As is typical, the idea and process for creating the Suigintou sword has changed yet again.

I spent hours with my dad (definitely a two-person job) creating a blade out of memory foam to cover in plastic, and yes it was just not working out. We got stuck trying to make the tough angles in the blade, and worried how the plastic would likely adhere if we couldn’t obtain the foam perfectly smooth. It absolutely was all blowing up and we have been at a standstill for a while.

We finally came the conclusion which i should just make the blade beyond wood/MDF and deal with the consequences must there be any. That way, the sword would appear the way I wanted it for you to. I will take it to Cartoons Boston and hope no person thinks it’s dangerous (it will definitely not be). If they do, I’ll simply leave it at security, figure it out at the end of the day, and carry on without it. But at least I will possess a sword the way I want it to look for other cons and photo shoots. That seemed more valuable, in the end, than a particular disadvantages potential rules, particularly when That’s not me being entered in any formal competitive events.

In the realm of more outfits… MORE COSTUMES. I will be creating myself another costume regarding Anime Boston to wear towards the formal ball, which will be Gwendolyn’s soccer ball gown from Odin Sphere. I bought each of the fabric for it this weekend for really excited about it.

Also i bought fabric for my pal Mike’s costume, who will be going to Abs as Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke. It’s quite a simple costume, which are some of the most fun to do, because every detail is important. I got great textile for the hood and burlap to produce him some shoe handles. He’s (supposedly) taking care of his individual sword and (maybe) bend.

I’ll be working on 4 costumes – the two mentioned above, Suigintou, and also the Urd commission – over the the following month leading up to AB. Spring break is certainly my friend this year (first 7 days of march). I’ll be publishing all kinds of photos over the returning weeks, including of sword construction.

This is the fun element!

It’s true! Connecticon was completely wonderful this year. I didn’t make it to some of the panels I wanted to see, nevertheless it was totally worth it.

My partner and i went with some friends, and quite a few of them made it to at least a number of the panels they wanted to notice, so that worked out. For one of them, it absolutely was their first con, in order that was all very exciting.

Four of us made a second try (from last year) at going into the Rock Band tournament under the name Tanhaüser Gate… and we won! I did the whole thing in Haruhi Suzumiya cosplay… well i guess. I love that costume! (Ps3… this photo of us in my Space Commander Haruhi cosplay is actually from Anime Boston this coming year, but since that post ended up being lacking photos and I wore this costume to CTcon too… here it is! Shh…)

I’ll add links/photos while we’re actually able to get the hands on them. I’m pretty sure these are being held hostage in the digital cameras of the guys who came out from Harmonix to judge. They were pleasant! They gave us prizes and also let us talk to them for a while concerning games, a business which I desire to enter very soon, so it was obviously a very valuable way for me to spend some time.

All in all this took about 6 or perhaps 8 hours to do all the tournament stuff, so we skipped most of the con stuff. It was totally worth it. Like I mentioned.

On Sunday, we roamed about a bit more. I went to an cartoons sing- and dance-along panel, which was run by a voice actress. It has been pretty fun! I’m sure there is certainly some video on the internet a place of me in a Carmelldansen conga line at 9:30 in the am in a Haruhi costume… oh, conventions. I got to sing along with dance Hare Hare Yukai a few times in my dress-up costume, so that made me very happy. An satisfying time overall… I hope they do it again next year.

At a later date Sunday, we dropped by your Legend of Neil booth to play some Settlers of Catan along with Sandeep Parikh, who was in The Guild and who has been very nice to us all weekend long. He tried to make a lots of bitch trades with me, and I has been having none of that. I cannot remember who won. I feel it was him, the jerk. Then he signed our prints. :

I wish I had gotten to have a look at more cosplay, but I didn’t have a lot of time because of the tournament. I saw several very good costumes! My personal preferred was a little girl I noticed at the beginning of the day Saturday who had been dressed as Yotsuba. It was great. She was so cute! I feel form of bad that I put it on the net :

I really hope I can make Connecticon next season, because they just keep so that it is bigger and better every year. Maybe they’ll also remember to put the Rockband tourney finals on the program so we can enjoy to a crowd of more than twelve!

Do you go? What did you think? What did you do? And, most importantly, just what did you wear?