Frankly, these are utterly exquisite. I do think our leatherworker has outdone herself this time.
The designs are adapted from stock images, ranging quite widely from celtic beasts from the Book of Kells to heraldic beasts. There are some rather obvious attempts at tapping into recognisable motifs of the various live roleplay settings, including a green scarab bracer for Odyssey's Egypt (unlike real world Egypt, Odyssey's Egypt is rather more keen on green than blue.) There's also a very classical-seeming hippocampus (see left) again for Odyssey and various celtic knot-beasts.
There is a plan taking shape to commission some our local artists like Amy Clarke and Christopher Worth to design such armour for limited runs. Though it is (unsurprisingly) somewhat dependent on how well the vambraces do in the coming months.
And so, the tooled vambraces are finally available at £40 a pair on the Character Kit website.
More photos of the vambraces under the cut.
The deer ones are still my favourite. The shade of blue is so awesome, you could build a whole costume around it.
ReplyDeleteShame I'm not currently likely to be playing anything that would be quite that brightly coloured, but it would work really well for elves, fae, Maelstrom eidolons or other things that have an excuse to be really vividly colourful in a fantasy setting :)