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DragonCon 2009 Cruxshadows Dancers!
Hi folks, these are the pics of the Cruxshadows dancers, Jessica and Holly, in the costumes I made for them this year as mentioned in my previous post. I will get around to posting my other con pics shortly. Enjoy!
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DragonCon 2009
Bad Blogger am I. It has been such a ridiculously long time since I posted. I have been crazy busy for so long that I may have lost my mind a while back and just didn't notice ( Read more... ) -
Email Woes Resolved
Yay! Email woes and internet/computer trouble have been resolved, and the studiokensai@comcast.net address is working glitch free now. Please direct all correspondence to that address again. MC
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Current contact info
Hey folks! We're having some email complications right now, so please contact us by phone, via LiveJournal, or from our Etsy store [studiokensai.etsy.com]. We'll let you know as soon as it's all resolved. Thanks :)
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A Long Expected Party
Wow, what an incredible experience that was. I did not know entirely what to expect when i first arrived, but I left with an immense sense of. . . well, fellowship ( Read more... ) -
Elven Composite Armor from DragonCon 2008
Hi everyone, here are the pics of the armor I wore at DragonCon this year. It is a composite armor, made of thick cuirbouille hardened leather overlayed with brass sheet, and then overlayed again in hand-cut embossed leather so the brass shows through. The maille shirt I posted before DCon is under it and a set of composite vambraces are ( Read more... ) -
Completed SD 13 Doll Armor
It's been a while in coming, but it's finally here. The Doll Armor I was working on long ago is finally finished. It's a traditionally water hardened breastplate, backplate and spaulders, with a flexible corset and vambraces. All of the buckles are functional tiny 1/4" brass plated buckles. The armor surface is tooled and the embossed areas are ( Read more... ) -
Getting ready for DragonCon
Too Busy to do any regular posting :( But here is the work in progress. Still have a bunch to do on it, one week left til Con. Can't speak in complete sentences.
The vambraces are actually attached to the mail shirt, and note how the straps tuck into the vambrace itself and the inner face is smooth so a bowstring won't snag when loosed. The ( Read more... ) -
Silver Dragon Vambraces
I got inspired the other day and whipped up a new design for some metal and leather vambraces. The design is modified from the Barbarian vambraces, and incorporates over 100 individual steel scales on each vambrace. The overlapping scales and the rivets in back make a very dense and rigid structure that takes impact very well.
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