LotR Ithilien Ranger Costume

[anglachel]

Since I got recently two mannequins to display my costumes, I was able to set up my ithilien ranger display. Here are some pics I made today. Hope you like it.

Some additional pics can be found here: Ithilien Ranger Gallery @ Picasa

Except for the bow anything else is made by me or with the help of my parents. 90% of the leatherwork is sewn by hand. I had pretty much fun sewing the parts together while watching lord of the rings.

Comments or constructive criticism are welcome.


Jan

 

[stormtrooperguy]

it looks great. definitely captures the feel of the LotR era.

 

[Soundwave]

Looks awesome! I love the display with the chest and map...nice touches!! Fantastic leather work too, kudos to you and your parents.

 

[TazVader]

Awsome...stunning even. Now...tell us all the details. How did you go about it? What is the sword? What about the bow?

Regards
Christian

 

[Guri]

love Love it! Great job making everything so authentic looking too... It'll definitely generate some conversations when people come over.

My only suggestion would be to get a good photo of yourself in the costume to blow up and frame to hang behind it. Not a pose in the living room or anything, but a candid shot in some woody setting... maybe looking at the map or something.

 

[Sleezy]

Who made the Gondorian belt hardware? Those are awesome. :thumbsup

VERY nice job.

 

[pnerves]

Brilliant.

 

[anglachel]

Sword and Gondorian buckles are made by my dad and myself. Unfortunately the buckles are a bit to large. I could see that at the lord of the rings exhibition which was displayed in potsdam/germany about half a year after I finished this costume. Maybe we will make some new ones, a little bit smaller. But this have to wait.

The sword is made of wood. Since this costume was made for RingCon 2006 I could not wear a real one. Maybe I will update this one also. I'm in touch with some blacksmiths for the blade.

As I mentioned before, the bow is the only thing I did not make myself. It was commissioned at mittelalterliches-handwerk.de. I sent him a couple of pics from the movie and he did a pretty amazing job on it.


I made this costume in 2006 and it was my first try to work with leather. So it took me a lot of time, but I think it was pretty much worth it.


Jan

 

[darthgoat]

Wow! That is very nice! Well done!

 

[Sully0456]

Wow amazing really hoping to build a ranger costume myself how did you make the gauntlets I'm not very familiar working with leather.

 

[Mrkipling]

It looks amazing, loving the chest.

 

[ibspitfire]

Great work!

Where did you find a map of Gondor that big?

 

[Hammerghast]

Outstanding work. After I get my first couple costumes posted and amended per community feedback I REALLY wanna tackle something Middle-Earth, this was really inspirational to see.

Random question (for anyone really) how much does a good mannequin cost and does anyone have any links? I scratchbuilt a haphazard duct tape one and it's not quite working out haha.