If you guys have tutorials, I'd love to see them. I'm super into armour, but due to lack of funds / know how, I've never really gotten around to it.

This is like, the best I have, some girl making Valkyrie Lenneth armour out of papier mache.

>>5126440
Both Amethyst Angel and Kamui have some pretty decent tutorials, but I'll be sure to dump some of the ones I've found!

WAIT WAIT WAIT.

WHO IS DOING THE BLACK KNIGHT?

LET ME LOVE HIM/HER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kujts-8rnPo&list=FLhweCh9ZvAc1pSoZqkFqJOg&index=4&feature
=plpp_video how to fix armour in place, I loved this so hard for some reason. (it's in german, but she has subs)

>>5126454
That would be me, anon. I've made templates for the armour on his arms and legs, but I might remake them since they seem a little too big. Hoping to get some craft foam and styrene soon to start progress, but money is tight
(Gotta say, Zelgius, your pauldrons are riiiidiculous...)

Small pauldrons for Lightning

>>5126448

Cheers, chap!

Tutorial using cardboard/foamcore and papier mache

Is it expensive to make armor?

I always wanted to be the main character from Strange Journey

While this is a tutorial for texturing a prop, fairly certain this can also be applied to armour

How to make patterns for a breastplate (basic, but easy to modify)

How would you make golden armor? All these tend to assume you're making it silver.

>>5126486
Gold paint instead of silver paint I would imagine

>>5126491
Would that still look at realistic? Gold has a much different texture.

>>5126479
depends on how much of the character's body is covered in armour + the materials you want to use
looking at it, I wouldn't say you'd need a lot, and depending on if you use craft foam + styrene and enamel/spray paints, or papier mache + acrylics/gesso, I'd say the price varies, but I doubt it would be too expensive, nor go over $50/40

>>5126486
I'd assume you just buy gold paint and maybe put on a gloss and/or polish it to your satisfaction, or, if you're using the craft foam and styrene sheet method, I'm fairly certain you can find styrene that's mirror shine gold on one side, but you'll have to look hard for it

>>5126495
*as realistic

like the Yuffie shuriken example

has anyone ever used Task board for armour construction? I just picked some up for a school project, and I think it could be used fairly well for armour or props

http://www.taskboard.com/

>>5126463
Post pictures when done. Fulfill my Fire Emblem fandom hurggghn.

Are there any wishes for further armor tutorials, guys?

>>5126522

Anything / Everything?

>>5126522
do you have any idea on how to create seams in breastplates? (loved your armour fixture tutorial btw) And how do you armour plate boots/shoes?

pic related, only other Black Knight cosplay I've seen, and I aspire to beat it in terms of quality, durability and looks.
>>5126516
will try to do so, but It'll be a loooong while before I get the cash to start this project, probably another month or two when I can bust all my christmas money on it

>>5126529
Well, I'm just able to tell you something about my own work. I don't give any adviced about materials or techniques I still didn't try. But since it's hard for me to explain everything in English I prefer just to show it. So... if you like to see something I just give me a request. I aso wanted to create a full wonderflex armor tutorial. From the planning and drawing of the patterns, to the creating steps, the paint job and the fixing. But slowly I'm out of ideas.

example of something I think is pretty good (using resin casting)

I just started armor for my liger zero cosplay. I'm using craft foam and adding fabric backing. I'd post pics but I just did the first round of fabric backing to the armor to see how it will hold up and it's still drying. But I have high hopes it'll work just fine for stiffening the larger parts up.

>>5126532
I'm not sure what you mean with "seams", but you can add borders if you just add a further wonderflex layer. Pic related. You can also try to create a three dimensional border if you carve it out of EVA foam and cover it with resin or something else.
And for boots I would just buy normal boots and glue or fix (with velcro for example) the armor on.

http://www.ops.dti.ne.jp/~darkk/irai/irai.htm
http://www.ops.dti.ne.jp/~darkk/

I'd like to try resin armour some time.

/tg/ here. do you guys interested in real armor pics?

also here is a little something for you guys and girls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6CXGortrQ

>>5126567
Yes please, /tg/.

Cardboard is the only way to go.

Shit like wonderflex and resin and all of that.. Well, let me put it this way: If you can't make good looking armor out of cardboard, then paying way too much for this fancy ass pro shit isn't going to help you make better armor.

>>5126567
Oh my god, I would love you forever

>>5126568

okay, what kind of armors you guys wanna see? I also got larp pics with latex armor, see pic

http://page.freett.com/darkknight/%EF%BD%82%EF%BD%8C%EF%BD%84repo.html
http://fete.cside.com/ferio/log/index.htm
Is resin particularly brittle? I thought I might try it for Larping nonsense

here is another pic about that guy with his better helmet

so any request? I literally have thousands of pics and I could maybe answer a few questions about armors as well while I'm here (but I'm not an expert on this field)

>>5126611
post your favorite tutorials

this one is a gambeson, a textile armor, usually made out of fuckton of layers of textile or just two but a lot of wool or other padding between them

>>5126611
Any tutorials on making armor with leather?
Also, any Druidy sorts of references would be amazing.

how comfortable is that stuff the fancy germans wear? It must weigh a ton

>>5126616

Well, I don't really have tutorials on armors. You see I'm a larper from Eastern Europe. so when we want to use armors in or games we acquire real armors. Now making a real metal armor is not easy (except a chain armor, but that's time consuming) that's why we have a smith.
Although textile armors a little bit easier but it's still hard to sew those layers together

>>5126635

If you mean the latex armors then no, those are really light. Latex armors are basically foam covered with latex. very light stuff and you can buy those kind of armors in larp shops.
So I would say they are basically comfortable too if it fits. Real armor is comfortable too if it fits.

>>5126620

Well I have only a few pics about leather armors. In my opinion it's really hard to make a good looking leather armor. Most of the attempts just look like an S/M suit...

here is an exception

also here you can find a few armor patter:
armourarchive.org

and this one is a jack of plates armor, little square plates are inside of this thing.

this is an X-ray image of that armor

dat alphonse

>>5126643
Any help is amazing, so thank you sir

here is a roman legioner armor or lorica segmentata

>>5126661

another leather armor from the better ones. Basically you can make a good leather armor if you make it like a metal one. So if you don't depend on the flexibility of the leather that much. Yeah, leather can move but not that much and it won't be comfortable.

basically a one piece breastplate usually don't go under the ribs so you can bow without problem. So where you can move your body the armor has to move too. It's an important thing that usually overlooked

also, we all agree on /tg/ that the most important part of the armor is the codpiece. Don't forget the codpiece.

helmets are somehow important too for maximizing the cool factor. Better helmets have a built in rape-face too.

>>5126681
I'd be interested in getting some Spanish plate, c.16th. Can you recommend me to anyone who does custom work?

of course I have a few sci-fi armor too

>>5126690
Sorry, but I don't really know smiths from other countries. But ask the other fech/tg/uys over /tg/, they can help you.

So, I need help. I'd like to make a set of Brotherhood of Steel or Enclave armor for my boyfriend, but I have NO fucking clue where to begin. No idea. I've never made armor. What do?

>>5126714
Dropped my pic. Ooops.

>>5126714

I would recommend using a foam and heatgun technique from this video >>5126567

I would reccomend a T45d model because it's somehow blockier and easier to make in my oppinion

>>5126706
Thank you anyway. Glorious pic, by the way.

>>5126635

Generally an accurately made field harness (German gothic fluted stuff applies here) weighs about 45-60 lbs., which is distributed over your whole body.

It's really not bad at all. It can be pretty comfortable. Actually weights significantly less than what most military personnel carry today.

>>5126729
That's awesome, thank you! Any suggestions on how to make the templates. I have a hard time visually desconstructing things.

>>5126759

I'm sure you can find a fuckton of concept art about that armor and other pics, you can make something out of those

All that armour needs more rule of cool and slightly less authenticity.

also, here is a robotic arm that one of my friends made for our fallot larp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFvriutwoIU

he used foam too, but a thinner one

>>5126784

you do realize that authentic armors can be awesome too?

>ctrl-f kamen rider
>0 results
time to fix that

What's the combat like in your Euro larps?

bumping for interest

>>5126798

Knights were apparently metal as fuck.

>>5126879

depends on the larp, really.
there are a lot of different larps, for example the ones where we don't really have rules for the fight, you just play out everything according what happening what hit you where and everything. These games are depends on trust of course, but it's easy to see if someone "cheats"

then there are larps with some kind of HP systems. In europe we usually don't have high-HP systems, that's something that the US guys do.
example from my country: everyone have 3 HP, every weapon has the same damage, but the damage depends on wher you got hit. torso is 3 HP damage, legs are 2 HP and arms are 1 HP. Armor reduce damage, leather armor reduce by 1 and metal armor reduce by 2. So if you are in a full plate then three hits on the torso and you are dead, everywhere else you don't take damage

>>5127146
you would be surprised

and here are a few "female armor".
Notice that they are pretty much the same as any other armor-

this one is not an authentic one. It was made by two pretty good armorer for a low budget film which was made by their friend. They just went there and made an armor for it because why the fuck not?
So technically this is "just" a prop

>>5127552

same armor

these are all really nice, but can we get some more cosplay armour and tutorials?

>>5127647

well I have a few pics about cosplay armors too but they are less interesting...

>>5127653
perhaps, but this is supposed to be more cosplay related after all, feel free to keep posting though! Just pointing it out

My girlfriend and I really want to make a RAcaseal cosplay (from any of the Phantasy Star games), but are nowhere near crafty enough to do so and have it look good. :( Saaaad daaaay.

>>5127745

well the thing is, you can steal a lot of ideas from real armors for your own. Most of the things you see on an authentic armor has a practical reason to be there.

I know that you guys are more into the copy anime and other things but I've seen a few videos where cosplayers made a good looking armor except they couldn't really move in it.
Look is an important thing but I think practicality is somehow more important.

But then again I'm just a larpfag

>>5127938
I'm a casual larper and only the practicality of being able to move is important.
Some of the bits and pieces and bulbous belly gourd type shapes serve no purpose in larp unless you're going full contact. That's were you can change things for looks. otherwise you might as well just be a historical reenactor

>>5128130

being a reenactor is not a bad thing if you do it right

>>5127807

I think if you didn't attempt an entirely metal look you could get about half way there, Like, make the obvious armoured bits (shoulder pads,skirt, etc) using armour techniques then use like, a lycra undersuit with the details sewn in / painted on.

Face would be difficult, for that you'd either have to go full on facepaint or make some sort of mask.

Still! It could be done!

>>5128220
I didn't even suggest it's bad. It's a radically different emphasis with little to no emphasis on a game.
You seem hung up on historical accuracy with no consideration for it's usefulness in play.