Arkham Knight Release CosLog!

Alright, so I know that I promised this post the day after it happened but well, I didn't get home until 3:40 AM and I have been perpetually exhausted since then. So, its happening now, deal with it.

Anyways, as I said on Sunday night, I work at Gamestop and there was a Arkham Knight midnight release in which my boss asked me to dress up for. So after many struggles with fabric paint, spray paint and acrylic paint (to this day I am still finding red spots on my body no matter how hard I scrub) the final product looked rather good. Here are some photos of the shindig

Here is the entire crew: from right to left - Chris as Nightwing, Me as Harley Quinn, Don as The Joker, and Daniel as Red Hood. It was a fantastic night, since my boss was dressed up as the Joker, all I did was call him "puddin" and "Mr. J" all night. 

Harley Quinn and the Red Hood, this is one of my more favourite of the photos because I rather enjoy this fella. 

Get it? Cause I'm a sidekick? GET IT? 

Individual photo of me at the house with a nice insane smile for all of your wonderful followers.

Back at the store with the props, I really really love this photo. I think that I look badass and severely awesome. Definitely a good photo of the cosplay. Credit goes to mom. 

These are the photos of the props, the cherry bomb and mallet created by Chris and Don, I am ever grateful for it because they really pulled the whole thing together.

So those are all the photos I have, it was a blast and I cannot say that I have had more fun, even at conventions before. These guys are really special to me, and I don't know if any of them follow me on this blog but if they are reading this I hope they know I love them all.

Well that was all I have until I start working on my Diablo 3 cosplay again, which will happen eventually.

Have a good night and keep on cosplaying,

--Max 

Many an update and a most recent CosLog

Hello everyone,

So I apologize for not posting in such a long time, I have been really busy finishing my first year in college and then working two jobs over the summer to afford said college.

Anywhoo, I changed my mind about the cosplay's I was going to do for the next upcoming convention, and decided to create a Diablo 3 Demon Hunter cosplay instead. So that is in the works, I am using a thermoplastic medium called Worbla and Wonderflex. I will more than likely write a separate blog post about that when I get a bit further on it (as of right now I only have the thigh armor pieces and belt done so...)

So instead of that, this post is going to be about something much closer. As in tomorrow. One of my jobs is as a Game Advisor at my local Gamestop, and if any of you are gamers you know that we are releasing the new Batman: Arkham Knight game tomorrow at midnight. Now since the guys at Gamestop are fantastic and a bunch of nerds, we decided we are all going to dress up as characters from Batman for the midnight release. Now, I was not initially a part of this but my boss (Don) decided that I would make a fantastic Harley Quinn and so, here I am

I took one of my old body suits, and spray painted the heck out of it. Like trust me friends there was a lot of spray paint involved. Now if I was given more time than the two days I had, I probably would have sew in the red pieces instead of painting, or I would have taken the time to saturate and then fabric paint the areas because it would have been softer and much more breathable. Alas, that is not what I was able to do, so I spray painted. Then I decided that maybe a couple of layers of a soft acrylic paint and then spray paint would work better. Which it did.

So here are some pictures of me in the final product

Not bad if I do say so myself. So obviously those photos are just me trying on the body suit (which may have been a mistake as it was still wet and I still have red paint on my armpit because of it). So with this there will be a very simple black utility belt that I am wearing because I need to have the ability to carry a phone and credit card and such (even if it is just work, it makes me feel safer). I will be wearing black combat boots because there is no way in heck I am doing a midnight release wearing heels, though I will admit I did think about it. 

Anyways, tonight I decided to try to makeup and hair that I wanted, along with sticking on the mask. So here is a picture of Harley Quinn in her pajamas. 

Alright so now we have a general idea of what it is all going to look like together, but expect another post tomorrow...or maybe Tuesday because I have no idea when I will be getting home, with way more pictures of the whole thing. My boss made me a mallet and a cherry bomb, so I even have props. 

Who thought I was going to get paid to cosplay? I didn't. Man I am jive. 

I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did, more pictures to come. 

Keep on Cosplaying, 

--Max