This here is my most beloved creation, my final course project, an original design inspired by the valkyries myth and crafted completely by hand with only manual tools.
500h patterning, cutting, tooling, moulding, stitching, burnishing, dying, painting, hardenind, aging... Lots of time invested learning from basically zero, but not bad for a first armour!
It took me 4 years but I reached a point of being really proud of this
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Another pic of the same woman as the first pic, on the same green field, this time in a more relaxed posture, the spear resting, the shield facing to the ground, and the woman more side faced
Collage of 5 very close detail pics of some pieces. The first two focused on the knot decorated tiara with the wings at the sides, single pieces of leather with each feather tooled and undercut and lifted individually, painted in aged golden. The front of the torso, with the breast moulded cuirass, the waist moulded corset and the tassets attached to the bottom of the corset by golden cord. A pic of one whole shoulder pad, 5 pieces overlapping with a chain of golden knots decorating the borders and a round piece both front and back of the shoulder. And the last is a very close pic of the braid lace stitching of the corset, intertwining golden and red leather lace
Two pics of the same armour on a black mannequin, in an old exposition room in wood and stone. The mannequin is visibly thinner than the woman before but the armour is aswell fit, making notable the fact that it is greatly adjustable. The different parts are now more appreciated, like the wings at the sides of the tiara, the decoration of the bracers and greaves and the straps of the cuirass and the corset
Horizontal pic of a woman on a green field wearing a leather full armor, an spear and a round viking shield. The armor is red with golden decorations of norse knots, a moulded semi-cuirass with a sword tooled on the center and a corset with two serpents intertwined, full golden tiara and bracers and greaves adjusted with golden cord