Take a good look, cuz she ain't gonna
look like this when we're done
that's my 1940s Detective Voice
Kid, you got a face for the radio.
Beep, beep
that was not quite as graceful as I
imagined in my head
Hello! It feels good to be sitting back
in my living room again in case you have
not seen this month conveniently and
also not totally planned happened to be
kind of a trio of collaborations it's
been a while since I could just kind of
sit and do my own thing - in case you
haven't seen them yeah I don't know
go watch or something....or don't, i don't know.
so getting down to the short and sweet of this video:
*Coffee Sip of Business*
PAX East is this weekend. It's
now Monday...
Do I have a costume for this?
no I do not
I've bounced a couple ideas of what I
wanted to dress up as it boiled down to
either yennefer from the witcher 3 or
excuse me sir you're stealing my focus...
LIT'RALLY
or Nick Valentine.
You look so stoic... like a music video
*Le Slow Rock Jam*
quite obviously because you're watching
this video right now I did end up
choosing Nick Valentine
WELLLL, a version of Nick Valentine so I
wanted to kind of do a gender Bend
I'm really freaking excited for this
because it blends pretty much everything I
love into one thing vintage fashion,
weathering, robots?? I really get excited
when it comes to taking cosplays and
putting my own spin on it while I love
replicating things I also really love
taking an idea and running with it and
making my own version of it that is
exactly what we were going to do for
this costume and.....
quickly
I feel like personally I work well under very tight
deadlines and this my friend is a very
tight. deadline.
not to gloat but I would say
if I were to be an Olympic athlete my
area of expertise would be Con Crunching
*laughs at own joke*
I thought of that joke last night I was
really excited to say it
Before we get into the thick of it I will mention that
this video is sponsored actually really
frickin' excited to talk about the
sponsor of this video which is
Hunt A Killer
I will talk more about that before the
reveal but until then let's get down to
business
the main goal of this costume is to
pretty much use existing materials
yesterday I did go to the thrift store
which I will now roll the clip
basically I already have a trench coat
that kind of looks like this at home
that I was just gonna donate but now I'm
just gonna throw some paint on it, instead
what I have to get today is a
white collared shirt, a tie, and some
trousers. I think that's it and I also
want to look for maybe some kids toys
that could be disassembled and
spray-painted silver to do the robot hand
I was literally just here last
weekend I feel like they should start
charging me rent
basically live here.
in between the coat section.... that's my house
SHOPPING MONTAGE
here we are in the kids section I don't
really know what I'm looking for I guess
they come alive at night
Come on over baabaaaaayy
alright well, goodnight!
so as you can see this is what I ended
up getting from the thrift store
I already had this jacket and yes it is a
lovely jacket and it would be quite sad
to destroy it but you know...
that's what I'm gonna do, so
from the thrift store I got
this very simple white button-up this
tie pants which I'm not entirely sure
how to put pants on a dress form so it
does look like a butt.
I did not end up finding anything that I could use for the metal skeleton hand so my plan with
that is that I ordered a black opera
glove. use leftover bits of Worbla just
my Worbla scraps so it's a kind of
another example of just recycling bits
and pieces that otherwise would just be
thrown away so my plan with that is to
make the actual skeleton, synth hand.
probably sew it to the glove for this
video my plan is to sort of break it
down piece by piece show you how I
weather and age everything
Oh!! I forgot!
milady
so aside from the black glove this is
the only part of the cosplay that is new
a very cheap Fedora that I got on Amazon
So at the end of all this there will
be a makeup and hair situation and then
the finished reveal pretty much my
dream cosplay where I don't really have
to do a lot of fabricating I just have
to
DESTROYY
*DEMONIC LAUGHTER*
take a good look because she
ain't gonna look like this when we're
done that's my 1940s detective voice
let's do this
starting off with the white blouse
that's fine
basically what I'm going to do is just
do just a simple aging job just mix the
slightest bit of black with this textile
medium give an overall kind of wash and
then go in and where there's little
hiding spots for grime, if I want like
this or something brushed up against the
fabric basically anything that wouldn't
come in contact with anything else so
places underneath places in the cracks
under the buttons all that kind of stuff
same with the collar normally if I were
to whether a shirt I would take into
account fake sweat Nick Valentine is
indeed a synth and does not sweat so I'm
not gonna
I'm not gonna sweat it *EYYYY*
even watering that down even more so
that it's really not that much on the
brush I'm going for it and then you can
kind of get down to the point where you
don't have almost anything on your brush
and you can kind of just rub so I
suppose I can send you into a time lapse
time so here we go
the tie. if you look at the reference
photos Nick Valentine has sort of a
greyish blue tie this was the closest I
could find it's a thrift store but I'm
going to do a lot of manipulation on the
color and then I will probably tear it
up a little bit we'll go over with a
little bit of white highlights to kind
of accentuate
okay I have done the shirt, the tie,
the pants, and hat, and now it's time for
the coat which is probably one of the
most important parts you will see the
most of the coat so looking at it it
looks like the same kind of stuff I
think I'm gonna go ham with the
sandpaper and really really rough up
those edges I would also be using an
exacto knife to do so
I will add a little patch to the left
arm which will be pretty easy so without
further ado I'm gonna get started on
that this is probably the fastest cosplay
project I've ever done.
Con Crunch Queen
that's my name
here's what I have so far with the
jacket. happy with how the paint came
out and now I think what I'm gonna do is
go in and kind of rough everything up
sandpaper the edges fray it a little bit
just to make it look nice and worn
here's to weathering and looking like a
complete mess all the time
the next step the robot hand I've
already taken some reference shots
mapped out what it looks like from a few
different angles I think the challenge
will come when sticking it on the actual
glove and then figuring out how all the
joints work together so that I can still
articulate my fingers and all that stuff
I think I might want to make little
worbla loops in theory I should be able
to sew these together
before we get into the exciting stuff.
makeup in the hair and all that jazz
I quickly wanted to talk about the sponsor
of this video Hunt a Killer
I had actually seen on my Facebook feed
so when they contacted me I was super
excited to actually give it a try and
let me tell you it is so much fun
so I had my best friend Tommy over we
are both true crime obsessed we had a
whole afternoon of it so essentially it
is a subscription box and each box works
as an episode so show you we got two
boxes it is a fictional murder case they
have a bunch of different ones this one
specifically is called Curtain Call which
is absolutely perfect for me because it
is about a murder that happened in the
1930s when you open each episode you
will have sort of a goal for each
episode so the first box for us was to
find the murder weapon second box was to
eliminate a suspect and within each box
it is so impressive they have an
envelope full of documents handwritten
notes. IN.SANE. the level of detail that
they put into this feels like you're
actually going through legit documents
me and Tommy got so into it there are
codes that you have to decipher there's
even a login on the computer
super super immersive and really friggin
cool second box even came with a
hankerchief I have been telling everyone
I know about this box and you guys are
no exception so Hunt A Killer starts at
$25 a month which I know is a little bit
steep but when you think about the fact
that it's pretty much the same price is
going in for dinner or having a night
out and also a portion of the proceeds
actually go to Cold Case Foundation
which is an organization that helps cold
cases get solved and if you do want to
try it out you can conveniently use my
code for 20% off
but yes that is Hunt A Killer I really
hope that those of you that love
true-crime will really really love this
Thank You Hunt A Killer so much for
sponsoring this video I had so so so
much fun and now I'm addicted to it
let's get back into making me a robot
quite possibly the best I've ever looked
the transformation and I am anxious
because Nick Valentine's face is very
lumpy I think what I'm going to do is
take liquid latex cotton balls tear
apart the cotton balls create almost
like a second skin there are parts where
you can see the inner workings of his
mechanisms it might be cool to kind of
have like a skin flap I do have a little
jaw piece here that I made out of foam I
will be using water activated paints
along with a few different other kinds
of paints I am also kind of making this
up as I go along
so I'm should I just do this oh
nervous that I got some seltzer
and some animal crackers this is what I
do when I'm anxious
Oh... my liquid latex grew
its own finger
get out, nasty
I forgot how gross liquid latex smells
now I really look good
nice thing is that
it doesn't have to be pretty of course
because that ain't our vibe today
the water activated paints
Got acne? It don't mattah
paint yourself grey!
I'm so scary....
I'm gonna go
in with a black water activated paint
paint out the holes there's probably a
more eloquent way to say that but
I'm nasty. I might add some eyebrows
highlight some of the edges.
Gonna add lipstick... I don't know mann
Let's throw some blush on there.
I'm gonna add some wires and such
Ooo I hate painting ears. here goes nothing
we are almost there I am going to put my
contacts and my lashes and paint my hand
and I'll see you back here right about
Ta-DaaaaAAA
overall I am so happy with it I look a
little bit more like the Grinch
the The THe
the GRINCH
I think for PAX this
weekend I might do things a little bit
different but this is overall the
general idea that I was looking for
m'lady
I think this might be my most favorite
project that I've done in a long time if
not forever because weathering is my
favorite thing to do and allows me to be
my chaotic self wrap up a little shorter
than usual because I didn't actually sew
anything but things that I think I could
improve on I think probably the robot
hand is my only thing that I think I
could have put a little bit more time
into I like how it moves like I still
have a lot of motion in my hand and I
think the joints look cool but I do have
to keep adjusting it because there's not
a good way to keep these up front so
these things kind of keep just like
flopping over and separating at the
joints
it's very Freddy-esque in fact I look
very Freddy-esque right now
Fedora, pointy fingers, corroded face it's
gonna happen that I'm gonna look like
Freddy Krueger just give me a striped
sweater I'm just so happy this is
probably one of the quickest costumes
I've ever done if you ever have an
occasion where you need a costume real
quick convention Halloween a wedding
just go to your local thrift shop grab
some clothes grab some paint and go ham
I hope that you guys had fun watching
I'm gonna go take some noir photos I'll
be doing this the entire weekend that is
it I love you whether you're new or old
to this channel if you're new here and you
feel like sticking around feel free to
subscribe I upload every Friday and we
have fun here and I will see you in my
next video byyeeeee
but I did end up boiling it-
I was just filmin' ya
hmm goochie goo
she's got eyeliner
drop that tutorial
is what I ended up getting from- bleh-
Squeaky floooors
In Nick character...
Nick character as a Valentine...
YES
OOOOO.... that's rank
hmm who is she
imma business man
another walking one from the shot yeah
wow it smells so good in here it smells like bagels
i fOUNDD you miss new booty
get it together & bring it back TO ME
Gross.
a pote- A potion... yessss
*sappy dog mama footage*
