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Xavietta — Leliana Armour WIP
Published: 2010-10-20 14:46:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 4851; Favourites: 52; Downloads: 127
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So this it what I've been working on since I got home to Florida...I mean this is ALL I've been working on, for the past week ^^It started when I found and AMAZING CG render of Leliana. I got to work drafting patterns and I didn't stop.
I've never made armour this complex before; it's the first time I've made an armour pattern and done extensive wet-forming for the chest. So far, it's going quite well.
It's made from 4/5oz vegi-tan, hand tooled on the borders. I used black antique for the colour since it's a weird -not quite brown/not quite black- and I think I found a happy medium. I also distressed the leather a little with sand paper.
As I said the armour is wet-formed, and it's held together with contact cement and rivets. It laces up the back and I'm working on a panel that attaches to the back to cover the lacing.
I also have the pauldron and a few more random pieces finished, but I'll post pix of those when they're more interesting to look at ^^
Right now I'm working on the soft leather pieces that go over the armour.
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I don't suppose you'd be willing to share/sell your pattern? I'm hoping to do leliana for fanexpo, but am garbage at drafting my own patterns. Your costume is incredible! I hope mine is half as good
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Teach me your magical skills oh great one.
Seriously...wow, I've never worked with leather like this but looking at this id love to remake my Nightingale in real leather!
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Oooh. You should go for it. Depending on what you made yours out of (which is awesome by the way) you might be able to use the same patterns for leather. I wanted to do the Nightingale armor, but I'm an assassin first and a thief second so I went with the Shrouded armor instead
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Mine was made from craft foam, coated in Plastidip rubber spray. Thanks, I will look into wet forming of leather for sure. I cant believe how beautiful your shrouded armour is, like it's come to life from the game.
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I might need some pointers from you on plan-modification of the "AnyTard" armor pattern
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to accommodate fighters with, ah, figures.
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...I can't even tell what's going on in that picture. I would love to attempt to help
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that's only a partial. the full mock-up (and dimensioned plans) will be posted some time within the next week.
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so pretty! i love the knitted cables on the sides!
just a quick question, where do you buy your leather from?
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Thank you! ^^ I get my leather from Tandy leather Factory
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Ah man, this is looking amazing! I attempted to start this project and I'm just no where near experienced enough. xD;
But this is beautiful, I definitely look forward to seeing more!
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Uhm....yeah wow. This is absolutely AMAZING.
I wish I was as talented as you with all this stuff. Holy crap. This is going to be amazing. I can't wait to see it finished!
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Thanks! It's getting there...I'll probably have another pic posted by the end of today ^^
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looking awesome Deanna! what is vegi-tan...is that animal leather free/man made material? are you going to the Lady of the Lakes Ren Fair Nov 5-7 & the Sarasota Medieval fair this year?
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Thank Deanna! Vegi-tan or "vegetable tanned leather" is the leather used mostly for carving/tooling and making stuctured things like belts, armour and holsters, so called for the ingredients used to tan it come from vegetables.
I am doing Sarasota, not sure about Lady of the Lakes...I have to see if I can afford it
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aww, damn...I was hoping there was some non-animal (man made) leather. I know that there is, but I don't know if you can make your designs with it.
at least I will definitely see you at Sarasota.
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I've actually started making a few of my Etsy items in faux leather since I've had people request it before...I'm not sure of there's an animal free substitute for the vegi-tan though
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as long as there is faux leather....I'm down with that. Not too worried about the vegi-tan
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GORGEOUS!! You really are an expert in leather now! It's so fun to see you become more and more awesome in tooling leather!
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Thank you! ^^ It is cool to see how my work has progressed; I definitely couldn't have done this a year ago!
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You inspire me so much to work with leather myself. Your results are stunning!
Saw your update on the armour on cosplay.com and it looks SO pro!
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Aw thank you! I'm having so much fun working on this costume ^^ you should definitely try leatherworking; it's so addictive!
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