Photoshoots: WildMomo Photography
Completed: December 2023
Debuted: Anime Frontier 2023
Cosplayers: BlushBunny (wearing my Sailor Jupiter), FaunaCosplay (Sailor Venus), MoonChrysis Cosplay (Sailor Moon fuku commission by me, wig by Victoria Bane), Victoria Bane (Sailor Mars)
Why this costume
I’ve been interested in cosplaying Mercury for some time now, in large part due to the desire to wear a sailor scout with a short wig (Uranus also fits that bill, but I sold that costume with my last cosplay clean-out). When I realized that with a little bit of planning, we had enough folks for a full inner sailor scout group at Anime Frontier, I decided to make Mercury to round out all the characters!
How I made it
As with my (many, many) other sailor scout costumes, I used Cosmic Coterie patterns and tutorials to make this build. There are only two major differences with this sailor scout versus some of my other senshi: 1) the front length of the skirt, and 2) making the tiaras.
Since I didn’t have time to purchase and alter boots for this build, I opted to make spandex boot covers using Yaya Han’s McCall’s pattern (M7397). These boot covers are very tall, so I shortened my skirt as much as I felt like I could comfortably get away with to keep my proportions in check.
This was one of the first times I made the tiaras completely from scratch. I cold cast the tiaras for Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus using Smooth-Cast 305. I’ve got a few things to tweak about my process, but it was a great trial run! I hope to be able to offer this for sale soon.
Thanks to Victoria Bane for letting me borrow her Mercury wig for these photos!
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