Nigh on finishing the top

Front 1
Front 2

Back (yes I know the hair isn't straight - do you know how difficult it is to straighten your own hair when it's that length?)

What's left to do?
The cross-stitching across the breast area, the laces on the front (easy), the red strip at the bottom on the back, and the red strip over the top of the smaller eyelets but below the large eyelet.
Then it's finished. Myself and mum are having a bit of trouble figuring out how to do those two strips as I need the elasticated parts of the top there in order to do it up at the front. We've already made it a lot tighter on me.

The top is derived from three pictures of Rayne. One is from the first game and two are from the second.

BR1 Back
BR2 Side
BR2 Back

There are some distinct differences and similarities between them, but as I've said before, as many of the screen captures and concept arts differ in different parts of the costume design, I combined some of the bits from various screenshots and concept arts to fit the style of top I was using.

On another note, I have a piece of dowling and a piece of wood to make the first part of the mount for the blades. I just need to draw out the brackets on the plastic we have, get some wooden discs (about two to three different sizes), and two planks of pine as the balsa is too flimsy. Oh yeah! And the handles for them as well. This is all rather complicated...O_O'