Worbla, Thibra, Cosplayflex. What’s the difference?

by Svetlana | Apr 28, 2016

To me ‘cosplay’ has always meant to be able to ‘make everything out of anything’. Creative people have been able to make amazing costumes out of everyday household materials for long before we had all those fancy cosplay materials we have...

Shadowmourne – No time for farming!

by Svetlana | Jul 24, 2015

While making costumes is super fun, I especially enjoy building cool looking things in general. One of these “things” was actually the legendary axe “Shadowmourne” from World of Warcraft which always made me wonder how it would look in real...

I’M A WIZARD! (again)

by Svetlana | Apr 18, 2015

The “Purple Wizard” was a reference I already had on my phone for several years. I’ve totally fallen love with it it the very first time I saw this stunning artwork when it was not even complete yet: When the artist himself, my hero Wei Wang, worked...

The proud Norn Warrior!

by Benni | Dec 21, 2014

One of my bigger projects in 2014 was a Norn Warrior from Guild Wars 2. As somebody who easily falls in love with stunning designs, the Norn was a character race I wanted to bring to life right after I discovered this amazing armor set. It not only had this very...

Make your first cosplay steps!

by Benni | Oct 16, 2012

Where shall I start? What are the first steps? What do I need to take care of? These are the questions which pain many cosplay newcomers and those who want to get into this hobby. But in the first phase also many experienced people like me are sometimes pretty...

Updates, Updates, Updates!

by Benni | Sep 18, 2012

Puh, despite of the convention season is almost over I still had a lot to do in my last week: I started with my new project, Bloodelf Paladin Tier 2 and already working pretty busy on her armor: (There is more progress, but that’s the final look. As always...

Workshops! Workshops! Workshops!

by Benni | Feb 26, 2012

Vanessa is done and it’s time to relax a bit again. I already started with a new project, but now there is no need to stress. My daggers for Vanessa still needs some love, but it should be no problem to give them a paint job till the next convention, the...

HOLY SHIT! Blizzcon is waiting for me!

by Benni | Oct 16, 2011

Woah, three pretty stressful weeks are behind me. Last time I told you, that I’m just working on my husband’s costume and today I can tell you that it is pretty much done. It’s about 10 pm at the moment and tomorrow morning I will finally fly to Los...

Redundancy!

by Benni | Oct 2, 2011

Puh, Blizzcon is pretty close now and slooowly I need to hurry. At the moment I’m working on my husband’s Nightelf Druid Tier 9 version. The progress is pretty much the same it was for my own costume before so I don’t show you a lot of stuff. And I...

How to give your Gems some Glow

by Benni | Sep 12, 2011

I just uploaded a new video tutorial on my channel, guys. After a little survey on facebook, I noticed that many of you want to see, how I create my glowing gems. Especially you also wanted to see, how my husband paints my stuff, but this will follow soon don’t...

Wizard Photoshoot and the next Project

by Benni | Aug 15, 2011

Sometimes it really seems like the weather hates me. After an awesome sunny weekend but without any photographers, we got a cloudy and dark one with too many photographs. Well, I really really wanted to show you my costume with another photoshoot, so my cosplay...

Create your own gem stones!

by Benni | Jun 12, 2011

Some time has passed since my last post again and many things have happened. I had two further jobs as Alexstrasza at MCMExpo in London and the Triple Play V in Leipzig, kept on working on my old projects and started with new ones and just had a great time again. And...

Alexstrasza – A Dragon Queen will be born

by Benni | Mar 31, 2011

My last post was long ago and I guess it’s really time to show you something new! Like always I’m really busy with making costumes. But I haven’t made so much progress with my Demon Hunter and my Druid Tier 9, because I had to cancel all my current...

Bring your Character to life!

by Benni | Jan 28, 2011

Sometimes it can be difficult to get good photos of one’s costume. Conventions are always full of people, thus often there is no space for taking pictures without having someone in the background. Or you just have no time, because you have friends who want to...

The Thermoplastic Theorie

by Benni | Dec 7, 2010

Today I want to show you something new. Last time I experimented a bit and became acquainted with some nice, new thermoplastic materials: Fossshape, Kobracast and Polystyrol. You also saw my Wonderflex and Friendly Plastic projects, and I guess it’s a good time...

Expanding foam love!

by Benni | Dec 1, 2010

As always I’m still busy, but I’m not able to keep on working on only one project. I love to carve expanding foam, to form armor with wonderflex or to sew a new robe and I wish, I would have a clone, he he! So, one day I create an armor piece for my Demon...

Busy, busy!

by Benni | Nov 18, 2010

Maybe I should learn to take a break someday. At the moment I’m really, really exhausted. My studies and my work require a lot of time and I can’t wait for the two weeks of Christmas holidays. I have a lot to do, but despite this I put almost every free...

Updates and a new project!

by Benni | Nov 10, 2010

Hello guys! You’ll notice I changed and updated a lot here. Over this post you’ll find some pages I added and I wished a long time. And I hope you also like the new features on the right side and my new design. You should especially take a look to the...

German Cosplay Championship and more

by Benni | Oct 19, 2010

Woah, the last weeks were really exhausting! Two months ago I got notice that we really made it to the finals of the German Cosplay Championship. But the only costumes we could use were our Asmodian plate set from Aion (our Druid Tier 8 costumes just weren’t...

About my love to expanding foam

by Benni | Oct 3, 2010

In the last time there were a lot of people who asked me how I create my expanding form figures and and it is just amazing that these people came from all over the world! It’s great to hear that you guys like my technique so much and want to try it by yourself....

Bring some light in your life!

by Benni | Sep 3, 2010

Today I want to show you a further tutorial: How to add lights to your costume! (And I have to warn you: This time it was really hard for me to translate this tutorial from german!) I guess, I’m not the only one who believe that lights in costumes and props are...

Actual projects and a lot of expanding foam!

by Benni | Jan 31, 2010

I’m still working on my three costumes: Aion, World of Warcraft and Bayonetta. The Armor of Aion is almost done and there are only a few armor parts missing. I’m very bad in sewing, so I dodge the parts which require seewing skills. So, here are some...

The wonderful world of Wonderflex

by Benni | Dec 29, 2009

This year I wanted to start with something complete new. I’m always searching for new materials, techniques and challenges. So the new MMO from NCsoft, Aion – Tower of Eternity, had some very good exsamples. There were a lof of commercials I saw on TV or...

Journey’s End making of

by Benni | Dec 10, 2009

Next part of my Druid Tier 6 cosplay: Journey’s End and Intensity Journey’s End was a hard, long project and I worked some months on it. I did not use the right technique for the building, because I just daven’t had enough expirience with such props....

Druid Tier 8 pauldron making of

by Benni | Dec 7, 2009

Soooooo, here are some progress pics of one of my actual projects: Druid Tier 8 from World of Warcraft. Here you see a preview of the sample for my pauldrons from the World of Warcraft modelviewer. The first steps were really easy: I took half of a styrofaom ball,...