Recent content by Kaya Tetsu

You usually can park for $10 in the parking garages near the con hotels, sometimes cheaper if you don't mind hoofing it a few blocks. We usually stay a few exits down and drive in. I don't recommend it for anyone who is not accustomed to driving in big cities. Some people have had good...

So I finally got around to unloading the armor and taking some pictures. The damage is pretty bad. Although I'd say still not bad for a extremely rushed suit. I must note that all paint jobs were done in the hotel room on friday night. I put a base coat blue of spray paint on before I left...

I have to apologize for not making it. I got sick after the dinner and then spent most of the night repairing my armor only to have it fall apart before I even made it out of the parking garage. At that point, I was extremely upset and sick and just went back to my hotel and my bed. Still sick...

So I guess I should give an update. I never made it to the parade. Long story short is I did finish the costume (and it actually looked decent). But it broke on the way there. Everything broke. My chest piece broke, my thighs both broke, my knee broke It was just ridiculous. I was not prepared...

I just made it back to my room for the night and started dry brushing some gunmetal gray on some of the pieces. I cant find my silver acrylis and dont want to use spray in the room. I'll buy some silver and blue acrylic tomorrow and finsih the paint jobs up. the acrylic only takes about an hour...

Ran into a few snags last night that made something that shouldve taken an hour take all night. Yay. Also made me need another wasted couple hours to go to the store. but I have a base coat of blue on everything now. I'm letting it dry. I'm gonna shower and pack then pack all that stuff up...

Got a decent setup outside with the outside light and a Worklight. Should be good if I keep a good pace. I've got several pieces that just got their first coat of resin. I'm going down to do coat 2 now, that will be 3. Rondo 4. Paint 5. Weather 6 and Prolly 7. Padding and strapping after that...

Well crap happened and I havent gotten much done today. I stopped at the store and got everything I needed and am heading downstairs to finsih a few parts and put the finishing touches on some paint jobs so I can get everythign starpped and padded by noon tomorrow (which is when I'm leaving. I...

So I bought some new spray paint today and re sprayed all the pieces. Its saftey blue vs the sail blue I had before. Very subtle difference, but enough that it isn't in your face blue. Its also fast dry. everything is outside drying. The chest piece is curing, I resined the outside of it and...

Today I finished pepping the chest piece, which was a giant puzzle because i somehow ended up with more than one set of numbers. I also started painting the pieces that are done. Unfortunately (and I don't have pics because my phone died), they turned out freaking smurf blue! GAAAH! So tomorrow...

Re: The Dragon*Con 2014 - 405th Dinner **GIVEAWAYS** Probably what my +2 will want to do as well. They don't like walking.

So my the forum just ate an entire post. Lon story short I had to waste about 3 hours to go to the hardware store this evening because i ran out of sanding pads. i also made a dust filter out of a storage container. I tooks a small PVC pipe (about 1 1/2" and 12" long - it was a sink pipe)...

Yesterday I ran errands and bout some stuff I needed for the costume. I also fixed the sewing machine last night, so tonight I should be be able to sew that velcro on. My fans arrived yesterday. The hardware store wants ridiculous prices for 4 X AA holders so I improvised. I went down to...

How hard are the models to put together without edge IDs? lol. I imagine it being a giant jigsaw puzzle. I've been looking into the cameo for a while now.

I might see if I can mock some stuff up in Illustrator when I get back from D*con.