the making of a suit in pictures

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:35 pm

Looking super, i'm liking the the thickness near the brow. How thick has it come out at?

lorenzo2 · Post by **lorenzo2** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:07 pm

Thanks for the hammer tips and the anticlastic shaping of the sides on that helmet is great!

Andrew de Marna · Post by **Andrew de Marna** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:23 pm

Im just going to go pout now.....

Kiruvi · Post by **Kiruvi** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:26 pm

Hmmm... Mountain Dew... you must go through quite a lot of that, Patrick.

Andrew de Marna · Post by **Andrew de Marna** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:20 pm

Get back to work you howling NUTTER!!!!!!

Josh W · Post by **Josh W** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:47 am

Kiruvi wrote:Hmmm... Mountain Dew... you must go through quite a lot of that, Patrick.

I swear, Patrick lives on nothing but Mountain Dew, Steaks, and Pizza.

Kiruvi · Post by **Kiruvi** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:28 am

Josh Warren wrote:I swear, Patrick lives on nothing but Mountain Dew, Steaks, and Pizza.

Not a bad way to be. Though I would add corndogs, since they are one of the greatest self-packaged portable foods known to man.

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:35 am

Daaaaaang, here it is breakfast time and now I want a CORNDOG! :lol:

Kiruvi · Post by **Kiruvi** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:22 pm

One of the breakfast corndogs, with sausage wrapped in pancake, or a normal corndog?

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:56 pm

Pancakes ain't "CORN"dogs, gotta have that corn meal or is a pancake dog.

Kiruvi · Post by **Kiruvi** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:13 pm

That is most true. I stand corrected, good sir.

Patrick Thaden · Post by **Patrick Thaden** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:08 am

Ugo · Post by **Ugo** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:30 am

Oooh! Heh, oh, wha? mmmph! mmph! nnnnah!HhhhhhhhrrrrrrMMMmmmmmmmmmphhffffff.....POP!!!! uhhhhh,

I love you...

Kiruvi · Post by **Kiruvi** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:52 am

Wake up Ugo!! Come back to us!
Patrick, what do you use to smooth the hammer dents out of the steel?

Vermin · Post by **Vermin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:11 am

This thread should have a sticky to keep it at the top.....

VvS

Patrick Thaden · Post by **Patrick Thaden** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:15 am

I usually do rough in grinding like this with an angle grinder and some 40grit, takes off the rough spots real quick and let's me see where I need to hit it again.
Ugo, I love you too, but these long distance relationships are tough. You just need to get out here for a visit

, come play in the shop for a couple days, get away from the hussle and bussle of LA to the nice relaxing town of Denton TX. I'f I'm lucky I'll be starting on the bevor today, if not it'll just look more ground in today :roll:

white mountain armoury · Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:19 am

Patrick, you simply rock, wish i lived near you id love to stop in for a lesson.

AB

Patrick Thaden · Post by **Patrick Thaden** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:48 pm

Gabriel_D · Post by **Gabriel_D** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:44 am

Charles the Brown · Post by **Charles the Brown** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:39 pm

Mine Gott it looks like one piece of steel! :shock:

Andrew de Marna · Post by **Andrew de Marna** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:56 am

it does indeed. *wimpers like a dog...*

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:13 pm

It is one piece?

Ugo · Post by **Ugo** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:58 pm

uhhh...yeah... ya see there's these lil' numbers on the bottom of the page, which mean that there are a bunch of previos pages... when you click on them they magically take you back in time to earlier posts.

There's EVEN images rendered sooo perfectly, called pic-tures that represent the progress of this gorgeous helm from pie dish to sexy, sexy sall-ET

Go on... try it , it's not a trick, th' firey pits o' Hell wont open & gobble you up....trust me.... :shock:

...Sorry lots of Eggnog Chai Latte this morning!

RalphS · Post by **RalphS** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:22 pm

Gentlemen, I hate to break it to you, but my expert eye tells me that's a two-piece helm... :roll:

Otto von Teich · Post by **Otto von Teich** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:29 pm

RalphS wrote:Gentlemen, I hate to break it to you, but my expert eye tells me that's a two-piece helm...

If you count the rivets, its even more than two...Otto

Patrick Thaden · Post by **Patrick Thaden** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:33 pm

I was going to try and get away with just using a sharpy marker to draw in the visor and the pivots, but thought the customer might get annoyed when he decided to try and open it :shock:

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:42 pm

I meant the skull funny buggers.

Uilleag · Post by **Uilleag** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:03 pm

Thomas,

The skull is one piece. Progress pics showing it being raised can be found on page 8 of this thread. I think that the crease shown in the picture on page 9 is what is making folks think that the sloped portion is welded on, but it wasn't, at least not from what I saw of the progress pictures.

Patrick, care to comment?

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:08 pm

I know it's one piece, i'm not disputing that. Somebody said it looks like one piece of steel, and i simply said it was. Anyway, we (read, I) digress from the armour goodness that is Patricks raising.

Eirikr the Eager · Post by **Eirikr the Eager** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:07 pm

Thomas H wrote:I know it's one piece, i'm not disputing that. Somebody said it looks like one piece of steel, and i simply said it was. Anyway, we (read, I) digress from the armour goodness that is Patricks raising.

Did Patrick die?! :shock:

If not then why are we raising him??? :wink:

Wilhelm zu Eltz-Kempenich · Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:50 pm

It's not fair! It's just plain old not fair! I hate my measly, talentless life!!! :lol:

Alec · Post by **Alec** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:50 pm

Thaden,

WOW!!! thank you so much for posting these series of pics. I have saved every one of them as a reference. I raised plenty of small stuff but haven't worked up the balls to try for the holy grail -- a helmet. THis is really a great help. If for no other reason, they remind me that the project will pretty much look like stit till about the very end of the process -- but of couse it is very importat just what kind of shit it looks like as the shape evolves.

Did you use any shape pemplated to get the line of the skull right or did you just eye-ball the shape?

Now you can cut it up to hinge plates for you're super accurate 16C tourney chest ;-)

Alec

NightDaemon · Post by **NightDaemon** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:46 pm

I'm getting really curious about how all this looks being worn. I imagine that you've got a fair bit of steel to strap onto some lucky bastard, by now...

Patrick Thaden · Post by **Patrick Thaden** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:10 pm

More to come....

patric · Post by **patric** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:20 pm

woah, man, thats awesome!!!!!!
im a huge fan of the bevor thats more form fittig to the chin.
thats just awesome man, i dont konw what else i can say...

patric