Last minute cosplay ideas are always great

Cosplay is awesome, don't let anyone tell you anything different. It's a fantastic outlet for creativity, allows people to be some of their favourite characters and even connects people with those who think similarly to them. When I watched the final episode of this seasons Agents of SHIELD there was one character which stood out and made me think "that would be cool to cosplay". He just so happened to also be going to a convention that I would be at in a few weeks from the episode airing. I'm of course talking about the menacing Hive which was revealed in all his glory in the final episode. I played with the idea for a few days but decided against it knowing that I wouldn't have any real time to gather materials and make the mask in time. ...

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LFCC: Hulkbuster

So after a 2 month (almost 3 month) hiatus while I rushed to create my Hulkbuster for London Film and Comic Con (LFCC) I'm back! So what better to start back with than a post about LFCC and how I got on with my grand ambition of creating a Hulkbuster. Making the Hulkbuster Originally I planned to start making the Hulkbuster from January until July which would give me just enough time to make it perfect. That did not happen... I started in May and just about finished to a standard that I was happy to take out into the world. Made primarily from cardboard and foam matts the finished cosplay was a massive 8 feet tall. As I'm not some sort of giant this means I was on stilts for this cosplay. Knowing from the start that I wanted ...

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Cosplay Page

So I've decided to launch my own cosplay Facebook page. This is something I've been putting off for a few months out of pure laziness but I finally decided to do so I could have somewhere to log my progress weekly as I attempt my most ridiculous daring project yet. As I hinted in earlier posts I have always had a life long ambition to create a giant robot and last year while discussing with friends what I could cosplay to this year's LFCC I played with the idea of doing Blastoise. Luckily I talked myself out of that and instead decided to do the far more achievable Hulkbuster... For those of you wondering what a Hulkbuster is it's the Iron Man armour made primarily to take on the Hulk and will be featuring in the upcoming Age of Ultron ...

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