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Leg plates for my LARP high elven character made of 1 mm thick brass and leather, design slightly changed from the film "The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers". The ornaments are engraved and will darken in a few weeks and be more visible. The calligraphed text is Sindarin and Tengwar.I will take a picture of all together too, when all will be finished.
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Looks very good.
I get the feeling that it will wobble around a bit when you move in it. Is it so or is it just me?
I am also curious how this construction works with leg movement. It looks as if the knee will hit the lowest lames when you walk...
Is the yellow hide beneath part of the armour?
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No, it doesn't wobble 
The yellow leather is part of it, but a seperate piece. The red leather holds the lames but I have to extend it to the lower parts so they won't distort in combat. That was the only negative thing I discovered while wearing
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That's pretty cool, I thought it would be better looking than functional.
I can understand that. Brass isn't the most rigid of metals, even if it looks really epic.
But wont the extension of the red leather just keep the lames from bending further down? What about upwards motion, like kneestanding, falling to the ground and such?
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No, it is quite functional
The red leather holds the lames in place. They cannot bend down by theirselves for they are adjusted by rivets. But the leather is soft enough to let them move upwards (the leather folds itself then). The lames end at a point that it is possible to kneel, so that is no problem. Falling to the ground should be no problem - I did it in the test battle last year and the only problem was that someone rolled over me and somehow bent my lames by accidently get stuck between them or so. Falling to the ground is indeed possible
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I see. Thank you for explaining.
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Amazing! IΒ΄ve always loved this design, but iΒ΄ve never seen anyone perfect it like this except in the movies themselves.
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I believe no one made it of metal but just of platic sheets and papier mΓ’chΓ© and such "wrong" things.
But anyway, thank you very much!
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Hehe - IΒ΄m not sure about this exact piece, but if you see the extra material on the LOTR extended discs, it is explained that most of the armour were made with real materials first as prototypes, then replicated in fiberglass and such blasphemy
Theodens armour for instance is made from handbeaten brass covered with leather.
But i can only have the greatest of respect for the fact that you use authentic materials! It is one of my own main principles as well
By the way, how did you do the engravings? Which tools did you use?
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But the plus points for the films are that they can be edited in colours and everything on the computer, they have much more technical methods and possibilities so they can look like metal without being it. And for those masses it would be incredibly expensive to give everyone a metal armour. So they are excused. Theoden and the others anyway
In my case it was the other way round: we have just the possibilities to use metal sheet and nothing else was intended.
Most of it was done with a multifunctional-tool, in special a Dremel, the engravings were made with a diamond coated engraving top.
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True
I thought it would be something like that
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Thank you very very much!
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You are amazing, I bow to your awesome skills.
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Thank you very much 
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