattern by just draping the white cotton fabric I had over the wing when it was fully extended. I then pinned the wings to the shape I wanted them to be along the bottom before cutting along the pins. I ran the fabric through my sewing machine to close the bottom edge, leaving a gap wide enough by the wing base so I could slip the wing on and off, closing it with velcro. I also added little fabric pockets inside of these to hold my battery packs, which also connected via velcro for easy removal!

9. Now that I had a wing base I was able to begin making feathers! I cut out a total of 800 feathers out of polythene jiffy roll for these wings, in 6 different styles and using real life bird wings to dictate the shapes I used and where I placed them. I ended up hot gluing every individual feather onto the white fabric base, going row by row until every side was covered, the wing covers themselves are super light because of the foam feathers and they shine light through them in a really magical way!

Optional: I also ended up going over these feathers with my airbrush and some super light beige paint to help darken the shadows, this is entirely optional and may change depending on the wings you're looking to make!

When in neutral position and in extended position the wings looks like this:

Mine had a wingspan of about 7ft total when fully extended but when in neutral position they were fairly close to my own proportions! mainly staying behind me and weren't much of a problem in a packed con hall!

Photo by: Helloimfran (on Instagram and Twitter)

I hope this tutorial helped and if there are any questions about anything in specific don't hesitate to reach out at [email protected] or on my instagram or twitter (@eufiemoon)

Happy Crafting!

#cosplay #baldurs gate iii #baldur’s gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #dame aylin #bg3 #bg3 aylin #cosplay tutorial #OH DAMN #blown away #mind blowing #LOOK HOW COOL MY FRIENDS ARE

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Everything you did, everything you scarified. It was worth it, for this.

In honour of their incredible Dame Aylin build here's a throwback to #i71 where @eufiemoon, alongside @paindepeche and @ixtran cosplayed Astarion, Karlach, and Halsin of Baldur's Gate 3! An amazing group of cosplayers that it is an honour and a pleasure to know.

#cosplay #cosplayers #baldurs gate #baldurs gate 3 #astarion #halsin #karlach #bg3

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Don't get any ideas 'cause I've got a little someone named Dr. Asha

Having finished Sophomore a little while ago that season definitely confirmed for me that Fig Faeth is honestly one of my favourite characters, fighting for top place with Gilear 😅, and @olli_cos_ cosplays them so well!

#cosplay #cosplayers #fig faeth #dimension 20 fantasy high #fantasy high freshman year #dimension 20 #fantasy high

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Is that to keep you in or to keep other things out, Fearne? Probably both.

@sylphncosplay and @paindepeche looked so damn classy in the Sunborn back at MCM last year as Imogen Temult and Fearne Calloway. For a second you might be tricked into thinking chaos isn't so close by 😅

#cosplay #critical role #critters #cosplayers #bells hells #cr3 #fearne calloway #cr fearne #cr imogen #imogen temult

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In the darkness, I say fuck

How incredible are @dragonsandstarscapes's Vax'ildan wings?? We managed to grab these shots just after Sharkie had finished with pulling off an awesome Critter meet at @megaconlive!

#cosplay #critical role #critters #vaxildan #vax'ildan #cr1 #campaign 1 #vox machina #legend of vox machina

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My necromancer and I always liked you...and hey, what’s like except a love that hasn’t been invited indoors?

It's been a while since I posted some of the Nona shoot I did with @ghostcat-cosplays and there were so many shots I got that I love so here's so more in this lovely tunnel August knew about in Covent Garden!

#cosplay #cosplayers #nona tlt #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers

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Yes, for the good of Jrusar! I will enter the fray with you!

And finally, on day 3 of celebrating the Neinth anniversary of Critical Role we have the current rambunctious band of adventures, Bell's Hells!

Imogen - @ew.toka Laudna - @yunasphere Fearne - @rosesewcostumes Chetney - @capcochcosplay Delilah - @lady_honey_designs Yu - @cosplayinagarden Orym - @eldranore Dorian - @ravenranger Bertrand - @thecosplaybard

#cosplay #critical role #critters #cosplayers #bells hells #cr3 #laudna #imogen temult #imodna #fearne calloway #chetney pock o'pea #orym #bertrand bell #Yu Saffiad #dorian storm

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We're a group, you guys!!

It's day 2 of celebrating the Neinth anniversary of @critical_role and in fitting fashion today we have The Mighty Nein!

Mollymauk - @pointlesscosplays Jester - @disaster_cleric_cosplay Caduceus - @honour.b Yasha - @olli_cos_ Beau - @archonicks Yussa - @tanbinokami Nott - @noizicorn Veth - @coralshifter

#cosplay #critical role #critters #cosplayers #mighty nein #mollymauk tealeaf #nott #nott the brave #jester lavorre #yasha nydoorin #veth #beauregard #cr2 #beauyasha #yussa errenis #caduceus clay

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Vox Machina! FUCK! SHIT!! UP!!!

Nein whole years of Critical Role and too much good stuff to celebrate so for day 1 or 3 we've got the Super High-Intensity Team that is Vox Machina! These are more shots back from the amazing Critical Role shoot back in October before MCM!

Delilah Briarwood - @lady_honey_designs Percy - @octopicos Vax'ildan - @loey_cosplay Keyleth - @ayato._.cosplay The Raven Queen - @ghostcat-cosplays Lieve'tel - @post_a_ghost

#cosplay #critical role #critters #vox machina #cosplayers #vax x keyleth #keyleth #keyleth of the air ashari #cr1 #tlovm #percival de rolo #percival fredrickstein von musel klossowski de rolo iii #lieve'tel #delilah briarwood #the raven queen #legend of vox machina #vaxildan