Codex Cosplay

The making of my Codex from The Guild Cosplay!

I am so very pleased with myself that I have managed to make another great prop for a cosplay.

Using just mainly things around the house as well. It shows you don't have to spend a fortune on cosplay.

Codex is from the online tv show The Guild, where they play an massive online multiplayer game, like World Of Warcraft. She and her friends all have avatars they use in the game, and this is the outfit of Codex's avatar. They all wore the outfits from their games in a music video they made called "Do you wanna date my avatar?" You should really watch it on youtube for it, it's great.

Here is what she looks like, played by the lovely Felicia Day:

Here is what i started with for my staff, a paper stencil. 

Then i cut it out in cardboard, and layered the sides.

Then good old fashioned Papier-mâché. 

I made the rings out of some clay stuff i got from a cheap shop.

The sphere i got on eBay for a few pounds. And sprayed it green with some spray paint i found in the garage. 

The staff itself was an old broom handle.

There is a little bit at the bottom of the staff i cut out white plastic tubing for plumbing and glued it to the shape i needed, and glued a rubber bouncy ball into it.

The circle skirt cut out of the fabric.

I got a cheap corset on eBay and covered it with the right colour fabric.

Made a front panel out of craft foam that i used for the Thor armour, i had some left.

I also made the top with this foam, but i didn't take any progress pictures of it, as well as the gauntlets.

The necklace and headband were cheap off eBay with some other craft gems and bits i found to glue to them.

The shoes were again from eBay, with faux leather strips.

Here are the results!

The photos were taken by Jasmine Lilly Photography, she also did the Thor shoot with me previously.

This shoot was done on the windiest day i have ever experienced, so it was really hard to get some without my hair and skirt flying all over the place. And it was freezing! But Jasmine even brought a heat-pad with her for me! If you can excuse my face I think the results are pretty good.

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My Thor Cosplay

Ok so here is something a little different. I have been working on a Thor cosplay for the past few months.

I wanted to make everything, the armour, the hammer etc. For anyone unfamiliar with Thor, he has come to light lately in the Marvel film The Avengers, and also he had a film last year called Thor and the 2nd one is out next year.

To say the least I am a bit of a fan girl for him. 

I have only done one proper cosplay before, it was of the Highschool Of The Dead anime. Maybe I will blog some photos of that one later.

Here is the start of my Mjolnir, Thor's hammer. 

It's base is "oasis foam" you know that stuff you use for flower arranging.

not the best stuff but the only craft foam I could find really. As you may know, it falls apart so easily.
So I had to stop that.

I cut my blocks into shape and glued them together.

I then coated the whole thing in like a whole bottle of plasterers pva glue, super strong stuff.

To make the foam harden.

Then cut it to shape.

I then started coating the whole thing in pollyfilla, to make a good hard smooth surface.

And I had to rub it down with sandpaper, a lot. Very tedious progress.

Found an old handle for the handle.

Sprayed it with silver metallic spray paint.

I wrapped the wooden handle in faux leather and printed out some patterns for the ends of Mjolnir

to make it look more authentic.

Here is the start of the armour.

I used a foam that cosplayers use to make armour from.

A friend and I drew out a basic shape after studying pictures of Thor.

Then cut it out in the foam.

The main idea with this foam is to make it up out of layers.

Glue the layers together. 

I then coated the whole thing in glue, because it makes it more sturdier. 

But what I didn't know was that the glue makes the spray paint come out completely uneven, luckily this works for worn down armour, since I had to "weather" the whole thing anyway with black paint.

There we have the finished armour.

For the helmet I bought a cheap toy helmet, but wanted to make it look more epic.

I made bigger wings out of the foam and sprayed them too.

I also made the gauntlets out of foam and sprayed them.

Used red fabric for the gauntlet part that goes under the armour.

Then used belts I sprayed silver for the ties.

Made the cape out of the same red material. 

I glued the armour onto a corset, and made a matching skirt. 

Recently I did a little shoot with one of my friends from uni, here is one of the photos of the finished thing.

And this was at the London MCM Expo

Thanks to Jasmine Lilly for the photos of me with the full outfit.