Battle Bunny Riven

I made my Battle Bunny Riven Cosplay for the Gamescom 2015. For this Cosplay I´ve build my first weapon. I wanted a Cosplay with a simple outfit so that I could concentrade on building the weapon. Before I started working on the Cosplay I was very afraid cause I was really not used to that well „revealing“ character of the clothes, but despite the promiscuity of the outfit I feeled actually very comfortable in it.

First thing to do were the shoes. I choosed flat shoes despite the high heels she actually wears, cause of comfort I knew that I would wear this Cosplay two hole days and I really needed shoes that didn´t kill me already after ½ h. I couldn´t find flats in the right colour so I just buyed some cheap white ones and painted them with pink leather colour. This worked really good even after two hole days of walking around the conventions in the shoes they colour still has no damage. The ribbon was only glued on to the shoes with fabric glue which also holds perfectly.

Then I started with the sewing part so I could later concentrate on making the sword. The tie was made from a simple pattern that I found online and only shrinked a bit. The collar pattern was selfmade. Both is sewn out of simple cotton and closed with a snap fastener in the front.

The cuffs are also made from a pattern I´ve found online,sewn with cotton and closed with a snap fastener. The carrots is sculpted out of Worbla, painted with acyrlics and glued on to the cuffs with some hotglue.

The carrot that belongs on to the belt was also sculpted out of Worbla, painted with acrylics and glued on to the belt with hotglue.

The base of the belt is EVA-Foam with one EVA strip on the top and one at the bottom to define the edge better. Then I covered it with fake leather and glued it on to the back. The strip that holds the carrot in place is made of the same fake leather, a douple layer sewn together and then glued onto the back as well. The bunny tail is made from a round little pillow on which I glued on cotton batting to make it look as fluffy as possible and then brought it a bit in shape by hand. I hotglued the tail on to the belt. The belt has no closing I just slip it over.

 Gloves and ears are only bought cause of limited time, a broken sewing machine and the fact that they where quite cheap.

The body was also just bought because of the same reasons. The picture was from my first fittting test. At this point I finished all parts of the Cosplay execpt the sword so now I could focus only on the building of it.

First I searched for a good reference picture. Imported was that I could see the proportions of the weapon compared to Riven

Then I seized it in the right size and seperated it in pieces as big as a A4 paper, printed it out, glued it together and cutted it out.

Then I copied the sword and the details on EVA Foam, cutted it out as well. I sanded it down by hand (you really should use some kind of sanding tool for it or otherwise it will take forever). And covered it with Worbla.

The handle was quite different to make. The base is a wood bar. All the details are made out of Worbla. The ring is out of wood also covered in Worbla and the spike end is made out of EVA covered in Worbla. The handle is fixed to the blade with a threaded bar so I can easily screwed it apart to make transporting more easy.

 After I´ve build the sword I primed it with woodglue and painted it with acrylics

Picture by Insiderz Photography

Photo by EsportsAcademy