Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby DragoonAntoinette » Mon Sep 03, 2012 12:17 pm

your armor is very pretty Derian!
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:06 pm

And boom. Just finished wrapping up the greave tooling pattern:

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:32 pm

Tooling in progress:

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:18 pm

Here's some more:

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Sir Anastasia » Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:16 pm

Seriously well done. So jealous...
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:41 pm

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:00 pm

Here's some more:

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And a quiver:

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Aimish » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:16 pm

Your work is awesome. How do you do the texture on there?
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:03 am

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Wolftail » Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:39 am

Love your work, I mean love it. Even the blue you choose makes my jaw hang. Incredible work.
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:42 pm

Here's a picture of the full kit. Pardon the goofy smile and shoes (it was wet and cold as ****):

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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Tiberius Claudius » Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:26 pm

I like, many times over. And +1 for the use of blue, its muted yet different and beatufiul.
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Brutus » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:17 pm

Sorry to thread-necro... wait, no I'm not.
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:29 am

How timely. I've got new stuff coming. I'll probably make a new thread for that, though.
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Skorm » Thu Jan 09, 2014 3:18 pm

by chance are you willing to share the pattern on those arms, they are dead sexy and exactly what ive been wanting.
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Caleidah » Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:58 am

Skorm wrote:by chance are you willing to share the pattern on those arms, they are dead sexy and exactly what ive been wanting.

Not the exact pattern, but this gets you * close.

http://nadler.us/arms_early_15thC.html
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Skorm » Fri Jan 10, 2014 7:13 am

that works great, got one for the shoulders too? forgot to say that as well
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Derian » Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:10 am

These aren't perfect, but here are some pictures of the elbow cop, bracer and rearbrace:

http://derian.us/armor/patterns/

There's also pictures of the articulation of the finished piece in there. I still need to actually get the patterns scanned, but hopefully that's good enough for you now.
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Re: Check Out My Bangin' New <strike>Belt</strike> Armor!

Postby Skorm » Sat Jan 11, 2014 6:29 am

that and your previous posts helps lot thanks
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