Elven costume for Fan Expo - Part 1

Sorry that I haven't written a post in a while. Life has been busy. I've been writing and doing science. I've also applied to and been accepted at Heritage college & seminary. So, I will most likely be going there in the fall.
I've also started to work on another costume. I might be going to Fan Expo in September and I've been trying to figure out which costume to make. I thought it would be cool to make armor, so I have finally decided to try my hand at making an elf costume. One of the ones that goes to Helm's Deep in the Two Towers.


There are many different ways of making armor but I decided to try using craft foam. It's pretty cheap and seems easy to work with. I found this tutorial pretty helpful though there are a few times when I had to guess and tweak my pattern.


 I printed out the pattern from the tutorial. The pieces were very small, not at all to scale. So I had to trace the correct size onto the Bristol board.



Once the pattern pieces were traced, I had to cut them out!



 These are the pattern pieces for the shoulder.



The chest armor was a bit complicated. I couldn't figure out how to attach the pieces the way that the tutorial had said, so I just did it my own way  :)



I wanted to see if the pieces of the patter were correct so that I could trim them before I transferred the pattern to the foam. 



The hip pieces on the foam.



All cut out!



Assessing what it would look like.



It was a bit messy.  ;)



Next, I clued the pieces together.
 


I thought that they looked like wings  :)



The glued shoulder and hip pieces.



Letting the chest armor dry.



Adding designs to the armor.



I decided to sew the pieces together at the seams to reinforce them. It would be terrible if pieces fell off in the middle of the convention!


The chest armor. 
It's coming together!



The arm guards. 
The one on the right is sewn but I still needed to sew the one on the left. 



That's all for today. I will post more pictures soon!


~CH~

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