Lord Of The Rings Elven Armor

Looks great :eek and tempting me to return back to my Elven Archer Project and finish it. :love

:unsure h

Okay, after I finish doing my SW Costumes and Armors (didn't I say that since 2 years ago? :angel )
 
Hi everybody,
after a long time i work now on my costüm. Now I´m put together the armor skirt. The Tutorial i use, suggest for this cotton, but i use imitation leather. At first i cut 2 pieces for right and left side.

MailleSkirt.png


Than i draw auxiliary lines.

MailleSkirt3.png


And than it was therapeutically , Wellcome to the funny Panel Drawing.


MailleSkirt2.png


After this i cut the panels, but not complete, only by 2 sides. If I´m ready it should look so.

beltfastener.jpg


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Painting-Day
At first I cut 2-3 cm stripes from red-brown imitation leather for the edge of my Maille Skirt. Than I paint it with a mix of brown + mars-black. It will be a used look and the colur is not completely covered the imitation leather.


Maille%20Skirt%20Lederumrandung.JPG



Now I paint the Mailie Skirt. The first colour-layer was little mistake, because the colour was to thin / to many water. It was a mix from gold + terracotta + metallic copper + yellowgreen.


Maille%20Skirt%205.JPG



I take a wood-board to paint the imitations lether. Than I took a hairdrier.


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The second layer was just gold for both parts of the Mailie Skirt.


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After drying i push the little cuted plates because they stick from the gold colour.


Now I have a new digital camera. So I take some new pictures from the costume.


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I´m not at the end. There some thing to do.

I have sew the brown leather-Stripes on the maille skirt now.
So I´ve break the leather-stripes clothes-pin at the half make some whole for the needle to sew.That makes more easier.
To make the hole I took a mini srewdriver with a broken sharp point.

After that I sew the right and left part from the maille skirt together. Than was time to sew 2 leather-carrier on the skirt.

http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=90
http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=89
http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=91

For the underskirt i cut out 4 wide velvet-stripes an d sew it on a cutted old jeans.

The german tutorials can you find in the thread "the german way of LOTR" at http://www.propschmiede.de
 
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Hey there! glad to see you're still at it and posting here. :) Great job! (y)thumbsup:thumbsup


Guri aka jedielfqueen
 
Hi DrStranglove,

I don´t understand your post. Perhaps you mean some of the picture on the first sites. The picture were some years old and were deleted from the Hoaster. I´ll repair this sometimes in future ;)
 
At the weekend I´still work at my costume. At first I´ve plan to close the red leather belt / skirt with strings. But this was not comfortable to use. So I sew 3 stripes of black rubber band from an old belt.

http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=94&sid=39a4dfef72163dd8c1cd879f248a18c3

Than I sew some leather plates in the hip armor to hold a belt. After this i fill up an painted the seam.

http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=93&sid=39a4dfef72163dd8c1cd879f248a18c3

I´m ready nearly. So I make new picture from me in costume. It was very hot with so many Parts. The Chest Armor ist realy uncomfortable. Its not possible to put on the costume allone.

Here a the picture:

http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=97&sid=39a4dfef72163dd8c1cd879f248a18c3

http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=96&sid=39a4dfef72163dd8c1cd879f248a18c3

http://www.propschmiede.de/phpBB3/download.php?id=95&sid=39a4dfef72163dd8c1cd879f248a18c3
 
It's great to see you in the costume finally! It makes such a difference in being able to appreciate the work.

Where will you be wearing it? And are there any good photos of the helmet to show off? I'd love to see that.

It was very hot with so many Parts. The Chest Armor ist realy uncomfortable. Its not possible to put on the costume allone.

You must have made it correctly then! :lol The other problem you should have is not being able to sit down.
 
Oh yeah, those are the details I was craving to see. :love

That helmet is sweet, and the aging on the shoulder bells is perfection!

Great job. Thanks again for posting your progress and making sure those of us behind on seeing this thread got to catch up!
 
Hi everybody, after many years I update my thread with new Links to the picture. My german prop-forum propschmiede was closed. So I delete the Links in my new listing. But here is the whole way in once.

I´m a fan of LOTR and a beginner in props. I found a german propboard and I was inspired, that I start my project “Elven Costume”.

Basicly I used this sites to get Informations:
Elf Armor Templates
Craft Foam Armor Tutorial
There are chest-templates to print out. )

The second site that I used to get tricks and clever solutions was Haldir's Elven Archers

The Start:

At first I printed the templates and cut this out from 2mm craft foam (sheets 30x45 cm and 46x92 cm). In Germany it called Moosgummi (Moosgum). I used Pattex (all-purpose glue) because its flexible like gum when its dry.

The wrist guard I taped on waterbottle and stick the second layer of Mossgummi.

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After this I lay on ornaments with Moltofill Fugen Dicht. This is actually for joints in walls. It stay flexible like silicon and you can paint on it.

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I stick the chest armor so that it looks like several layers. But the chest stay thin an flexible.

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For painting I used gold, dark brown, mars black and chromeoxygreen acryl color. I mixed for the first layer a dark color (gold + dark brown + mars black).

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After drying I start with the second color layer, a gold-black mix. I dap it on with cosmetic / cotton pads because I prefer a used look and I called the style swoard-washed or ork-washed.

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Than I made the hip armor. I´m not good in inversly and symmatrical draw. So I used a fineliner and draw the ornaments on one side, dap on the line points with wet acryl colour and lay on the other armor side (turn around). So there symmetrical ornaments curves on both sides

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On one side the leaves of the hip armor are elvish writing. I printed the elvish word for "Haldir" and "Lothlorien" from side http://www.jedielfqueen.com/elvenwarriors/...ing/writing.htm
on 240 gr/m² photopaper and cut out. I used thick points of glue, the word float 1mm over the surface from armor. After drying I paint the letter with Mod Podge and fill the gap between paper and armor.

hips2.jpg

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hips3.jpg


The hip armour is bald and needs more ornaments. I consider where I lay on more ornaments with Molto Fugen Dicht. Than, painting the two color layer. And here it is:

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The elvish words

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Here I put on the hip armor provisionally. Die hip armour does not enclose my backside, but its ok because there is the cape.

hips7.jpg

hips7.jpg

hips8.jpg

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Now I wrote the webmaster of Elf Armor Templates to say thank you for your homepage and printable templates. 3 Days later I get an answer

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Hello.

Wow. Your armor looks amazing. I'm bookmarking your link for future updates to my page, and I just wish I read German. Your paint job is really impressive, and I love what you did with the Elvish writing as well. Excellent work - thank you for showing me.

Genevieve
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Here you can find a picture from Genevieve. The photo"Gen aka Penwiper"
Haldir's Elven Archers


In the meantime I have found imitation leather in red-brown. So I sew the finger guards. The finger guard will be sew with the wrist guards. Before I invert the finger guards I warmed the imitation leather with a hair dryer. At the finger guard crest I make short distance between the needle pass. Otherwise the seam is inexactly and the leather make little waves out the seam.

finger-guard1.jpg

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finger-guard2.jpg

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The helm is nearly finished. But I´m not happy with the result. I had trouble with the helm templates, so I improvise. Not 100% elvish but see here some picture from the steps.

At first I stick the helm parts together on an head of glas.

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helm1.jpg

At saturday I found art flowers edging in a tinker market. So I think its perfect for the floral ornaments on the Elven helms.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/995fuzfe658cpn5/helm6.jpg?dl=0

It is to look how art-forged ornament. So I closed small cuts and gaps with ModPodge. Than it looks more realistically.

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The next part was the pin, that sit on the chest armor. I found picture in the internet and print and cut they out in 3 Diameter (2,5; 3; 3,5 cm). Than I see what is the best size (3 cm)

pin1.jpg

pin1.jpg

I cut a plate from a cover of a fruitdrink.

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Than I stick the print on the plate –> dry -> paint with a very aqueous mixture (black + gold) -> dry -> covered with thinly ModPodge. The surface was not smooth.

Than cut out n semi-circle from the chest armor and stick in the pin. Backside I stick a stripe of foam craft.

The leatherwork:

I took the imitation leather and make a sketch for the ornament seams on the back. For the symmetric curves I used remainder of foarm craft.

leather1.jpg

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When I was ready … tada. – surprise . - mistake in reasoning. I need the lines on the frontside. I taped the leather on my windows by sunny weather und draw on the frontside.

leather2.jpg

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leather3.jpg

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Than I take some clothes-peg and sew the ornament seams … a wonderfull sport ;o)

leather4.jpg

leather4.jpg

After this I cut the edges. Before I don’t know how the leather shift because the 10 ornament seams. Now I missing something to hold the leather and the chest armor together on the back.

leather5.jpg

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leather6.jpg

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Now I make some hole in the leather guard. I sew 16 little pieces of wood in the leather to strengthen. So it can´t tear.

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lether11.jpg

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Now the leather armor hold together at back. Than I sew leather-stripes on the wrist guards. At first I try to stick to. But this is not the best way. I took linen thread and paint it over with colour. At the end leather-stripe came a Buckle.

arm4.jpg

arm4.jpg

The same again with the shoulder bells.

shoulder4.jpg

shoulder4.jpg

shoulders_haken.jpg

shoulders_haken.jpg


The next is neck guard. I choose an old sweater as layer. On the sweater I stick many little leather plates. The sweater has an v-collar, but I change it to a high collar.

Than I take the sweater und cut out an piece at the back. The sweater is now closely, when I sew it together. With the piece I make the high collar for the neck guard. It followed the great hardcore-stick. I hope I´m not addicted for Pattex glue. I stick very many little leather plate on the sweater. But at first I cut the leather plates out.

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After 2 day I painted with colour-mix (gold + metallic copper + dark terracotta).

neckguard1.jpg

neckguard1.jpg

For the collar conclusion I paint a leather-stripe in dark brown -> dry -> sew it

neckguard2.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/05x6ydy2jjgpoxl/neckguard2.jpg?dl=0
 
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neckguard3.jpg

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Cloak: at first I cut a semi-circle out of stretch-velvet. This was the basic form for the cloak. But the cloak was to short. So I sew long stripes to extend. I´m not shure, to make the cloak to old-used look.

mantel1.jpg

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Than I cut the velvet in the middle of the upper edge. And parallel right and left to the upper edge. So I´ve got velvet-stripe on both sides. These stripes were sew together. From the rest of velvet I make the hood an sew it on ne neck of the cloak.

mantel2.jpg

mantel2.jpg

On the shoulder I sew little metal-hooks. But as underlayer I used some little plates of imitation leather because the velvet is thin. On the hooks will be fasten the shoulder bells.

mantel3.jpg

mantel3.jpg

Long time I think how I fasten the shoulder bells and the wrist guards. Than I choose hooks and sew them on the imitation leather stripes.

arm_haken.jpg

arm_haken.jpg

After that I found a solution to keep together the back of the chest armor. -> a thin rubber band. The band was sew an on the chest. Now it must be colored.

chest_back.jpg

chest_back.jpg

Than I cut my sweat shirt because the tighten is to difficult. So I cut the arms and a broad strip. The broad strip is my basic belt for the mail skirt an the hips armor.

neckguard4.jpg

neckguard4.jpg

Admitted, this were some “little building sites”. But it takes his time to found a practical solution.

I was so addicted and put the costume parts together. Look here.

komplett 1.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nm1hpzk6b482nb8/komplett 1.jpg?dl=0

kapuze_helm.jpg

kapuze_helm.jpg

komplett 2.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/55m2czvzuswh2et/komplett 2.jpg?dl=0

Now I´m put together the armor skirt. The Tutorial i use, suggest for this cotton, but I use imitation leather. At first i cut 2 pieces for right and left side.

Maille Skirt  1.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ktdcpfyyovy4brp/Maille Skirt 1.JPG?dl=0

Than I draw auxiliary lines.

Maille Skirt 2.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aogrmxfx8b92ofe/Maille Skirt 2.JPG?dl=0

And than it was therapeutically , Welcome to the funny Panel Drawing.

Maille Skirt 3.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rgktful1bvjbrq8/Maille Skirt 3.JPG?dl=0

After this i cut the panels, but not complete, only by 2 sides. If I´m ready it should look so.
https://www.therpf.com/forums/attachments/beltfastener-jpg.898320/

Painting-Day
At first I cut 2-3 cm stripes from red-brown imitation leather for the edge of my Maille Skirt. Than I paint it with a mix of brown + mars-black. It will be a used look and the colour is not completely covered the imitation leather. So I take a wood-board to paint the imitations leather. Than I took a hairdryer.

Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 1.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sal5i20dkh8j3c3/Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 1.JPG?dl=0

Now I paint the Mailie Skirt. The first colour-layer was little mistake, because the colour was to thin / to many water. It was a mix from gold + terracotta + metallic copper + yellowgreen. The second layer was just gold for both parts of the Mailie Skirt. After drying i push the little cuted plates because they stick from the gold colour.

Maille Skirt 6.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mhv1z8ykslofscv/Maille Skirt 6.JPG?dl=0

Maille Skirt 7.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lmjpihoxgoq6c9b/Maille Skirt 7.JPG?dl=0

I have sew the brown leather-Stripes on the maille skirt now. So I´ve break the leather-stripes clothes-pin at the half make some whole for the needle to sew. That makes more easier. To make the hole I took a mini screwdriver with a broken sharp point.

Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 2.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tft5tlj77djem99/Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 2.JPG?dl=0

Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 3.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/okjexayo3yc1go6/Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 3.JPG?dl=0

Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 4.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmsjv8m862x9mjb/Maille Skirt Lederumrandung 4.JPG?dl=0

After that I sew the right and left part from the maille skirt together. Than was time to sew 2 leather-carrier on the skirt.

Maile Skirt 8.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ye0tw5u9zkbyzou/Maille Skirt 8.JPG?dl=0

Maile Skirt 9.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojacusucsrebnss/Maille Skirt 9.JPG?dl=0

For the underskirt i cut out 4 wide velvet-stripes an d sew it on a cutted old jeans.

underskirt 1.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6al3wyjgec1soen/underskirt 1.JPG?dl=0

At the weekend I´m still work at my costume. At first I´ve plan to close the red leather belt / skirt with strings. But this was not comfortable to use. So I sew 3 stripes of black rubber band from an old belt.

leather12.JPG

leather12.JPG

Than I sew some leather plates in the hip armor to hold a belt. After this i fill up an painted the seam.

hips9.JPG

hips9.JPG

I´m ready nearly. So I make new picture from me in costume. It was very hot with so many Parts. The Chest Armor is really uncomfortable. It´s not possible to put on the costume alone.

Here are the pictures:

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test1.jpg

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komplett 6.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/04v8ihkfpbusqa3/komplett 6.jpg?dl=0
 

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