I’m just sitting in the lobby of a hotel of Atlanta and try to get rid of the time I have left until my flight back to Germany. So, what’s better than writing a new blog entry?

You wonder, what the hell did I just do in Atlanta? Well, I visited Dragon*Con this year and enjoyed the first part of my Honeymoon with Benni. Pretty nerdy, isn’t it? Hm… but we ourselves were really the less nerdiest thing at all this weekend. We saw Zombie grandmas and perfect Star Treck Scotty grandpas, we saw Steampunk Ghostbusters and Deathpools in Princess Leia bikinis. We visited robot battles, armor and mask making panels and met the nicest, craziest, strangest and coolest guys ever. Yeah, we were anything else but nerdy. To get a short view into what we experienced, take a look to all these awesome galleries on flickr.
Sadly, I’m not pretty good in taking photos in costume and Benni is too busy fixing my costume the whole time, so excuse the lack of photos from my side. But I guess, flickr is a great resource for your search.

Well, and how was Dragoncon?
Hm… it was… different. The conventions I visit in Germany are mostly Anime/Manga related. There is’nt such a huge fantasy/comic/steampunk/zombie/othernerdystuff fanbase. And the audience is pretty young. Dragon*Con was pretty faszinating, because just about everybody was there. No matter, which age, religion, race or sex. Even babies had a fitting costumes to their parents and even dogs had their own hats and wings. Wow, it was just stunning! And the parade was even more awesome! There were really a lot of things, why I like Dragoncon. The costumes, the people and also my super awesome roommates at the Hyatt hotel. I also met a lot of guys, who even recognized me without costume, what never happend to me before.
But there were also some points I didn’t like. The crazy air conditioning (one room was cool, the other was super cold, outside it was really hot and if you walk the whole time around… well…) made me sick and I still feel pretty bad. I didn’t like the panels, because they mostly only consited of discussion without any pictures or reference materials and I had a lot of problems to understand them. And no free wifi access at the hotels, which make me really crazy!
However I already think about coming back, even if it’s super expensive for us. But at first, the next conventions are coming. Connichi in Kassel is pretty close, then Blizzcon, then some little german conventions and my very last job for this year at the World Champtionship in Rotterdam for the WoW TCG. And now… enough of words! Time for pictures!

Druid T9 is… almost done! (No idea who made this picture of me at D*C, but I hope it’s okay to use it. I really like it! Sadly I don’t have any of my own, because Benni was too busy making some….)

I wanted to try out a new bodypainting, but unfortunately I noticed at the morning that it’s just wrong. I had not the right sponge and the color was just awful, and sadly I didn’t have my old make up with me. Well, I didn’t really care and decided to take a shower and to go out with normal skin color. Funny point is, that more people recognized me as a Nightelf without make up, than with. Many of them always mistook me for a Troll…
Yeah, and some details are still missing. Especially my staff, but at least, I managed to finish the main part. At 5 am. One hour before we had to leave our house and went to the airport.

One of the reasons, that I was so stressed and still had so much to do was, that I deciced to create a further version of my pauldrons. The pair I built before were just… to large, despite of it was the right size of the model ingame. But sometimes it just looks wrong, if you follow your reference in every point, just because you are not 2 m high and have the bodyshape of a super model. The new version was a bit smaller and had a different shape, but I was much more satiesfied at the end.

I also created a mask, what I didn’t use because I did’t manage to get the hoodie done in time.

This was my very first fitting. Again it was a pretty awesome feeling to try a new costume the first time and to see, that most parts worked fine. And…. I really loved how my boobies looked in this costume, ha ha!

Well, at the end I have to say, that I’m ashamed a bit of my Druid T9. It was done in 3 weeks, it was already my 5th Tier set and it was pretty boring to create. And it’s a pretty crappy costume. I’m not pround of my work anymore, I don’t think that I made something nice. It’s just… okay. It’s okay for a 3-weeks-project and it was fun to wear it, especially with the lights on. But it’s not more. I’m already planning my next projects, but I guess, I go crazy if I create a further Druid costume. Especially, because I have to do EVERYTHING again since Benni gets the same costume from me for Blizzcon. So… I already have some nice ideas for next years, look forward to Diablo and really, REALLY hope that Blizzard will announce something awesome at Blizzcon, but I’m done with my Druid costumes. I hope you guys, can understand me!

And before I leave you again, close my notebook and fly back to my lovely Germany, there is one point I want to say:

Blizzard, I NEED a Diablo III Beta key! Please, please! My Wizard is done, my Demon Hunter will follow soon and after I got the chance to test it at Gamescom, I’ll go crazy if I don’t get a beta key, soon! There is a huge NEED!!!