Custom Barding Examples

Mr. D · Post by **Mr. D** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:46 pm

Wow! Great! Can you give us some PSD's to download?

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:04 am

JPinoy wrote:I love that chain mail barding. But I think you could add some metal plating designs or leather strapps somewhere.

Just to re-address this, the illustrations I can find depict the mail without straps on any kind. It is either plain blah chain pretty much as I have it (within the limitations of the actual Lego piece), or chain with a housing (trapper, etc.) over it. A rarer option is a narrow plate with two domes across the front of the chest. I'm not sure if I care for that since it effectively makes a very three dimensional form into two.

What I might do is combine the standard cloth as it usually existed (front and back, but not in the middle) along with the chain underneath. I can fill in the curvy bottom with the chain and just do a lazy straight cut.

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:43 am

What I might do is combine the standard cloth as it usually existed (front and back, but not in the middle) along with the chain underneath. I can fill in the curvy bottom with the chain and just do a lazy straight cut.

Did and done:

Whew, those thumbnails will ruin your eyesight. Here's the link the to the full-size version.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/corsa ... dchain.jpg

Blasterman · Post by **Blasterman** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:31 am

Thanks 2Tonic. I completely forgot about the DPI thing.

Sir Terrance · Post by **Sir Terrance** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:58 am

I don't really like the sun thing on them, maybe a bird of sometype?

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 1:10 am

Looking good TwoTonic. That really deals well with the difficulty of the rippled cut at the bottom and it works well. As for the designs, I have saved all of them and I will be waiting until September when my new printer will customize my world. Keep up the great work.

Did anyone make a .PSD of the barding template? I will likely have a lot of scorpion barding that will need new printing.

Will

Sir Terrance · Post by **Sir Terrance** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:00 am

If you search around you should find, I remember seeing one, but don't know where. I am just going to brasso the new barding to get a nice red one.

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:35 am

Sir Terrance wrote:I don't really like the sun thing on them, maybe a bird of sometype?

You don't like the Sun-in-Splendor? They even used that in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Everyone is a critic.

I've done a double-headed eagle, but I suppose I need to post the actual file rather than just the photo of the applied end result. But feel free to graft on whatever you like if you don't want to wait on me - each of these for me are one-shot affairs, and I post them so others can put the work to use.

canadais2cool · Post by **canadais2cool** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:10 pm

that is great barding

Ramus · Post by **Ramus** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:16 am

I was just thinking. If you have the right size hole punch, you can punch holes at the peak of the curvy parts and then cut up to the holes.

Leaves a nice clean rounded peak, plus saves alot of painstaking cutting.

Just an idea.

-- Ramus

The Blue Knight · Post by **The Blue Knight** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:31 am

This is exceptional work TTK. You are certainly one of our best customizers. The stickers are only part of the complete package. The color matching, the Rub n Buff, all lend to an outstanding product. I've always been a drooler for your designs

You seem to glue stickers printed on paper. Does this work better for you? I don't have PhotoShop, so I print out what I can through MS Word onto ticker sheets. The results are mixed. What lead you away from stickers?

Looks like Jennifer has started something here! Great work my friend!

Brickboy · Post by **Brickboy** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 6:02 pm

I wish I could make those! But unfortunately I only have 2 bardings total, and I dont want to ruin them. Guess I will just have to wait for those nasty 'Knights Kingdom series2' bardings to come out.

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:29 pm

That's the thumbnail, the deeplink (which isn't quite full size, you have to let the cursor sit absolutely still on it a minute to get the expand to full size button to appear):

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/corsa ... g4jpeg.jpg

For some reason I can't upload the .psd file (policy change?, temp glitch? whatever), so that is it in jpeg format. Anyway, I have four bardings/shields/cloaks I need to do to get the next set of fully integreted knights out, and here's the first barding.

Oh, and shameless stealing of other's unicorns, but I did have to re-smooth it after expanding it's size, so it wasn't completely as pain free as I would have prefered.

Edit in: And let's add another one. This is a very simple reworking of Amorthe's original barding design that inspired me to start doing these things. It corrects some of the proportion problems he had, and I've resized it to the Sava-Standard, and cleaned up most of the color variations he had and the line irregularities that resizing introduces.

Deeplink:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/corsa ... arding.jpg

And as long as I am re-editing this post, I trust that everyone can figure out that all you have to do is copy the full-size version and simply flip it (which is heraldically correct, by the way) to get both sides.

And yet more edit in:

The yellow/red version which is what I actually did it in first before the green/white one above.

Deeplink:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/corsa ... g3jpeg.jpg

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:38 pm

Very nice TTK. I really like the unicorn. This would be great for an elf perhaps. Maybe a Forestman? Hmm....You have given my an idea.

JPinoy · Post by **JPinoy** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:56 pm

TTK,

Those Fright Knight bardings aren't that common anymore. But the KK1 bardings are.