Elodya

Hi Jan, super excited that you'll join the Dutch Garrison with this hopefully! If you want to get in touch with local people already, let me know. There's actually another acolyte in the DG too!

Yay I love Jaesa and seeing this build come along! Looking great so far. I noticed that the boots are pretty much the same as for my Darth Zash build. If you want any close up pictures of what I did just shoot me a message :)

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Well, just to finish this thread off nicely: SL27259 reporting for duty https://databank.501st.com/databank/Costuming:Darth_Zash

Well that's a wrap (for now...) Just sent my submission email Reference screenshots: https://photos.app.goo.gl/G6uCwGYm3FW1pWwd6 Submission photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/sY6z3ENPv41U5G626 Fingers crossed! My favorite photo: Edit: now this is my favorite ❤

SO. HAPPY.

The last details are kind of tricky, I think I know how I'm going to attach the shoulders but still have to actually make it work. Everything else is almost finished. What I was most scared about was the battle damage, I didn't want to mess up my pretty paint work! Does it look okay? Painting with a toothpick was definitely a new experience but I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Fun fact: both her shoulders have identical battle damage. Not very realistic, but I tried to stick as close to it as I could without looking too calculated. Submission picture day is planned for the 1st of September!

Crossed quite things off our remaining to do list today! Really excited about the progress, I think all will be done in two or three weeks... I also cut the wig, but I can’t quite get used to myself with blonde hair. Hope it’ll look better with the colored contact lenses and full makeup haha! And then I guess it’s time for a ton of detail pictures! I can’t find much else about the new to the legion process, so if anyone can enlighten me on what to expect or if there’s anything else I need to do I’m all ears

One of the hardest parts about this process so far was finding the right color paint to match my fabric. As I wrote earlier, I found some cricut vinyl that was perfect for the strips on leather, but putting it on foam was a mess (belt attempt 1). So I really couldn’t get around it and visited some stores with my fabric and my vinyl. Unfortunately, the stores only had paint that would crack on foam. With the help of a sample card I found the RAL number which I thought was universal so anyone could mix the paint. When I finally found a store with flexible paint, it turned out that they mix RAL colors with a clear paint base and the flexible one had a white base. So back to square one I thought, but the amazing paint guy offered to hand-mix it for me to match my fabric! Four hours of mixing, shaking and testing paint got me the perfect color. Secretly i think the man had fun with the challenge too So that’s hat I’ve been up to this week! I did the boots with Angelus leather paint and I love them so much I might paint all my shoes haha! I also made a to do list of all that’s left and it fit on one page #hype

I have been on holiday so I had lots of time to think about how I'd do stuff but not actually make any progress. Luckily that helped me figure out some next steps. I can proudly say that the entire base dress is done! Just unhappy with the belt so I'll probably redo it. Then it's just the shoulders, gloves and boots to go! So excited to see it come together!

I realized it’s been forever since I wrote an update! I’ve been working slowly but steadily, came to some difficult details. Here’s some random pictures of things I did recently: all the buttons, the belt (took forever!!), the base for the gloves (inside is red, outside black), the hood and the belt boxes. Honestly I want everything to be perfect but sometimes it’s just impossible. Then I start to doubt if it’ll ever be approved... but I can only keep hoping! What do you think so far?

More pictures! Most of the rough work is done. Quite a bit of detailing and attaching to go (just threw things together for the picture but the back and shoulders are all pins and tape). So happy that someone told me about cricut vinyl, it’s been amazing to work with. I think I have all materials for the next steps finally. I’m really thrilled to see it coming together. It’s actually starting to look like Zash!

More progress! Things are going quite fast now. I've cut our the first black parts (with some hemming space, which is why it looks bigger than it's supposed to be). Just taped everything together to see how it would look. Pretty satisfied so far! I also found iron-on vinyl in the right color so I can make the trims on the black parts and don't have to use my fringey fabric. Curious to see how that will look. Just one question for this moment, does anyone have experiences with belt boxes? I can find the standard imperial ones which I might be able to alter, but she also had two smaller ones. Don't think i'm comfortable working with aluminum. Does anyone have a suggestion where to get/ how to make them?

Progress is finally a bit more tangible! I ordered the 3rd wig and it's really nice. I'll have to cut it a bit but I'm still working up the courage. The whole base dress is finished now, yesterday we started draping around the second layer of the skirt. The color looks pretty weird in certain light but it's the closest match I could find (between game shots, the color on the 3D model and the color reference squares beneath the model). It's not as orange as it looks haha! Either way, it's going really well. I've started patterning all the black parts as well, so that will be a next step. I'm getting really excited every time I work on it now. What do you think so far? Pictures!

Still going steadily, its hard to take proper pictures because the light keeps making the colors look really weird, but hope this gives an idea! Two pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/eMT20eN I got the pleather I ordered and we made a first version of the base top. It actually came out really nice since we did 3 different mock versions to perfect the pattern. I’ve made the sleeves with the pattern sewn into it (wanted to glue but it didn’t hold well enough unfortunately). Now I’m drawing the subtle pattern on the black inner sleeve so I can sew the top together. We figured out the pattern for the skirt too cause it was waaay too wide before. Current question is what wig to order. Arda Wigs suggested either of these styles as I can change the side the hair parts to. I’m leaning towards the 2nd or 3rd one as I like those colors more. What do you think? (edited to delete the other options - went with this one!)