Cosplay In 20 Days Or Less: Day 18 THE LAST DAY

         Cosplay In 20 Days Or Less: Day 18
                    THE LAST DAY!!!!!

We survived!!!!!!!
Barely. I have been up since 6 AM and have only eaten one meal and its safe to say I am already dehydrated.
Today was a day... I ended up not doing the tie (that was the one thing I was forgetting) but guess what! I finished the sword.
That's right, I finished the flipping sword ^_^
Anyways, my day started with layers and layers of gesso.

 While waiting for the gesso to dry I decided to go ahead and pin the sword bag.
It took me forever to find my nylon cord/rope thingy...

 Once the bag was pinned it made me feel productive which helped my headache ease off.

 After I sanded the sword (And my leg accidentally) I decided it was time to take the leap and plastidip it.
I held my breath and pretty much freaked out internally.

 Once it was done all I could think was,
"Hot... darn... (O.o) That looks epic!!!@#!#@%$"  
I mean I seriously love that.

 I have decided to make another sword in the future and make it black with red veins.
It will look super cool and I cannot wait to try it...
Well actually I can.
This one almost killed me.

 One more glory shot...

 Kurkara actually has a very slight wave like imprint along the blunt edge so the plan was to tape that off and spray the first metallic layer then remove the tape and keep spraying.

 I didn't do that.
I left the tape on for the entire metallic coating process.
Just wait and see why ;)

 Mikata had an awesome idea about how I could set the sword to dry.
It became a kitchen ornament XD

 LOOK AT THAT BLACK EDGE!
Its so beautiful I could die.
This is just glorious.

Anyways, I weathered all the metal pieces.
I glued on the eel skin wrapping for the handle and then I wrapped the handle.
It isn't official wrapping and it wasn't done with any technique so I will redo it in the future, just

not tonight.

A bad pic of the final thing.

A closer picture of the tip of the blade.
You can actually see the weathered bits from this close.






Tomorrow is the con and it has been a wonderful adventure.
I am glad that I got to share this experience with you all. I hope we get to do it again in the future because you are great company ;)
I will post a convention review sometime in the coming week, I also have a few other articles written up that I will post next month so be sure to come back and see! :D
Wish me luck that I am not dead tired tomorrow!

See ya!

~Aki Ame Okami