Finally recovered from a weekend of hauling a 40" gear around on my back at Otakon. Here are a few pictures from the con:

And a photo of my judge’s award from the hall costume contest:

It was a lot of fun generally creeping people out and meeting other witches (of which there were three others, which is amazing). Madoka continues to have a strong cosplay presence and I will certainly continue to cosplay characters from it.

For the future, I hope to clean up this costume and maybe add some more features before Katsucon in February. Adding a second gear layer with some motorized rotation would be cool if I could support the weight. If not I’ve been looking into Homulilly or Nightmare from Rebellion for next year. I’d also like to add more of my work in progress photos with info on how I built it. Unfortunately I only had enough time to work on it over the past two months instead of documenting it, but I think it all paid off!