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Yayyy just got my pictures from Andy! I love how bright the colors are.

My Kirin Armor from Monster Hunter, worn at AX '11.


~ ~ Construction notes ~ ~

This costume was so fun to make! I've wanted to make a MH costume ever since I played the first one back in 2004. This costume is a bit of a cheat, however, because I've never played any of the portable MHs, so I have yet to play a MH that actually has Kirin armor IN it. I chose Kirin armor though because I felt it was a)iconic, easily recognizable and b)reasonably within my skill level, unlike pretty much every other high level armor set. I felt this was a good way to express my MH love, and a good introductory to MH costumes in general. I'd love to make another set someday.

I'm really not all that great at sewing, my specialty is definitely crafty things like sculpting and painting. This costume was a lot of that, which cut out a lot of the frustration I usually experience making costumes. I felt like I knew what I was doing for once, LOL.

I found faux snakeskin in silver downtown and decided to start this costume then. It had always been on my list but wasn't bumped to the top until I found that fabric. It was perfect! I hand painted the blue stripes on the silver pleather, as well as the black shading on the red pleather with acrylic paint.

The horn and the buckles on the belt, loincloth and suspenders were sculpted out of Super Sculpey. For the buckles, I made one, baked it, then pressed it into a ball of unbaked Sculpey to create a mold. Once the molds were baked, I was able to press Sculpey (with a teeny bit of baby powder) into the mold and get perfect copies!
The buckles were again hand painted and weathered to mimic the in-game textures with acrylic paint.

The fur was all hand sewn onto the pleather. This costume required a LOT of hand sewing to assemble all the little pieces.

Ironically, the hardest part of this costume is the one part you can't see. I made accurate panties with blue top stitching to match the tube top. They were a nightmare!

The weapons were made out of wooden dowels, wire, model magic and rigid wrap (plaster). I then sanded it down and painted it. I ended up spending only about 3 days total on the weapons and they turned out much better than I thought they would for being such a rush job. However, I wouldn't recommend using plaster for something you have to be carrying around all day, they turned out a little heavy and it made it hard to pose ^^;

This was also my first time styling a wig! It's not perfect, but It turned out better than I thought it would.

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Click here for a 360 view of this costume!

Photo by Andy of asianschoolboy.com. :heart:



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~Lainedy Jul 16, 2012
I think is the most accurate and beautiful Kirin Armor I've seen!

Is perfect in every detail <3
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~darkdzire Apr 20, 2012   General Artist
lol he made you weirdly skinny
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~nihilistique Apr 20, 2012  Professional Artisan Crafter
Haha, you mean the photographer? He didn't do anything, I'm really like that >.>
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~darkdzire Apr 20, 2012   General Artist
No way! Lucky!
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~SoCoPhDPepper Aug 22, 2011
I guess you got to play Lawn Gnome at AX too, lol... they so need more vegetation in LA
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~DeityofShadows Aug 22, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
The weapons turned out really nice-- though given I've only played MHTri, I can't say I recognize it. Dual swords? :p

Regardless, craftmanship looks great and I particularly like the blue to violent gradient on the rightmost sword.
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~nihilistique Aug 22, 2011  Professional Artisan Crafter
Yep! They're the Kirin Bolts, which only appear (to my knowledge) in MHFU, one of the PSP games.
And Thanks!! :heart:
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~DeityofShadows Aug 22, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
You're welcome. :D
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~Epsilonne Aug 11, 2011  Student General Artist
The costume design is beautiful- I was lucky enough to find this great photo because of my admiration for the mythical creature kirin- I like how unique this is. Well done :]
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~nihilistique Aug 11, 2011  Professional Artisan Crafter
Thank you! I wish I could take credit for the design, but it's from the Capcom game Monster Hunter: [link] :)
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