The Costume Making Guide: Creating Armor and Props for Cosplay

The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever!

Followed by millions of people from all over the world, master armor maker Svetlana Quindt aka "Kamui Cosplay" will help you bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!

Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay--with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla!

Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life no matter the genre, Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into making a complete costume, from the first thought to the final photo. Tutorials cover design planning, fabricating body armor, 3D painting techniques and more. Best of all, you can adapt every lesson to use in all future fandom projects spanning video games, books, anime, movies and even your own original characters!

Includes:

   * How to choose a costume and find good reference art
   * A short shopping list of necessary materials and tools for beginning cosplayers
   * Basic safety tips
   * A beautiful photo gallery featuring inspiring images from other cosplayers  
   * Next steps--how to grow your workshop, take professional photos, participate in contests and join the cosplay community

Svetlana Quindt aka "Kamui Cosplay" is an internationally acclaimed costume and content creator, author, teacher and YouTuber from Germany. With over 17 years of experience and a never ending thirst to start the next project, she and her husband Benni have already created many award winning costumes and published a long running series of popular instructional books, video tutorials and crafting patterns for home printing.

Svetlana loves to share her knowledge, techniques and experience with the world and always finds new ways to help out newcomers and cosplay veterans alike. Her funny and inspiring Social Media content is followed by more than 1.5 million people from all over the world. In addition the Kamui Cosplay Community is one of the largest crafting groups on FB with over 16.000 creative and passionate members, always ready to give others a helping hand and good advice.

Kamui is widely beloved and well respected for the support she gives to the community every day. She's a popular cosplay guest at conventions and events worldwide, running workshops, Q&As and crafting panels but at the end of the day, she just does what she always did, building stuff she enjoys and helping others.