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So well, I thought to start posting a tutorial kinda post on my Ankh arm. Eventhough I'm already halfway, and some of the pics I took kinda went MIA.

Okay.

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Tutorial for Making of Ankh arm for Kamen Rider OOO

Making the base

Things you need:

White cotton fabric
Black fabric - what type of material? I used the ones for lining.
Threads and Needles

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- If you're like me and lazy to look up patterns, just manually trace your own arm over the cotton fabric for the arms and index fingers. Leave a hole for your thumb. Like this and have the arm part LONG. Or... if you'd like have a proper glove tutorial. I WONDER why I haven't found this before XD.

- Before you start sewing, glue/sew the white glove pattern to the black lining fabric. Reason why I do this because I cannot see what I'm sewing if the cloth and thread is BLACK. And I tend to screw on my sewing. XD. Or you can dye the whole thing black.

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- See? On White I can actually see what I'm sewing. And the combo between the cotton and lining material made the glove not that flimsy.


- Though, truthfully? I used both materials since I still had lots of extra fabric from past projects as well as random cloths people threw at me.

- I don't fancy using stretchy/jersey/I forgot what name was that fabric materials since later would need to attach the armour parts so troublesome...

- I left the lining cloth a bit longer because of special reasons...

- I mean... did you notice that random piece of sash on the arm?

- Well... using your scissors, have fun ripping the edges to shreds. XDDDDD

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- Hahaha. Blurry pics. But well... there's the ripped part showing.

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- So here's a clearer picture...

- It was all really made out of cloths. I'm not that fancy to make from leathers. Those also comes with it's own maintenance problems.

So on to the rest of the parts~

I'll be posting the sketch pics once I've redrawn and upload it. So for now I'll be posting on the ones I already have.

Materials you need:

A piece of Manilla card
Jumping clays
Scissors/Glue etc
Fake nails, nail clipper
Nail polish
Acrylic Paints
Clear Sprays

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- Using the screen caps of the arm, cut out the pieces patterns onto the Manila card. It should be like this. (I'll post up the patterns later)
* 1 piece for the bird part
* 3 pieces for the top arm part, you may some extras if you want.
* 1 plain straight piece for the bottom of the arm

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- For the middle and the pointer finger, since there's no scale part (plus considering the two fingers would have rings), I just used a random glitter pink nail polish to paint over the two fingers. Works like a charm. I don't use those nail polish normally anyway~

- Get some fake nails--the thumb parts as those are normally bigger in size. Use a nail clipper to clip the sides of the fake nails so that it'll look more like sharp claws. Get a green glitter nail polish to paint on it (or if you're like me and don't have it, just mix a green paint with the pink glitter nail polish. Still works). When the nails are dry, super glue them on the glove.

- You'll get something like this.
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- So for the rest. I suggest you make a basic form for the top palm part out of manilla if you're not confident about sculping it using the jumping clay. So yeah... for the rest of the claws, fingers, the two parts on the palms, use jumping clays to shape them up. Also use theclays for the rest of the bird arm.

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- When you're done with the jumping clays, just let them get harder and then paint them and then use clear spray on them. That should keep their forms. I used wires to attach the bird to the arm piece and secure them with some extra clays.

- Once that done, it should not be hard to just use super glue to stick them all to the glove base.

And TADA~~ Ankh arm~!

I would have included more pics... but well, you see... I'm still in the making of it anyways. So yeah XDDDD
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In case people are looking for it. I don't think my prop work was that good actually, but hey~~~ I like challenging myself. So since I made another prop camera, here's a tutorial of it as I'm making it. And this dA was underused anyway.
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I don't get why some people seems to think you MUST buy actual merchandises in order to cosplay toku. You can still make your props yourself you know, if you cannot afford it. (If you can, sure... go for it.) Cos I don't get why you should go so far when you don't have a means for it. Same as costumes. It's just like what you do for normal cosplays.

So that aside, since I'm making a second prop camera. Thus the MK II. The first one I sold it XD. Since I wanted to make a new one anyway.
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Making a Blackbird Decade camera prop Ver MK II Part 1

- First, get a box to be the base for your prop. You can either make them as accurate as the actual camera, or you can also just use your own judgement as for the measurements. XD
* Last time I made a simpler type. This time, I wanted to make one that you can open the back like the actual one. So ended up cutting up the box and reattach a flap at the back so that it you can open and close it.

- Once you're satisfied with the look, get some black colored paper to use to cover the whole box. And using a mini philips screwdriver, make a small hole on the sides where you want to attach the dial and flap. It'll look like these pic in the end.

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- Find a bottle cover, some soft wires and some foams to make the lever thing on the side. I used a bottle cap from a Ribena bottle so it had some embossed arrows there. So cool. As for the wires, twist it so that one side can be pasted onto the cap/lever and another can be inserted into the box.

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- Using acrylic paint (if the cap wasn't black all ready), paint the cap black. Let it dry. As for the lever, either use paint or paste black paper on it.

- Attach the twisted wires on the cap and lever on their respective position on the prop box. You can refer the position from the pictures of the actual camera. Once you inserted the wire ends, fold it to the inner wall of the box to secure them to the prop.

- More or less it would look somewhat like the pic below.

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- You can use black acrylic paint to touch up the prop after that.                                             

- As for the front, get some foams, glue, maroon colored paper. Cut the foam into rectangular shape. Two layers of it should be a good thickness. Paste the colored paper on the foams

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- You're going to get end result as this.

- As for the surface designs, you can use the same colored paper and paste them by layers on the surface to have that striped design.

- And since you need to get the camera attached to a strap, certainly you need to like, attach it on the prop. Last time I just used wires and glue it on the sides and later tied the straps on it. But it wasn't strong enough as it couldn't support the prop weight (I stuffed it with papers last time.). Ended up cutting a hole on the sides and insert the straps and secure it from onside the prop. This time, to have the pro-look, I used small steel file binders to attach the straps on. (Since I was lazy) I used small ribbons and tie it on the binder. So later when I manage to get the strap, it'll be easy to attach it to the prop.

- So from this...

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... it becomes like this.

- As for the insides, depends on you on what you wanna put in to make it look believable. I don't think I'll cover that. Or you can be lazy and just seal the inside and stuff it with papers. XD.

I'll continue this once I manage to finish the rest of the prop. Hope it was useful to anyone who wants to cosplay Tsukasa. XD