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Thoughts about Visors and Reimagining Tali/Quarian Cosplay

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Visor Thoughts Since making my Quarian/Tali helmet two years ago (Gawd...it's been two years), I've learned quite a bit but this video...made me happy mad. Happy because it's a great resource for making a visor and mad because back in the day I had this mask and used it as a buck model for petg plastic. :( All along I could have used this chrome mirror mask, used some model lacquer tinted paint and krylon crystal clear finish. Life's not fair. But on the plus side, I share this with you should you have a visor delemna on your costume project. The video is unclear on how to tint it but in the comments I found mention of airbrush painting or laquer. So still have the same issues for coloring.  As you may have surmised from my lack of cosplay posts that I've taken a break from cosplay for a couple of reasons. Depression the creativity killer. Just losing interest in going to cons which seems to be the only place to cosplay.  Want to lose weight. Also a p