PICSPAM!

[hackeralastair]

Dear god, C&C. I'm with you less than a month and suddenly you've got me taking pictures of superhero costumes and looking through the dealer's room for comic books. I swear. You're like a rash, slowly taking me over.

This is all from CONvergence in Minneapolis last weekend. Imma post the ones you guys are probably most interested in, the rest are going to end up at cosplay.com probably. XD

So I actually knew some of the costumes this time, thanks to you guys. Mostly in a "oh, we have one of those in C&C" ffff...how pathetic. If I got any wrong, though, I stand to be corrected.


There were Dr. Horribles of all shapes and sizes EVERYWHERE. These guys got the photo because of the kid, really.


CUTEST HORRIBLE EVER


...and I'm told this is Bad Horse?


One of the best Harleys...of another EIGHT MILLION of them, geez.


"Whoa, man, I don't want any trouble here. Really."


Seriously...these two are modeled as Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo. (four MST3K castmembers were guests at the con)


GODDAMN IRON MAN


...I asked him. The armor is all resin-cast. It was nothing short of whoa.


By golly is that Tank?


It was a mingling of superheroes. I was too lazy to get out of my chair and take a real picture.


Holy Venture Brothers, Batman...


Toph is in the Cone of Shame.


...yeah. They were awesome.

And now...a bragging photo of me and my friend:



She's the Queen...I'm the commander holding the BEST IN SHOW trophy.



Best in Show trophies also make good codpieces.

We have more of our costumes in her journal plus a lot of completely random shit (mostly me being an idiot) at the Haven's Only in Cosplay. I tend to make a fool of myself around cameras.

Thanks for putting up with me. :D


...Cap gets tags?

Comments

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

Omg those cosplays are amazing. Who are you guys anyway?

[hackeralastair]

Queen Arshtat and Commander Ferid from Suikoden V. Just goes to show that obscure characters from obscure Japanese RPG video games can still win at a sci-fi con. :D

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

That's so coool

[atoningforsin.livejournal.com]

YES!

That Harley is my very good friend Mika. :D

Congrats on Best in Show~

And wasn't the mini Horrible the cutest thing ever? XD

The Tank Girl's BF had a Booga costume but it malfunctioned the first day.

[hackeralastair]

gkjashdk oh god, I think we have like a six degrees of separation thing going here, because she's also a friend of my roommate's. O_O Holy crap! That's why we didn't take pictures of any others...because hers was seriously the best all weekend.

I knoooooow the mini Horrible was adorable. They had him quoting catchphrases too.

[atoningforsin.livejournal.com]

Lols. That's why I asked if you'd gone to Cornell - she mentioned that the Queen out of the pair of you was her friend.

I went to the same school, actually. Just graduated. :3

Mika made the costume herself before last years' con. My roommate was gonna do Ivy with her this year, and had the costume, but the Masquerade took up pretty much all of Saturday and she had a hot date that night. She was in the Frankenstein group, as the Bride.

[hackeralastair]

....oh dear god. My roommate graduated from Cornell last year....

Allow me to IM you a moment, we have to catch up to this. XD

[atoningforsin.livejournal.com]

XD sure

though I'm supposed to be asleep by now

[rictory.livejournal.com]

OH HOLY SHIT THATS THE QUEEN FROM SUIKODEN V

[hackeralastair]

IT IS!! (that's my roommate)

[zully.livejournal.com]

FUCK YES. /huge Suikoden fan.

I've thought about doing Haswar before.

[hackeralastair]

That is such an interesting costume, too, with the lacing and the painted designs on it.

We are both enormous Suikoden dorks, but we get that out of our systems at suiko_rpg so we can do other games like this. I've got her talked into joining C&C in the next app round.

[zully.livejournal.com]

Hah, then you might know a couple of friends of mine. I think they play there, and they're like. The only other people I know who are into Suikoden that I didn't force the games onto. Seriously though, V was the first game I really loved since II, and I've seriously considered apping a character at C&C.

God, though, your costumes are reminding me of the bubble scene. :C

[hackeralastair]

Probably! Well, gonsai and I go way back too. asfhaskdjaf if Suiko characters start getting yanked into the City I will like...die. And stuff.

...bubble. ;_;

To which I told my Arshtat "Haha I killed you back!"

[zully.livejournal.com]

Haha, he's a somewhat local friend. We go to cons and stuff together; he crashed with me at Fanime, and evil_kimba. Jesus, its like everyone I run into on the internet ends up knowing one or both of them.

kjhkh

I cried, for serious. But then I'm a big blubber-baby and cry at everything.

[hackeralastair]

jhadka SIX DEGREES OF RP ZOMG. Really. And cosplay I guess.

...yeah, I admit, it was sad. The poor couple. ;_;

[rictory.livejournal.com]

I barely even remember how I met them. I think it was the board for a convention here in Houston.

sdflkj goddddddd. I couldn't even hate Lym. And BOY HOW I TRIED.

I think Roy's my favorite, overall though.

[hackeralastair]

I'm partial to the Queen's Knights in general...and Belcoot. But Roy is love.

ffff if you bring in a Suikoden character here I would be SO TEMPTED.

[sunfire-ii.livejournal.com]

I admit to being a huge softie for Georg too. And Kyle. /secret Sialeeds/Kyle shipper.

kljoi the problem is there are SO MANY CHOICES.

[hackeralastair]

SIX GAMES. 108 CHARACTERS. I know. Same goes for costumes, lol. At least figuring out a superpower wouldn't be hard, it would just be adapting runes into powers.

[sunfire-ii.livejournal.com]

Assuming I picked someone with one of the True Runes. :/ Otherwise I'd just. Have to be kind of arbitrary.

Am I awful for wanting to pick one from V because they'd have prettier icons? Tell me not to app Kyle, please.

[hackeralastair]

Maybe not - if you picked someone like, say, Belcoot, who has the Falcon rune, you could turn it into an enhanced strength or speed ability with a weapon. Ernst would just be a shapeshifter - who can only turn into a leopard, lol.

LOL not necessarily...although with III characters, you have the manga to pull icons from. Kyle, Barney, and Tony Stark fighting over all the women?

[zully.livejournal.com]

True. And several of the characters come with default runes that they're just better at-- Kyle has Water, I think, for example.

Oh, V has a manga too. Aw, holy crap. WHY YOU DO THIS.

[hackeralastair]

Yeah, he's good with Water. So he can be a water-mage or something.

True...and some manga anthologies, although the art in those can be hit and miss. BECAUSE I LOVE. AND AM EVIL.

[wolfofmibu]

VENTURE BROTHERS THAT IS AMAZING

also yes that Dr. Horrible kid is very cute.

... and definitely impressed with the resin-cast Iron Man suit. Wow.

[oftwoworlds.livejournal.com]

.... why would you resin cast all of that.

I get making it symmetrical and all but...







/stares

[hackeralastair]

I don't know - it looked REALLY HEAVY. But the casting was clean, that was probably what he was going for.

[oftwoworlds.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It does look pretty darn awesome. I just wouldn't have the patience or budget for that much casting. :0

[hackeralastair]

I'm used to seeing stormtroopers so my first throught was vaccuuformed plastic, but apparently not. I'm with you - that's soooooo out of my budget. XD

[oftwoworlds.livejournal.com]

I've wanted to try vacuum forming and yeah, suits like that, that's normally where I jump too.

Looks awesome but slkdfjlsjdafkjslkjsflajldj money.

[zully.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see, I was thinking like. Paperclay. :/ Resin casting is awesome for jewels but HOLY SHIT that had to be expensive and time-consuming as hell.

[oftwoworlds.livejournal.com]

I would just use craft foam and papier mache it, with maybe fiberglass resin on top if I was feeling like an over achiever. It takes a while, but the results are pretty clean looking after some sanding and it's super light.

That being said, I really haven't done that much in paperclay, so that could be a better way to go.