by Benni | Dec 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Cosplay is an awesome hobby but sometimes newcomers are intimidated because they think all the materials are really expensive. While Worbla is a great solution to create armor and props with, this time I would like to talk about the super affordable alternative EVA...
by Benni | Dec 21, 2014 | cosplay, tutorial, Worbla
One of my bigger projects in 2014 was a Norn Warrior from Guild Wars 2. As somebody who easily falls in love with stunning designs, the Norn was a character race I wanted to bring to life right after I discovered this amazing armor set. It not only had this very...
by Benni | Nov 15, 2014 | cosplay, Uncategorized
When it’s time to find a new project, one question pops out every single time: Can I transport it? After countless hours in Skyrim (killing mammoths collecting their snouts), The Elder Srolls Series was a long inspiration for a new costume and like many others I...
by Benni | Jun 24, 2014 | cosplay, Uncategorized
When it comes to the choice of a new costume it goes always down to the dimensions of my suitcase. It doesn’t really matter how much I love a character, a TV show, a game or a comic – if my suitcase doesn’t like it, then the final costume won’t...
by Benni | Jun 23, 2014 | cosplay, Uncategorized
For a pretty long time Wonder Woman was a character I really wanted to realize but sadly I never found a design I fell in love with. Maybe it was a the lack of armor, but most of them were just too sexy for my taste. Then a friend of mine, the lovely Yaya Han visited...
by Benni | Mar 28, 2014 | cosplay, Uncategorized
Want to make armor yourself? Now you can! For the last few years I was getting so many messages every day, asking for tips and for advice about cosplay making that even if I tried to, I could not answer them all....
by Benni | Mar 13, 2014 | cosplay, Uncategorized
I’m a pretty lucky girl. Only a few days after I’ve got my commission request for the Wizard from Intel and Newegg.com both of these companies were that impressed with my previous work that I even got a further project. The request was to create something...
by Benni | Dec 3, 2013 | cosplay, Uncategorized
In the summer of 2013 something exciting happened: The companies Intel and Newegg.com asked me for a commission! And it was not only any commission, it was a Wizard from Diablo III for their booth at Blizzcon. It was excited and the chance I always waited for and...
by Benni | Sep 10, 2013 | cosplay, Protoss Wizard
Big Update!!!! I know it’s a little late, but my Protoss Wizard won the 2013 Blizzcon Costume Contest Grand Prize! I am so super happy! Winning the Blizzcon contest was always a big dream of mine and I always though I could not do it because I normally...
by Benni | Aug 29, 2013 | cosplay, Warrior, Worbla
As a huge fan of armor costumes and World of Warcraft it was time again for a spiky, protective and a way too time consuming project: The Warrior Tier 5 or Blademisstress Lyss. Since the image didn’t show the full body, I decided to create a mix out of the WoW...
by Benni | Aug 1, 2013 | cosplay, Paladin, Worbla
As a pretty obsessed Druid player (I already created 6 Druid Tier sets from World of Warcraft!), there was always no option for me to create a cosplay of a different class. However I admit that I always had the wonderful artwork of Wei Wang in mind. Well, and then the...
by Benni | Jul 21, 2013 | Aegwynn, cosplay, Worbla
Some time passed since my last post and so now I have a lot to tell. 2013 is already the 3rd year I’m working for Cryptozoic – the publisher of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game – and after Alexstrazsa and Vanessa VanCleef I’ve got a new...
by Benni | Jan 22, 2013 | cosplay, Uncategorized
It’s winter. It’It’s winter. Is cold, it’s wet and the weather is just disgusting in Germany. No photoshoots, no conventions, nothing. BUT: Enough time for a new project! You maybe remember my old project from spring 2011: The Protoss Wizard....
by Benni | Oct 16, 2012 | cosplay, tutorial, Worbla
Where shall I start? What are the first steps? What do I need to take care of? These are the questions which pain many cosplay newcomers and those who want to get into this hobby. But in the first phase also many experienced people like me are sometimes pretty...
by Benni | Sep 22, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay, Paladin, photoshoot, Worbla
And I’m working and working! Last week, after some fixing experiments, I was finally able to finish the base of my boot armor. I still need to find a way to close the gap between the feet armor and the leg armor, but so far I’m satiesfied with the result....
by Benni | Sep 18, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay, Paladin, photoshoot, tutorial, Worbla
Puh, despite of the convention season is almost over I still had a lot to do in my last week: I started with my new project, Bloodelf Paladin Tier 2 and already working pretty busy on her armor: (There is more progress, but that’s the final look. As always...
by Benni | Sep 10, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay, Worbla
After work is before work! Oh, the last weeks, no the last months were pretty hard! Just one day after I came back from Gamescom and tried to find some free space for my new Barbarian costume it was time for the next project: Soridormi. Well, this costume was planned...
by Benni | Aug 22, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay
Yeah, I know, I know… I just posted an blog entry some time ago, but I just had to show you this! The very next day after Gamescom I got the change for the first photoshoot with my Barbarian. After many private shootings with my husband or his brother I wanted...
by Benni | Aug 21, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay
Puh, what a week! My costume was done, but now it was time for the weapons. My original plan was to build the big axe and also the pretty detailed sword in the reference of Wei Wangs artwork. And since I wanted to create two weapons in only one week I had to hurry a...
by Benni | Aug 11, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay
Oooh, I’m tired! I’m really, REALLY tired! The progress on my Barbarian cosplay from Diablo 3 continued very well, but it was also a lot of work, very exhausting and time consuming. My internship is over now, holidays started and so it was time to hurry...
by Benni | Jul 3, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay, workshop
Sooo, it’s been a while since I showed you some of my current project, but… I was busy. Sadly not just because of my costumes, but much more because of a traineeship which costs a lot of the freetime I had before. Well, but the traineeship will end at in...
by Benni | Mar 14, 2012 | Barbarian, cosplay, Vanessa VanCleef, Wonderflex
Oh my, I never can decide which cosplay I shall finish at first, ha ha! I planned to start with my Soridormi costume some weeks ago, started with the pauldrons and prepared the patterns for the dress until I noticed one important point: When this costume will be done...
by Benni | Feb 26, 2012 | cosplay, Soridormi, tutorial, video, workshop
Vanessa is done and it’s time to relax a bit again. I already started with a new project, but now there is no need to stress. My daggers for Vanessa still needs some love, but it should be no problem to give them a paint job till the next convention, the...
by Benni | Feb 20, 2012 | completion, cosplay, photoshoot, Vanessa VanCleef
Wow, the last two weeks were more than just exhausting! They tried to killed me! Cosplayers surely know this situation: A project has to be done till a fixed date, you’re costume is already almost done and only just some tiny little details are missing. The only...
by Benni | Feb 8, 2012 | cosplay, expanding foam, Vanessa VanCleef
Vanessa, Vanessa VanCleef in progress and everything works fine so far! Last time I announced my next project and now some weeks later the costume is already done. It’s pretty nice but after some years of cosplay I’m able to say that I already know my...
by Benni | Jan 23, 2012 | cosplay, expanding foam, Protoss Wizard, Vanessa VanCleef
New year, new costume! Since it’s winter I was a bit lazy in the last time, but now my holidays started and the next project have to be done next month! At the moment I’m working at Vanessa VanCleef, which was announced as the new challenge at all World of...
by Benni | Nov 8, 2011 | Blizzcon, cosplay, Druid Tier 9, Protoss Wizard, Soridormi
Puh, some weeks past, I’m just relaxing a bit and enjoy my new freetime and collect new energy for new projects. Almost everything for this year is done and it’s just awesome to be able to go without any stress and bad feeling to bed. No deadlines, no...
by Benni | Oct 26, 2011 | Blizzcon, completion, cosplay, Druid Tier 9
The last time you heard from me was just a few hours before I finished Benni’s costume, filled my suitcases and entered the airplane on the way to LA, Blizzcon and a week full of pure awesomeness! Benni, my husband, Selina, my cosplay partner, a further friend,...
by Benni | Oct 16, 2011 | completion, cosplay, Druid Tier 9, tutorial, video
Woah, three pretty stressful weeks are behind me. Last time I told you, that I’m just working on my husband’s costume and today I can tell you that it is pretty much done. It’s about 10 pm at the moment and tomorrow morning I will finally fly to Los...
by Benni | Oct 2, 2011 | cosplay, Druid Tier 9, tutorial, video
Puh, Blizzcon is pretty close now and slooowly I need to hurry. At the moment I’m working on my husband’s Nightelf Druid Tier 9 version. The progress is pretty much the same it was for my own costume before so I don’t show you a lot of stuff. And I...
by Benni | Sep 26, 2011 | cosplay, Druid Tier 9, photoshoot
Woah! Finally a new photoshoot is done again and it turned our amazing! This time my photographer was Benni’s brother, Jakob and he did an really awesome job for this first full time photoshoot! Sadly I had to edit a lot, because I had problems with my new make...
by Benni | Sep 12, 2011 | cosplay, tutorial, video
I just uploaded a new video tutorial on my channel, guys. After a little survey on facebook, I noticed that many of you want to see, how I create my glowing gems. Especially you also wanted to see, how my husband paints my stuff, but this will follow soon don’t...
by Benni | Sep 8, 2011 | completion, cosplay, Druid Tier 9
I’m just sitting in the lobby of a hotel of Atlanta and try to get rid of the time I have left until my flight back to Germany. So, what’s better than writing a new blog entry? You wonder, what the hell did I just do in Atlanta? Well, I visited Dragon*Con...
by Benni | Aug 15, 2011 | cosplay, Druid Tier 9, photoshoot, tutorial, Wizard
Sometimes it really seems like the weather hates me. After an awesome sunny weekend but without any photographers, we got a cloudy and dark one with too many photographs. Well, I really really wanted to show you my costume with another photoshoot, so my cosplay...
by Benni | Aug 2, 2011 | completion, cosplay, photoshoot, Wizard, Wonderflex
The last week had begun and I was pretty stressed. I had until friday to finish my costume, to create a commission and to write an cosplay tutorial for a german magazine. So, I had to hurry a bit. The main costume was already done, but as always the missing details...
by Benni | Jul 24, 2011 | cosplay, Wizard, Wonderflex
Uh, so much stuff happend in the last week and as always I was super, super busy. And I still am. The exams of my study started and I had to learn a lot. I decided to create a new costume for the next conventions. I created my own wedding dress for my wedding (which...
by Benni | Jun 12, 2011 | Alexstrasza, cosplay, Druid Tier 9, tutorial, Wizard
Some time has passed since my last post again and many things have happened. I had two further jobs as Alexstrasza at MCMExpo in London and the Triple Play V in Leipzig, kept on working on my old projects and started with new ones and just had a great time again. And...
by Benni | May 15, 2011 | Alexstrasza, completion, cosplay, photoshoot, Wonderflex
Uuuuuuh, a long time past since my last entry and I’m glad to say you, that my Alexstrasza costume is finally done! Today I had a really nice photoshooting my boyfriend and his brother, already had a job with this costume at Dark Moon Fair Koln and I’m...
by Benni | Mar 31, 2011 | Alexstrasza, cosplay, Druid Tier 8, expanding foam, photoshoot, tutorial
My last post was long ago and I guess it’s really time to show you something new! Like always I’m really busy with making costumes. But I haven’t made so much progress with my Demon Hunter and my Druid Tier 9, because I had to cancel all my current...
by Benni | Jan 28, 2011 | cosplay, photoshoot, tutorial
Sometimes it can be difficult to get good photos of one’s costume. Conventions are always full of people, thus often there is no space for taking pictures without having someone in the background. Or you just have no time, because you have friends who want to...
by Benni | Dec 7, 2010 | cosplay, tutorial, video
Today I want to show you something new. Last time I experimented a bit and became acquainted with some nice, new thermoplastic materials: Fossshape, Kobracast and Polystyrol. You also saw my Wonderflex and Friendly Plastic projects, and I guess it’s a good time...
by Benni | Dec 1, 2010 | cosplay, Druid Tier 9, expanding foam, tutorial, video
As always I’m still busy, but I’m not able to keep on working on only one project. I love to carve expanding foam, to form armor with wonderflex or to sew a new robe and I wish, I would have a clone, he he! So, one day I create an armor piece for my Demon...
by Benni | Nov 18, 2010 | cosplay, Druid Tier 9, expanding foam, tutorial, video
Maybe I should learn to take a break someday. At the moment I’m really, really exhausted. My studies and my work require a lot of time and I can’t wait for the two weeks of Christmas holidays. I have a lot to do, but despite this I put almost every free...
by Benni | Nov 10, 2010 | cosplay, tutorial, video, Wonderflex
Hello guys! You’ll notice I changed and updated a lot here. Over this post you’ll find some pages I added and I wished a long time. And I hope you also like the new features on the right side and my new design. You should especially take a look to the...
by Benni | Oct 19, 2010 | Asmodian, cosplay, tutorial, Wonderflex
Woah, the last weeks were really exhausting! Two months ago I got notice that we really made it to the finals of the German Cosplay Championship. But the only costumes we could use were our Asmodian plate set from Aion (our Druid Tier 8 costumes just weren’t...
by Benni | Oct 3, 2010 | cosplay, expanding foam, tutorial
In the last time there were a lot of people who asked me how I create my expanding form figures and and it is just amazing that these people came from all over the world! It’s great to hear that you guys like my technique so much and want to try it by yourself....
by Benni | Sep 26, 2010 | Asmodian, cosplay, Druid Tier 9, expanding foam
This cosplay year is almost over and now I’m thinking about my next projects. But at first I have to finish some things: In the last days I began with my second sword for my Aion plate set. This one have to be finisehd soon, because it’s for my performance...
by Benni | Sep 15, 2010 | cosplay, Druid Tier 8, Elyos, photoshoot
In the last time I got some questions about the materials I use. It’s hard for me, to find the right meaning or the right words for a specific material, because I just don’t know if it’s the right one or not. So, I want to show you some pictures!...
by Benni | Sep 3, 2010 | cosplay, tutorial
Today I want to show you a further tutorial: How to add lights to your costume! (And I have to warn you: This time it was really hard for me to translate this tutorial from german!) I guess, I’m not the only one who believe that lights in costumes and props are...
by Benni | Aug 25, 2010 | completion, cosplay, Elyos
In the last few weeks I worked on a further costume: My Elyos cloth set from Aion – Tower of Eternity. After finishing all of these costumes, which I tried to make them as original and accurate as possible I just searched for some fun. So, I just sat at my...
by Benni | Aug 10, 2010 | cosplay, Druid Tier 8, photoshoot
After finishing my Druid Tier 8 costume I was so looking forward to a nice private photo-shooting with my boyfriend. The weather was not the best, but I wanted to use the last week in Germany (I will make a trip for almost 4 weeks to California) for taking some...
by Benni | Aug 3, 2010 | completion, cosplay, Druid Tier 8, pauldron, staff
It was a very long hard way and last weekend I finally finished my Druid Tier 8 costume. So here are some progress pictures: I coverd my pauldron with a last finishing paper machè layer, added some lines into this with my dremel and installed a light effect. It was a...
by Benni | Jun 19, 2010 | cosplay, Druid Tier 8
In the last months I was very depressed and it’s still didn’t become better. I love cosplay so much, that preferable I want to build something new every day. But unfortunately I have so much to do because of my studies and my part time job, that I almost...
by Benni | Apr 26, 2010 | Asmodian, completion, cosplay, video
Unfortunately I had a long time to wait to see my Aion Asmodian costume done and so I was very excited to take a photoshoot with it. After some thinking about the right location for it we finally found an awesome looking castle ruin near Nuremberg. So, I prepared and...
by Benni | Apr 14, 2010 | Asmodian, cosplay, Wonderflex
My god… the last 4 weeks were a living hell for me! I had SO much to do, because deadline was April 9th! But… what should I say? I finally managed it. At 2:30 at night on April 10th… And here we’re going on: It was a hard way to build the final...
by Benni | Mar 7, 2010 | Asmodian, cosplay, Wonderflex
I was very busy in the last few weeks and I’m very glad, that I managed to finish a lot of armor parts: My upper bracers: My left pauldron: My ankle and knee armor: Now I’m working on my wing and my hips armor: Unfortutely they became really heavy because...
by Benni | Jan 31, 2010 | Asmodian, cosplay, Druid Tier 8, pauldron, staff, tutorial, Wonderflex
I’m still working on my three costumes: Aion, World of Warcraft and Bayonetta. The Armor of Aion is almost done and there are only a few armor parts missing. I’m very bad in sewing, so I dodge the parts which require seewing skills. So, here are some...
by Benni | Dec 29, 2009 | Asmodian, cosplay, tutorial, Wonderflex
This year I wanted to start with something complete new. I’m always searching for new materials, techniques and challenges. So the new MMO from NCsoft, Aion – Tower of Eternity, had some very good exsamples. There were a lof of commercials I saw on TV or...
by Benni | Dec 29, 2009 | Asmodian, cosplay, Druid Tier 8, staff
Now we make a jump to the present, guys! I told you everthing about my last cosplay and hope I helped or inspired you a bit. But now it’s time for my new projects: Nightelf Druid Tier 8 from World of Warcraft with a still unnamed staff (Arena Season 8) Asmodian...
by Benni | Dec 27, 2009 | Blizzcon, cosplay, Druid Tier 6, staff
This summer I got an awesome email from Blizzard Entertainment: Hallo Svetlana! Congratulation! Your costume was choosen as winner of the costume contest “Win a Trip to Blizzcon”! The first prize is a flight to the USA to Blizzcon. Yeah.. I was a bit...
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