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Knight
 
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Clearing up documents I came across a range of pictures I have taken of some of the pieces of kit that I have made. A lot of other art-forums are dedicated to providing artists with an outlet to express their ideas, look for critique and give inspiration to each other. As we are not different to other artists (albeit with a more limited/specialised audience) I thought that I would post up these images and let people see what they think. I hope that my methods offer some inspiration to up and coming kit makers and I can get some tips and suggestions from other old hands.
These pieces are fairly basic but I think exhibit some good stock techniques, I have tried to give some back story where possible and if anyone has any further questions about method please stick up a post. Equally if anyone has any tips let me know.
Light Armour – ‘Rogue’s Armour’ 2002
 
This was a fairly basic piece of light armour I made for myself (until I got too fat) - the leather is about 4mm think with a few strengthening sections of 7mm rawhide. The armour was designed to maximised mobility and consequently is short to the stomach to allow easy bending at the waist and has a wide clearance around the arms for unrestricted movement.
Scabards – Small sword & bastard – Spring 2003 - Autumn 2005
Two scabbards of similar construction, both of 3-4mm leather stitched around the edges and riveted at the mouth. The larger sword is of my own manufacture and the smaller is commercial made (it wasn't mine so I could not say who by).
Apron – Craftsman’s – Dec 2005
Made for a 'shoe-maker' in a theatre's pantomime, it was a fairly simple job and the customer was far happier with the end result than I was. It is of thin leather with some riveting and stitching, there were a row of holders at the front for the craftsmen's tools.
Pouch – Autumn 2005
Not a very exciting piece but a good standard pouch, the image was amongst the others. Bottom corners are overlapped to prevent the contents working through the bottom.
Shield – Autumn 2005
This small domed shield was pleasant piece to produce and I was very satisfied with the results. The raised detail was produced with a foam insert and the whole piece was covered with a nice thin goatskin leather. Found this a nice way to give an interesting shield design without looking un-believable.
I hope these are of interest to people. I hope that some other people will be motivated to start their own showcase threads so we can see the good stuff that people are producing.
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Heroic Knight
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I hope that some other people will be motivated to start their own showcase threads so we can see the good stuff that people are producing. It's nice to see simple kit done really well, like this. It's a good idea.
www.absintheskiss.com - Alternative, Goth and LRP Design. Fuller figure specialist.
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Wag
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| Interesting! Like the shield especially. Interested in why you used Rawhide in the armour.... I would imagine it would get odd when it gets wet?
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Knight
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I would not normally, perhaps rawhide is not the completely accurate way to describe it - it had begun to be processed into leather but had been left unfinished at a very early stage - either way it was fairly unique and very thick and tough, it was crying out to be put into a piece of armour. My only regret is that I have been unable to find anything to match it. After construction I spent a long time working hot polish into the hide which has made it as resilient as any normal leather.
I was very happy with how the shield came out unfortunately I left something heavy on top of it crushing the foam slightly leaving the circular impression that can be seen in the photo.
Thank you for the interest.
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