Natural One head gear

This weeks project might take up a few posts. As I've mentioned before I play in a LARP game called Dystopia Rising.

Check it out, it's a good game. http://www.dystopiarisinglarp.com/

A friend of mine and I decided that we wanted to play a different character recently. We settled on Natural Ones. They are a kind of primitive people that have survived by going back to the basics in the broken world. We chose to design a pair of sisters from the Crow clan. What I am designing is our headgear which are short antlers I'll be dangling things off of.

What you'll need for this is:

Tin Foil
Wire
Fimo clay in three different colors of browns, tans, and some whites.
Here I'm using brown, tan, and caramel
Elastic, and a strip of think leather or fabric to hold the weight on the horns.

I first formed the insides. I wanted these light so I made the insides out of tin foil.

 You can see the basic deer antler form here. Tinfoil forming is never pretty. Just do it!

Here I got a bit lax on my photos sorry. I tend to forget photos when I'm working with clay. as you can see these have been mixed and wrapped around the tin foil forms giving it a bit more of an antler form. I'm not very happy with my clay mixing here but it'll do. worse comes to worse I can always spray paint it. I made two pairs, one big one small.

From the shine you can see if glazed these too. I used Sculpy gloss glaze mostly because it air dries and I didn't have any matte glaze left.

The next part of this head gear is to drill the holes near the base and add on the strap to hold these on the head. I'll be doing a separate post for the strap because it'll have some designs to it.

Feel free to ask questions, leave comments, etc. I"m always up for a chat!

Armor set 2

I'm working on another set of light armor. This is for a character more interested in running away rather than fighting. She needs something light and easy to move in.

These are the "metal plates" I'm making for her coat. They are those thin foam pads you can get for making cutouts. I just call them foamies. I wanted them to look like rusty, pock marked metal since it's her starting armor and should look beat up. As you can see the paint soaked int t he foam pads I used to make the shapes, but over all  I think it still works. the games are dark anyway so it won't be too scrutinized. If the player decides to keep playing I'll add more to her outfit as time goes on.

These two pictures are of the back and from of her coat. It's an old long vest i made long ago that doesn't fit me too well but fit her perfectly. I'll be adding little clips to the front for her to close it. Then I'll add the foam pads all around the coat.

This is a pic of the foam pads tacked into place temporarily. I'm not sure if I plan to sew these down or tack them down. As I said, if the player decides not to keep using this then I want to be able to recover the coat.

Once I sewed down the foam pads. I added a simple snap closure to the front and that's it.

I'll try to get picks of both her and my armor over the weekend. For now, I'm off to kill zombies!

Feel free to ask questions, leave comments, etc. I"m always up for a chat!