Tanith wrote:I'll make at least part of it myself. I may seek outside help for the armor. Not that I'm a perfectionist or anything , but I generally don't care for the look of fabric armor in costumes.
Yeah. Fabric armor looks limp and shapeless. At the same time, forging metal armor sounds kinda hard. Perhaps there's a middle---have any of you cosplayers considered paper mache? With some work---you can possibly shape and paint it convincingly enough...