The Armour Archive

This is kind of interesting:

http://www.jeffdeboer.com/Galleries/CatsMice/tabid/63/Default.aspx

I've seen some of his stuff before, it's awesome work.

I really like the Sutton Hooesque cat armour. What I'd really like to see is a cat actually in it.

I want to see an armoured mouse go against a cat.

I remember this site. I love his work but I now notice that he's missed an important point when it comes to the cats. I don't know how they fight mice, but in fighting one another, cats have their undercarriage exposed a good amount of the time. They fight much like us- crouched with one front limb raised to block and the other cocked back to deliver blows- just a bit lower to the ground, and with a lot of rolling and clinching. When our girls go at it (á plaisance, which is to say, no claws), they're like two intertwining dragons. I'd have given that polished plate harness a globose breastplate, at least.

Unless, of course, he's thinking of them purely as horse-forms travelling horizontally instead of humanoid figures fighting semi-upright, in which case the kit makes more sense.

Klaus

wow that it so cool i want to make some for my cat what i idea

allfiredup wrote:wow that it so cool i want to make some for my cat what i idea

You make your cat wear armor and I bet it murders you in your sleep...

Cats are that evil...

Make one of those for your cat and I want to see video of you trying to put it on him/her.

http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/catwash.html

Jeff is a brilliant artist. I was lucky enough to apprentice to him years ago, and most of what I do know about the finer points of metal-work I learned from him.
What is powerfull about his work is its' ability to fire up people's imaginations (mine included).

Brad G