Cosplay help?

Will-O'-The-Wisp

Will-O'-The-Wisp

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Hey AUKN, I'll be going to the MCM London expo this May, and I've decided to cosplay as "Perfect" Hollow Ichigo from Bleach. Rather than show you a few black and white pics from the manga, I'll leave an embedded video below (it's the guy with the mask + Black Katana to anyone unfamiliar with the series)

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The clothes - These will be easy, I've already got Ichigo's Bankai cosplay gear, I'll just need to tear it up a little

The body - This on the other hand, not so easy. He's got a chalk white body with black tribal markings patterned on it. drawing the marks and such won't be a problem, but getting my skin the right colour will be tricky and I've got no idea what I can use to do that

The Mask - I was thinking about making the mask, rather than spending £50+ on one from eBay, though I don't want it to look lame and crumble apart. Any ideas/tips on what I could use? For the long hair, I'll have to see if I can get a wig the right colour

The sword - Easy enough, I already have an almost identical black wooden Katana

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Any help/ideas/tips for the above parts will be much appreciated!
 
The body, well it will be tough but you can just use white body paint and put loads on as for the mask however, i see no alternative to buying one as you want it to be sturdy and not break, so unless you happen to have a spare plastic mold etc lying about...

I realised that this didn't really help much but anyway you can use the Body paint which is readily available in most dress-up shops.
 
Mask making isn't to hard:

1. Blow a balloon up to about the size of your head.
2. Papermache it
3. Paint it using gel based paint as this will make it smooth and shiny.
 
There's a white powder that I know of some people using, I believe you can get it from LARP stores and goth shops, atleast that's where they got it a few years ago.

As to the mask (link isn't working anymore). Hobbycraft has some mask making things like plastic and cardboardy things, you could probably modify one of those.
 
Will-O'-The-Wisp said:
I considered papermache, but isn't it... brittle? It's been awhile since I last made it, so I'm not sure
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You can always built the papermache over chicken wire but to be honest as long as you build it up over a few layers and use gel based paint it will harden to plastic
 
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