Armored Dragon Designs

@armoreddragon.bsky.social

Leather and chainmail costume accessories Things for sale at: www.etsy.com/shop/thearmoreddragon/ Elsewhere at: https://armoreddragon.carrd.co/

Chainmail socks? I picked up and finished this old personal project the last 2 nights. Had made the first one I don’t even know when, then stalled out halfway through copying it for the pair. Sometimes I need to make something that’s unreasonably tricky just to see if I can.

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Working on a chainmail cube, this is the first layer done. I use these as juggling balls, where they have a heavy weight (they’re fully stainless steel), a solid catch, and are indestructible. But they also make for a delightful fidget toy, being quite floppy but also still definitely solid.

Dragon muzzle mask in black, with Kelly green scales on the top. I gotta say, I was so glad when I finally found this green dye, I'd been suffering through disappointing greens for years. Pulling this one out of the photo backlog, this one was from about a year ago.

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Neapolitan ice cream pup! Watch out, they’re gonna drip all over you. This was a custom request from a local, they had a pup hood from a different maker and they asked me to make some fixes and improvements. Replaced the nose with one of my own, added the appliqué ice cream scoops.

Working on a codpiece with a custom paint job. Done to match the client’s Warhammer themed armor set for, if I understand right, HEMA light saber battles. The other armor pieces they have are all also covered in screaming faces.

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I don't know how to paint well enough (yet), and it violates my self-promotional obligations to always wear my own products to events. But. Ever since I saw this design I knew I would be sorely tempted to pick one up for myself. I don't know if I've ever seen better dragon scales. It's so gorgeous.

Melita Curphy@missmonster.bsky.social · 3w ago

Kobold blank mask kits are now available! Tutorials and all the info you need can be found in the listing. Sculpted by hand, cast in urethane! These ship late September through October. missmonster.bigcartel.com

Wolf skull muzzle mask! This one was bought by a local friend last year (not shown here, this is a different friend), and it’s become such a part of them that I almost can’t think of this design as anything other than their face. Integrated into their fursona and everything. Truly an honor.

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Doing a round-up of a bunch of my small mask designs. A lot of these are some of my earliest designs from when I was just starting with leather, but I keep making them because I still think they're fun. (These are the winners from that era, I've let a bunch of designs fade into retirement.)

Three leather masks, each with one side apparently rusted and crumbling away. One is silver fading to tarnished gray, one is blue-green eroding to a darker blue, one is dark yellow falling away to brown.Two masks in a robotic style, assembled with rivets out of a number of small angular pieces. One mask's component pieces are dyed a mix of teal and silver. The other uses a rainbow of colors.Two masks with a cut-through pattern resembling abstracted muscle fibers. One is brown, one black.Three masks with a pattern of small swirling cuts across them, as though of breezes or wind blowing on the surface.

Black codpiece with rows of metal spikes. When I originally added all these spikes to this design, I thought it would just be ridiculous and funny. But people have seemed to really like it! So next I gotta figure out how to put even more and bigger spikes in somehow.

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Pup muzzle in a fun custom colorway of green, gold, and brown, with brass hardware. I've been really liking color combos like this recently, they remind me of like, a fancy old lodge with a big fireplace, or a Victorian library. Steampunk but calmed down a bit.

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Green and black dragon muzzle mask, that I shipped out this last week! This green is sometimes a bit finicky to get the color I want, and it may have ended up a bit on the dark side here. In bright lighting it’s got a nice depth to the color, but when it’s dim it can fade into shadows a bit.

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Actually wait no I lied just then, this simple mask is my most-sold item lately, because it’s set up to work with glasses. And almost nobody else makes masks that do that. They’re quick to make, I’ve just made so many of them this last year or so that I barely even think to photograph them anymore.

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Two leather codpieces from a while back. We got a fig leaf design with a brown dyed base, and my paladin design in a black smooth-finished leather that I been really liking for these sorts of pieces. It's odd to explain to the family, but codpieces are probably my best selling products on Etsy.

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Bad dog. Made this canine muzzle wearing a muzzle for ANE this last January. I wanted the snout vs the muzzle to be very distinct, so went for hand stitching on the canine parts, then rivets and tabs on the "metal" part. I think the industrial look turned out pretty well!

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An accidentally-coordinating pair of leather collars from this spring. A lined collar with a white base layer and an art deco pattern on the top strap; and a simple black collar with chunky metal spikes. I quite like how well the white pops against the black.

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Go, Blue Muzzle White Dragon! Dragon muzzle mask with a custom blue and white coloration. The customer's character had a very fun musical theme to the markings and a really pretty gradient. I was pretty happy with the ivory white and light blue paints I mixed up to try and do it justice.

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Whelp, been a hot minute since I posted anything. I have been keeping busy, but haven't had much stomach for social media and promotion lately. But, I'm visiting family and have a bunch of enforced down-time this week, so I'm finally sorting through photos and will be posting a bunch of stuff.