The belt and "Skirt" are probably the bit that is the closest to being real armor, using the brass discs gave it a  nice weight.

The Scabbard was made from card covered in more sofa remnants.  

Only one post to go. 

 Seth's Roman Helmet, a combination of fomex card and body filler. Amazingly he kept this on pretty much all day. (the blood washed off in the rain :-))

 The Bristles are obviously a cheap broom cut into pieces and glued into the channel across the top.

 All of the straps are from our ever giving sofa! and the studs are upholstery nails. 

There is a little bit of black and green paint to age the "metal" slightly. 

Roman costume part 2 (or three, possibly)

As its march and pretty cold, sandals were felt to be out of the question so I decided to make some roman feet. complete with sandals. A large lump of foam rescued from an old sofa was carved and sanded to shape before being painted, having toenails stuck on and a nice brown leather shoe made (More sofa scraps!)

These are currently Seth's least favorite bit of the costume :-)
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Roman centurion / Mark Anthony costume

We'll the roman costume using the brass discs ws a complete disaster, it made the shirt ridiculously heavy (especially for a 5year old!)
So undeterred I found a number of old signs at work which were printed on fomex and set about making a new costume for Seth using the fomex to replicate the steel.

A good coating of gold paint covered the old sign content, and photographs really well!

(The shirt is nothing to do with the costume)

Still lots more to do to this, more straps and a little ageing to stop it looking too new. 

More tomorrow.

Ok, new year new project! The kids have a Shakespeare day coming up in march, where they are encouraged to go to school dressed as their favorite character. Seth with almost no prompting from me, has decided he wants to go as Mark Anthony (from Anthony and Cleopatra). This is handy as while skip diving at work I had come across hundreds (possibly thousands) of piezo discs, which as everyone knows, are thin discs of brass which when a current is applied vibrate to produce a sound. But ignoring that feature they look just like roman scale Armour, as worn by the higher ranking officers. Perfect. :-)

 

These are a few of the discs, using an old hole punch I can make a neat hole in each one for assembly.

Here is a section laid out to get an idea of how it will look, the answer is fantastic!

Probably wont use it but I'm also looking at the lower ranking paneled roman Armour (there is a possibility that the brass Armour may be a little heavy! )

More soon...

I finally got the wings finished and working, so with my fingers crossed, I sat through two performances during which they worked flawlessly! 
It was brilliant! 
Molly did a fantastic job and I think she loved the attention and the enthusiastic response from the audience.

Obviously I needed to have a go with them :-) so I bought some festive cheer to the office for the afternoon. While there were calls for me to do a full striptease routine I manfully resisted, if only because the tight bastards only tucked a fiver down my Y fronts.  

This years Christmas card photo?

Now I need to think of something else to do!

Molly's Articulated Wings costume test3

Mollys wings more or less complete and ready to go! 1st dress rehersal is today so fingers crossed everything works :-)
The feathers ended up being made from paper with steam curved barbeqe skewers as the spines, I wanted big feathers and this seemed to be the best, and cheapest way of making them. The fluffy bits are cheap (£3 for 2m) feather boa's from the market.

Overall i'm really pleased with how they have come out, I think molly is too. :-)