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Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:32 pm
by Deimos
Sure,

The belt is made out of the same material as the under robe and is about 4 inches wide.

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The lining is velvet

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Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:33 am
by LuciousTalvloinne
Are you thinking of a wider size belt for the rope section?

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:57 am
by Deimos
the belt is pretty wide, it just blends in with my inner robes, Unless you meant adding in more rope?
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What do you think of the lining? My seamstress followed the CRL. It does look a bit more shiny than what it is as the flash was on when these photos were taken

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:50 am
by LuciousTalvloinne
Wider Rope is what I ment. Rope fabric has a different texture than Velvet so you would have a different light from it.

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:07 pm
by stripes
The rope definitely needs to be more sections... general guideline is 3-5 sections of rope. A single piece just looks sloppy in the end.

As for the lining, seeing the fabric from a different angle has helped. The first photos just looked like it was a shiny material (which is not permited as per CRL standards).

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:34 pm
by JesterTDA
From the CRL "Should Have but not required" portion:
• A burgundy rope-belt that wraps around the sash a minimum of two times and ties out of view.
I think the number of wraps depends upon the rope you're using and the size of the wearer. Putting 3-5 wraps around someone 5'1" is going to look very different than someone 6'4".

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:28 pm
by Deimos
stripes wrote:The rope definitely needs to be more sections... general guideline is 3-5 sections of rope. A single piece just looks sloppy in the end.

As for the lining, seeing the fabric from a different angle has helped. The first photos just looked like it was a shiny material (which is not permited as per CRL standards).

Oh that is good news. I had the flash on so it added a lot of shine to it.
JesterTDA wrote:From the CRL "Should Have but not required" portion:
• A burgundy rope-belt that wraps around the sash a minimum of two times and ties out of view.
I think the number of wraps depends upon the rope you're using and the size of the wearer. Putting 3-5 wraps around someone 5'1" is going to look very different than someone 6'4".

I am taking the belt back to the seamstress tomorrow so she can add more rope

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:52 am
by Deimos
So over the weekend I did a test troop at the local kids hospital. Boy oh Boy I almost fainted from dehydration. I need to add some little foam squares to the underside of my helmet so that some sort of airflow can pass through. Once that helmet was on, it formed a very good seal on the fabric. I think my plans for a 10km walk in this my have been hampered :)

Apart from that it was awesome to troop in

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 6:18 pm
by bdgr
Yes. I was almost in the same position this weekend for my first troop in my Royal Guard. Luckily, while I was installing my fans and gathering everything right before the troop, I quickly put some foam in the top of the helmet to allow for a larger gap between the bottom of the helmet and my outer robes. Worked great :)

Re: Deimos' Royal Guard WIP

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:25 am
by Deimos
So since my last post I have completed a Number of troops including two of Australia's biggest pop culture events, a 10km walk and loads of little troops.

Then I get the awesome news that I have just been approved,

Say hello to TR - 8139 Ready to protect the boss man :P

This has been a long build, much longer than I thought. But this is only due to the fact that my boots and force pike have been delayed more than 10 times now, taking my order close to 7-8 months from first contact and payment of the boots/forcepike.
I brought them through Crow62 and while he has good items, I dont think I will be buying from him again and I give everyone a big warning when they think about buying from him. His communication is just crap.

Anyway YAY approved :tr: :trsuit:

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Next costume - Senate Guard :P
Might as well have someone on the blue team and the red team :P