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My cosplay for NZ’s 2018 Armageddon event was a lot easier than my previous efforts and I managed to be complete it with the same last minute panic as my previous offerings!<\/p>\n
It all started with a friend telling me that he was going to 3D print his first lightsaber. Completely by chance I was already mid-process and so we decided to compare our outcomes. He had only recently purchased a 3D printer and I was keen to give him a run for my money.<\/p>\n
As it turned out we finished the print at pretty much at the same time, but to my envy his print quality was much higher than mine.<\/p>\n
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Then I began thinking… having a beard and looking a bit dishevelled it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to give cosplaying Obi-Wan a go!<\/p>\n
So as the story goes I dug out my wife’s sewing machine from the cupboard it had been hiding in for the last fifteen years. Next, I watched a dosen Youtube clips on ‘how to thread a needle’ only to have to lower my self sufficient expectations and call my ‘ex-sewing machine serviceman’ neighbour Phil over to help me set up the beast.<\/p>\n
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The ‘beast’ had been gathering dust in a cupboard for 15 years so it was no surprise that we first had to give it a simple service… Once that was done I looked for and purchased a few patterns of cloaks similar to the original but in the end settled for copying my own dressing gown by tracing it out onto butcher paper and then adding a bit extra for overlapping.<\/p>\n
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All in all the build went relatively well. I learnt a lot about working with a sewing machine but perhaps the biggest and most enlightening lesson was discovering how conditioned I had been into thinking a ‘sewing’ as only used as part of a woman’s work!<\/p>\n
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Now hold on…. don;t roll your eyes. I know that was a very sexist statement these days but I can clearly recall peer pressure in my youth to steer clear from even touching a sewing machine because that was for females!<\/p>\n
Well I am a maker and it’s all about using the right too for the right task…. so, “Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead.”<\/p>\n
It wasn’t long before I had a basic cut out finished and a costume built.<\/p>\n
I have added some of the photos to the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n
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