Altair's cosplay dagger wip

k, hope this is the right category theres no textiles in this thing, but some wood, leather, bolts, metal, and micellany, and is part of costuming..


Anywhoo, this is the current state of the stabbity dagger& bracer for the Altair cosplay i'm working on.. still got refining to do XD

theres a couple of kinks to work out of it, and I gotta finish mechanizing it.. I haven't decided on spring of gear power, but in the meantime until i put guts into the thing, its currently gravity fed, in case i don't have time to finish.

The tough part is getting the mechanism packed into such a compact space, as this things maybe 1 5/8 inches wide, tops, and most of the space is occupied by the blade segments. gonna have to custom build all the little bits so they'll fit. how irritating.

I really liked the whole moving faceplate thing, so i incorporated that into the system

the 5 armor segments are made of leather with coats of black and silver paint, as i have no means or desire to make them out of metal. got to speak to an awesome gentleman (and fellow altair cosplayer) who was more familiar with historical info and mentioned that most likely the plates were leather anyways, so yeah. thats my excuse & i'm sticking to it.. will do a fe wmore black washes to tone down some areas and like, add a lil more character.

anywhoo, the right pics are the plates, some are curved and shaped to the bracer, others aren't... the extra lil' bits on the top are to support the overlap and provide a space on either side to slide the straps into.

The pics on the left are of the bracer assembly, top left are the plates damped and shaped to the bracer, and rubber banded on til they dry. they'll be nailed onto the bracer when all is said & done I hope they dry soon so i can take it off. i'm tired and really don't wanna go to sleep wearing this thing

the other two are of course, the stabbity .