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Steve is pushing me to finally finish this lady.......oops witch, he even took one for the team yesterday and we cornered muppet and asked some questions about the outside cloak, which looks good on Steve too. Believe it or not this isn't the first time I have found him wearing my clothes.!! Just kidding. We went and bought some makeup today and did a rough trial to see how easy it was and how long it took. It is a bit patchy in places and the lines aren't straight, but overall it wasn't a difficult as I thought it was going to be. Thanks Anda for the the tip about the makeup store. I personally think I am channeling Peter Kris but its what the CRL wants, maybe the creator was a KISS fan. We have also started the head armour, I bought a head piece to make a Fascinator, then some Eva craft foam. We heated the foam and stretched it over a soccer ball for a couple of days. The head piece was sealed with PVA glue and water, they were glued together with shoe goo and supa glue. Kayle once again helped me out and sewed up my gloves, here is and inside and outside pic

I am finally near the end, when I dyed the clothes I made the mistake and had too much material in the dye container and the final result was patchy and not what I wanted even though the colouring was correct. After talking it over with some friends in the Redbacks I decided that the way that I could correct this was to airbrush the imperfections out. the following pictures are of the costume and the unpainted chest piece. Let me know what you think please, I want to get this finished and approved before April, so any help would be appreciated.

I have finally taken all the pictures of the test dying. I tried a wine coloured dye and also another dye that I used mixing two different colours together to make a deep purple colour. In the pictures I have included an undyed piece of the original material and then one piece that went through a bleach wash before dying and another that wasn't bleached. The purple colour seems to have given the material a more pinkish tinge which is what I wanted, it also changed the colours into a graduated style which is what is needed for the make. I dyed the complete material for the recommended times and then pegged them to the sides of the buckets for another 1 to 2 hours to get the dye to bleed up the material. Let me know what colours you think have worked the best. The original dress colour is on the bottom and on the left is the purple dye and on the right is the wine dye The piece third from left draped over fence is the inner cloak material This is the red from the outer cloak, original red in the centre and purple dye on left and bottom and wine second from left and right side You can see where the dye started to graduate up the material on the left and bottom middle material This one shows the red material on left and the dress material on the right, both dyed with the purple, I think if dyed longer and in proper ombre style these would match the best

Looks good Draco, can't wait to see it in person

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Hi all, I will be posting up some pictures later as I have been doing some testing with different dye colours. Just wanted to get your opinion on nail and eye colour for the D F Witch. Her hands are white, but what colour is her nails white or purple, and does it matter what colour her eyes are or are they purple too? Just wanted everyones thoughts. thanks bex

Hi again, here are some photos of the four pieces, they need some slight adjustments to hems and the dyeing to be done.

Hi again, We should have most of the costume made tomorrow, without the dye work, so I will post the pics then. Have been working on the sceptre and amulet, we ended up using artist modeling wire for the ridge pieces as the curtain wire stayed tacky after painting. I think the dots on the top of the sceptre are too large and would love to hear what you think. I will look for something better next week if you all agree with me. Any and all feedback would be appreciated. Below are some pics taken of paint testing on the sceptre and amulet.

Hi, I am looking at getting an airbrush for face and body paint and have noticed that the airbrushes come with either higher or lower psi ratings, one has 5-10 and the other 2-15psi. Both have a nozzle size of 3mm, which would you recommend as the best to use for face and body. Any help would be great.

I have modified the tops of the amulet and sceptre and included in the photos the mock up showing the rings and dots that I am going to use. I then undercoated the piece to see what it would look like. I think they are looking more like they are supposed to now. With the rings we tried curtain wire and shoe laces to see what worked best, as you can see the curtain wire is definitely the better of the two and it paints better also. The dots I used rubber stoppers for furniture and cupboard doors, the are perfect for the sceptre. We bogged in the top of the amulet to give it a rounded top and cut off the decorative bits on both pieces, I then drilled out the top of the sceptre and counter sunk the hole and inserted and glued in the pieces we had cut off. They now need the rings to be attached aswell as the dots and the attachment for the cord at the top of the amulet to be done and then I think we are ready to start the painting.

Hi this is the start of my build for the Dark Force Witch. These are only first fittings and still lots of pinning going on. The outer cloak I am still working on, I only just got the red the other day. Any help or advice on dying the material would be a great help. We have just started on the amulet and sceptre will be sourcing the paints during the week or next weekend. My husband has the foam for the chest armour and head piece that's his job, I have helped him out enough in the past with his TK & Fett. Please let me know what you think, any advice is welcome.