Full suit - Done except minor fixes (except helm)

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Full suit - Done except minor fixes (except helm)

Postby Thorondor » Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:15 pm

Now I need to get paid so I can go get the side of cow...I have almost all the tools I need, just not the consumables (dyes, leather, rivets).

Helm is going to be a dome instead of what I have shown. Still going to have the mask & jaw on it. Going to put a 14g bronze chain "skirt" on the back of the dome to protect the bottom half of my skull from missiles (and to make it look flashier than plain old leather or steel chain.

The greaves have scales riveted onto the shin. It's not too easy to see them in the poster board. I need a little more protection there and I don't want to go steel. I figure 2-3 layers of legal thickness leather should be enough to prevent welts.

The shoulders are going to be detachable from the torso via a buckle on the shoulder and a strap on the torso. I want to be able to take them off when I decide to shoot.

Hip plates I'm going to bake so they curve. Same with the top shoulder piece.


Photos of the leather pieces can be found below.
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Re: Full suit - pattern has been made. (Image heavy)

Postby Burke » Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:08 pm

Check your cross shot mobility in that chest piece. If you make it with hardened leather, you'll be bruising the **** out of your arms. If it is too tight, you can either cut larger indents for your arms, or alternatively, cut the chest piece in half. Deeper indents create a space at the shoulder that needs to be covered by larger pauldrons. Cutting it in half will maintain the better coverage and allow it to shift during a cross shot, but it'll be cut in half. Depends on what your aiming for appearance wise. .
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Re: Full suit - pattern has been made. (Image heavy)

Postby Thorondor » Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:35 pm

It actually didn't feel too bad when I tried a cross shot wearing the poster board. I might do some editing of it when I get to the leather, but that'll be later. On a positive note, I raiding my savings and got the leather today and am already done tracing it and have started cutting out pieces. :) Next will be raiding the hardware store for a set of nuts & bolts to mess around with the rivet positioning before I actually set the rivets.
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Re: Full suit - pattern has been made. (Image heavy)

Postby Thorondor » Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:37 pm

Fully cut out. They aren't lined up too carefully, just tossed together for a general idea of what they're going to look like.

On to the next step! That's figuring out what I actually want to put on them and where...so updates won't be for a little while after this one.

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Re: Full suit - leather has been cut. (Image heavy)

Postby Thorondor » Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:40 pm

Greaves & skirt are ready to have the designs put into them. AKA - I could put them together right now if I had to (without dye or carving)

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Re: Full suit - leather has been cut. (Image heavy)

Postby Vallon » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:37 pm

Looking good man.
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Re: Full suit - leather has been cut. (Image heavy)

Postby Thorondor » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:09 pm

I need to add a few holes to the straps holding it on so that it will lay tighter against my body. But I'm happy enough with how the torso turned out, especially for my first big leather working project. Next up, shoulders come Tuesday when I can get to Tandy again...

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My cross shot isn't really hindered in the leather. Once it loosens up some I should be golden. Right now it's almost as still as a board.

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Re: Full suit - leather has been cut. (Image heavy)

Postby Tobia Blackthorn » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:56 pm

Thorondor wrote:Once it loosens up some I should be golden. Right now it's almost as still as a board.


Are you not planning to harden it?
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Re: Full suit - leather has been cut. (Image heavy)

Postby Thorondor » Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:04 pm

Luinmir wrote:
Thorondor wrote:Once it loosens up some I should be golden. Right now it's almost as still as a board.


Are you not planning to harden it?


Most of it I'm going to, but I wasn't planning on hardening the entire thing. The upper 2 portions of the torso will be tough to fit into my oven I think...I haven't measured it though. Same with my greaves, but those I was going to leave unhardened since it's 3layers thick on the shins to begin with.
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Re: Full suit - All temp assembled except shoulders

Postby Tobia Blackthorn » Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:12 pm

Aaah, alright. For a second I was worried you didn't plan to harden any of it. Those lower torso sections would look pretty bad if not hardened, imo. Looks like they want to stick out. Then again, I harden anything that's supposed to be armor, and many things that aren't armor, but I just want them to fit more snugly, lol
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Re: Full suit - All temp assembled except shoulders

Postby Burke » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:11 am

For the parts you aren't going to harden, you can still shape it by casing the leather and wearing it while it dries.
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Re: Full suit - All temp assembled

Postby Thorondor » Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:51 pm

Shoulders are strapped and ready to be tooled. I'm going to curve the top plate over my shoulder and the other arm pieces are going to be curved to fit my arm better (aka, not lay flat). With how I buckled them to my shoulder I can flap my arms like a chicken and (1) not get hit in the head and (2) have full movement.

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Re: Full suit - All temp assembled

Postby Thorondor » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:27 pm

First set of scales done. They got better looking as I went along, but after they're dyed black it will be harder to see the imperfections I think.
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Re: Full suit - About ready to piece together

Postby Thorondor » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:27 pm

Almost ready to start putting the thing together!

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Re: Full suit - Ready for rivets

Postby Thorondor » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:21 pm

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Re: Full suit - Done except minor fixes

Postby Thorondor » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:26 pm

I need to go get some new straps since one ripped (bad piece of leather apparently) and a few aren't long enough once I get my gambeson on under it. That extra padding should fill out the armor a little more. I'm leaving the sides slightly open for breathing issues...I'd rather not have my chest fully compressed by the armor.

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Re: Full suit - Done except minor fixes (except helm)

Postby Derian » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:36 pm

Address those white socks & sweatpants and I think you're in business.
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Re: Full suit - Done except minor fixes (except helm)

Postby Thorondor » Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:51 am

Yea, I'm going to be getting some garb pants when my gambeson is done. And they should be long enough to cover the socks and top of the boots. If not, I'll go buy some black socks and be done with it :)
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