I didn't get so much done today but I managed to draw and cut out the pattern for the lower half of the coat. I did it all by myself after a lot of measuring and planning. It took me pretty much 2 hours.. It looked surprisingly good after I test-wrapped it around my waist. I was pretty sure at one point I would screw it up but luckily it seems like I didn't.
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| Lower half coat pattern cut out |
Oh, and I used this as a reference:
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| It's from some kind of reference sheet for the anime. A godsend for cosplayers haha ~ |
As I said I will aim on doing the game version when it comes to those finer details and colors and stuff. I will probably use the base references from what is easily available (aka anime references) and then, when working, compare the game and anime versions with each other and then modify accordingly so that my costume looks more like the game variant when finished.
I hope that now when I started working on this cosplay that I will keep the fire burning until it's finished because I have just about half a year of time left to finish it, document the progress and show my project supervisor what I've done. I should have started this earlier
MASAMUNE, YOU ARE GOING TO GET DONE BEFORE SUMMER VACATION.