Kuja and LZ

Sword knob

Beautiful gold! Not easy to achieve!

- Kuja

Camping adventure in the kitchen

Canada is just too cold, so we bought a painting tent to paint inside the apartment.

What can I say
We're born different : )

- Kuja

Leather straps

Appreciation post for LZ's beautiful stitching of our handmade leather straps.

I am the one who painted them but she does such a wonderful job stitching them straight.

These are 9S leather straps

We both work so hard, give us a good tap in the back.


Love you ; )
- Kuja

Come on, Eileen!

Remember that cast we did in a bathtub? There she is!
Finally debuted her on stream yesterday night! Will continue tonight too :3

Eileen is such an amazing Silent Hill 4 character, since I saw her party dress I really wanted to do it! But of course, the more damaged version that we see in room 303 😈

Kuja did amazing job on my bruises make up 🌸

Le shoes, le done!

One of skills as a cosplayer is making your own thigh high shoes!
But before you have to be a sausage wrapped in plastic foil 😂

LZ ✨

2B wig

"2b wig is easy"

Wrong!

- Kuja 👑

Demon/dragon horns

Completed these for DarkPhoenix. Looks like it's watching you 👁️

Color inspired by Kuja's outfit. : ))

If Kuja was a demon, this is it.

Anyone ever wanted something done by us? Let us know. : )

- Kuja

Lightning Blazefire accomplished!!

It's done!!

Congratulations everyone, we have a new baby! ; )

- Kuja

Aerith bracelets for grabs!

We have bracelets of Aerith as a reward!
Those are the ones I've used with my Aerith 🌸
They have a little bit of wear, of course.

Comment under if you are interested ✨
They are for free!


LZ 🌸

Countless hours later ...

Hand stitching is done! Some parts have multiple layers, so my fingers are officially dead. I had to use pliers pretty often to pull needle through the thickness (´×ω×`)


Back to jacket of my Mr. Hacker ! Then I can....do...more...


...handstitch.


LZ 🌸

New Cloud props

Upgrading these with my some sculpting today.

- Kuja

Aerith photoshoot preview

We did it! Finally flower girl went outside and had a shoot in not only cosplay, but also another outfit! For a special collaboration :> You will see very soon!

We actually went to this place twice - first time, we got stuck in terrible traffic and we were just before sun went down! :<
But we muster our strength, and went again - drove early in the morning and did photos in scor...

Progress dump!

There was so much done, let's put a first batch!
The hardest part was putting two zippers on shoulder/neck part, to look pretty and not bulky! I've spent more time than I want to admit (￣▽￣*)ゞ

Skirt is two layers - top black and bottom, off white! Full of embroidery and horsehair braid! It's not as heavy as I expected! It makes gorgeous waves but I didn't have it done fully on...

First look at finished robot parts

At the moment Pod is practically finished but here is a sneak peek of some of the pictures I took. Full reveal in few days!
There were probably around 30 separated pieces and more. Some are minuscule. And I was slowly assembling them as I painted them. Because it took so long to put it all together, every piece that ended up connected was a relief 💦💀

Well : )

- Kuja

2B sword done!

2B has been a good girl.

9S has been a bad boy.

;)

- Kuja

Some mesh parts!

This took an ungodly amount of time to make, but I love it!!!

LZ 🌸

We keep on keeping on...again!

Lots of happening for us, but we still going strong ✨

Bodysuit is done, except zipper in the back! It's gonna be attached to the top so gotta wait!
It's been a long progress to make the grey parts attached to the white with mesh in between!
For conventions obviously gonna have some modesty stuff under 👌

LZ 🌸

I did stay until 4 am to finish this.

7 panels of embroidery in! The hardest part is to align it well （x_x；）

Now...the other side....
.·°՞(≧□≦)՞°·.

LZ 🌸

Painting progress

Would you look at that!

Finally one blade done! (many failures)
The other will be redone too
The new material is stronger

We got this!

- Kuja

Painting progress

Base coats on various pieces of Pod are going forward slowly. It's so long because everything is different colors. Buckles and buttons for 9S are already done!

I put them in a dresser so they don't get dusty while they fully cure. It's getting a little cramped in there with Lightning blade being the late bloomer lately.

I'm so eager to see the Pod take form :))

- Kuja

Yuffie Pauldron

Finished Pauldron for Rhia

Sometimes I believe I am better at making things for others than myself! ; )

- Kuja

Practicing Tsukamaki

I have to practice Tsukamaki for both 9S and 2B katanas. As well as, Kadaj and Sephiroth eventually.

I am a beginner so after a few times, I should get the hang of it, or at least in a presentable manner! This is my first time making one.

Second pic, assembling buckles of 9S which I made to work like true metal buckles. I try to think about every detail!

Third one, LZ testi...

Cosplay at 3am

(ー。一)

More Nier related progress and various other things

- 9S buttons, buckles
- Tubes vector designs finalized
- Few engineered support for Lightning blade
- Yuffie Pauldron for Rhia 💙

I'm preparing what I need to sand right now on the famous kitchen table.

On the third picture you can see I have no space 💔 There are contact lenses on the escalator to keep away from hot temperature as we have only one room with AC. If yo...

We keep on going~ bodysuit

Needed to do a simple pattern to see how much of cut can do without looking silly!
The paper pattern to see design, and made it a little bit smaller after all!

Maybe when power don't go out cause of tornadoes, or the sun is not shining all day long with heat like on desert -
Maybe we can continue working in the day, for now, we back to night shifts of cosplay work v(T▽T...

Happy Sanding Sunday everyone

Today here's what has been accomplished

- Pod head is fixed for the damages it had from the fall
- Lightning blade - Primer
- Sanded new Pod parts that we were missing
- 2B sword - Primer applied and dried
- Kadaj blades - primer
- Fixed the bloody mess in the shed ( Yes Baka we know what you're thinking ; )

We're going places
Gambare

- Kuja

Yesterday night's disaster

As you know I paint at nights because of the heat.
Well, something happened yesterday that I did not see coming. For sure...

Around midnight I went to prime the new sword that I just finished, I was so proudly fast! Added in some other random props just to save some time. All went well, everything layed on the table, primer on. I let it dry for 4 hours.

At 4h00 am, I came back ...

Inferno

We have been having heatwaves here in Canada and this whole week was extreme. It even bent my sword! It's now sort of like a whip 💦💦💀

It was probably around 40 Celcius in the painting shed at some point because there is no airflow. Now, I paint in the middle of the night, all my nights.

Tonight I am assembling the new one as you can see in the top picture. It won't be too...

Souba sword

Not final, but I just modeled this complicated sword sheath for Kadaj's double blade katana.

The references are attrocious to say the least

I'm on fire I swear!

- Kuja

Remake accurate Buster Sword Final

Modeling may be fun but planning and preparing for printing is probably the most tedious part.

I just finished preparing it. Soon will be available to download here. : )

👑🖤

- Kuja