Project: FFX Treasure Chest: Part 2

      So the basic box is done, time to make the top.  I'm gonna do this with pole wrap, a product made for covering unsightly supports, usually in basements.  First I cut three half round pieces the width of the side of the box minus the thickness of the pole wrap x2.  Then 2 the size of the actual side.  Then I drilled holes through all three and glued a dowel into them that I used as a spacer.  The center half round I cut the center out of.  The pictures should make this clearer.

2 sides and 3 cut out center pieces.

The dowel is glued through the 3 center to give you your spacing.

Now it's time to put on the pole wrap.  I glued it and tacked it on with some brads.

That's pretty easy.  Now I have the basic parts, it's time to stain them, then put them together.

Just used basic walnut wood stain.  Now we put the top on with some hinges and add a closer so it can't slam on your fingers.  Also it will stay open if you want it to.

Again these are the easy parts.  Now you have a decent chest.  Now to paint it to look like the chest in the game.  This requires lots of  blue or green masking tape.  Not the tan stuff.

You just have to start taping where you want to make the lines like say the gold stripes on the top.

Tape it off and paint it gold, wait for it to dry take off the tape and do another part.  Keep going till you have stuff filled in.  I used a metallic gold craft paint.  Of course ideally I would not paint it, I would cut the pieces out of brass and steel.  But god that would take forever.

So I filled in a bunch of gold then I mixed some gray and silver to fill in the side bits.  Well I worked away at it and here are a few pictures of the Finished, for now, product.

I have to say I'm not entirely pleased with it, but now I have a FFX chest so there's that

Katsucon 2011 Saturday

       Saturday again found us incognito taking pictures with Kimi's fancy new Nikon D-5000.  There was a lot of good cosplay out there Saturday, here is but a sample.   

Adorable EVA girls,  with a Pen-Pen, Yeah.

Really cool How to Train Your Dragon

Breathtaking  Cosplay. :)

Great Team Rocket,  wish I got a better shot of Jessie's  hair it was epic.

Kick ass Jack Skellington.

Oh yea, also these big headed thing started dancing, weird.

Now time for us to get dressed. It's Lantis and Alcyone from Magic Knights Rayearth. 

By EBK

We wandered for a while and then hit the sports bar for dinner.  The ribs were quite good, and it's not as frighteningly expensive as the other places.  One non con going young lad referred to Kimi as the devil lady.  Which is crazy cause those are clearly bat-like ears not devil horns.  It's amazing how fast the day went, it was already into the evening and he had not done Auron and Lulu yet.  But first, I saw one group of cosplayers while I was Lantis that I just had to get a picture of.

Mei, Ty Lee and Azula from Avatar

Unfortunately I took this with my crappy pocket camera so it's not very good.  But this group was very good.  They were perfect like they walked right out of the show.  They had the characters down pat.  I wondered for a second if Azula was about to do something terrible.  These girls get it.

EBK  again

Anyway it's time to switch to Auron and Lulu and head out again.  Again we walked around then headed to the Final Fantasy shoot at the fountain.  Which was a totally disorganized mess. A giant contrast to the One Piece shoot.  Less said the better.  Well time to head up to the bar and meet up with The Steampunk Family.
Who are also my actual sisters family.

Phineas and Madame Von Hedwig

 We also ran into world renowned cosplay photographer Eurobeat King who took the above picture and a few others.  well time to fly.  Before going up to change we ran into two more cosplays I really liked.

Detective Conan

The cutest Detective Conan,  and some old school Leiji Matsumoto characters Harlock, Emeraldas and Maetel.  Who all originally appeared in the classic Galaxy Express 999.

Harlock, Emeraldes and Maetel

We went up and changed into our secret identities and headed out for a late night screening of adult AMV's.  Several of them were pretty funny and clever, the rest were kind of lame.  Still an amusing end to a great day at Katsucon