Boromir
| This
costume I choose for my husband for a number of reasons.
The most convincing were that he looked most like Boromir
and I wanted an excuse to use my mom's embroidery
machine. Thanks goes to www.alleycatscratch.com for the reference pictures help as well as the Yahoo list members for their encouragement and helpful tips. |
Horn of Gondor
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| I will be giving some details of how I made this after Dragon Con at the end of August... right now I barely have time to make the costumes let alone put up my tutorials!! But I will get to it... |
The Surcoat
| To save
money, I made my own pattern. These are the basic pieces
that I used. I altered it further, but that's pretty much
it. I used blue vinyl rather than leather both for cost purposes and to save my machine from the distress. |
The Trim
| Rather than paint on the gold trim, I bought a gold trim and glued it on first then tacked it on by hand sewing. |
The Clasps
| On either
end is a bought clasp that was meant to fit together... I then bent 18 gage wire (left overs from my Galadriel Crown) to fit it together with the center piece. (in the above scan I hadn't strung the wire through or sewed the clasps on yet.) The center piece is... get this... a margarine container lid I cut up in the shape of a diamond. *lol* I poked holes in it and stuck the wire through, then painted the entire thing with gold spray paint. Before the paint dried, I scratched in the image of the tree. I don't expect this to last forever.. the gold is already flaking off... but I don't have time to sculpty the clasp right now- which is what I intend to do by Dragon Con. Below is the new clasp I'm in ther process of making... |
| First I cut wire mesh to the desired size and then bent 24 gage wire into tiny loops that the other wire will fit into. Then I formed sculpty over it and carved the tree design in with a clay tool. |
| Bend 24 gage wire
and fit through the holes in the back of the clasp. Spray
paint gold. More pictures will be up once I get the dang things sewed on the Tunic. |
The Shirt
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The Chain Mail
| The chain mail is a sweater I painted with primer and then spray painted chrome. Ut;s a but stiffer than I would have liked it, but it does give the effect. |