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Friends cut has been made. I'm expecting a backlash from at least one person, so might as well let me have it.
A lot of thought went into this. I didn't want to do it. But there were lots of reasons behind it. Please respect me enough to understand that this hurt me a lot.
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WARNING: This post is picture heavy. It's about 90% pictures because if all these tutorials were in text form, LiveJournal would kick me in the face with their character limit and I would have to split this post up into about 8 separate posts. Please be patient and eat a sandwich or something while this page loads. Thank you!
After so many people asking for prop help on cosplay.com and elsewhere, I've decided to make a guide, here on my LJ. :) In this post, I'll put tutorials, and people can come to ask questions. If you wish to ask how to make a certain prop, please put the name of the prop in the subject to make it easier for other users to find it. Also, include reference pictures. As time goes on, I'm sure that people will start to ask for help on the same prop over and over, so I ask that you please read through the comments first to see if your question has already been answered. Also, if you happen to find any bugs in the links, please let me know! ^.^v
This link has also been shared here on cosplay.com. So check there to see if a question you have may have already been answered.
I'm no longer taking commissions, but feel free to browse my cosplay prop store at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tsuki_sales!
If you'd like to leave a comment or question about a specific prop, please put the name of the item in the subject for easy finding for both me and others. That way, if someone has a question about the same prop, they'll be able to see if their question has already been answered within a few moments of searching and then I won't have to repeat myself several dozen times. ^^; Also, please don't delete your comments. There's no such thing as dumb questions. I should know. :)
Supplies most commonly used:
Model Magic
Sculpey
Painter's Caulk (white)
Sand Paper
Super glue
Dowel Rods (3/4" or 1" thick, usually)
Pre-cut wooden shapes (predominantly circles and hearts)
Rhinestones and assorted beads and gems
20 gague wire
Styrofoam balls and disks
PVC pipe (3/4" thick, usually) and misc. PVC pipe parts
Hot glue gun (High temp ONLY!! Low temp is for things things that run the risk of melting. Nothing here qualifies as such. Here, you'll need the strength of high temp!!)
E-6000 epoxy glue (Recently discovered! For extra strength and flexibility, consider using this in place of hot glue if you don't need a quick set time. STRONGER THAN HOT GLUE!!)
Brooch pins (they look like safety pins, but one side has a flat base)
Craft Foam
Modge Podge (see above link)
Sailor Moon Prop Tutorials:
Note: If I have not made the specific prop before, there will be a disclaimer. If I have, there will be a difficulty rating on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being easy, and 5 being very difficult).
Moon's hair pearls
Moon's 1st season wand
Moon's 1st season brooch
Moon's 2nd season wand
Moon's 2nd season brooch
Moon's 3rd season wand
Moon's 3rd season brooch
Moon's 4th season brooch
Moon's 4th season wand: anime
Moon and Chibi Moon's 4th season wand: manga
Moon's 5th season brooch
Moon's tall crescent wand from the artbooks
Neo Queen Serenity's crown
King Endymion's medals
King Endymion's staff
Tuxedo Kamen's mask
Luna-P
Chibi-Usa's Time Key
Chibi-Moon's 3rd season wand
Chibi-Moon's 3rd season brooch
Chibi-Moon's 4th season brooch
Chibi-Moon's Twinkle Bell: anime
Chibi-Moon's Twinkle Bell: manga
Generic inner senshi 1st henshin pen
Venus' manga henshin pen
Generic inner senshi 2nd henshin wand
Generic inner senshi 3nd henshin wand
Generic round senshi brooch
Generic heart-shaped senshi brooch
Outer senshi henshin wand
Neptune's Deep Aqua Mirror
Black Crystal Earrings
Princess Kakyuu's Crown
PGSM Princess Sailor Moon's Sword
Card Captor Sakura Prop Tutorials:
Sakura's Staff of Sealing
Sakura's Star Wand
Sakura's keys
Sakura's really tall staff (episode 69)
The Suggestion Corner - Basically, it would have been a pain to re-write all the code on this entry! >P
( Basic Model Magic Use )
( Moon's hair pearls )
( Moon's 1st season wand )
( Moon's 1st season brooch )
( Moon's 2nd season wand )
( Moon's 2nd season brooch )
( Moon's 3rd season wand )
( Moon's 3rd season brooch )
( Moon's 4th season brooch )
( Moon's 4th season wand )
( Moon and Chibi Moon's 4th season wand: manga )
( Moon's 5th season brooch )
( Moon's tall crescent wand from the artbooks )
( Neo Queen Serenity's crown )
( King Endymion's medals )
( King Endymion's staff )
( Tuxedo Kamen's mask )
( Luna-P )
( Chibi-Usa's Time Key )
( Chibi Moon's 3rd Season Wand )
( Chibi-Moon's 3rd season brooch )
( Chibi-Moon's 4th season brooch )
( Chibi-Moon's Twinkle Bell: anime )
( Chibi-Moon's Twinkle Bell: manga )
( Generic inner senshi 1st henshin pen )
( Venus' manga henshin pen )
( Generic inner senshi 2nd henshin wand )
( Generic inner senshi 3nd henshin wand )
( Generic round senshi brooch )
( Generic heart-shaped senshi brooch )
( Outer senshi henshin wand )
( Neptune's Deep Aqua Mirror )
( Black Crystal Earrings )
( Princess Kakyuu's Crown )
( Sakura's Staff of Sealing )
( Sakura's Star Wand )
( Sakura's keys )
( Sakura's really tall staff (episode 69) )
Have a prop from Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, or some other anime to suggest? Leave a comment with some good, detailed pictures and I'll see if I can wrap my brain around it! :P
( The Suggestion Corner! )
( PGSM Princess Sailor Moon's Sword )
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August 2nd, 2005 11:49 pm
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This Journal is now friends only because of the existence of trolls and people who are just plain mean and rude. If you want to be added as a friend, please add me first as a sign of good faith and leave a comment, providing the following information:
(These questions are subject to change over time)
 Why do you want to be friends?
How did you find me? Did we meet in real life, are you a friend of a friend, are we members in the same LJ community?
What are some of the interests we share? (Please list more than Sailor Moon and cosplay. That's not much to go on and I discuss WAY more than that here.)
Do you like pink fluffy bunnies?
If you add me without commenting on THIS entry, you will not be added back until you do so! All this "formality" proves to me that you have the capacity for logic and aren't adding me to stalk or make your FL longer.
Etiquette:
 Do not leak things from my Friends Only posts to others. If I have something in a locked post, there's a good reason for it.
Be nice and friendly. It hurts when you're mean.
Be honest but respectful, too. I won't defriend you because of a difference of opinion but I will if you lie to me and I hear about it from a second party.
Add me back. It's common courtesy.
NO DRAMA, or you will receive the hissing Ryo-ohki. If you should find a hissing Ryo-ohki as a reply to one of your comments on my journal, it is your only warning. For further drama-related information, please see the bottom of this post.
Don't write full comments in l33t. That's just weird and I don't want to take the time trying to decipher it.
Do not hit on me or my husband. I will not respond pleasantly to it.
Don't take pictures that I post of me and my family and post them somewhere else or claim them as your own. Do not make or take icons of my family and use them on your journal.
Please leave comments now and then so I know you still have the ability to fog up a mirror if held under your nose. I worry when my friends go MIA for a while. :'(
My De-friending Policy:
You will be cut from my friends list if you
 start drama in my journal or are a drama queen.
are two-faced.
lie to me.
don't respect my rules.
give me a bad/creepy feeling that I just can't shake.
post offensive and/or disturbing material in my LJ.
post offensive and/or disturbing material in your LJ without an LJ-cut with a warning of some type.
Definition of offensive and/or disturbing material:
Pictures or detailed writings containing foul language, genitalia, sexual posing (even if lingerie or the like is being worn), blood, or extreme violence. When in doubt, cut it. I am very sensitive to this type of material and have no desire to view it. If I see it without a cut AND a warning, you're gone. No questions asked.
If you can't follow the guidelines, or if you regularly post drama or disturbing material on your journal, please do not even bother adding me.
My Drama Policy:
Ugh! I hate that I have to write this crap out. *sigh*
I don't intend on ever starting drama, but one day it may come my way for one stupid reason or another. If it happens, I may discuss it to get it off my chest, but the topic will be limited to mature discussion only. If you have information that would help in resolving the issue, please make sure that it comes from a valid source (not Wiki, not 2nd or 3rd party rumors, not Pocky Box, not 4chan). Unless I am the target of drama, the subject is taboo. My journal is not the place to discuss the latest dirt.
Do not start a flame war on my journal. Seeing as this is my journal, I have the supreme ability to extinguish such things mightily fast and ban the offenders. (BWAHAHA!) If you have a problem with someone else on my friends list, take it to your own journal or to the person you're having an issue with like a mature adult.
If someone posts a picture of me on 4chan or any other cosplay hate site, I have no desire to know. Please do not share it with anyone and do not feed the flames. Just let it die, since that is the only real solution to such idiocy. If someone is using an icon with my face/cosplay, please do tell me! To me, that constitutes identity theft. One me is enough for the world to handle. ^^;
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