#gundam wing cosplay

[kscosplaycatalog]

No. 1 - 2004

Character: Duo Maxwell Series: Gundam Wing: Battlefield of Pacifists by Tokita Kouichi

(Featuring Duo's VA, Scott McNeil.)

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My first "costume" was a closet cosplay of Duo Maxwell in Gundam Wing's Battlefield of Pacifists manga. Since it was in black and white, I guessed at the colors and textures and I used my real hair, which was pretty long back then. In 2005, this one girl came up to me and actually told me how shitty this costume was... Luckily I didn't care and kept going!

Everyone has to start somewhere. Even if your first costume is an off-color/off-texture nightmare! Don't be shitty to other people though! Just let people have fun and do their thing. Especially if they aren't harming anyone!

Obviously I do not wear this costume anymore, but maybe one day I will completely redo it!

[yourfavoritescoundrel]

Duo, Duo Maxwell. I may run and hide, but I'll never tell a lie... | Duo Maxwell - Gundam Wing Cosplay | Duo: @yourfavoritescoundrel

[deejayers]

pffffft realized a few minutes ago that i unintentionally put on a lazy heero yuy cosplay cause a) i was too lazy to take off the bike shorts i wore under a dress earlier when i put the dress away and b) had a green tank top laying around within range to take the place of the dress lmao

half considered tossing my oooold wig that i actually styled and used for my heero yuy cosplay years ago on but nah i got way too much hair to tuck under it now and none of the things i'd need for it

the boy may not have had good fashion sense but he sure did know how to be comfy!

[duomaxwellandducks]

got duo maxwell on the class couch so now i have to explain to all my friends how he's a terrorist...

[roesart]

Jodhpurs for Duo Maxwell cosplay done! Wig has been commissioned and now I gotta figure out the shoes.

[bobo-is-tha-bomb]

Putting the finishing touches to my cosplay! 😁

[lifeaftermeteor]

We're planning to be at today's MS Gundam Meet at 5PM so hope to see some folks there. I will have extra GW pins and bookmarks from the 2020 @gundamzine in case you'd like some!!

Katsucon 2024

So after some debate, I went ahead and registered for Katsucon 2024 (Feb 16-18) in the DC area. If you're going to be there, would be great to link up! Drop me a line and maybe we can check out some panels or go grab food/coffee during the day.

[thisweekingundamevents]

GW Hallows 2024!

Here’s the prompt list for this year! Use them for any media type! (fics, arts, cosplay, moodboards, playlists, etc.)

Werewolves

Seance

Creepy Crawlies

Trick-or-Treat!

Haunted House

Watching scary movies

“I ain’t afraid of no ghost!”

Have fun and be spookily inspired!

Self-inserts, reader fics, and OCs are welcome! Just be sure there’s at least one canon Gundam Wing character in your creation. Simply have fun and tag anything you make with GW Hallows 2024!

This event is just a tag-in, runs the whole month of October!

[argumentalist]

HGAC Wing Gundam - the last of the original Gundam Wing quintet.

I'm still not a big fan of Gundam Wing. I still thing those mecha are a little too gimmicky for the "real robot" aesthetic Gundam typically has. And "bird mode" is certainly gimmicky. But, weirdly, this one probably has the most-normal Gundam loadout.

It's not designed purely for melee combat like Sandrock. It's not all guns, all the time like Heavyarms. It doesn't have a dragon arm like Shenlong. It's not cosplaying as the Grim Reaper like Deathscythe. It's got a fairly traditional beam saber, shield, and beam rifle.

I wanted to try building this kit without any of the stickers.

That's a metallic green Gundam Marker behind the lens in the chest. Some Army Painter matte black around the eyes, and metallic yellow/green Gundam Marker for the eyes and camera lens. I think it turned out pretty well. I like how fast the Gundam Markers dry.

That's some more Gundam Marker, metallic black this time, on the knees.

I was kind of surprised by the articulation on the wings. I mean, it's not amazing. But it's more than I expected from a high grade kit.

It's a fun build that really looks pretty good when it's done.

Unfortunately that transformation to "bird mode" is a huge let-down.

Giving this model a transformation means that some of the joints need extra wiggle-room to move around. And this makes those joints a little more fragile. I had issues with things popping off when trying to pose it.

And the transformation itself just isn't very impressive. This isn't really a problem with the model... It doesn't look great in the anime either. It's basically a robot flying around wearing its shield as a hat.

[thisweekingundamwing]

This Week in Gundam Wing 14 January - 10 February 2024

Here’s the roundup for January 14th, 2024 - February 10th, 2024!

Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make this next week!

~Mod Hel

Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:

@cuteciboulette

Fic Idea https://cuteciboulette.tumblr.com/post/740430848728465408/this-is-not-a-fic

Heero, Death!Duo, tw suicide discussion

flayrie

Stellar Drift https://archiveofourown.org/works/51561307

F/M, Treize Khushrenada/Lady Une

Explicit, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop references, side material references, Romance, Drama, Morally Grey Characters, Vague love confessions, Mutual Pining, Generational Trauma, War Trauma, PTSD, past gun violence injury, Mention of blood, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Porn With Plot, Enthusiastic Consent, kabedon, Stocking Fetish, Cunnilingus, Oral Sex, Fingering, Implied Premature Ejaculation, Post-Coital Cuddling, reformed rake x political harlot dynamic, Treize lives in this one so obviously I had a beta, target audience: me

Canon divergence. Through Lady Une's machinations, Treize Khushrenada survives the war. Despite saving him, Une appears intent on pushing him away, evading him at every opportunity. Desperate for answers, Treize confronts her, igniting old feelings long buried for the sake of duty.

Arts/Crafts/Photo Manips:

@artnijna

https://artnijna.tumblr.com/post/740261816198905856/rewatching-gundam-wing-as-im-sure-you-have-all

WuFei Chang, fanart

@ellohcee

https://ellohcee.tumblr.com/post/741182839812390912/some-mr-duo-gundam-wing-maxwell-i-doodled

Duo Maxwell, fanart

@mikkurin

https://mikkurin.tumblr.com/post/741592090614562817

Relena Darlian-Peacecraft, fanart

@nullphysics

https://www.tumblr.com/nullphysics/741266409682878464

Heero Yuy, fanart

@pineappleglazedham

https://pineappleglazedham.tumblr.com/post/733849029704826880

Treize/Une, nsfw ish, fanart

@seitou

https://seitou.tumblr.com/post/741833885435969536/the-designs-are-done-not-to-build-the-wesbite

5 boyos, fanart, stickers

@sweet-rabbit

https://sweet-rabbit.tumblr.com/post/741084970389487616/its-still-131-where-im-at-time-for-duo-to-kiss

Duo and Hilde, (about Duo ship month), comic

@vasyenka

https://vasyenka.tumblr.com/post/741470346590470144/as-a-kid-i-was-obsessed-with-gundam-wing-where

Duo/Quatre, fanart

@zazagundam

https://zazagundam.tumblr.com/post/739523219144458240/im-having-way-too-much-fun

Gunpla wall

Cosplay:

@yourfavoritescoundrel

https://yourfavoritescoundrel.tumblr.com/post/741270397597728768/duo-maxwell-i-may-run-and-hide-but-i-never-tell-a-lie

Duo Maxwell in the streets

Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:

@astragifs

https://astragifs.tumblr.com/post/741441445914869760

Relena Darlian-Peacecraft, gif

@janaverse

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/741097739145904128/meant-to-be-happy-21

Duo/Heero, Sims 4, screenshot

Head Canons/Meta:

@lifeattomsdiner

https://lifeattomsdiner.tumblr.com/post/740370874724663296

GW would be different if Relena had a Gundam.

MoodBoard/Aesthetics:

@wildandrecklesswings

https://wildandrecklesswings.tumblr.com/post/740078832854482944/oh-my-god-its-here-im-screaming-im-so

GW Jacket (clothes count as an aesthetic right?)

Fandom Discourse:

gwpromptmeme

GW Prompt Meme event

Rules: https://gwpromptmeme.dreamwidth.org/408.html

Main Page: https://gwpromptmeme.dreamwidth.org/

Quotes:

@incorrectgundamwingquotes

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/739532688989519872/heero-duo-told-me-to-tell-you-that-i-want

Heero, Duo, & WuFei

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/739804495958147072/wufei-you-better-not-be-experimenting-with

WuFei & Duo

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/739895036564635648/relena-it-must-be-a-liberating-thing-for-you-all

Relena

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/740076470373957632/relena-why-are-you-always-trying-to-get-yourself

Relena & Heero

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/740438788619321344/undercover-at-a-boarding-school-relena-do-you

Relena, Heero, & Duo

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/741344587168235520/duo-do-you-live-under-a-rock-trowa-with

Duo & Trowa

Calendar Events:

@gwcocktailfriday

Cocktail Fridays!

Post responses on Friday, during Happy Hour between 3 & 5 pm in your own timezone.

Here’s the prompts for Friday, February 16th! https://gwcocktailfriday.tumblr.com/post/742011330318499840/cocktail-friday-post-responses-on-friday-february

In need of prompts!

@gwlemonyshenanigans

Sign-ups Open: https://gwlemonyshenanigans.tumblr.com/post/740503319997448192/lemony-shenanigans-2024-sign-ups-now-open

Looking to fill all the days! https://gwlemonyshenanigans.tumblr.com/post/741815882530045952/31-days-in-may

@thisweekingundamevents

Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/730188053636841472/updated-events-calendar

If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!

GW Valentine’s Event 2024 https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/739857252321738752/gw-valentines-event-2024

Hope you’ve been creating!

@/???

GW Gift Exchange

There is another exchange being done now... I *think* it’s on dreamwidth, but I can’t find the convo with the person running it to save my life, but it’s on the events calendar with all the info I had...

Jan 15th - 21st is Nominations

Jan 16th - 28th is Sign-ups

Posting and whatnot will be in April.

Not sure if something will be posted anywhere on tumblr or not, but hoping I can get y’all the info for where and how when it goes.

[yourfavoritescoundrel]

Pilot 02 - Duo Maxwell, The God of Death

| Duo Maxwell - Gundam Wing Cosplay |

Duo: @yourfavoritescoundrel​

[abeinginsand]

Instead of fevers, demons deal with freezes more often. Basically their bodies get colder in attempt to fight off certain sicknesses. Its easy to tell usually since the flames on their wings/horns/tails (if they have them) dim. Sometimes, layers of ice form along the body too. An chilly and swirling air pocket can also appear in more extreme cases...

One day Cass comes to wake her son up for school. The first that she notices is the very chilly door knob and then, as she opens the door, a gust of cold air brushes past her. She shivers, eyes closed for a moment. When she opens them, the sight that greets her is enough to make her stumble frantically forward. There's a trail of ice along the floor leading to Taylor who seems to be wrapped in as many blankets, jackets, and cosplay outfits as possible. Looks more like a shivering pile of cloth than a person. The only sounds in the room being the odd breeze, teeth chattering, and Cass' voice calling to her son in gradually increasing volume. He doesn't respond for ten minutes but it feels like a heart-clenching hour in his mom's heart. It's only as she carefully pulls off a partly stiff and chilled beanie--that she sees Taylors very pale and ice covered face. His gaze seems foggy, looking through her as he mutters a very quiet chant of "itscolditscolditscold" (Its cold, its cold, its cold)

And Cass has no idea what's going on but she pulls him into her arms right away anyway. The ice starts to creep onto her hands and the bulky, sharp-edged piece of a gundam suit arm is poking her side too. But, the concern and fear helps her ignore the discomfort. Many thoughts race in her mind on what to do to help or who she might get help from. She'd still remembers the struggle with the dentist about getting braces tightened and readjusted since his fangs were growing in. A shiver enough to also shake her draws her out of her thoughts. She whispers a soft chant in return. Something that used to help when he was smaller after a nightmare or a frighteningly loud storm. "It'll be okay, I'm here, I'm here."

[centrally-unplanned]

something it occurred to me to wonder recently and thought if anyone would know, it would be you ;p

when Eva began back in 1995, how much was it anticipated? both narrowly in otaku circles, and more widely among 'people who watch TV in Japan'? as far as i understand the history, Gainax was pretty niche back then and mostly known for dating sim games, but the visual style of Eva is so immediately striking...

like, I know nobody quite realised just how huge it would become, but was there some sort of excitement for a new robot anime from the people who made Wings of Honneamise, Gunbuster and Nadia? or was it a complete surprise?

Hm, good question! I am not super confident in my answer, so my bet is "highly anticipated but not crazily so". Gainax was known but niche, having 'Otaku' success with as you mention Wings and Gunbuster...until Nadia: Secret of Blue Water came out in 1990. This would not have put Gainax per se on the map, as Toho and Group Tac were branded as the primary producers, Gainax as secondary, but it definitely put Hideaki Anno on the map as director. The show was wildly successful, aired in prime-time slots - which, fun fact, meant that its first season airing was interrupted due to breaking news about the onset of the First Gulf War - and Nadia herself became Best Girl in most of the Newtype/Animage style polls of the time until being dethroned by Sailor Mercury in 1992. Nadia was definitely still 'an anime', and it was a kids show in too many ways to be a real breakout. But it was the top of anime of its time, no debate.

Its success is what gave Anno the ability to finance Evangelion, and it meant he was also able to pull a lot of 'big talent' for branding purposes - which ofc was intentional, Anno is no fool. Hiring Usagi from Sailor Moon's voice actress Kotono Mitsuishi to be Misato for example, when Sailor Moon was the #1 anime of 1994, is certainly because of her talent but also because of her buzz, and he has a bunch of hires along those lines to make Eva the "oh man the best of the best are all here" kind of show.

(Again fun fact time - you prob know this one - he also tried to bring Kunihiko Ikuhara, Sailor Moon director, onto the animation staff, and as part of his tactics to woo him named Rei Ayanami after Sailor Mars, Ikuhara's favourite SM character that he famously cosplayed. Ikuhara was alas too busy with wrapping up his time on Sailor Moon and forming Be-papas to make Utena to spare the time)

All this meant that by the time Evangelion was getting ready for its Fall 1995 debut, the cover of the April 1995 issue of Newtype looked like this:

And hey, if you want some evidence of the buildup discussed, the first page of the cover feature starts off in 1990, with a discussion of the impact of Nadia:

Even here, once it transitions to discussing Evangelion, Anno is promising "something anime fans have never seen before". It was a common refrain in all the marketing material throughout 1995, that this show was going to be special. The manga adaption actually began print in February of 1995, as a hype builder. The Evangelion team was putting it all on the line.

Also I love that early concept art - the more gundam-esque pilot suits over the plugsuits would have absolutely been my jam, alas.

(This marketing material is more evidence against the mythical "mid-production pivot" theory that fans in the past surmised about Eva's intended story, but a topic for another time)

Still, this is just marketing - who wouldn't say your show will Change Everything, that is your job as a business! For all the inner-otaku hype and rep, Evangelion was definitely targeted at those otaku, and it wasn't marketed to an all-ages demo with wider appeal like Sailor Moon. Anno even remarks in the interview above it would be more of a 'cult hit' compared to Nadia. It had a Wednesday airing slot (at 18:30, not actually super late - another myth, it just had late night re-runs after its evening air slot), not a great time and definitely not a Saturday evening slot like Sailor Moon.

It was a show that instead grew over its airing and broke out of its slot and genre - its finale got audience ratings almost twice that of its premiere (though these numbers are hard to aggregate over different stations). Its about midway through its run that you start getting those "phenomenon of Evangelion" style articles, and when the ending hits the culture critics start jumping in as well and it becomes a true cultural event, and discussion of the show in mainstream magazines starts happening. That wasn't happening in 1995.

I wish I could say it all culminates with End of Evangelion being released and being the #1 film of the year and all that - but while it did well it got its clock absolutely cleaned by Princess Mononoke, which came out the same week. An honourable defeat at least!

Hopefully this is a good answer! Definitely more to be said on the topic, man this would be a great deep dive project...

[roesart]

Another cosplay wip but this time of a different cosplay in the works that I have. It's a rush build to make a Duo Maxwell cosplay in time for August.

I have his cassock shirt done. I didn't know what I was doing since I couldn't get an official cassock pattern so I had to fake it til ya make it kind of thing. Includes fake turtleneck to save on layers.

Ignore the orange bloomers. Those are for Freya.

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[nukenai]

Today on "I guess if you wanna hear about my fuckin Build Divers fanfic"

So I have a Force Nest by myself and it's just Lacroa Castle because I'm the world's most special girl. For unknown reasons I've become favored by the Game Master so he just gives me stuff. My outfit is like I'm cosplaying a human Zero and my main gunpla is my uncustomized GP04.

I used to be on Force Avalon but I quit because Kyoya and I were dating but I broke up with him because depression is a bitch and I got sick of the pressure of being The Champion's Girlfriend. He is not over it.

I am depressed and sad because I love SD Gundam Force so much but all my friends who liked it all left and stopped caring about it and/or don't play GBN. So yes of course I have a borderline identical backstory to Koichi and Ayame lol. We're all #damaged but will be healed by friendship it's fine.

The Game Master sends the Build Divers to be my friends bc he's worried about me. Koichi is like "Wow, the GP04, I have one!" and Ayame extremely quickly catches on that I have a Fucking Problem and is like "well you don't need to be sad because look, he has his white colors" and everyone else on the planet is like "????????????" and I kick them out when Ayame jokingly asks if I'm trying to be a Princess or a Knight.

Later Koichi tries to learn more about SDGF and when he realizes what my outfit is, he says to me, "Your clothes are nice, but wouldn't you rather dress like yourself instead of someone else?"

Later I wind up changing my outfit when Kyoya calls me for the 90th time that week to beg me to unbreak up with him join the Coalition of Volunteers to help with all the (vague gesturing) yknow, the shit.

The shit. There I am gary:

I'm ignoring that that GP04 uses the colors from that one art of it instead of the Real Colors.... in my fanfic it has the Real Colors.

Anyways I figure there's some point where Kyoya starts noticing Koichi trying to learn about SD Gundam (he even builds me an SD Wing to try to win my affection friendship) so Kyoya does this insane thing where he attacks Koichi (like, you know, in Gundams) to draw me out and I show up in my GP04 and fucking beat his ass and he's like ":) it's good to see you fighting again" and logs out like a fucking freak

Eventually I start using other things besides my GP04 like my BuCue Chevalier and LaGowe Rachat (real gunpla I have built/customized check out my gunpla tag). Thinking maybe I'll have my Sakura Freedom eventually too.

Yeah so my entire thing is that I'm depressed that GBN has so much SDGF stuff but nobody seems to care about the show so all the fucking Build Divers watch it at Ayame's house and then Koichi shows up to my castle again saying things like "I know how you feel, but you have to trust me!" And when I respond "Why should I trust you?" he interjects with, "Are you going to say, You know nothing of my misery?" and then my GP04 steps on him and kills him in real life

but I become very good friends with Ayame because of course I do. I ask her with deep suspicion why her gundam is named Zeromaru. She refuses to answer the question.

I fucking rock Kokoru Odoru at karaoke and everyone is confused. I meet Magee and I am extremely startled when he opens his mouth and then the world collapses. The end.

Kyoya dies single.