The Final Touches and Saturday Sydney Supanova, 2011

Friday night was filled with finishing touches and trying things on and off and on again. I burned some of the skin off my fingers with hot glue, quite literally, and Jess finally got her wings done and dusted.

Jess attaches her feathers with hot glue.

Annie and Jess model the dresses.

Annie gives me a painful hour of her time to

allow me to attach the wings to the dress. I had

to paint a piece of material to match the dress,

which I glued over the top of the harness. Slits in the

back allow the straps to pass through, and they

each need to be done up from the inside. The final

effect was quite secure.

Finally, the day arrived, and it was SUPANOVA! A hectic morning in which we lost everything, didn't have enough of anything and had the wrong sort of everything else ensued, but we eventually got it together.

Shlooping on the masses of body paint that

we had to keep reapplying during the day.

Since our wings and dresses are combined,

we had to put on the actual costume in the

carpark at Supanova (whereupon we realised

I'd forgotten a piece and did some MacGyvering).

It was a fantastic day, but my greyness meant that I wasn't able to take many photos - though we certainly had hundreds taken of us. It was a bit overwhelming and the event was immensely crowded - it was certainly an achievement in itself to push through the masses of people without murdering our wings or whacking people in the face.

Here are some photos from Saturday:

A view from the top.

We ended up doing this a lot.

The angels have the phone box.

Om nom nom.

A dalek out the front of a Doctor Who display.

The most creative dalek we've ever seen.

Naww.