I just wanted to let you know that you inspired my eight year old daughter and thanks to you, she's now interested in this craft and cannot wait for more videos.
I have seen enough videos of your leather working.I love it. And I have seen very much of armors , for battle reenactment, real battle ready, LARP, and historical "archaeologic"ones, your art.(because is art) ate very good. I loved specially the elven helmet. For that, I have thinked, if you would consider the idea (only as a suggestion) of doing a "beorning armor" be cuirass, scaled armor, or all in general as a "bear at his two legs". Perhaps with helmet crafted like a very angry fierce bear, with tooth, and bear claws on gauntlets. Over all along the cuirass at chest and stomach, could be stacked a skull shape, and spikes all along the armor, with horns at both sides of head pointing to heights,and another pair just under this, of a male goat pointing towards front. , and one only horn at center. Too, two curved towards up, exiting from skull eyes. Spikes on elbows and knees and knuckles...and on top of end of front foot, too at back, like male hens have. Even could be Added some furs for giving it a barbarian aspect....carved bears, or bear heads, barbarian warrior battling scenes, or even a nazhgul and balrog images menacing the barbarian. "The bear/beorning armor" ....and if you could give it "muscular forms" (like a...bodybuilder for example" it would be "my dream". But from respect, as a suggestion to your art, im not ordering, of course. It could be a good new thing for showing in your videos,gaining visits, (or for saling, of course) Thanks fir reading
Really great video and nice work as always. I too appreciated the extended "demo" at the end of the video. I noticed in this video that the level of detail tooling and paint details on these gauntlets is less that what was used for the elven helmet and the scale skirt, where shading, shimmer effect, and other reds and highlights were used for the paint. Understanding that repeating that whole painstaking process on video may not be the best use of time when other important stuff like assembly are useful, my question is this - in your experience as a production artist, does the helmet (a focal point) tend to get a lot more details than say, gauntlets or sabotons, just because they are less noticable? In the other imperial and fanatasy tutorials, the patterns match across every piece. For example, for the elven kit I was curious to see how you would transfer the "scroll border" from the helmet back plates to other parts of the armor, but in this case the scroll was not used. Also, the feathers were not detailed out as they were on the helmet. Curious about how critical it is to always use the same level of detail, paint hues and layers on different pieces in order to get everything to look like it goes together. Maybe a discussion point for a future video on "putting the whole suit together". :)
Thank you. I mentioned it in the video but this piece is slightly reduced in detail compared to helmet. Since these videos are for education and not for a client I'm demonstrating differing methods and techniques in each video. Students have the option to choose what level of tooling they are comfortable. When it comes to a custom project, it's important to be consistent. The designs themselves will concentrate detail in focal areas according to the budget but the tooling and quality should be consistent throughout. But when it comes to our academy, I want to provide many different stopping points and examples of detail levels and options and they can pick and choose. Maybe someone would pick the detail level shown in these gauntlets for their full suit, or maybe they'll go all out and go for the helmet. Or maybe they will only take it as far as what is shown in the more basic fantasy or warrior series.
In building the Fantasy set, I found that the TIG welding gloves from Harbor Freight work admirably. They are thin, with a long cuff, and take dyes very well. They are a white glove with a black cuff. I used Fiebing's green and black mix and they turned out very nice.
I've definitely used a pair or two of that type of glove along the way but yeah, they aren't the best fitting. Good gloves can be hard to find but some of the motorcycle gloves have a more fitted design, many are too clunky though.
Using a laser on chrome tanned leather creates a lot of toxic fumes because of the chemicals used in the tanning process. You need a very good ventilation system or air purifier.
Using a laser cutter creates smoke you don't want to breathe in general. It's worth researching yourself, (because it's too much to get into on a RU-vid comment) but I will add there is some misinformation (and outdated information) out there regarding the toxic chemicals of laser cutting chrome tanned leather.
Look at Creality's lower powered models to get stared. And also keep in mind, many of the earlier lasers use to cost $20-$40K so it's incredible how much you can get in the sub $1K range. Especially considering how expensive everything else is getting these days.
Ну, кожа - это изначально про воина, играющего от ловкости, скрытности, и скорости (поэтому она отлично подходит фентези-эльфам); и не заточенного под то, что бы принимать на себя много ударов.
A tip about rivets - I have not yet had to use this method myself, so test it.... I understand the annoyance of finding rivets in the size needed with the cap desired... and now have a huge collection of sizes and mismatch parts... (sigh).. There is a tool used to round off the ends of wire ect... some names for it is wire end smoother.... cup burr.... I add the word " jeweler's " to find small versions ... this tool used after loading the hollow post of a rivet with a toothpick to help avoid crushing the tube, then nipping the tube to desired length. Flick the wood out with a needle tip, de -burr the tube with the cup of the tool... assemble as normal. Its one of the methods that can be more effort than a task is worth... unless the rivet post is just too long to do the job. I often pad out the area held under a slightly too long rivet, either sandwiched between the visible surfaces or with a backing piece on the unseen side... I have used pop rivets with tiny matching washers too.
А какие бы шансы были у такого доспеха в реальном обмене стрелами на поле боя? Просто, знаю что бывали доспехи именно из кожи; поэтому стало интересно: насколько эта кожа могла бы противостоять стрелам.
You have always blown out such beautiful work . . I always looked up to you . . It's greatness that you use love in all your work .. by hand .. I made leather in hopes to run into you at TRF .. just so u could critique what I learned on my own .. you are a master artisan that surpassed your Master .. I had none .. only natural talent as you do .. I'd luv to meet you
