| Several months after having made the shirt (and several smaller items after said shirt... such as the scale dicebag and bracelet), I decided that I wanted a full chainmaille suit. So what was next on the list, but the chainmaille coif. That being... the headpiece. There's several different designs one could go with for this, such as a completely open-faced (ie: disconnected under the chin), or with an aventail (additional flap to cover mouth/face/neck moreso), or yeah... a million different configurations for the face-hole. | |
| I actually played around it for a long time to get it to fit my face the way I wanted. Again, going with the theory of the shirt, I doubled the rings around the face-hole. This wasn't so much for strength, as I didn't anticipate there being all that much force being put on those rings, but to follow the look of the neckline of the shirt. | |
| Speaking of the neckline... THAT part was probably the most difficult (yes, more difficult than the expanding circle at the top of the head). I wanted it to cover the V-neck completely, but NOT cover the scale shoulders as much as possible. I first tried repeatedly adding expansions into the front and back, but that ended up looking hideous. I ripped that all apart, and just went with continuing more rows along the bottom of the front and back until it was as round and long as I wanted, then added several rows of rings all the way around it to make it all look uniform. It's probably the best-looking way I could have come up with, given I wanted to essentially make the bottom of it an oval. | |
| And as you can safely assume... as more of the suit is made, I'll be showing a picture of the entire suit-to-date. Given all I've made at this point is the shirt and coif, that's all you get. But despite it only being these two, I still wear it out for halloween (I actually also wear the shirt shopping on occasion... you get some interesting looks from people). Next up... gloves, sleeves, half-plate leggings, and yeah... you get the idea. | |
