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Naruga Kuruga in-progress pictures + notes

For this year’s Expcon cosplay I decided to make the monster Naruga Kuruga/Nargacuga from Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G/Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Unfortunately, not many people knew what character I was supposed to be. Only very few were able to recognize me, and they wished they had a weapon to hunt down the monster. ._.

After attending ExpCon last year in 2009, I met a Kilala quadsuit cosplayer and thought it was so cool. After that, I wanted to make a quadsuit so I planned on Naruga Kuruga in June/July. I slowly started working on it in August, but started rushing to sew the pieces together in September. I believe the hardest part for me to sew were the upper arms and the crotch are; luckily none of the seams fell apart. Oh yes, I double stitched the sides, shoulders, and leg seams to reinforce it.

This was my very first attempt at a mascot/creature cosplay and it was extremely hot. But luckily the air conditioning at the convention made things bearable. That and the fans in my head. If only I knew how to use the Camelbak.
I would like to try and make another quadsuit again. Just need to patch up my dummy since it ripped in some places.

Well I copied this from my Facebook notes. This might help as some reference to others trying to make a quadsuit. I hope this helps others. I might upload sketch plans, in-progress shots, as well as pictures but I’m not so sure since my costume was very dark. If anyone has taken pictures of the Naruga Kuruga at Expcon 2010 on Saturday, can you please tell/show me? Thanks! ^_^
Construction notes can be found in a previous post.
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