Alexstrasza is the Queen of Dragons, and she has some eye-catching armor. It’s skimpy like many ensembles in World of Warcraft, but it still took craftsmanship to create. Oshley Cosplay spent about four months recreating Alexstrasza’s costume; she loves the character and her armor. She used several different materials in construction, including Friendly Plastic for the trinkets dangling from the horns:
The first attempt I tried forming the clay in the shape I wanted and then forming the Friendly Plastic over the lumps of clay but it did not create the distinct lines and shape that I wanted so I was hesitant to continue working with those pieces. I also did not have a very good in-game reference image to work from so the design wasn’t spot on either. Merp.
My second try went a. lot. better. Instead of shaping the clay to my desired shape I only used the clay as an oval base. All the designs and lumps were formed by hand, rolling the hot plastic on the non-stick surface I was working on. I used a closer in-game image of the bobble, as well as Kamui Cosplay’s design as a reference. The Friendly Plastic by itself is not nice to paint so I primed it first with a few layers of gesso before laying down a few gold layers.
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Wow! I stumbled upon your website while boredly Google-ing my name at work, and was surprised to see my Alexstrasza costume featured in this article. It is always interesting to find little parts of my work across the Internet, and I like the article format you work with.
Thank you for the post 🙂 Much appreciated!