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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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)
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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.
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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.
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Than I take some clothes-peg and sew the ornament seams … a wonderfull sport ;o)
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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.
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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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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.
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The same again with the shoulder bells.
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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).
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For the collar conclusion I paint a leather-stripe in dark brown -> dry -> sew it
https://www.dropbox.com/s/05x6ydy2jjgpoxl/neckguard2.jpg?dl=0