Wondercon Cosplay Updates!
It’s definitely been too long since my last blog, but if you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you’ll know that I’ve been hard at work on my Honey Lemon (from Big Hero 6) cosplay for Wondercon! You might think that after seeing Big Hero 6, it might make more sense to cosplay as “the asian girl” (Go Go Tamago), but honestly, I identified way more with Honey Lemon. She love science, she’s dorky, tall and lanky, and is a bit of a fashionista, which made all of that the perfect fit for me!
Having worked on massive cosplays where I’ve slept on average 5 hours a night for weeks at a time (ie. Ornstein from Dark Souls), I definitely didn’t want to put myself in that situation again. Just as a comparison, I built my Ornstein armor in about 6 weeks and for this cosplay, I gave myself about 8 weeks for something half as complex. I wanted to make sure I could casually work nights and weekends on this instead of pulling 15 hours Saturdays and sleeping at 3am every day!
The first piece I decided to tackle was the helmet. I would say that Honey Lemon’s helmet is probably the key component to this costume and I wanted to make sure I could spend a lot of time on it. A lot of blood, sweat, tears, and stress went into getting this as smooth and seamless as possible and even though it still has flaws, it’s getting there!
It made sense for all of the armor to be built in eva foam so I went that route. Definitely a bit fan of eva foam since it’s light weight and pretty durable!
Here’s the armor finally getting in a good place to be painted!
It took me forever to find the perfect material for her dress since I knew I wanted it to be a shinier vinyl spandex type of material. After receiving 15 fabric samples, I have to say, man, there are a lot of different shades of fuchsia! I ended up settling on this one even though it’s not a perfect match.
I was actually really looking forward to making Honey’s purse since I’ve never made a purse before and hers has so much going on! Here’s the base using a faux orange pleather material.
I even hand sewed the cute little bear (and it’s butt) that sticks out of the purse!
Of course, a couple of late nights result in much procrastination and photos such as these. :P
Anyhow, be sure to follow me on Instagram to follow my progress pics and hope to see you at Wondercon!
