FFXIV NA Fan Fest 2016 Cosplayers Unite!

[Leash]

For my Garuda-Egi: I was hoping to make something out of foam... but to make it 'true to size', I would have to find a way to disassemble it and fit into a suitcase. A plush thing would be cool, but I reaaaaaally want to make it as big as I possibly can.

For the Egi, might I suggest making it as an inflatable balloon?
http://makezine.com/projects/learn-p...ble-tentacles/

You’d easily be able to make it big and be able to pack it away. If you can manage to get a mini helium tank at a store in Vegas and the finished ballon is light enough, you can actually have her floating around you on a string. They also have those LED lights that you can put into balloons and you could have her glow! My recommendation is if you go this route is make at least two of them, maybe three just incase something happens.

I had originally planed on doing something like this for my Machinist cosplay but ran out of time for the convention.

[Ryuko]

For the Egi, might I suggest making it as an inflatable balloon?
http://makezine.com/projects/learn-p...ble-tentacles/

That's a really good idea! A few people have suggested the 'inflatable balloon' route (including my boyfriend), but I'm really just worried about time and size. At this point, I'm still not done with my costume (probably approaching around 50%), so I really just want to do something that is a little more quick and easy. I've thought a lot about it and I think I'll be making it out of an EVA foam base with 4x stretch fabric on top. That way, I can assemble it and disassemble it without worrying about the paint chipping or something like that. The fabric is really cheap and easy to apply, too, so as I am coming down to the wire it would be something I would feel confident with. But, I'm definitely going to consider all my options once I get there!

[NarikoStar]

http://makezine.com/projects/learn-p...ble-tentacles/

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I don't need anything like this for my costume for fan fest...
But my soldering iron arrives tomorrow and I now have the urge to grab some plastic to try this amg. I mean... I GUESS it could always turn out to be a particular minion with the use of those little battery operated fans...


I wonder, he mentioned being limited to color, but how well would airbrush painting it would hold- or maybe too sloppy on plastic?