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Published: 2006-11-17 11:56:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 2786; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 238
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Still not my costume, tee-hee... I put all of my heart in that group, and here's another accessory made for someone else... we borrowed the tunic from our Oni Link, who had an adult Link costume at home, and made sword, sheathe, shield and boots for our friend Dex. This was almost easier than Kafei's pendant o_O Made in what, 3 days? Andrea helped with the glueing, colouring and generally bearing with a very nervous me
A year later, I finally sewed myself a tunic and went to Lucca Comics as young Link, but that's another set of pcitures for another day (40 deviations from now, pic more, pic less - TOLD ya it was a colossal update!
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and how much money do you want for it
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azz!!anche qst Γ¨ fantastico!sempre la solita domandina,di che materiale Γ¨???
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Grazie! ^_____^ E sempre la solita risposta delle mie armature e affini, materassino del Decathlon
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Ma di nulla, mi diverto a parlottare di materiali... 
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ah si si ho vistooo!!!
grazie di nuovo per la disponibilitΓ !!!
Γ¨ lo stesso materiale cha ha usato il ragazzo che l'anno scorso ha rappresentato l'Italia al Wcs per fare l'armatura del cavaliere di Project arms!!
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very nicely done! and very accurate as well!! man i really hope i can learn to do armor soon since my Ashe cosplay has armor T.T''
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Go for the mat, it's the ultimate easy answer to all of your armor needs ^_^
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Well, I find it at 5$ per mat, which is a good 1,80mx60cm. It's the easiest thing ever to use... now, mine has a smooth side and a rough side [link] , just use the smooth side. Avoid mats with two rough sides, but if you can't find anything else you can use an electric iron and smooth one side.
Then draw your shapes on the mat and cut them with scissors [link]
Mat can be glued with lots of stuff... basically, if it's a good glue, it has a very strong hold on the material. I use mostly gluegun myself, but that's 'cause it's the cheapest XD
Now you could simply put your armor together, spraypaint it and call it a day. It would still be a better result than most. But take a look at the difference between the outer and inner surface of my Enrique armor, here: [link] The inner part could be prettier... there's plenty of ways to accomplish that.
For this shield, I used two coats of glue, as you can see here: [link]
Latex gives perhaps the best results, but it's a messy li'l bastard: [link] (that wasn't mat, it was foam rubber, but the procedure is exactly the same)
Currently, my favourite is an outer layer of rubbery fabric: it's cleaner, easier and doesn't rub off [link] It may give some problems with small shapes though.
More examples of finished and half-finished accessories:
[link]
[link] (this coulnd't have been pulled off with mat, it needed the flexibility of rubber foam... in most cases though, the two materials are basically interchanegeable)
[link]
[link] (new & old version of my Laruto headpiece - here's another example of the results of the glue coat)
Hope I've been of help...^^
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that's interesting that you use gym mat.. where did you find it and how much is it? is it easy to work with? i'm mostly tryin to avoid heavy plasters, wood, etc.. so mat seems really tantalizingly possible for me to use XD XD
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Fantastico, l'effetto metallico Γ¨ veramente gagliardo
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amazing... I am very impressed with how this looks.. what did you use for the sheild material???? (*once a long time ago I was pondering a Link cosplay... but then I was seduced by another idea.....sigh*)
L~
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Thanks! I tried to explain the process answering to the first comment, if something's not clear feel free to ask! Oh, I bought you your Lupin comics, I don't know how much is the shipping, I'll send you a note on Wednesday!
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I'm sure I will! X3 Goemon =Q______
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>_< OMG! thank you!!!!!!! (and I have some stuff to give you 
L~
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Questo scudo si commenta da solo, Γ¨ bellissimo!
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lol
Ma come, con quelle orecchie a punta Link dovrebbe sentirci benissimo!
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Beh, sono un po' dura d'orecchi e i suoi auto-commenti non li avevo sentiti, quindi sono felicissima di leggere i vostri... P:
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That is so awesome, I want one too...but I'm too lazy to make anything like this, plus I know I'd be crap at it.
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Haha, I remember in the early 90's when I'd try to make LOZ-esque swords and shields and run around pretending to be Link.. 'cause there weren't many characters back then, and I wasn't gonna be a D.I.D. [take a wild guess~~ XD]
*cosplays as HMS 'cause 1. He's her favorite NPC, and 2. She can't be Guru-Guru due to the painfully obvious >XD*
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that is really good quality, how did you make it?
I want one...
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It's pretty easy actually... The basic shape is wood, the surface is gym mat, kinda like this: [link] only smoother, the decorations are another layer of gym mat. Between the wood layer and the mat layer, in the middle, there's a 5cm-high mass of something (wood? Duct tape? modelling paste? you name it...) to make the shield round. In order to cover the surface of the mat and make it even smoother, I added two coats of glue (instead of latex, which is a messy li'l bastard even though it gives better results). Then I painted it. End of shield^^
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