Sylvanas Windrunner

Artwork by Glenn Rane. © 2008 Blizzard Entertainment

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Origin:

World of Warcraft

Status:

80% Complete

Debuted:

BlizzCon 2011

Got pictures of me in this cosplay? Please e-mail them to me!

This project was mainly me experimenting with new techniques and whatnot. I learned a lot from working on Sylvanas. And it’s still not even done. I still have to make her bow and re-make her hood, cloak, and possibly her leg covers. (I made them in a rush right before BlizzCon)

Most of the armor was made using a combination of resin casted details and intefoam (Sintra off-brand; expanded PVC foamboard). I sculpted a lot of the armor details out of sculpey, molded those, and then cast them out of resin and had them shaped to the intefoam armor bases.

The shoes I had to heavily modify becaue of color change and additional detailing. I purchased the leggings off of Amazon.

The panty and breastplate were made purely out of EVA foam (foam mats you find that are used in gyms and whatnot) so that it would be flexible and actually somewhat comfortable, considering how hard and uncomfortable the rest of the armor was.

I hope to finally make the bow and quiver soon, as well as re make the hood, cloak, and leg covers. When I do, I’ll be doing a photoshoot. For now I have very limited photos. Unfortunately I wasn’t completely satisfied with my debut at BlizzCon because of how rushed I was at the end, but it was a learning experience for next year’s BlizzCon – which is why I have already begun working on my next BlizzCon project!

If you have any other questions about this Cosplay feel free to ask in a comment below. :)

Associated Tutorials

Armored Breastplate Cups out of EVA Foam

  • <p>Vashfanatic and Vensy</p>
  • <p>Tyrande cosplayed by Petrai.</p>
  • <p>Petrai, Vashfanatic, Winged Warrior, Vensy</p>
  • <p>Vashfanatic, Petrai, and myself.</p>
  • <p>In front of Illidan; Vashfanatic, Vensy, Petrai, Cog Envy.</p>

Videos

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Work in Progress Photos

Here are some work-in-progress photos. Hope they help! This doesn’t include all of the photos, so if you’re interested in seeing more please go here.

  • <p>A pile of most of the molds I built for Sylvanas. (Even more were made later!)</p>
  • <p>Here`s a preview shot of some of my armor as it was being completed</p>
  • <p>Progress of my gloves, casted claw spikes.</p>
  • <p>Here`s a shot of my painted bow head. I gave it a slight touch of weathering, but didn`t go much further considering I didn`t even know if I had time to fully complete the bow in the first place...</p>
  • <p>Was experimenting with my EVA foam breastplate build.</p>
  • <p>The gloves were a pain in the ass to build because I had to cast the borders in two parts! The main band separately from the spikes. The difference in volume of the two caused the two to cure at different rates, resulting in not being able to demold the entire thing at once to shape it.</p>
  • <p>Here`s a shot of my resin pieces demolded and taped to the sintra parts for shaping.</p>
  • <p>Here`s a shot of what my armor looked like before and after being weathered.</p>
  • <p>My shoes took a very big transformation during this progress.</p>
  • <p>A shot of my resin pieces primered on top of the sintra.</p>
  • <p>I ended up using the removal process of creating many of the parts of my costume. For the claw spikes for example I made blobs which remotely resembled the final claw shape, and then I would carve/sand it down to its final shape using my dremel 4000.</p>
  • <p>Was slush casting skull pieces, and it seemed like a funny opportunity to take a picture of one of my many figurines sitting on the back-hollow-end of it! :)</p>
  • <p>Here`s a shot of what my shoes originally looked like</p>
  • <p>I think he gloves are one of the pieces I`m most proud of on this project.</p>
  • <p>Progress of the bow head (which sadly ended up not even being used at BlizzCon due to lack of time)</p>
  • <p>This just shows how much stuff I had to cast and recast and experiment with before I got final pieces I was satisfied with.</p>
  • <p>I wanted to mess around with weathering effects, so I used a test skull cast to mess around! I like the result!</p>
  • <p>A close up of my mold build.</p>
  • <p>Here`s a shot of me preparing my molds... the top three with clay had silicone applied that night, while the bottom three had to wait until more clay was available.</p>
  • <p>Here I was messing around with how I was planning on doing my armor texture. It was my first time using the engraving bit on my dremel, so it was sloppy.. I don`t like it anyways. Back to tests!</p>

Last Modified: December 15, 2011 at 9:13 pm

6 Responses to “Sylvanas Windrunner”

  1. Irene Martinez, on March 1st, 2012 at 8:12 pm Said:

    Hi, I’m impressed by your work is just beautiful. I love Lady Silvana and I very much like me a cosplay for next event in my country. I am from Caracas Venezuela and I have more than 2 weeks looking at Interterritorial someone could help me how to create or make that armor so beautiful, I try it with rubber eva, but had problems with the relief of the edges. could help me. my email is irenekris@gmail.com Thanks in advance

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    Vensy Reply:
    March 1st, 2012 at 10:48 pm

    @Irene Martinez, first of all I’d like to thank you for the kind words. :) As for the armor detailing, I wrote out on this page what I did for the reliefs. They were sculpted and resin cast. If you look at my Flickr photos, you can see more work in progress photos regarding the process.

    If you have any other inquiries, feel free to ask. Good luck with your project!

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  2. Nicoline, on April 30th, 2012 at 11:48 pm Said:

    Hi!
    First of all I’d like to say that I absoluty love your cosplay. It’s really beautiful and well-made.
    I’m trying to make a Sylvanas cosplay as well, and I have a question – I hope you don’t mind. It’s mostly about the resin decor you’ve made. How did you shape it to fit your armor? I’m pretty new to working with resin, so it maybe be quite obvious but I felt like asking anyway.

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    Vensy Reply:
    May 1st, 2012 at 9:53 am

    @Nicoline, hello~ Thank you! Your kind words really mean a lot to me. :)
    You can shape anything you’re casting out of resin, you just have to de-mold it before it completely cures. For this project I used SmoothCast 326, which has a 60-minute cure time, so about 30 minutes (give or take) into curing the resin is “gelled” up at which point you can de-mold it and apply it to a curved surface and it will cure with the contour of your surface you placed it on. Resins with shorter cast time will not work because the time between it gelling up and actually solidifying is too short.

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    Nicoline Reply:
    May 2nd, 2012 at 3:03 am

    @Vensy, Ah, that makes sense. Thank you very much for the answer. I’m rather new to armor making, so I may come back with other questions. :)

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    Vensy Reply:
    May 5th, 2012 at 2:29 am

    @Nicoline, no problem. :) Feel free to shoot any questions my way.

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