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I realise I didn't actually post any photos with this

Cone arms

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Cone arms

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Tessa's ribcage and humerus(arm bone) after the solver/cyn melts away. I really do think she got teleported into, plus the fact that the solver/cyn lost because of teleporting into Uzi's hand and it essentially clipping through their body

Solver-possed cyn straight up just teleported into Tessa because there is no way that cyn was able to put her on like a coat while her skeleton was still in there too along with her organs and stuff

The drone arms are already bursting through the skin and the hands are bigger than them.

It would also explain the head shape since the rest of the humans in the show are anatomically accurate where as, you can see where the drone's visor connects to the mouth part underneath the skin

Also a small side thing

What would have happend if this lil creature got the patch. With absolutely no evidence to support this just imagine patched flesha being Tessa's consciousness trapped in what used to be her own body. But tbh it'd probably be pre-solver-possession cyn. But I'm here on the "man, I wish Tessa wasn't dead this entire time lol" wagon.

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DUDE DUDE DUDE I AM OBSESSED WITH THE STUFF YOU MADE OMFG. the wings and the claws im!!!! im feral rn. holy shit

do you have any advice on where to get started if someone were wanting to make something like that of their own? or just generally propmaking for cosplay stuff, god knows i need to find a way to make wings of Some Form to appease the hyperfixation lol

love this stuff it's so cool holy hell

Wow, hey thank you for the nice words :).

In terms of advice, I'd say just be prepared for random stuff to go wrong.

DOWN SCALE.

Unless you have the wide open space required to house an extra entity, I'd say down scale it and make the wing span smaller, because I literally cannot put these anywhere lol. Me and my friends were measuring them by an estimated version of Tessa's height, assuming she was an adult Australian (160cm) and not a dead child wearing robot. The original wing span ended up being almost three and a half Tessas. Down scaling is definitely recommended.

Then going on to material, I'm going to be honest, I don't really know what any good substitutes for what I've been using. The best thing I can think of would be like cutting up one of those big umbrellas you see in like outdoor seating areas because they are built to be sturdy and light enough to to transport places. The blade part of the wings were made out of cheapo yoga mats, they are not Eva foam(idk if Eva foam is more expensive, but cheapo worked for me), they are some kind of material similar to insulation sheets just slightly thicker, I have the cutting patterns on the blog (the mats are 140x50x1cm) . Springs are something similar to "helical extension springs"(they pull things together, like trampoline springs) the strength of these will vary depending on how and if you downscale the over all project.

The general wing mechanism had to be redone a little bit but the new design is just based off an umbrella. It's good to use when you fold it in that the sections form a square in between the joints as a reference because it makes it easier to translate to the wings when drilling holes. The grey moving bar is on the outside now👇

I'll be reall, this part👆 needs a bit of precision. The two holes at the bottom have to be the exact same distance and stuff as each other so the mechanism works. You could probably find a way to optimise the mechanism but I did not (this was just easier for me at least)

The way all the blade parts go up is kinda cheesing it if you want all individual parts to work perfectly without extra materials. I was tying a string together on the bars and it worked to space the wings as I wanted to.

All in all, I'm going to be making a big ol summary post detailing all the stuff whenever I'm done fully.

Until then, I hope this helps, good luck to you and don't be afraid to make mistakes :).

(it's only a mistake if you give up)

Prop making and cosplay in general are things I probably can't comment on because I have never done cosplay and most of the prop things, I make are made out of random trash I can find that would cost dumb money if you went out to buy it new.

These for example are gutter or house liner plastic that was left over from a building site (gloves were uber cheap) and they were tedious and smelly to cut out and melt over an open flame, but if you want to do this too wear a mask for saftey unless you don't care about your lungs (which you should)

The claws were a lot easier to make. Easy enough that I made two sets (I think I went through the process of making these already)

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Update because the series is over and the spiders are gone

They spring out now :D

Still working on a mechanism for retracting them

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The main moon keeps getting closer

Theory before tomorrow: it's being sucked into copper-9's gravitational pull because of a black hole at the planets collapsed core

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Wings update: there's spiders In them now.

:')

I don't live in Australia but these little [term expressing disdain] are big by my country's standards. My level of arachnophobia is already pathetic so I can't really touch the project until they leave my house or this world.

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Who's dying (again)

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Is this V???

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Guys

Must have been a lot of trauma

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I just realised that after today I won't be able to make any progress on the wings until like next month or so😔

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Wing update

Got string tied and glued at lengths so when the mechanism opens it's evenly separated.

The last one needs to be cut shorter

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J doing plot stuff in episode 8

(it's more likely than you think?)

Wouldn't be a satisfying narrative if J has to kill the skin suit solver host, permanently?

Here's a possibility, J is the only one shown to have the virus thing which apearantly kills even the disassembly drones cause it targets the core.

So she has a weapon that can destroy cores like in the zombie drone tapes.

I'm pretty sure that thing was made to prevent the absaloute solver from becoming so much of a problem in the first place.

I think it would be (enrichment) if J had to come to terms with Tessa's death by permanently killing the flesh suit solver host she had assumed was Tessa, with the virus thingy.

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Just wanted to share my tessa cosplay I did a couple weeks ago :D

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Finally found material to use as the frame work for these feather blade

Also these things

Real time update

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Yeva alive maybe (probably not but we stay hopeful)

Ok so, nori in ep7 is a meatball heart core thing, because, like all others affected by the solver (witches and disassembly drones) her og body got mercy killed by khan after one of the dds stabbed her with nanite acid.

At some point her core got out of and headed back to the cabin fever labs. More importantly, she left without anyone knowing a meatball had escaped her corroding shell.

With this episode confirming nori was alive this entire time, (with the patch) then yeva might also be alive.

There is a point to mention v, knowing about the solver could have made sure to destroy the cores but both of doll's parents appear to have gunshot wounds meaning their cores probably were fine. So if they are fine and their bodies are still vacant in doll's house then where did they go? Maybe back to cabin fever labs, captured by Alice and put in an oven, there were a few cores named there. And even if yeva had the solver under control, Alice probably would not listen to an tripod meatball when putting it in an oven.

(will those cores ever be let out, who knows)

(If she had lost her memories like stated in day 47. She would have definitely found out everything by the same footage uzi saw of her patch ceremony.)

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Redoing the claw hands so they springy:)