Leatherworker
Well-Known Member
Since I have finished my Conan the destroyer headband recently (Making of 'Conan the Destroyer' Headband), I had to build the barbarian version also. During the research I fell in love with the martial appearance and the nice contrast of cognac color and darker brown. There is not much of a difference in the construction of both versions except of the nose piece, therefore I skip a detailed making of and simple show some results ...
The biggest challange were the nose piece nails. To get the rough hammered look of the originals, I had to take pretty thick iron nails and grind and shorten them ...
By the way, I think I now know why they havn't used this headband / nose piece in the destroyer movie. The large flat headed nails reflect all the light (sun, spotlights etc.) like mirrors directly to the camera when facing her ...
Finally a direct comparison between both versions showing the color variations ...
I think that I will oxidize the nose piece nail surfaces a little bit to better fit to the "heavy used look", As they are now, they look to new and clean ...
The biggest challange were the nose piece nails. To get the rough hammered look of the originals, I had to take pretty thick iron nails and grind and shorten them ...
By the way, I think I now know why they havn't used this headband / nose piece in the destroyer movie. The large flat headed nails reflect all the light (sun, spotlights etc.) like mirrors directly to the camera when facing her ...
Finally a direct comparison between both versions showing the color variations ...
I think that I will oxidize the nose piece nail surfaces a little bit to better fit to the "heavy used look", As they are now, they look to new and clean ...
