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The idea was to attach a cable to the zip and pull it through the groove I cut out to attach and remove the watch whenever I wanted and the two ends would attach together nicely, but the force of the rubber is enough to make a gap of about 20mm. I tried to make the part where the watch attaches a seamless as possible so I didn't make any cuts to the surface and applied the zip to the bottom where it would be sitting against my skin. I don't know how easy this is going to be to understand but I''ll try to explain.
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I first cut a small track for the zip to pass through without hitting the rubber and hand sewn one side on (With aid from pliers) I used zip ties to keep the watch bent to sew on the other side with a bent needle to get under. I eventually settled on using a zip from my wallet as I couldn't find a zip of the right size and this was only slightly longer (about an inch) and compromised by just tucking it under when it was on my wrist. I used my old design to practice with attaching the watch together using clips and hooks and a million different things to fight against the force of the rubber trying to bend back flat. I decided I wouldn't paint it until I had it bent to prevent any cracking. I tried loads of methods including making cuts and such but nothing working. I learnt that it's impossible to heat rubber to such a dramatic curve and have it stay put.
BEN 10 OMNITRIX COSPLAY CRACKED
The paint was terrible and cracked after I bent it but I luckily still had enough rubber to start again and decided to use the old one as practice before I do anything to the new one because, honestly I rushed the last one. I tried cutting it down to the proper size but I wasn't happy with the design. Somehow my measurements went wrong somewhere along the way and it ended up way too big. I use the circumference of my wrist for the length. I used the face that I made as reference and scaled up the image on my computer with the face on the screen until a picture matched up to it to measure the widths of the various parts. Because of the nature of animation, the Omnitrix doesn't always look the same in every image so I stuck with the most common design. I got all my measurements from picture online.