Linothorax Ancient Greek Armor

[immiketoo]

We made another set of armor, this one from the Mycenaean era.  Leather wrapped in linen with some embellishments.  

Natalie handled most of this project, while I was hired for my stitcher abilities and as a model :)

[Bob Blea]

Very cool!  So which parts are the linen wrapped leather?  Is it like a leather core and parts you are seeing are the linen?

[immiketoo]

The entire thing is covered in linen.  With a few leather trim pieces.

[mikesc]

while I was hired for my stitcher abilities and as a model

You are not eating enough, you are too thin, you look like two sticks, it ( whilst being very nice ) "hangs" on you :)

[Scoutmom103]

nice

 

[immiketoo]

2 hours ago, mikesc said:

You are not eating enough, you are too thin, you look like two sticks, it ( whilst being very nice ) "hangs" on you

Yeah, the pic of me wearing it didn't load for some reason.  :/

 

[Squirrelly66]

I would like to do some of the greek armor. I'm working on some from assassins creed oddessey. that is a very nice set of armor you've done there

[immiketoo]

19 hours ago, Squirrelly66 said:

I would like to do some of the greek armor. I'm working on some from assassins creed oddessey. that is a very nice set of armor you've done there

Well, that's ancient greek armor, if stylized quite a bit.  Our armor was used in the research for that game and the company we make it for was consulted heavily.  Unfortunately, ours wasn't ready in time to be digitized, but hopefully, we'll have future opportunities.

Can't wait to see what you're doing with your set.

 

[bikermutt07]

12 hours ago, immiketoo said:

Well, that's ancient greek armor, if stylized quite a bit.  Our armor was used in the research for that game and the company we make it for was consulted heavily.  Unfortunately, ours wasn't ready in time to be digitized, but hopefully, we'll have future opportunities.

Can't wait to see what you're doing with your set.

 

Mike, that is really cool. I hope you do get another opportunity. 

The armor, like everything you share here, is spectacular. Love love LOVE it.

Is there a real market for stuff like this? Or is it super niche?

And, have you considered making PDF patterns for stuff? I would totally buy some of your patterns. Just food for thought.

[immiketoo]

3 hours ago, bikermutt07 said:

Mike, that is really cool. I hope you do get another opportunity. 

The armor, like everything you share here, is spectacular. Love love LOVE it.

Is there a real market for stuff like this? Or is it super niche?

And, have you considered making PDF patterns for stuff? I would totally buy some of your patterns. Just food for thought.

Hey dude, thanks a lot.  It is SUPER niche.  We missed the boat on AC Oddesey because they had to be so secret about it.  They couldn't even tell us what it was for until it was too late, but the group is also tapped for a lot of movies, so hopefully it will happen.  As for patterns, I haven't ever considered it because who would want one?  LARP and SCA folks are not willing to spend the money on full custom sets like ours most of the time and the casual larper probably couldn't make one.  I'll talk to the boss though and see what she says