black armour - the story so far

[troy]

Making this set of armour for my kid - probably have seen me post a few help posts in other threads as some of the construction is new to me - only way to learn I guess!!!!

Below is the helmet and body piece - managed to make the body piece so that it can just slide on. helmet went from the pla facial plan to a 300 look to what actually happened as seen - sort of a box thing!!!!

Will try and do a sort of tutorial when finished - or going by the odd mistakes 'ways not to do it' tutorial.

[yan]

breast plate look neat, how did you do the "shiny horn/claw" near the shoulder?

What was the tickness of the helmet?

Did you mold it?

[BradB]

That Looks Really Cool!!

[hivemind]

breast plate look neat, how did you do the "shiny horn/claw" near the shoulder?

Looks like he laced on some horn tips to me.

[MADMAX22]

THat looks great dude. Looks like you got all your kinks worked out.

[troy]

max - ye got some out but in the back of my mind I always thought I'd have problems with that by using a flat pattern i.e. and not adjusting lengths to compensate for leather thickness. But will know next time to adjust the lower pieces by about and inch each and to leave out making the hole which the concho is covering on the back, plus............

yan - I used the tandy lightweight saddle skirting and cut the pieces as saddle pieces are cut to take advantage of the firm/thick to loose/thin parts of the hide i.e. the top strips are from along the back and the lower strips cut from further down the hide towards the legs - so the top is quite thick and firm, the second is firmish and thick, the last and lower pieces are thin and very flexible which also helped hide the kinks slightly!

The only piece I moulded was the helmet - the shiny horn bits are knife handles which slide into sheaths I fixed onto the skirting leather just under where they cross over one another - more an experiment for me and to show what could be done on an adult version then an item my kid will be using, incase any body worried about that.

[yan]

the knife idea look great,

but personnally I would not wear knife directly over the lungs, a solide mace hit that would barly miss the shoulder on ax 2 or 4 (for old school fencer) could push knife at a good angle for a pneumothorax perforation.

[troy]

the knife idea look great,

but personnally I would not wear knife directly over the lungs, a solide mace hit that would barly miss the shoulder on ax 2 or 4 (for old school fencer) could push knife at a good angle for a pneumothorax perforation.

Well ye, your right but the coool factor alone would make any opponent freese in awe of it giving one time to thrust away!!

Actually the original plan was to put them on the middle two pieces on the front of the armor with the handles bending around the body, hence their curve shape also creating a sort of 4 moulded four pack thing - this would probably work on an adult version where the handles would of also been moulded slightly into the leather and not leave them sticking out.

below is the plan I'm trying to stick to;

[yan]

that would look awsome.

[troy]

Finished another bit today, could of done alot more but ran out of chicago screws again.

These show or I tried to show in them the top half of the arm guards and the rear set up for the quiver and short sword. I should have the horsebow I am using for this armor soon and will be trying to fix up a system along the horn quiver whereby the bow can clip onto and off of it - will see......