getinthehandbasket:

shoomlah:

aidanrae:

Just realised I never got around to posting any photos of my nerfpunk costume from Steamcon here in Seattle way back in October. I’m very good at keeping up with things that relate to myself and only myself, aren’t I?

the intent behind nerfpunk, in case you haven’t been following along or just plain forgot cuz it’s been months (that’s more likely i’m sure), is to flip around the expectations of steampunk. A “typical” steampunk garment utilizes a weapon that they assemble to match the costume; typically, this is a nerf gun. The idea of nerfpunk was to reverse it - pick the gun and make the costume match it. That means no modding of the gun was allowed!  I kind of cheated, in that I waited until they released their new little discs because I liked the colour scheme better… but it’s still heinously garish.

things i like:
• the sleeves. i spent most of my time on them (even more than the corset, which is kind of tragic really) because I wanted them to have a stupid number of layers. friendly mockery ;)
• the idea of the vinyl gun holster. it was made like 20 minutes before we hopped on the bus to the hotel so it’s not stable and I’d like to expand on it further.

I have some in progress shots that I’ll post after this. Mostly this costume was, unfortunately, more of an afterthought than I really wanted. I had way too many other costumes to prioritize (in that they were being made for a)children and b)people that are not myself), which left me little more than a week or so to create something from the sketches I’d been working on for months. I’d really like to go back into this costume with the intent to make it more than just some piecemeal assembly of ideas, but you know. when have i ever done that?

(the other nerfpunker in the photos is my friend Melinda! she makes amazing costumes AND she won an award for this one in the bathing suit contest!)

My buddies in LA are the originators behind nerfpunk, and so Aidan, Melinda and myself were working on our own Nerfpunk costumes for last year’s Steamcon. I never finished mine (had SO MUCH TO DO for that con augh), but they finished theirs, and they are gorgeous, and they deserve reblogging. :)

BRILLIANT! Y’all give me a renewed interest in costuming. Eh, maybe once I’m no longer living with my mother….

I love everything about this.