I do like the look of this helmet. It was obviously inspired by some of the orc helmets from Lord of the Rings, but it's one thing to see a picture and another to actually get a similar sort of look when it's in three dimensions and a different material. The spikes took quite a while to get right and have to be exacly the right combination of thickness and flexibility. Too thick and yo... read more ›
Sometimes I forget what things are supposed to look like. A customer recently ordered one our leather plate warcoats in a size 8. Now we don’t have a seperate pattern for a size 8 so I had to use a plain size 8 pattern and hand lay the plates and other decoration over the top. The problem was I forgot that this warcoat doesn’t had rivet decoration all round the edge as standard. Luckil... read more ›