Because contrary to popular belief, I do like things other than Assassin's creed
I know its a bit late to the party, but eh. Discovered the joys of skyrim I wasn't playing it when everyone else was, because I'm more of a spaceships n' guns & PEWPEWPEW girl, but seeing as I had already turned over every single rock and opened every locker in both fallout 3 & NV, was looking for another place to explore in the " hmmmm i think I'll go THAT way" style. A friend said, Hey, Elder scrolls plays like fallout! and I went out and snagged it the next day
Besides running into one of the "arrow to the knee" guys and finding it rather anticlimactic (and the internet meme considerably more lame), but discovering that "Fus Ro Dah" is really fun when you use voice commands via Kinect (when they work lol) , there was another huge surprise...
ALL OF THAT ARMOR! OHMAGERD
It took a bit to decide which armor I wanted to costume the most, because each one had their cool bits, and not so cool bits, but I didn't want to be a mix-n-match Dragonborn. The weapons may be another story though!
SO after playing, I decided on the Nord Carved armor (dragonborn DLC)
BECAUSE THERE IS A BEAR HAT
I started out by making bracer plates, because I was eager to try out EVA foam armor. It was fast, but hardening it is a pain in the bumside. The following image is one that was made from eva foam, Sintra, and tagboard. It was coated with some smoothcast 325 I had laying around, and sanded since the coating was pretty awful. I'll be writing up a post regarding that experiment as I begin building the rest of the armor, but in the meantime, here's a plate
So far, I have the gambeson and arming pants made,
I wanted to try out quilting, and to work on improving my sewing overall.
For the gambeson, I was able to put my old Assassins creed undercoat to use, and used it to help in making a new pattern for this one. The tunic was designed to help flatten my chest somewhat, so I used much of it again, since I'm making the male armor (the chestpiece of the female armor looks really BLAH)
I'm using linen and (i think cotton) batting. I sandwiched the batting between linen, and used fabric tacky spray to hold them in place when stitching.
The lines were laid out directly on the fabric, and I ran the whole lot through the machine. It took much longer than I had expected, but hey, live & learn neh?
Here's more of the stitching done, and of course, once those lines were stitched, it was on to the crosshatched ones!
Here is a before and after set of sleeves!
Here are the pants completed. I added an additional lining to prevent chafing from the texture of the quilting. I also made some trim and hand sewed it along the inside and outside of the legs. Instead of a zipper, I sewed in velcro, then added line 24 snaps.
when I tried everything on, the tunic fit great, but the pants were ultra tight, and I barely managed to squeeze in them (diet time! ) . So instead of showing a photo of what appears to be a painful arming pants wedgie (which was surprisingly -not- uncomfortable despite it clearly being a wedgie) , here is the gear on my fiance, who likes to either make silly faces or feign annoyance when I take photos of him during test fittings :lol
I hope to fit a cooling vest in there, because this thing is a toaster oven
I know its a bit late to the party, but eh. Discovered the joys of skyrim I wasn't playing it when everyone else was, because I'm more of a spaceships n' guns & PEWPEWPEW girl, but seeing as I had already turned over every single rock and opened every locker in both fallout 3 & NV, was looking for another place to explore in the " hmmmm i think I'll go THAT way" style. A friend said, Hey, Elder scrolls plays like fallout! and I went out and snagged it the next day
Besides running into one of the "arrow to the knee" guys and finding it rather anticlimactic (and the internet meme considerably more lame), but discovering that "Fus Ro Dah" is really fun when you use voice commands via Kinect (when they work lol) , there was another huge surprise...
ALL OF THAT ARMOR! OHMAGERD
It took a bit to decide which armor I wanted to costume the most, because each one had their cool bits, and not so cool bits, but I didn't want to be a mix-n-match Dragonborn. The weapons may be another story though!
SO after playing, I decided on the Nord Carved armor (dragonborn DLC)
BECAUSE THERE IS A BEAR HAT
I started out by making bracer plates, because I was eager to try out EVA foam armor. It was fast, but hardening it is a pain in the bumside. The following image is one that was made from eva foam, Sintra, and tagboard. It was coated with some smoothcast 325 I had laying around, and sanded since the coating was pretty awful. I'll be writing up a post regarding that experiment as I begin building the rest of the armor, but in the meantime, here's a plate
So far, I have the gambeson and arming pants made,
I wanted to try out quilting, and to work on improving my sewing overall.
For the gambeson, I was able to put my old Assassins creed undercoat to use, and used it to help in making a new pattern for this one. The tunic was designed to help flatten my chest somewhat, so I used much of it again, since I'm making the male armor (the chestpiece of the female armor looks really BLAH)
I'm using linen and (i think cotton) batting. I sandwiched the batting between linen, and used fabric tacky spray to hold them in place when stitching.
The lines were laid out directly on the fabric, and I ran the whole lot through the machine. It took much longer than I had expected, but hey, live & learn neh?
Here's more of the stitching done, and of course, once those lines were stitched, it was on to the crosshatched ones!
Here is a before and after set of sleeves!
Here are the pants completed. I added an additional lining to prevent chafing from the texture of the quilting. I also made some trim and hand sewed it along the inside and outside of the legs. Instead of a zipper, I sewed in velcro, then added line 24 snaps.
when I tried everything on, the tunic fit great, but the pants were ultra tight, and I barely managed to squeeze in them (diet time! ) . So instead of showing a photo of what appears to be a painful arming pants wedgie (which was surprisingly -not- uncomfortable despite it clearly being a wedgie) , here is the gear on my fiance, who likes to either make silly faces or feign annoyance when I take photos of him during test fittings :lol
I hope to fit a cooling vest in there, because this thing is a toaster oven
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