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Greetings! I'm the site admin known to many as BogusRed. I'm currently a web illustrator and web designer for Google, Inc creating everything from icons to web pages to illustrations.

Profession:Illustration, Web Design, Web Development
Hobbies: Cosplay, Piano
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I enjoy developing PaperDemon.com. My primary goals in 2010 are to reprogram some of the older code on the site to be more easily customizable and portable to other projects I'd like to start. I see PaperDemon as my development playground where I develop most of my software first.

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Blog: Hand made Zelda Hylian Shield

Nov 2, 2011 8:12 am

A new hand made Hylian shield for my Twilight Princess Link costume.

When I first made my Link costume 4 years ago, I thought that making a shield by myself would be impossible, so I ordered a replica online (pictured on the left below). 

However, as good as this shield looks, it has some problems. It weighs over 8 pounds and it gets tiring to carry around all day. The handle is made with really cheap materials and kept breaking. If it breaks during a day at a convention, I don't have a drill around to redrill the holes to repair it. The shape is also inaccurate to the Twilight Princess shield design. In addition, every other part of my costume I made myself and when people ask, "Wow your costume is great. Did you make all of that yourself?" I proudly say "Yes I did!" and then they say "Wow the shield is the BEST PART." and then I have to embarrassingly reply with that's the one thing I DIDN'T make.

Since I've been so successful with making craft foam props for my Zelda wedding, it didn't seem impossible anymore to make my own shield. This shield (pictured right below) is made totally from craft foam, hot glue gun glue, and acrylic paints. It weighs almost nothing, looks more accurate, and I can finally say "I made my whole costume myself." It still needs a few minor details and refinement on the paint. But it was good enough to show off on Halloween day.

From Link Costume, the making of

Here's an inprogress shot of what it looked lilke before the paint:

From Link Costume, the making of

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