I feel like I’m ranting too much sometimes… I guess I can’t tolerate stupidity. The other day, I went to a cosplayer’s meetup at a park and they asked us to take our wigs and costumes for a simple photoshoot and parody of American Idol (Cosplay Idol). I decided to use my Link costume, but Link is not Link without his ears and hat, so I figured that I should go with my ears and wig on. So I arrive and sit down and this stupid sonofa comes up behind me and POKES my elf ears with his bottle of coke. I turn around and glare at him and all he could say was “Sorry, I was curious…”
No, seriously? If you are curious, common sense obliges you to ask for permission before touching. This guy, however, not only did he lack the most common of senses and was downright rude for poking my ears with his dirty cola bottle! Next time I see him, I will consider chucking my sword at him.
I also got called an “ugly duckling” by some random fat guy on the street because I had my blonde wig and elf ears. Such rude people…
…and they ask me why I get pissed off so often…
Well! We left off with an unfinished Master Sword and unfortunately, I was too lazy to take pictures of this whole process, but as I said in an earlier post, I’m just following along with the tutorial at the Prop Blog. Well, here is the the near-finished product. After I hot-glued everything in place, I took some school glue/white glue and painted the sword. Of course, it doesn’t have to be just glue at all; a water/glue mixture is fine too, but you will probably need more layers of that and it will take longer to dry. I used pure glue, so I had my handy hair dryer there to help me dry it. I’m very impatient.

Well, I decided to work on my shield then. For the metal decoration, I decided to use styrofoam as suggested by my cousin and cut it using a styrofoam cutter. I’m not very good at it. That’s why it looks crappy, and if you can’t see it here, you will be able to spot it in the next picture.
Same with the sword, I coated the decoration with at least two layers of glue and let them dry before I spray-painted them. For the Triforce, I did the same thing, but instead, I used craft foam.

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