Alastor

Believe it or not, I do actually make things from time to time. I cried making this though, not going to lie. I tried so hard to be on schedule with things and well, per usual I was finishing things the night before the con. Haha. 

Base items were bought from Amazon for the most part. I hand painted the jacket because, I don't know, I'm crazy. Over all turned out great, just a lot of work that I could have done differently and saved myself a lot of time. But it was a learning experience, I guess. 

Breakdown: 

Paints - 

• Leather Paint -
  
• Amazon $6.99
  
• Joann's $9.99
  
  • This was an item I ended up needing more of. Most of the time Amazon is cheaper but in this case it was not. 1oz for 6.99 ($7 an oz) while a 4oz bottle is 9.99 ($2.50 an oz) at Joann's.
    
  • Used this on the jacket sleeves. 
  • Recommend a base coat of white or lighter color if you are working on black leather, the product is not opaque enough to cover that dark of color without many layers, at least the scarlet red wasn't. Some of the lighter colors might do better. I did end up using the red fabric over the leather paint, it still looked too dark against the black of the shoe. 
• Pink fabric paint - Joann's $7.99
• Red fabric paint - Joann's $7.99
• Black fabric paint - Joann's $7.99
  
  

Shoes-

• These were my old Post Malone boots that had lost their heel bottoms, I bought them at Ross years ago. I replaced the grip and painted them with leather paint. 
• Replacement material - Amazon $9.90
• Shoe Goo- Amazon $6.99
  • This stuff works amazing. I have used it on so many shoes. 
    
    

Pants - Walmart $15

• Like everything else, used painters tape to cut a line and used fabric paint

Jacket - Amazon $50

• The sleeves were painted with leather paint, the other details were fabric paint. I like the color of the leather paint, couldn't find fabric paint in the color I wanted. It did however make the fabric feel kind of like leather. Which was cool but not what I was going for. So the sleeves are a bit stiff. 
  
• The stripes were a challenge to keep even in thickness and spacing. I used painters tape as a guide but that only gets you so far. Lot of free hand work. I used pink fabric paint for these. 
  
  

Shirt - Amazon $19.99

• Taped it off with painters tape and used fabric paint to create the lines
  
  

Bow tie - Amazon $5.69

• Had a hard time finding something perfectly round for the center, I aimed to find a large button but couldn't quite find what I was looking for. Did end up using a wood half sphere found in a multipack in the wood craft area of Michaels for about $8, painted it with the same fabric paint to match, top coated it with modge podge. 

Wig - Amazon $14.99

• I had bought a wig that I was going to cut and color, whole thing from scratch. But as mentioned before time became a factor. I ended up buying a premade Amazon wig and restyling. For what it was, honestly, not terrible and ended up looking alright. I would really like to make a new wig or possibly commission a wig maker for the next version. 
  
  

Gloves - Already owned 

Neck Chain- Etsy $20

• Highly recommend this seller and product. It is made very well and is very affordable. 
  
• They also make it in pink for Angel Dust / Valentino cosplayers 
  
  

Microphone - Etsy $161

• This seller was great, very helpful. It was a bit pricey but a really well made item. About $100 and $50 shipping due to them not being in the US. 
• This item was just the microphone, I did have to buy a wood dowel for the staff, it was about $3 at Joann's and I spray painted it black, glued it in with E6000
• Unfortunately it looks like they are no longer making this item. 
• I also bought a Lucifer apple staff from them as well, this came with a retractable staff pole. 

Total: $352.51 roughly