WereDrelf
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I am late to the Auditore party, but I just recently discovered the Assassin’s Creed games, falling in love with the series and simply had to make my own Ezio. I especially like his outfit and the game atmosphere in Revelations. So I set out to make my first replica-build ever, and shooting for high accuracy, I am paying for my lofty plans with a long time-frame...
Here is what I have so far. Still a long way to go, but I am much enjoying the process.
I will describe the making of the pieces one by one. Starting with the armor.
The Upper Arm Plates:
I don’t have Ezio’s guns, so I needed to adjust width dimensions to my non-building-scaling arms, but I like the way it turned out.
The two plates were tooled individually, then merged.
I used fairly thick (belly) veg tan leather. The pattern was hand-drawn with the help of endless screen shots I took during gaming as well as other pictures available. All leather edges were beveled. Transfer of the pattern to the leather was made after wetting the leather, tracing the lines with a modeling tool, or old ballpoint pen. I cut the lines with the swivel knife, then tooled with a smooth beveler.
While the leather was still moist I wrapped one piece around a towel-wrapped water-bottle (roughly the diameter of my arm) and tied the piece in place with a cotton cloth. I shaped the upper edge by stuffing a terry wash-cloth behind it. This is how I let the whole thing dry. It kept its shape nicely.
Once the piece was dry, I could stain it with a tan rub. This had to dry as well, then I hand-painted all “metal” parts with silver acrylic leather paint (two coats with drying in between). Once this was dry, I used a paint-and-rub technique for the aging: I painted a small area of the “metal” with black acrylic paint and almost immediately rubbed it back off with a cotton cloth (or actually an old sock…). The black paint stuck to the crevices, making the part look like old, corroded metal. The rest of the metal parts received a bit of a watered-down black rub to take off some of that metallic luster.
The straps are made of a thinner leather. They attach and detach underneath the plates with Velcro (authentic 15th century Velcro, of course!), to allow for width adjustment. The straps received a straight line indentation using a craft-tool to mimic stitching lines. I died these with a darker color. Both leather plates were fused together with gunmetal colored rivets, some of which are also holding the straps and Velcro in place.
I have worn my first piece of armor during dinner and for other project work, and so far have not sustained any upper arm wounds.
Here is what I have so far. Still a long way to go, but I am much enjoying the process.
I will describe the making of the pieces one by one. Starting with the armor.
The Upper Arm Plates:
I don’t have Ezio’s guns, so I needed to adjust width dimensions to my non-building-scaling arms, but I like the way it turned out.
The two plates were tooled individually, then merged.
I used fairly thick (belly) veg tan leather. The pattern was hand-drawn with the help of endless screen shots I took during gaming as well as other pictures available. All leather edges were beveled. Transfer of the pattern to the leather was made after wetting the leather, tracing the lines with a modeling tool, or old ballpoint pen. I cut the lines with the swivel knife, then tooled with a smooth beveler.
While the leather was still moist I wrapped one piece around a towel-wrapped water-bottle (roughly the diameter of my arm) and tied the piece in place with a cotton cloth. I shaped the upper edge by stuffing a terry wash-cloth behind it. This is how I let the whole thing dry. It kept its shape nicely.
Once the piece was dry, I could stain it with a tan rub. This had to dry as well, then I hand-painted all “metal” parts with silver acrylic leather paint (two coats with drying in between). Once this was dry, I used a paint-and-rub technique for the aging: I painted a small area of the “metal” with black acrylic paint and almost immediately rubbed it back off with a cotton cloth (or actually an old sock…). The black paint stuck to the crevices, making the part look like old, corroded metal. The rest of the metal parts received a bit of a watered-down black rub to take off some of that metallic luster.
The straps are made of a thinner leather. They attach and detach underneath the plates with Velcro (authentic 15th century Velcro, of course!), to allow for width adjustment. The straps received a straight line indentation using a craft-tool to mimic stitching lines. I died these with a darker color. Both leather plates were fused together with gunmetal colored rivets, some of which are also holding the straps and Velcro in place.
I have worn my first piece of armor during dinner and for other project work, and so far have not sustained any upper arm wounds.
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