It’s coming together…surprisingly quickly. When you’re working on something this big nearly every day of the week for several hours at a time the whole experience tends to just blur together. It seemed very segmented in previous years, though now it seems like everything’s just rushing together, with no brakes on this cosplay train. We still have more than a…
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Operation 𝜈 : Turn 2
This build log is going to be kind of whack. In years previous, it would be a post per day we worked on the armor, but that was when I actually had the time to write a log entry at the end of each day. Nowadays, we go hard until around 1AM (average end time) so I don’t exactly have…
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Operation 𝜈 : START
It’s that time of year once again. Anime Expo is exactly two weeks away, which means my comrade and I are continuing the annual suit-up with more cardboard and duct-tape goodness.
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Hot Toys 1/6 Movie Masterpiece Iron Man Mark VII
My second Hot Toys experience, the Mark VII Iron Man suit, as featured in Marvel’s the Avengers. I swore high and low after the disaster that was the Mark IV that I’d be selling that one off in favor of this one – a promise I did end up following through on. I can’t quite fathom how anyone would be…
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Operation NT-D: Episode 4
The final phase has arrived – we’re two days away from AX and this is just about the last time I’ll really be able to work with my partner on the armor. Last night we managed to get most of the pieces and painting done, today’s just about fitting it on my comrade’s body and making sure he can walk…