Update: Athena
Apr. 23rd, 2009 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mercy_angel_09So I'm trying to come up with an Athena costume. I have a nice pattern for a Greek Goddess/Muse/Pharaoh costume which I'm going to use to make the basic tunic/dress and then modify some in order to give it some personality and flair. I'm basically aiming for this look but the main dress/tunic is to be white, and then she'll have a psudo-blouse under the chest plate, and that is a nice crimson color.
I probably won't start this until mid-May since it doesn't have to be done until June 6th. Which gives me time to sit and play with it and see what I want to do with it. Now what's bugging me is the chest plate and the helm. I've found costume helms, all made of cheap plastic and looking like they're made of cheap plastic. I could theoretically make a helm of plaster and sand it down and then paint it and put a nice finish on it, or I could order one of these cheap plastic ones and use it as a mold and make it out of clay and plaster that I would then sand down and paint and schellack the damn thing.
At any rate, it's shaping up to be very irritating and time consuming and a lot of effort into something that may not get a lot of use. The other option is that I find other uses for it - though really, how much use do I have for a Greek style helm even as a costume piece?
Grah...this is getting frustrating.
And somewhere in there I have to make my My Little Pony, Sugarberry. She's an interpretation, which means that the bulk of the costume can be bought at Target and the only thing that I have to make is a jacket with the strawberry design on the back and some arm wraps.
I probably won't start this until mid-May since it doesn't have to be done until June 6th. Which gives me time to sit and play with it and see what I want to do with it. Now what's bugging me is the chest plate and the helm. I've found costume helms, all made of cheap plastic and looking like they're made of cheap plastic. I could theoretically make a helm of plaster and sand it down and then paint it and put a nice finish on it, or I could order one of these cheap plastic ones and use it as a mold and make it out of clay and plaster that I would then sand down and paint and schellack the damn thing.
At any rate, it's shaping up to be very irritating and time consuming and a lot of effort into something that may not get a lot of use. The other option is that I find other uses for it - though really, how much use do I have for a Greek style helm even as a costume piece?
Grah...this is getting frustrating.
And somewhere in there I have to make my My Little Pony, Sugarberry. She's an interpretation, which means that the bulk of the costume can be bought at Target and the only thing that I have to make is a jacket with the strawberry design on the back and some arm wraps.
