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Hi everyone!

I wanted to show off my new crest, handmade by Payson Muller from the UK according to Il libro dell'arte by Cennino d'Andrea Cennini.
Payson has made the crests for the Edgecote tournament and after seeing his work I was sure to want one by his hand as well. It took quite some time as he had to make it in his spare time.
He made a clay model first, then made molds from the model. With the molds he made two leather halves which were handsewn together, made the ears and tongue separately and covered it in gesso and had it painted and gilded.

The results...?

AWESOME!
I'm very VERY happy with it and it will be great for the helmet presentation scenes for our tournaments. I won't use it for actual combat, but I will commission a latex version later for mounted uses.

It's based on these two sources:


Who cares about all this text? You want pictures, so here you are:






I still need to make the mantling etc. but since it was delivered yesterday I just wanted to share some pics with you. The frogmouth will be polished to match the rest of my armour, so don't mind the rust.

Here are the heraldic flag and tabard by Black Swan Designs to go with it. The set is almost complete now.

Wow that is some impressive leather working.

It's marvellous!

Very very cool

Absolutely FANTASTIC!... I need to look up Mr Payson and see what it would cost to do a griffin head as part of a crest. I've been meaning to do it myself but I never have the time and his work is BEAUTIFUL!

Sean

Very impressive, though the dragon looks rather canine. <wink>

FANTASTIC!

I'm jealous. Sending ninjas.

So how much does one of these run?

Donal Mac Ruiseart wrote:Very impressive, though the dragon looks rather canine. <wink>

Actually, that joke is closer to the truth than you might think. I found two descriptions of the 'van Erp' crest, one describing it as a black dragon's head with a red tongue, the other as a black wolf's head with a red tongue, so we chose a combination of the two.

How much it cost..? It was a special deal, because Payson normally doesn't do these kind of projects besides doing them for the tournament, but because of our shared enthusiasm on the subject he decided to make me this one. Because he still has the molds, I want to have a latex one made as well for actual use, because this one is really fragile and cost me a lot of money. But since you asked: over 700 dollar. Handsculpted model, molded and shaped leather, completely handmade according to a period guide on how to do it. The leather crown is oil painted with gold leaf, by the way. Mr. Muller said that if he had to do another one it would be more expensive as a lot of work went into it.
I'm very proud of this as it's another step up the ladder in my tournament presentation.

More jealous. Sending even more ninja's.

Seriously fantastic! The flag, the tabbard, and of course the helm crest. Wonderful!

Snazzy!!!

Ninja's were warded off with pirates..
Thanks for the kind replies!