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▲ 7 r/djiosmo

Pocket 4 in the US?

I don't have a way to go to another country to get the Pocket 4 and bring it into the US, so does that mean I'm just..screwed? Not allowed to have it now? I don't like buying used electronics, and there isn't any nearby that anyone is selling anyway, and I'm FOR SURE not buying a used electronic without being able to test it, so that means no used ones from another state that the person ships to me (that's a HUGE amount of money to gamble that you aren't being sent a broken item or something), so is it just "too bad you don't get to have this", then? Because buying used seems to be the only way anyone that can't go to another country just to buy a camera will be able to get one. It's like, PERFECT for my filming needs, but it's the ONLY version that the FCC decided just aren't allowed to be sold here.

And before anyone says it, I don't want the Pocket 3. I've seen battery tests, and I NEED that extra battery life. That's why I never got the 3 in the first place. Just that added hour makes it more worth it for me.

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u/JeiCos — 4 days ago
▲ 2 r/cosplayprops

Need help finding a way to do this character attack as a prop.

https://imgur.com/a/eKkdXkZ

I'm trying to figure out how I can do this kind of swirl thing as a cosplay prop. This is an attack from the character Rimuru from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. I THINK this is supposed to be his ultimate skill called Beelzebub, but the anime has no attack that actually looks like this figure's attack, but it looks cool, and might be the best they could do to interpret that attack. Anyway, I had 3 ideas, but I can't figure out the best thing to do.

Idea 1 was to use cellophane with armature wire, but I have no idea how I would even do that, let alone get the pieces to stick together without glue showing. Or even how the cellophane would stay in the right shapes needed, again, without glue being visible. I would have been using purple and it being translucent would give it that partial see through look. but I can't figure anything out on this method, to even START with it.

Idea 2 was to 3d print, but that isn't gonna happen, so don't even bother suggesting this. In order for it to look good, AND be translucent, it would need to be resin printed, which would need to be solid, which would weigh a CRAP ton. Not happening.

Idea 3 was to draw the swirl design on a large clear plastic bowl, like from the dollar store or something, and then use purple stain glass spray paint which is translucent. But I have a feeling that will look really ugly.

So I'm completely out of ideas. I will resort to the bowl idea if I can't figure anything else out and no one has any ideas I can work with. I also only have about 3 weeks to get this done. Cutting it close I know, but it was a last minute cosplay we decided to do for a con, because I know Rimuru's english voice actor, and see her every time she's at cons where I live, and she was brainstorming with me on this prop at the last con, and she wants to see it when I get it done, and she was JUST announced for the next con, which is in 3 weeks from today, so we decided to try to get this done to show her.

If anyone has ideas, please let me know. I can not find ANYTHING anywhere online that looks even close to what this attack looks like.

u/JeiCos — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/CosplayHelp

Question about UHU Glue on wigs.

I'm in need of a glue for a wig that will NOT come undone with heavy handling. I'll give all the context needed for exactly what I'm concerned about. I want to cosplay Alastor from Hazbin Hotel, and he has side swept bangs, however, using normal got2b glued blasting freeze hair spray, and even heat tools like a straightener to melt the fibers, does not hold when I put the wig on, because I need to pull it over a 3d printed mask. I do NOT want to do what everyone else does with face paint and makeup, because I sweat very easily and this will be mid summer, making it even worse. So makeup and face paint will just immediately run, even with what people consider the best setting sprays on the planet. They just DO NOT work on me. So I opted for a mask and I HAVE to pull the front of the wig over the forehead of the mask. I don't have a choice. But doing so IMMEDIATELY unstyles the bangs. I can not redo the bangs once it's on because now there's a whole mask in the way that I do not want to get hairspray all over. And no I can't just put something between the hair and mask. Since the wig can not just stay in place, doing this is likely to cause the wig to go out of place and I would have to adjust it again. But if I do, that will just unstyle the bangs again. And repeat until the heat death of the universe. Would UHU glue hold in this situation? Remember I would need to be able to remove the wig to be able to take the mask off so I can eat. I've been trying to find alternatives like doing a foam wig or something, but no such thing exists and I can't even wrap my head around how to do that for this character.

So yea, tl;dr: if I use UHU glue in the bangs of the wig, will it hold good enough that stretching the front of the wig over a face mask of the character, won't cause the bangs to come undone?

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u/JeiCos — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/Leatherworking

I have a leather jacket for a costume I do (Gambit from X-Men, and yes, it's real leather, not pleather), and it had been in a garment bag for about half a year, and even swapped to another one and I didn't see this until now, but it ended up getting this white powder all over parts of it. The right sleeve and under the right armpit got it the worst. I read that this can just happen with leather, but the result I got from cleaning it should NOT be happening. I wiped it away with a damp paper towel, and the 2 worst spots got these weird bumps all over it. Can anyone tell me what the heck this is? The room it's in is not moist and I keep it pretty climate controlled, so it makes no sense for it to be a type of mold, since I have other OLDER leather products, in that same room, and in there even longer, and none of them have had this happen. Can anyone help me? I feel like I'm about to scream because this was expensive and now it's ruined for seemingly no reason at all.

https://imgur.com/a/GPqHpHu

u/JeiCos — 4 months ago