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~^_^

Last orders for the 2010~

Had a live chat for 5 hours last evening, just to kill some boredom. Had to thank Nova for taking the live chat video pictures posted here, I haven't prepared to take any shoots, been lazy of late hehe~I call the blue hair character Aira and she did 3 costumes during that night, one more of a cyan leotard, skirt and knee socks which I didn't get any pictures of. The ones which I have pictures of are with Aira in a black shiny mini dress and the other of Aira in a blue tube and white shorts.

Its been a long time since the last update, and I will like to use this update to mention about the new project orders by some buyers. There will be some suit orders and a few mask orders. I'll need to finish them very quickly as I'll be traveling overseas for a long holiday in less than a couple of months. The new mask projects can be found in the forums under the "Mask order and Customisation" section. There is a 'White Haired Saya custom' and a 'Pink Haired Meer custom' and expecting one or two more. The threads can be found by following this link:
http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=ff60a79cb744fd03fb7ec3f181a067b6

I'll be putting updates on those new masks and hope to welcome more kig cosplayers to the community in due time~^_^

Oh and don't forget to check out the pics posted by the new owners of previously completed not too long ago. They can too be found in the forums~^_^ Hehe, so until next time, I'll be posting updates as soon as I can find time~ Take care every buddy~ ^_^

Sailor Pluto Saya custom completed~

Finished another pre-ordered custom mask. This time its for Sailor Pluto from the anime of the 90s~ Sailormoon. Hmm Sailor Pluto is one of my favourite Sailormoon characters too I recall, its a nice chance to be making "her"~^_^ Lacking her tiara, it looks a little short of Sailor Pluto, but I don't make costumes to go with the mask afterall. Tried photo shopping a tiara into the picture on the right. I'll leave it to the new owner to finish the rest of the work to make it come true I suppose.

More comments and steps in the mask customisation are posted in the related project forum thread. Do take a look and leave a few words if you feel like it. The mask customisation thread can be accessed through the URL below:
http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=10401#p10401

Of late I've been occupied it all kinds of things. I'm sorry for not being able to take more pictures and post them up, but I am really grateful for all my kigurumi cosplayer friends and visitor friends for posting their hard work and pictures or simply chatting. I owe you all one for making the forums so lively. Thank you so much~^_^ I hope you will continue to enjoy the place~

Something very distasteful happened to me just yesterday, I've been scammed of an iPhone 3Gs which I tried selling on Ebay. Sigh, its kinda regretable even though I've been with Ebay/Paypal for so long, I succumb to such a scheme.I kinda blame Paypal for being misleading and unjust. The payment arrived directly into my Paypal and I proceeded to send the item. Then I got an alert saying that I need to provide evidence of my shipping to prove that my transaction is valid. I then quickly posted the item and provided proof of my shipping as evidence. Then Paypal reverse the payment, I went wtf. Then they told me that I shipped to an address which is not the registered address of the payer. So the money got returned to the buyer(scammer now). Very unscrupulous indeed. Acting nice and asking deliberately for me to send an item and exploiting the silly Paypal flaw that money gets refunded when shipping address differs from payers registered address.

Yes I'm telling you out there how the scam is done. So be careful of this. Perhaps 101 or 1001 more people will get cheated this way before Paypal know they can't just return the money without having a better understanding of the situation. And oh, this is the address of the scammer:

Name: Do Phu Bao
Address: K245/56 Le Duan
City: Da Nang
State/Province: DN
Zipcode/Postal Code: 59000
Country: Viet Nam
Phone: 0925577462

I suppose there is no need to hold back against a jerk is there?
I ought to get in touch with some Vietnamese friends to get help. Anyone who can provide any info is much appreciated too~ Sheesh, what a day~