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Prop and Effects Help
I know most fo you out there are level expert when it comes to cosplay and makeing the costumes, but, if your just starting out and have no one to teach you and have to rely on yourself and the internet, its not has easy. Still fun though. Not only that, but, in my case, I don't have much money. Threw the internet, I've found s few things that will help me and might help whoever reads this out and they don't cost much I assume.

First, I'll explain how I made that aged book I posted a while back. I had a leather notebook wiht no lines, laying around and used that, since I don't know how to make one from scratch. I used a gluestick to glue the pages together and make it look like an open book. Than I used coffee to make it look more aged. I just made the coffee like I normaly would and put it in a spray bottle and sprayed the pasges and edges of the pages. I would recommend waiting for the coffee to cool before using it and putting something underneath the book, unless the suerface yuo're useing is easy to clean or you don't mind getting coffee stains on it. There is alos a chmical way to do so, but thats more expensive and I have no idea how to use that and you can aslo use viniagr or either black or green tea. I can't remember which one, but coffee is cheaper and won't stink up the place the vinigar or chemicals will.




There is a couple of other things I've found that might be of some use to you all. I have yet to try them myself, so i can't get into detail like I did for the book, but the pictures pretty much explain it.

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I will post anything else I find that might help. So, keep an eye open smile





 
 
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