Enter the Decade~

The title of this post is a a borrowed phrase, not sure if anyone recognised it straight away. It is the title of one of the opening themes of Kamen Rider Decade, probably my favourite of all the Kamen Rider series, it reminds me of Megaman(Rockman) also my all time fav.

Is is really here, February of 2011, well looks like it is, and just like last week that we had the new year fireworks. It has been five years since Yu first appeared, a total of 10 years if including when I first encountered kigurumi in 2000 and started plans to make a mask.


100 shots of history.
I decided to be nostalgic and write up a summary of what happened that brought about Kigurumi Cosplay Society today since even before my first kigurumi mask appeared. It all began about 10 years ago. I'm not trying to write a grand father's bedtime story, I think it might be more interesting than you think, so why not give it a read. I have included a centennial number of images thus the 100 shots.

Aira black casual part 1

So far the break has been quite relaxing, gotten some time to work on some posts which I've been wanting to post. Here are some pictures of the photoshoot I did of Aira in black shiny casual wear. Aira did a live chat in the same attire about a month ago but without the black skirt and the black jacket.

There are altogether 4 garments on her in this shoot even though it is hard to notice the skirt. She has a tight fitting black long sleeved spandex dress and shiny tight leggings that slack off near the foot. A mini skirt goes over the leggings at the hip and a mini black hooded jacket goes around her back.

There are a large number of pictures taken and I've prepared a few pictures this time and will put up shots of her in this attire over a few posts. There's a live chat recording done as well, hopefully I will have time to go through them all and put it up soon.

Went out to buy a new laptop for someone I know today. Phew the selections for cheap computers are so huge, I always enjoy looking at whats the latest new power house machine today. In the end bought a pink and white laptop that is going for a discount as hardly anyone buys pink machines apart from ladies. Though pink, its packed with 4GB ram and an i5 processor and 500GB of HDD space and Radeon dedicated graphics. Its more impressive when its only sold for US700. Not to mention the package which came with it included headphones, keyboard protector, a mouse, laptop bag, laptop pouch even a base cooling fan. Looks like tech is getting cheaper and more powerful by the day hehe~

Leave a few comments to tell me what you think of the costumes or the post. Keep a lookout for more updates~^_^

A blue streak at a glance

In the previous post, I mentioned that I took a few pics of Aira before swapping her wig with Asuka's. Wanted to share a pic of the costume she wore during the shoot before she left. hardly had that many pics of Aira now that I think of it.

This is her in sort of clubbing wear and partly casual, don't know which, let me know if you do. Wearing slack mock latex leggings, a metallic black long sleeve top and miniskirt. She has a black padded jacket around the shoulders. Wanted to go for the complete black and shiny look.

And there's another set of attire that probably will take some time to be re-worn again considering the large number of other clothes she has to try on. Hmm tell me would it be feasible if I sell the clothes worn about once and get the money to buy new ones? For shoots primarily. Would you buy that? I'll keep the updates coming. Just a sneak peak of whats in store below.

Aira has left the stage~

Recently just finished the Asuka test plugsuit costume and needed the Asuka mask to do a shoot in it. I don't a dozen of masks for each character I cosplay as the masks are extremely bulky. All I do is change the hair and hair style to become a different character. As such, I've disassembled Aira's setup and re-configured the Saya mask into Asuka. Its a chore to do up a pony tail style mask, so I reckon I won't bother putting the hair back anytime soon. Of course, I took a few shoots of Aira before transforming her.

Phew time to take some time travelling, I'm away from my usual abode for 3 weeks. I brought my laptop (thats why i can write this) so I'll take some free time to post up some pics taken a couple of days ago during a live chat session. I've posted an impromptu video recording of the recent live chat on Youtube, not sure if you've seen it. The URL for the video is found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHk9cMYsomI

I've got another video recording recorded on my HD digicam, I need some time to work on it so that I can post it on Youtube. Took quite some pictures too, will surely be putting them up later. Stay tuned~^_^

Moving?

The recent mask projects have finished, two more to ship out by next week. It is a white haired Saya mask and a Pink haired Yoko mask, yes its the same as the Meer Campbell mask and its the third one so far. Meer sure is popular~

I'll be moving shortly so I've got a few things which I thought people might want to purchase from existing stock. There is an M sized HQ zentai and an L sized HQ zentai. Also there original Yu mask is looking for a new owner. Let me know quickly, I'll have to dispose of them one way or another to make moving easier.

With this lot, phew quite a number of masks have been made and sold this far. Most of which I haven't seen since I ship them to their new owners. Most of them tells me that they are busy. Still I keep hoping that whenever they can find time or have taken pictures of them using the masks, they would show a few pictures of their attempts.

Done and sent is a repaired mask for a friend and mask owner. Took a picture of Micah's Esther mask and the HQ suit accompanying it. As mentioned above, two similar HQ suit are in stock. I took heaps of pictures this time thinking of making a new suit dye-ing tutorial. I hope to write it up when I get some time to, it will be most useful to suit owners or people who wants to dye their own suits.

There have been questions about suit dye-ing which I haven't answered properly for a long time. I hope to touch on it in detail this time around. It encompasses the home made technique of dye-ing white HQ bodysuit material with a combination of two colours, yellow and red for a very accurate and professional skin tone finish. Now that makes me burn with desire to talk technical but time doesn't allow for today.

Stay tuned~^_^
Updates will keep coming~^_^