Altair. Oh, how much I have to love thee

I've been asking myself lately. Why the heck do I choose the cosplays I end up doing?

Purely for the hell of a ride they give me buy building them. And I always end up saying, "oh, this one gave me one hell of a trouble".

Bull*****.
(sorry for the cursing, though xD)

Altair won the oh-no-you-didn't award, and we're just getting started on him. Clothes are nothing, seriously, they're almost finished. I just gotta find the perfect linen pants at my job and voila. I already have the boots, and doing the weapons is going to be easy. Except for the hidden blade, of course. But I found a quite great tutorial on Youtube (may the gods bless whoever invented Youtube and his/her infinite wisdom xD) on how to make the blade, so I can sleep better a few more weeks.

However, and this is the cause as of why my arm hurts so bad right now.
You know, in the hand Altair has his hidden blade, he has this sort of arm brace, armor kinda thingy. It's a five plaque bracer that has some engraved designs and that Fev from cosplay.com threw together in some fancy way that makes you go all "oh, yeah, I can do that, it looks easy".

Oh hell it's not easy, I tell you that!

Mostly, because it's leather. Kids, don't play with leather. It's evil! Haha! I almost cut my fingers with the chisel because leather is so hard to work on. Plus, I suck at drawing. I'm not an artist, my forte is building stuff, never drawing anything. I can't even make a straight line straight, and I'm not kidding! Ok, you can laugh now.
I'm only doing that in leather. The rest, I bought like 4 yards of vinyl for the belts and the holders and the rest. But leather....geez...Please remind me never to use leather again unless I get the right materials to work with it, savvy?

-J.