Thanks so much for the kind words and showing off my helmet. You are a legend and the Tested crew is awesome too. Can't stop smiling. You made my day, month, year etc. Glad to see others get excited about awesome products put out by Ben and Stephanie. 😁👊
Credit where credit is due way to go @Muchprops I follow you on all of your social media and it's cool to see two of my favorite prop makers come together
Yo your helmet looks absolutely incredible, it makes me want to describe the armour people wear in TTRPGs with more detail and colour than a generic "metal helmet"
Adam, you know what this means, right? You need to deck yourself out as one of the Rohirrim in Lord of the Rings. Grind out a sword, put together some chain and scale mail, and answer your king's call.
@@coredumperror Forth, and fear no darkness! Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day ere the sun rises!
Probably the best use of this stuff honestly. It doesn't flow with same weight as the metal "real deal," so you lose the illusion a tiny bit when it hangs free. But the Rohirrim stitch their armor down to the cloth underneath. You could layer this stuff over a hard plastic chest armor and it would look excellent. I just wouldn't let it hang free from a helmet or such.
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I feel like if you have a loose knit and add some weights on the bottom it would move and flow more like maille. It might be problematic if you want something really durable, but it would be interesting to experiment with different techniques to sell the maille effect.
If you ran/glued a strip of material down the scale (on the side it won't be seen) that is connected to the weight instead of attaching the weight directly to the scale at the bottom, you could let that strip take all the "hang" of the weight and drastically reduce the damage done to the actual foam scale itself, I wager.
My guess is that the 'flow' of mail is combination of the weight and lack of friction between the pieces. I've 3D printed mail out of plastic and whilst light, looks/feels correct. My guess is that the problem with the 3D foam is that the pieces have a fair amount of friction between them (being rubbery foam and all). Maybe coat the pieces in something that'll harden, as you assemble the rows? (Although might be a pain as likely to stick all the scales together..)
@@goldcd Thats an interesting idea thought. My first gut feeling would be to dip just the scale part in resin and leave the weave bit. Like have them hang from the circular top with dowel rods. I dont know though how the foam would handle the heat from the resin reaction or if the resin will stick to foam in the first place.
@@goldcd I did a suit of dragon armor (helm, pauldrons, cuirass all had scales; greaves, sabatons and bracers had flat scales) and I used regular Krylon spray primer followed by hand-painted acrylics. The result is the foam sort of...dried out, but is still flexible. When you run your hand down the scales they sound like actual scales.
Agreed, this stuff is very obviously not real maille. Doesn't lay or move properly, not to mention that it has no sheen that metal should have so good luck doing anything that looks properly historical instead of just some black fantasy armor.
Loved seeing this video and ended up backing the creators on kickstarter hoping to create my own beautiful pieces for costuming. Unfortunately over almost 2 years later and still have recieved nothing from them and no response either.
'Highlander' is one of my favourite films, and back in the day, I had a leather jacket with chainmail hanging off the shoulder a la Kurgan. I was in the local comic book shop and a chap came in wearing a raincoat and Diadora trainers a la MacLeod. . The look on the owner's face was priceless.
I'm not even into this whole costume scene ( only do Halloween costumes and never pop culture or fantasy ...ect ) and I think this is cool. The idea that one can so easily create chain maile and achieve a full suit of armor in probably just a week or two with some help from a RU-vid tutorial is great for kids.
I ended up making my AoA Loki cosplay by cutting out over 500 pieces of foam scales and painting them individually... Never again. I'm so happy this came out!
This would look soooo much better in a movie than the "knitted and metal-painted" chainmail you see in most tv/movie-productions. You can use this on extras a bit from the camera while the main actors wear modern/real thing.
Great stuff for the cost and time it takes to make. But is there a way to make the chain and scale look less stiff? The foam is both very light and springy, while chain is both heavy and flexible.
As someone who has done full hand crafted crafted chainmail for about 12 years, I am of course biased, but nothing will ever beat the feel of actual rings for me. Even if it's just aluminum, the way it moves and actually has some weight to it makes a huge difference.
The real use I see here is to make better movie hero armor. So the actors don’t have to train how to wear and won’t hurt themselves while doing light fighting scenes.
@@rdizzy1 I've made a shirt of English 4-in-1 out of aluminum suitable for cosplaying. It weights about ten pounds, but spread across your entire torso, that's nothing. I've spent entire weekends in that shirt at conventions and never had a problem. The difference is the time factor to make it. With this foam stuff you could probably put it together in a weekend. My shirt took me over four months to finish. Just depends on how much time you want to devote to the craft.
Could you add an option to purchase the cut file/svg of the pattern for folks that have a cutting machine/cricut and want to cut their own? (For personal use, of course)
I think this is great for cosplay but honestly I think the value in this will be extras in cinema. Lord of the Rings showed us that nothing quite compares to real armour (minus the mail) and real weapons in the hands of your hero actors. But an economical way to give a similar level of quality to every extra in a film... that's a game changer!
I unsuccessfully tried this at home. I used my Cricut using chain and scale mail patterns and was never able to get them to "knit" properly. The foam that I'm using is 1mm which is too thin / soft for the chain mail, the scale mail seemed to be better for that foam however I still couldn't knit it. Would love to see a fully vetted video on the topic that covers the knitting process in more detail.
can't wait for my laser cutting machine to come, just from looking that this video I have made my own of this scale mail in three different sizes. can't wait to create my own armor sets.
100% unrelated. I was playing Civ 6.. and BAM Adam Savage quote, read by Sean Bean it was terrifyingly awesome. "Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics yet?" - Adam Savage
To be sure, this was posted 3 years ago, but does Foam Armory still exist? I tried to follow the link in multiple browsers to no avail. Even their facebook page is inactive. It'd be sad if I missed them completely.
If you're wondering why buy these (other than the weight and breathability, some conventions DO NOT allow metal armor, for fear of getting caught onto other cosplayers or someone's piercings'. This is a fantastic alternative.
Lifting objects that are waaay too light and almost throwing them... yeah... been there... I had a beagle that loved to be picked up. A heavy boi by beagle standards though (most of it was muscle. He was a stronk boi) My grandma had a maltese dog at the same time... An old and skinny one, but fluffy like a cloud, so you couldn´t really see that... Long story short... once, I had to lift that maltese dog up in a hurry and almost threw her in the air, because I was used to that heavy beagle. I am glad that I held her well.
As a massage therapist I implore you to have your teres muscles worked on. It will alleviate your tennis elbow. That wrap you have on will eventually weaken your muscles. I worry stuff like that. 🤙
I remember about 20 years ago helping a friend collect soda and beer cans for the aluminum. I thought he was gonna cash em in but nope. He cut them in thin strips got a a really thin wooden dowel and rapped the aluminum strips long ways around the dowel and glued on side I side of it then when the glue dried he flattened em with a rubber mallet then curved em into rinds useing the mallet and a thicker wood dowel. Then he just startle weaving his mail armor useing solder to join the ends together then he took a Buffy and polished it. Man that looked really good.he was a larper. His outfit was a mix between a light food soldier and a viking. The next time he made scale armor. He used leather to wear it together and more cans. Ugh my hands hurt just from the memory of cutting out those scales from the cans. He rolled the edges of the scale so they weren't sharp then painted then gold. He went full Viking that year.
My husband paid for the patriot only videos. Can someone please tell me how to access these videos now that we have paid. I would really appreciate the help. Thanks so much everyone!
Has anyone ever really used plastic spoons to make scale mail or even Plasti dip painted cardstock to make fast and easy cheap scales..... Any thoughts or advice on the two?
My local maker space, where I do my laser cutting, has a list of approved materials for laser cutting because some materials degas when cut and can potentially be harmful or harmful to the laser cutter itself. Can anyone confirm which eva foams are safe to cut and with any proof of safety I can present to my local space, so they can add the material to the approved list?
I'd like to see a full maille hauberk made from foam, painted, and everything. Then again I'd also like to see how well you could make a knitted maille hauberk and how realistic it looks after it's painted and everything. You know exactly what I'm talking about Adam. The Chainmail from all the old great movies set in the high middle ages. My favorite examples being The Adventures of Robinhood, the 1938 movie with Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, and Basil Rathbone, AND also in Monty Python and the holy grail.
