The Cuteness That Is Chubbs The Wampug

Ever wanted to see a pug dressed as a Wampa? Well now you can. Check out Chubbs. A very adorable pug that is dressed like a Wampa. Chubbs has multiple costumes and she is adorable in all. It's enough to make anyone go aaaaaawwwwwweeeeeee.

Also check out her mom's site. Who creates Chubb's costumes plus is a costumer herself.

http://starwarschick.com/pug-chubbs-costume-wampug 

Costume Wish List Take 2

I couldn't just have one post on a wish list. I had to have more costumes I wanted to make/have. I'm going to need a house at some point with a big garage to work on this stuff.

The above image is Kyrisa a nightsister from Dathomir. The nightsister/Sith witches were brought in recently on The Clone Wars. I discovered Kyrisa when I was randomly researching nightsisters awhile ago. She has exceptional skills in controlling beasts. She ends up on Hoth and we all know what is on Hoth. Wampas. And she can control them. I'm the Wampa Handler. Kyrisa controls Wampas and I handle for Rusty the Wampa. Pretty much a given on my part.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kyrisa

Next up is from another movie. Alice from Resident Evil. I always see Jill Valentine being made but rarely see an Alice. The one I'm thinking is from Resident Evil Extinction. I do enjoy the parallels to Alice in Wonderland. I figure this would be a nice one to have for comic conventions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(Resident_Evil)

Next up is from one of my favorite video game franchises. Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. Specifically from the newer game that came out in 2011. He has always been one of my favorite characters. This one has been on my mind for awhile to make.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_(Mortal_Kombat)

Another one well two that happens to be from 80's cartoons. Jem and She-Ra. Yep I said it Jem and She-Ra. Why not. They were my favs then. Gotta love the 80's anyways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra

And one last one until I decide to make a few more. Eric Draven. Yeah off the top of people's heads they may not know that name. But they may know the movie that character is from. The Crow. One of my absolute favorite movies. I know its called a gothic action flix but I think its a chic flix. I'll explain. Guy comes back from the dead to avenger his fiance's death. Chic flix. Well in my head it is. I just think it would be a different costume for me to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_(film)

So here concludes my second wish lists. I'm sure an another week or 2 I will come up with more.

Costume Wish List

Everyone has their own wish lists for different things. Just think about it when you were a kid. I know you all remember those pages of a Christmas lists we all made. Some have their movie wish lists. Game wish lists. Well this is my costume wish list. This is the list of costumes I want to make over the next few years. None of these are including the ones that I already have or in the process of making them. Please check out the links to all of these characters.

First off, is CT-21-0408. But the name that is most known is Echo. He is a clone in Star Wars The Clone Wars. He is my favorite clone in the series from the first moment I saw him in the episode "Rookies." He will always be my favorite. Sadly he met his end in the show. But I will make this costume next.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Echo

Next costume, Jaina Solo the daughter of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo. Yeah in case you didn't know it Han and Leia not only got married but had kids 3 in fact. Jaina is a twin to her brother Jaycen who later became a Sith. Jaina is called the Sword of the Jedi. Ever since I started reading the Expanded Universe books Jaina became one of my favorites. She even went to go train with Boba Fett. Yes a Solo trained with Fett.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaina_Solo

Next up from a horror movie, Silent Hill. This character well enemy is in the video games as well as the movie. But I will be going with the ones from the movie. I think it would be a fun costume to have on hand for horror conventions.

http://silenthill.wikia.com/wiki/Nurse

Next one is an anime character from Naruto. This is my favorite character of the series. It's Gaara. His story gets heartbreaking at times. He has been through so much and is the Kazekage of the Sand Village and that is the costume I chose to make.

http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gaara

Next one is from another horror movie. Saw. More specifically Jigsaw. I had this one at one point in time. But it was just a cheap one I bought. I want to make one. Basically the robe and the weapons under the sleeves. Saw is my favorite horror movie franchise. I even have a jigsaw piece tattoo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(Saw)

Next up and this will be a big undertaking. We are talking about stilts (no I'm not making my own wampa) and multiple lightsabers. I'm talking about General Grievous. The cyborg general of the Clone Wars. Like I said this will be a big undertaking once I get going with it. Maybe by CVII?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grievous

SWTOR: My Review

I've never played any MMO games. I'm use to my PS3. I've had several other systems but never really played on the computer. I rarely go online to play a game on the PS3 other then maybe for Little Big Planet or Call of Duty. So Star Wars The Old Republic was an interesting twist for me.

Also I know nothing of the Expanded Universe regarding the Old Republic. I'm a child of the Original Trilogy. I watched the Prequels as they came out and have expanded my knowledge to the Expanded Universe books surrounding these 6 movies and the Clone Wars.

I heard about SWTOR almost 2 years ago on E3. The yearly gaming convention. Several of us hoped it would be cross platform. No dice. At this point I was like no way. I'm not playing it. I don't do MMO's. I like my platformers just fine. Then I kept hearing all about it once it came out. I watched videos and was like okay maybe I would try it.

One day, some kind soul took pity on me and handed me the trial. I downloaded the game. I first watched the opening cinematic. Holy crap! The graphics are gorgeous. I'm like make a movie and make it look like this. Well I have seen a movie that gorgeous and that was Final Fantasy Advent Children.

Then it was time to pick a side. Naturally I choose the dark side. My first character I made was a Sith Warrior. Fail. I couldn't figure out the controls. So I made another character. A Chiss Bounty Hunter. Once again fail. I almost give up. I just couldn't get a handle of the controls. I watched a few tutorial videos and that kind of helped. So I tried one more time. I made my third character a Twi'lek Sith Inquisitor. Bingo! After hitting random buttons, I discovered the right mouse button was useful for something. Translation hitting things with a lightsaber. I slowly started picking up things. Just enough to get by. I ran several missions both dark and light side. I managed to make it to level 7 before my trial ran out. Not to shabby considering I never played an MMO and for the short amount of time I played.

I haven't purchased the game yet but I do plan on getting it soon. I did have fun playing it and I would like to keep trying with all 3 of the characters I made. Plus would like to have more characters as well.

http://www.swtor.com/

And yet another tattoo design

I think this is my fav so far.

2 more tattoos....

and of course they keep with a certain theme.

New idea for a tattoo

It's a work in process...

Costume Process To Become Barriss Offee

After picking my character, Barriss Offee, then it came time to find clothes, She is one of the few that wears a crush velvet cloak which thanks to RenFest I happen to have one. As for the rest, off to the lcoal thrift store. Which on the first trip I scored the skirt. Brand new skirt including it's tags for $1.75. Next trip out I find the first shirt for $2.50. Next I needed boots. I always wanted Doc Martens so I splurged and bought $125 knee high, zip up black boots (in hind sight I should have bought German Jackboots since I'll be needing them for my Juno and Starkiller costume)

Somehwere and somehow I decided to not go with a screen accurate version but instead the story board verion of her death. Well but she's a force healer so I'm assuming she survived. So time to destroy everything, except the boots.

With a day off from work and a rolling cutter in hand I set to work. I started on the ankle length skirt and cutting it from right thigh to left ankle. I cut that side up and laced it corset style. I sewed in a button to keep it secure just incase the lacing fails.

Next I attacked the shirt. It was a long sleeve shirt. I went cut happy with it. By the time I was done, there were no sleeves and a ton of slash marks opening up the shirt. OOPS. I ended up cutting the back out and lacing it up corset style. Then it was pointed out it looked too RenFest. TRASHED!

A couple months later a trip to another thrift store was in store. I found black turtleneck for $5.00, which was what I really needed to be more along with the shirt she wears. And yes a turtleneck in Florida is not really brillant but I need it for a costume. I hand over the shirt to Jeremy and he sets to work. I found a material to match the ribbed pattern on the front of her shirt. We now added in blast holes to match the ones in cloak and added holes to the front of the shirt.

Back to the cloak. I had fear of what we were about to do. I was originally going to make a second cloak and destroy that one but I'm not that sew savvy yet and since I never wear this other one I've had for 8 years I thought why not. The cloak was too long even in heels which I wasn't going to wear so I trimmed off the bottom 6 inches or so to use as a test piece. This was the fun part, we discovered that alchol in a spray bottle and a light makes a nice burn pattern. Considered that a successful test we plan to burn the entire cloak. We roughed up the bottom then after I asked Jeremy's wife if they have home owners insurance I commenced with the burning. There was one bad one where I sprayed a tad too much alcohol and it went up quick but we were able to keep the burning under control. Next it was to mark up the back, cut it and then burn the edges. I freaked at this because it was a one time shot. We jumped in and in no time all was well and it looked like it had been shot in the back.

Only thing left to do is finish the belt.

First Attempt At Making SW Designs

I had started getting crazy ideas to do designs based on a few SW symbols. These were my original attempts.

Want 2 See A Wampa Costume?

The view below is my friend Jeremy, see his site at http://mywampa.blogspot.com/ . When he found out about SWCV and he decided to build a Wampa. Just in case people don't know, the Wampa is the snow beast in the beginning of Episode 5 Empire Strikes Back that attackes Luke on the ice planet Hoth.

Check this video out on Becoming The Wampa. That is me, the official Wampa Handler, helping out. We will be at CV.

Check Out My Order 66 Conspiracy Theory

I go in depth in a theory I've come to believe about Order 66 thanks to watching The Clone Wars.

Check it out on my other site http://inkstressreviews.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-order-66-conspiracy-theory.html

The Lightsaber I Built...

I wanted to make my own lightsaber instead of using one of the kid's lightsabers or spend $350 for Battle-Ready Force FX Lightsaber. So I went about looking for how to build one.



My first attempt was to make one of PVC. I'm a graphic artist. I deal with all my artwork on Photoshop and Illustrator not "real life" stuff. So this was a new stretch for me. I made a Photoshop version of what I was attempting. That was so much easier then the first one. I won't bore you with the details of how bad the PVC one turned out. Half way through it I realized that I wasn't happy with it so I called it my first attempt.



I ended up buying one of the kid's one. Darth Vader of course. It's lights up and has sound. I also bought a resign lightsaber hilt from MegaCon which is still sitting on my shelf untouched. I'm not to savvy of a painter either. Further down the line I bought they cheap twin ones that light up. They remember of glow stick wars when I act light I know how to sword fight.

Once again, thanks to Jeremy, he sent me some links to a how to site along with a video on how to build a light saber.

http://bigyellowbox.tripod.com/
http://www.indymogul.com/backyardfx/episode/BFX_20080811

After yelling for 30 minutes because he knew I'd try to make this and then making sure he had all the tools I set about making a shopping list. Off to Lowes the next day. After spending $45, I was set and ready to make my own lightsaber out of chrome extension pipes. I borrowed a pipe cutter from Jeremy and a drimmel. That weekend I took the pieces to my dad's to cut out the handle grips and the emitter tubing. By the nights end I had everything glued together. I had done what every Jedi has done. Made my own lightsaber, with the exception of no blade, nor lights, or sound. But I have the hilt. I didn't know I could make something like this. I will have this as part of my costume for SWCV.

Check Out My Death Troopers Review

I just did my first review on the Star Wars book, Death Troopers.

Visit my other site http://inkstressreviews.blogspot.com/2010/07/death-troopers-review.html