• Cosplay

    Operation Qan[T]: Part 5

    Home stretch – just under 48 hours remain before the big day. Unfortunately due to scheduling circumstances as of this post we really only have one work day left – the Friday before the Expo. I can’t remember if we’ve ever actually gotten stressed in the past during the final few days of the build or if we always just…

  • Cosplay

    Operation Qan[T]: Part 3

    We’ve (nearly) become complete Gundam. About a week’s fruitful efforts have yielded something that looks vaguely like a 00 Qan[T] Gundam. You probably didn’t recognize us because of the red arm lack of shield though.

  • Cosplay

    Operation Qan[T]: Part 2

    I’m fairly certain we’re making double time compared to previous years. I can admittedly feel myself slowly burning out and losing steam as we build every day back-to-back, but it’s good progress nonetheless. Thankfully the Gundam we chose to build this year doesn’t have a crazy big accessory tacked onto it or a complex design in each body panel to…

  • Cosplay

    Operation Qan[T]: Part 1

    Same stuff, different year. Kind of. Anime Expo is just two weeks away at this point and we just barely got started on this year’s armor. As usual, it’s mainly a two-man job – with some extra help sprinkled around here and there. Ironically I can never remember when we start building each year – I assume it’s usually around…

  • Life

    New Years 2017

    As a new year rolls around I found myself going back and checking out the site’s annual New Year’s posts (the Archives tool on the sidebar is useful for this) – I usually make it a point to put something up at the turn of the calendar, if only for commemoration purposes because this place started up on the morning…