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Chainmail anyone? 8D By Kelz. 08/09/09, 11:51 am |
| So some friends from school and I were looking at making CHAINMAIL.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Genuine-chainmaille-from-pop-tabs/
I totally want to use this for something awesome or other, suggestions? |
| Kelz EPICLY EPIC
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By Guest. 08/09/09, 12:40 pm |
| What they did on Monty Python and the Holy Grail was knit it all out of wool and spray paint it because they were so low on budget xD |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By jpwise. 08/09/09, 01:59 pm |
| That looks quite cool, a really novel way to do a chainmail shirt. But would need LOTS of tabs...
I helped a guy make a proper one once with spring steel he bought. You can buy it pre-cut to the right as rings in offset positions, and then you just need a couple of pairs of pliers, and a whole whole lotta patience.. |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By PIe. 09/09/09, 07:55 am |
| I have a friend at school who is making a chainmail shirt as part of a full suit of armour he's making (he wouldn't admit it until I told him I cosplay, why would someone be embarrassed about such a cool thing?), I was going to say good luck and warn you about the sheer weight of it but this method looks way more sane and lighter |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By Mandie_Chan. 09/09/09, 07:59 am |
| O.O
I WANNA MAKE SOMETHING WITH IT NOW~ *runs off to find something awesome to make with it* |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By ^_^Steve^_^. 09/09/09, 10:27 am |
| I know Alice (MM) made a dragon costume for school using that methed |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By RainbowMoonDust. 09/09/09, 05:19 pm |
| A girl in the anime club I used to belong to did that, I remember her sitting there watching anime while putting (Real) chain links together with a pair of pliers. I see her at Magic the gathering tournaments sometimes too.
Sounds like a cool idea, have fun with that! |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By Reno. 10/09/09, 07:51 am |
| Give me 1 Saturday night of parties and I'll be able to gather enough tabs lol... |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By deceptivemagick. 10/09/09, 02:12 pm |
| Thats awesome!!! Im sure the uni students could all contribute by drinking lol |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By Cookie Monster. 22/09/09, 07:52 am |
| I'm probably a bit late posting on this, but I made one for a friend a few months ago out of alkathene pipe.
Basically all I did was cut of alot of rings at about 0.5-0.75cm, primed the rings with a can of car paint primer, then spayed the rings with silver paint and finally coated with with a high-gloss sray.
I then made a slit in each ring after than and when I assembled it, I closed the rings up with a dab of glue from the hot glue gun.
The end result was just as effective, but very light-weight. |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By neimhaille. 22/09/09, 08:48 am |
| And very similar to what was done on LotR before the new method was developed ;) Instead of painting they electroplated it though ;) I got my hands on some, very cool stuff :) |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By Anaria Zar-Rel. 23/09/09, 09:19 am |
| - Tigurius wrote:
- I'm probably a bit late posting on this, but I made one for a friend a few months ago out of alkathene pipe.
Basically all I did was cut of alot of rings at about 0.5-0.75cm, primed the rings with a can of car paint primer, then spayed the rings with silver paint and finally coated with with a high-gloss sray.
I then made a slit in each ring after than and when I assembled it, I closed the rings up with a dab of glue from the hot glue gun.
The end result was just as effective, but very light-weight. Wow, that must have taken a lot of patience! Neat :)
One of my friends in the States made chainmail jewelry, looks really cool. There's a good book at my local library on the patterns and techniques, just wish I had the time *too much sewing* |
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Re: Chainmail anyone? 8D By Cookie Monster. 23/09/09, 12:46 pm |
| It was actually a nice change. Life's thrown me in a bit of a rut at the moment, and my painting for time-out is wasn't (and isn't) cutting it. But in all honesty I found it monotonous.
I didn't realise they did the same on LotR... I just thought that was the cheapest way to make a chainmail shirt. |
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