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/

Estimated for Summer/Fall 2027 dispatch! Further info included in the usual locations ;3 Show me all your ideas!! I love to see them. We always get WAY more submissions than we're able to take on in the time frame, it's always worth mentioning if you've submitted unsuccessfully in previous rounds!

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Threw together a paper muzzle mask for a Halloween party this last weekend! The theme was “Dress as the scariest thing at your work,” and, not knowing how to dress as “window details,” my fallback was: Rhinoceros! (It’s the 3D modeling program I use for both my day and night job.)

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Custom mask for a client, the design I'm told is based on Chancellor from the board game Oath. I like how the moon waxes and wanes depending on the viewing angle. I also just added in meshes over the orifices to occlude the observer, will get photos of that in the morning once the light is back.

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Etsy rejected my appeal without explanation. To the best of my understanding everything in the listing complied with their policies. Tipping the scales again towards needing to get a standalone website built. I really dot wanna but I’m getting tired.

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Wheeee had to write a groveling email to Etsy support because they deactivated one of my listings when I’m positive it didn’t violate the policy they said it did. I’m betting what happened is an ai decided a mannequin torso was a real butt and was too sexy.

I wanted to make a spooky muzzle for the event I'm vending at in 2 days and, like a fool, I decided none of my existing muzzle designs were quite right for the job. Soooo it was back to the CAD mines with me again. I'm trying to speedrun this entire thing today, send me luck.

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"Just a couple adjustments!" I said. "Some minor tweaks to the pattern!" I told myself. Five hours later and there was only one panel that I hadn't completely rebuilt. Thankfully in the light of the morning I still like it, so next I just gotta spend another like 5 hours redoing the pattern to cut.

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Working on a pair of dragon wings! These will become part of a personal project, but as per usual if they turn out well I hope I can make more for people. Sadly now I gotta stop for the night while the dye dries and fills my room with alcohol smell.

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Does your dog need a bone? Made the denim one as a sewing test (the sewing machine's motor subsequently blew up and I gotta fix it RIP). Then the leather one was a time trial test. For now, I'll have these at the night market I'm vending at this Wednesday. Boston, at Jacque's Cabaret.

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Wheeee had to write a groveling email to Etsy support because they deactivated one of my listings when I’m positive it didn’t violate the policy they said it did. I’m betting what happened is an ai decided a mannequin torso was a real butt and was too sexy.

I’ve been making swatches for all the dyes I have and man, this is only like half of them I have too many colors. (Actually like 2x as many paint chips as dyes because I wanted examples for two levels of dilution. Some of the dyes are so strong that they come out nearly black when used straight.)

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Recently hung a set of modular display shelves that I'd made a number of years ago. Back when I worked at a laser cutting shop, I'd been working on a number of furniture projects. I ended up focusing on costumes after leaving the shop, but I am still very fond of the pieces I made.

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The sewing machine I just picked up has started making a bit of a sad scraping noise from the motor side of the casing, and also giving off a noticeable burning smell. A repair place said they would expect $150 just for the motor if that’s what blew, plus the repair time. Sadface.