Eowyn (Eowyn as Durnhelm) - Lord of The Rings - Return of the King
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| This is my favourite costume and the third one I made. I am fortunate that my partner makes armour as a hobby and helped with the helmet and shield. He raised the shield boss from flat. He aslo helped with embossing the leather as we were running out of time. I got the leather really cheaply at a closing down sale so all the leather elements ( helmet, belt body armour and vambraces came in under £20, and I have much left over for other projects. I also got lucky with the mail, It cost £30 and came as a long strip and started life as a shop display. I took it to bits and made the tailored hauberk. It's realy heavy to wear though at 7 kilos, so I'm remaking it outof plastic, in the Weta tradition. Making the original butted mail too about 3 months, I'm guessing the plastic one will take about the same, but I plan to use it for my Gil-Galad costume, with is in the planing stages. I sculpted the sword out of plasticine and casted it in resine. It was a rush job over a weekend to get it ready on time and it could be better, so I'd like to make a new sword at some point but no rush. This is the most authentic looking costume I have made. I was fortunate to meet the guys from Weta who designed and made the original. They said it could have walked off the set... It's not the most flamboyant but like I said, my favorite costume. |
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I love your Eowyn as Durnhelm. You have put so much epic detail into it I love it. XX
Thanks, this is my favorite costume...I'll never retire it...lol. I'm remaking the hauberk out of plastic maille...the steel one is 15 pounds and really heavy!
Incredible costume!
This is just stunning! :O
Wow yeah, Very authentic! Nice work.
Wow, gorgeous work!! :O The materials you chose are awesome!
Really fantastic stuff, your work strays into professional film quality so much so as I always enjoy having a look :)I take it from the comment your going to midlands?
Just had a quick scan of the piccys, well impressed!
brilliant replica!
Wow, this outfit is amazing! Definitely my favourite of yours :D The armour bits look very authentic!