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It was thanks to all of these great  video lessons. With out the lessons I would have struggled, and given up.

I am so happy this school exists. It's opened my eyes to a world of possibilities.

The armor was built on the day before the convention. On the Friday of the convention I sealed all the foam armor in black plasti-dip, and finished layering hair onto the foam wig. After that was done at 4:00 pm.  My brother and I packed up and left for the convention at 5pm. I got the hotel at 9 and went to sleep. 

My brother and I got up a 6:00 a.m. While in the hotel we dry brushed painted the armor, built the crown, made the skirt, and punched all the hair on the head, and face. We also made the skirt cape, added the fur, and all the jewels to finish it up.

After 3 days of intense work, no sleep, and being late to prejudging I got this done. Scene I did not get to prejudging I was not eligible for any awards. They were nice enough to let me go on stage. I am grateful I was able to show everyone my work.

After 4 hours in costume sweat and face paint got into my eyes. It turned my eyes blood shot red which really added to the presentation.

It is not yet 100%, but it is a working character. I will add up dates when it is complete.

Here are the convention photos my brother took.

I ended up pinning the ears I purchased to the head. Then painting precured dragonskin silicon over them. This attached the ears to the head, and it allows be to paint them with the same paint as the mask.

I tried airbrushing, but I either can't get the paint thin enough to run through the airbrush, or the little compressor I am using is not putting out enough air.

I brushed on the base layer. I think I will brush on the rest. I will try using the big compressor, but it is so loud I am second guising it.

I ended up hot gluing the foam on...
I will forever be a slave to the hot glue masters.

 I started laying the hair. I am not to doing so great.
In the pictures it is looking okay, but you get 3 feet away and you see a few flaws.
I got the Stan Winston school video over beard laying. I watched a few sections of it, and I think I should be doing better from here on.
It is the back end the wig so I doubt it will get a lot of exposure. This is the place to make any mistakes.

I wish I waited a day before I purchased the stream. Mr. Anderson's stream on laying a beard is a great lesson, but Aimee is much more pleasant to look at. 

Hello! This is the first time I have ever posted progress on a character build before. I hope you all enjoy what I share with you.

I find a lot of enjoyment not only making these costumes, but trying new methods of making costumes. Not anything that would be impossible, just one or two things that would be new to challenge/ motivate me along the way to keep me interested.

I have always wanted to make some medieval battle armor. Something I could wear to a renaissance fair, but so far I have only dressed as creatures.

Since S.G.C. is coming up, my Ganon costume there was a real success in 2013, and I like wearing masks. I decided I am going to make a Ganondorf costume.
Ganondorf is a character that has been done a lot, and I have never really liked his designs. That is until I saw his radical Hyrule Warriors design! His flowing spikey main of hair is gnarly!

I have already gotten a lot of the face done.

I sculpted the face in clean clay, molded in smooth-on rebound, and cast in smooth-on dragonskin.

I have air bubbles but there are no air bubble holes. Since the silicon is transparent you can see some pretty big air bubbles right under the surface of the skin.
This is because I did not put Thivex (silicon thickener) into the dragonskin for the print layer. I just sloshed it around the cast. The other batches of dragon skin had Thivex and I just pushed it around the best I could. So there is at least a thin membrane of silicon all over the mask. When I paint the mask the air bubbles shouldn't even be visible.

So it came out 94% perfect. From the color to the thickness. I have put it up to my face and everything seems to be lining up great with my nose, eyes, and mouth.

It's been raining hard, and often here in north central Texas. When the weather clears up I will paint this up.

Since this is over two pounds of silicon I may want to add a strap to help support some of the weight. I have been planing on just letting the skin-tight adhesive do all the work. Adding a strap seems like a pain.

I have bought 2 sets of fake elf ears. 

One option is to just add some dragon skin over the elf ears (Since silicon only sticks to silicon), and attach them to the mask.

Or sculpt my own set of ears, cast them in silicon, and attach them to the mask.

The last option will take more time, and use up more of my dragon skin (Not cheap stuff), but is sure to work.

How would you approach this situation? What do you all suggest?

The next steps are painting the face, and adding hair. After that I will move on to the armor, and finish with the weapons (If I have time). I am very excited for this costume!

If anyone has questions on how I did anything I would be happy to answer.

Thank you! I have a lot of ideas floating around about what I would like to create.

Right now a big factor in what I make is how if I can store it safe, and be comfortable in it.

So I am going to avoid characters with tails, and wings so I can sit down. I will also lean towards costumes I can put on without aid, and store on a hanger or in one storage bin.

I am making Psy-Cro from Earthworm Jim for the SGC convention next year; no doubt.

I want to get a Ninja Turtle made for the film's premiere in August next year.

Anti-Venom,and Usagi Yojimbo would make a great costumes too, but those are currently just prospects.