#cosplay reference

Notes:

• In some, I moved the text around to make it easier to read.

• In others, I added some context.

• I removed any text I couldn't decipher.

The color and pixels of the image always degrade a little when I edit.

Some absolutely stunning closeup shots of Tinman’s suit posted by one of the fabricators. You can see the details of his chest, components of his hands (did not know he had a handle on one of them), Dorothy’s quote from the original WoO book, finally a picture of the back, leg details, a full costume look which we’ve seen but I always appreciate, and details on his shoes! Love this!

Credit: Piers Atkinsons Instagram

Really glad for the look at the details for my cosplay project!

gale dekarios + cosplay guide

i picked up quickly that these were not your typical puffy crowns (think the British crown), but could not figure out for the life of me what it actually was....until yesterday when I got insanely lucky with google reverse image searching.

it's because it's a crown that doesn't actually exist, or didn't for very long because its model got stolen, but it was meant to be the german state crown (images from the Wikipedia article about it)

these buttons specifically, however, belong to the german/prussian pre-ww1 colonial army:

these are INCREDIBLY hard to find, by the way. i was looking at a sold listing earlier and it was like 30 bucks for literally 3 of these (non-reproduction), and the reproduction ones are made by literally one guy in the entire world. I am NOT exaggerating even a little bit when I say that, it is in fact just the one guy.

Causal Friday shows how many buckles are needed as well as the length of the shirt (also shows that the cape is yellow on the inside.)

The back shot from the Anime Intro one shows the back of Janus's shirt. something I had been missing first time around.

And then the buckles~ those beloathed buckles.