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Completed SD 13 Doll Armor

  • Sep. 11th, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Elven Archer
It's been a while in coming, but it's finally here.  The Doll Armor I was working on long ago is finally finished.  It's a traditionally water hardened breastplate, backplate and spaulders, with a flexible corset and vambraces.  All of the buckles are functional tiny 1/4" brass plated buckles.  The armor surface is tooled and the embossed areas are painted gold.  It fits the Volks SD13 ball jointed doll Boy body.   It's real armor... only smaller.  It's now on it's way to California with the body it's modeled on.  One of our firends was kind enough to loan us the SD13 body to use as a body reference for the armor.  I had uber tiny inlaid chainmail to go with this armor, but at that size, I think I may have gone blind if I continued.  It twould take longer to make that tiny shirt, than it would take me to make a full sized one.  Well I might pick it up again, when I feel particularly insane that day. 

Well here it is, The last pic has a 12 inch ruler for scale.

      





      


Comments

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[info]elvishtard wrote:
Sep. 12th, 2008 04:07 am (UTC)
You are nuts! But brilliant! Beautiful work, as per usual.

Also, spoke with Mir earlier...looks like we might be getting two seperate panels! We kind of had worries that if we had one panel between the two of us, that we might not be able to house everyone that wants to get in. Because, say there's more people that want to see your side of the panel than mine. So she said we can make way for 2 seperate panels. Possibly a 3 with a friend of her's having a pattern making session, to teach people how to modify and make their own patterns.

I'll keep you posted!
[info]whiteladyeowyn wrote:
Sep. 12th, 2008 12:39 pm (UTC)
DUDE
That is nuts, but wonderful.

Very, very impressed.
[info]dg_frodo wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2008 05:53 pm (UTC)
Simply Awesome!
[info]ladyblackbriar wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2008 08:45 pm (UTC)
Doll chainmail is easy...
You just have to knit it. I'm serious. There is all kinds of wire out there that can actually be knitted, and it would be a super-fast way to make the doll mail, too. There are plenty of metallic yarns that give the effect, as well, if the doll owner doesn't care if it's made of real metal or not. If you don't want to use needles and you don't mind if the body of the mail is just a tube shape, you can do it on a spool. You probably want the purl side out, though. When you come visit, I'll see about digging up some wire at the craft store so I can show you.
[info]studio_kensai wrote:
Sep. 14th, 2008 04:49 am (UTC)
Re: Doll chainmail is easy...
Awesome, thank you. That might certainly make it viable, cause as it is - doll sized chainmail = not worth my time.
[info]revelition wrote:
Jan. 2nd, 2009 09:55 am (UTC)
ZOMG. Can something like this be made for a full size (6') man? (with a modified/reduced torso plate, leaving only the front panel to attach to the breastplate)
If so, how much would it cost?
[info]spooke wrote:
Jan. 11th, 2009 10:52 pm (UTC)
I just linked you on [info]cleolinda's journal, so you may get a little traffic if you put up some more doll stuff.
[info]ibr_remote wrote:
Jun. 16th, 2009 05:00 am (UTC)
Amazing, great idea and execution.
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