how do you draw scale armor

Relatively simple and quick leather calibration armour

For rigid scales, you're better off looking at the tutorial for doing it with metal. This tutorial deals with making leather armour out of split hides or sewing weight leather or suede.

Materials

What will yous need? About three sides of split leather, for a generously-sized tabard (shin length on me) (I got mine from ebay for £eleven each), sewing auto, proficient thread in same colour as leather, ruler.

Time taken

Can't remember but relatively quick due to making the scales in rows.

First, make yourself a tabard or tunic in the size, way, and length you lot want, in the same textile as the scales. For tabards, see the tutorial on elementary costume.

Then, decide on what shape your scale should be. I went for a sort of half-leaf shape, about 5cm wide by 5 high. This was for maximum tessalation but with a nice tapered shape.

Become some old crappy photos that you don't desire anymore, or some cardboard. Photos work best as templates and are more durable. Carefully measure and draw a row of nevertheless many scales volition fit, side by side, with a margin of well-nigh 1cm at the top edge of the scales (I did 2 templates of three scales each, plumbing fixtures onto a 15cm photograph). Cut this out.

Go a non-offensively coloured biro, pencil is tricky to run into on suede. Utilise tailor'southward chalk if you have whatever. Find the straightest edge of your hide and draw a long straight line. Make sure it doesn't curve or you'll have a nightmare sewing them on straight. Lay the direct border of your template on the line and draw around information technology, all the way to the end. Exercise your next row of scales so that the pointy bits tessalate into the spaces left by the beginning row. Fill your hide with rows of scales. Make certain you lot draw single scales in any piddling areas that are too small for a row, you'll need single ones too.

Cutting out all your rows of scales. Y'all can at present depict equally spaced lines on your tabard for where you want all the rows to go, but as the leather might slip around as you sew it on, you're besides to practise it past heart, simply make sure that the lines stay horizontal equally you movement up the tabard. Starting at the bottom, stitch a row of scales on, so the scales come over the lesser edge of the tabard. Trim off when yous get to the cease, making sure y'all keep any half-scales as y'all'll need them later. Place your next row over the start row, so that the tips of the scales merely cover the join of the scales in the first row, and sew on, roofing the stitching of the first row. Try to stop the leather slipping effectually as otherwise the scales may stop up not fitting perfectly with the first row. This is leap to happen eventually and is frustrating, but fearfulness not, you can fix the problem past cutting the row and either slightly lengthening or shortening the altitude between scales to correct whatever slippage introduced past the sewing machine. Make full in the ends with half scales - obviously each alternate row will take to terminate on a half-calibration for the pattern to interlock.

Do this, all the mode to the top. With odd scales, or more rows, you can neaten upwardly the cervix hole and shoulders in any manner pleases yous. When you're finished, to make the half-scales sit flat, I'd run a row of stitching down each vertical edge. This stitching will exist visible but it keeps the half-scales sitting neatly.

Tada!

(Ane advantage of this simple, open up-sided design is that it'll fit pretty much anyone, from small me to larger larpers: run across?

Source: http://tutorials.abbott.me.uk/armour/leather-scale-armour

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