'ere we go!
I'm actually a little embarrassed to show these, as this is the armor at its perhaps 50% done stage- it functionally works very well, but looks like crap. Progress has also been slower than I liked, with mundane life getting in the way, and Lady Fideal here living about 30 miles from my house, making trips to measure and form a bit of a challenge.
The main body of the armor is hardened, super thick (15-16 oz) cow leather, with the cups and straps being made from 12 oz leather, which is why the cups have a sort of "splatted pancake" look to them. I also didn't anticipate how little this particular bend of leather reacted to my stretching machinations, so I ended up riveting the cups on the outside, sacrificing aestheticism for functionality, as usual. I also, at her request, left a lot of stretch room around the shoulders, with non-static rivets for the shoulder straps, so that her fighting (she's a dedicated sword and board) wouldn't be hampered.
Now that the work that she has to be here for is complete, I can now redivert my efforts towards design. I am going with a dark fey look, and my next act will be to make, out of thin, easily formed leather, leaves to cover the boobs in a pixy-esque way, and vines appearing to burst in an out of various other bits of the armor. Then, to cover the gaps in the shoulders, I am going to make hinged winged pauldrons, with a foresty skull motif.
In future designs, I will make the cups out of a leather that is a bit thinner, and more stretchy, since I'm doing two layers there anyways. For larger cup sizes, I would need to either close v-cuts at the base of the cups, or just make them out of several pieces.
I'll post more, as I go!