#caboose cosplay

[cryptic-mythos]

Just a little something I put together for Halloween :)

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

One of my goals this year is to finally start cosplaying! I’ve wanted to do this for the past eleven years, but I never had the friends who’d go to Cons with me in cosplay. Now that I do have a few friends who will cosplay with me and also go to cons and ren faires with me, I want to put together a few cosplays for myself.

Here’s the thing - if I do, it’ll only be for pictures because unfortunetly I’m not a good actor and making TikTok content like other cosplayers do likely will not happen for me, which always sort of bums me out. But I wanna do it anyway! Who says I can’t dress in cosplay and post a ton of pictures on my tumblr?

[chaosghoulx]

This is inspired by a meme I saw some time ago and found absolutely hillarious so of course I had to recreate it

[whimsicalb4rd]

"10/10 NEVER AGAIN! YOU'RE NO ENGINE!"

AKA: i finally sent some CB cosplay pictures over to my laptop, so tumblr can get some Marley!CB content. (my phone is still refusing to let tumblr post) >> Since taking these try-on photos i've finished adding all the stickers, and his first con will either be Musical con, or MCM london!! (both of which are at the excel centre in, you guessed it, London.) Just gotta make + add the chimneys, and find a way to paint my safety gear that i can easily remove since i do use it to skate and peely paint is NOT fun.

[captainmvf]

Found within my camera roll: This was back in 2022 when I tested out the CB cosplay without the chest and shoulder boxes. Also the second makeup test. I put on my cool new vest to look like a look punk CB 😎

[chaos-doodles-shit]

Hear me out guys: Wings of Fire x Starlight Express AU

[railzreceptive]

First ever attempt at C.B makeup how’d I do?

[bugbug1305]

Part 1 of the 2018 Cb cosplay WIP. Gloves

[sheyshen]

figuring out what we're gonna do with the rvb halo helmets we've got so far since mom's been pestering me to get another and paint it pink (since she loves donut) and we've now settled that we're going to get a few more to paint so we can have all the reds and blues (this includes wash, though i'm going to need to track down carolina's helmet) and then we're going to put them up in the game room so they're lined up on top of the shelves

[thisismondaymood]

Yay, I just realized that "no dresscode at school" means that I can technically write my final exams wearing a CB cosplay!

[marastriker]

Hello. I am FINALLY doing something.

[ruusaanrambles]

Finally watched rvb restoration.

I don’t want to say goodbye to this.

I’ve been here for almost three months. Red vs Blue is stitched into the projects I made while watching it and deep into my heart.

this show I’ve both hated and adored for as long as I’ve watched.

somehow Tucker turned out to be a character I actually like. Caboose is more wise than anyone gives him credit for. I don’t give a crap what rt says grimmons is absolutely cannon they are so in love dude. wash and carolina are going to be okay. sarge went out fighting a blue.

I still really like season 15. It can live in tandem with restoration.

This may be the end of rooster teeth RvB, but I know tumblr has my back.

time to start my wash recovery one cosplay, my suit and tie Felix cosplay, and my rewatch of the series.

It’s been a wild ride.

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

“I like wearing sunglasses because nobody can see what I’m looking at!”

— the Second Doctor, probably

[mrbob0822]

Robert Moonbrow, Cleric of Pelor | Sole Survivor & Dogmeat

Photography by David Ngo at C2E2 2024

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Hello, Tumblr!

It's...certainly been quite a while, hasn't it? OOF. I really apologize for the unintended hiatus.

I was at C2E2 in Chicago a couple of weeks ago with some updated costumes, and figured I'd share!

Friday and Sunday I wore my Sole Survivor costume from Fallout 4, with plenty of extra weathering and proper strapping since I slapped it together prior to Halloween last year. I made the Dogmeat Heavy Dog Armor for my actual German Shepherd(Caboose), but since he's not a service animal(please don't bring your pets to conventions), I wound up purchasing a close-to-life-sized plush version that the costume *mostly* fit on. The number of people who did double-takes and "thought it was a real dog" was staggering, so I guess I did something right. Also, Sunday of C2E2 is always touted as family day, so the number of kids that came up asking to pet my dog was adorable.

On Saturday, I wore my D&D costume: a half-elven cleric of Pelor of my own design. I adore Dungeons & Dragons, and as an homage to nearly playing with the same group(multiple campaigns) since 2002, I made my first character Robert Moonbrow. I debuted this back in 2022, which revealed some issues with my design, so those fixes were made(mostly reinforcing the straps to prevent stretching and to reinforce the area around the rivets since all of the armor is EVA foam) as well as a heater shield I never got around to finishing, which turned out great, with the exception of being able to see the wrist straps through the foam on the front. On a whim, I decided to enter the Crown Championships of Cosplay this year, ReedPop's costume contest. I had zero expectations of anything, since people have no attachment to original characters other than the person making it, but I worked insanely hard on this thing, dumping probably close to 1,000 hours into the costume overall, and pushed the boundaries of my skillset to make something I was truly proud of out of a love for the fun my friends and I had with our time together. I didn't win anything, but it was genuinely great just to be in the same competition as the others who entered with their insane craftsmanship and attention to detail, and I do mean that, sincerely. We had a great time talking shop backstage during the competition and admiring one another's costumes.

Will I ever compete again? Probably not. It kind of eats up the entire day, and it takes me forever to make a costume in general, much less one to compete with. If I ever did, I might consider revamping my Grey Warden Alistair costume or something, but it's an extremely low priority. At the end of the day, cosplay is just a fun hobby for me, and adding extra stress with competition prep and anxiety kinda sucks some of the fun out of it, even though it was a fun and new(at least at this level) experience this time.

This is the only convention I'll be attending this year, much as I absolutely miss all of my friends at Dragon Con and would love to attend. I haven't been there since...2018? Oof. My friend Darryn said he'll be there in 2025, so I made the promise to him that I'll be there, which means I'll be bringing Alistair, since we became friends by cosplaying the character. I would also love to bring my D&D costume, but it's not exactly a cool and comfortable costume, so I'm going to try to test out its comfortability in the heat by wearing it to the Bristol Renaissance Faire on the Wisconsin/Illinois border at the end of July this summer(Saturday, July 27th is the plan). If you're in the area and want to see it in person or say goodbye to me as I potentially die of heatstroke(kidding!(hopefully...)), feel free! Fingers crossed the weather holds out that day for a solid test.

Anyway, time for me to shut up! Enjoy some additional shots from C2E2 2024:

[steampunk-newsie]

the urge to learn how to rollerskate and create cosplay just to cosplay C.B the red caboose

[captainmvf]

Happy Otakon 2023!! CB rides again!!