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Post subject: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:25 am |
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:45 am |
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*drooling*
This is amazing work! You should post a link to the commercial once it comes out.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:41 am |
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Hey what's up new best friend
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:18 pm |
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Is this suit meant to be fully mobile and functional in addition to looking really nice?
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:56 pm |
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Thorne wrote: Is this suit meant to be fully mobile and functional in addition to looking really nice? Yep, its fully functional.
_________________ Elaborate Custom Armor, Weapons, And Leather Items at Prince Armory http://www.PrinceArmory.com Gallery at http://Azmal.DeviantArt.com
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:57 pm |
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That's good, cuz I would probs have sex in/with it.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:42 pm |
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I think anyone would have sex with anyone in that suit...such is the power of the suit.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:05 am |
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:16 pm |
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this is awesome
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:54 am |
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What did you use to dye/paint the leather? I'm trying to get a color similar to that but not sure what I should use to get there.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 8:51 am |
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awesome work, as always! I'm glad you're one step closer to the fame and riches you deserve!
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:11 am |
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I know its been a while, but here is the commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgCZNnXBNr0Since this suit won't be seen outside this commercial, we started making bits and pieces of it from the patterns and selling them at conventions. Including a full face version of the helm. Check it. 
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:44 am |
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That's some sexy work. It's a shame the full suit only got one moment of glory.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:06 am |
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i know right...
Im betting its sitting in some prop warehouse somewhere never to be used again. Sucks, but money is money.
We have more suits that we just finished and that are coming down the pipe if there is any interest.
Not sure if its worth it though, these boards seem kinda dead.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:26 am |
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It's totally worth it. There are a lot of lurkers that don't necessarily post. I know that I'd definitely be interested in seeing them.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 12:06 pm |
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Derian wrote: There are a lot of lurkers that don't necessarily post. I can back that statement up, I am a lurker. Trying to lurk less, post moar. That armor is amazing and it looks like you got some good screen time in that commercial as well.
_________________ Everything will be okay in the end. If its not okay, it's not the end.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:05 pm |
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Cool. Pacification of the lurkers commencing. This is what we are calling the flame dragon suit. Finishing touches are going on it today, and it will be shipped tomorrow morning. So for the moment, its sitting on the workbench next to me.   More pics and suits and random projects here. https://www.facebook.com/PrinceArmoryIll start being more active here again myself now that i moved out west. Still no where near a Bel realm, but at least i might start hitting some western events next year now.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:20 pm |
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Beautiful as always.
How much time do you spend patterning out for any given suit like that? Though I do a lot of tooling on my stuff, it's not really even in the same ballpark, but I find myself spending a significant chunk of any project playing with different patterns to get the look I'm going for.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:37 pm |
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First off, i am not prince. I just work with him, Just to clear that up real quick.
On the high end suits, he does all the patterning and i do a lot of the grunt work so to speak. On smaller commissions i do everything.
Generally speaking he spends a few days designing the tooling and general design. From the design he makes the patterns and then fits them to the measurements. I think he would take a week to do patterning on a full suit like that, and then start it the week after, but since im there, i usually show up in the morning and have a stack of patterns to cut out, tool, dye, sheen, etc etc.
So i would say probably a day per section of the body. I mean when it comes to the limbs, there are only so many ways you can cover that part of the body before it stops working, so patterns for those tend to go quicker than say a helm.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:41 pm |
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Word!
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 6:32 pm |
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Just a cool shot of the Loki helmet 
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:21 pm |
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Beautiful work. How did you do the horns?
_________________ Knight of Grond Palatine of the Sons of Sylas "But in life, the young king becomes a tyrant, and leads his people to war."
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:18 am |
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The horns are actual horn.
We sanded them down on a belt sander till they were smooth. Progressively finer grits, then polished them.
They are attached to the leather via epoxy and stitching, and then the leather is riveted to the helm, the another piece goes around the whole thing to hide the rivets. They are pretty darn secure and don't wobble which is nice.
Not quite field legal unfortunately.
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Post subject: Re: Leather Fantasy Elven Knight Full Suit of Armor Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:21 pm |
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 If I had cash this would so be T-Bird's helm
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