Annnd here’s the process of making the wardrobe. 😊
We started out with a very old, flimsy, ugly, beat up wardrobe. Please excuse the mess
My sister (the artistic one) painted the inside to look like the original illustration of Mr. Tumnus and Lucy.
She measured to figure out what size/where she wanted each design to be on the front and then sketched them onto the doors.
She then used a 2 part wood epoxy to make the “carved” designs and applied them directly onto the doors. (She said the epoxy needed a lot of oomph to make it stick to the wood and she had to let portions of each design set a little before she could add more epoxy around it. Otherwise it was not sticking nicely.)
After the epoxy designs were on she then used bamboo to make the “frames” around each design. These ended up being perfect because they had some give to them and so were able to follow the warped curves of the wardrobe. They were wood glued into place and dumbells sat on top to make sure they dried in place. She added more epoxy to fill in where the frames met the designs.
We sanded the wood a bit and used Minwax gel stain in (i think) mahogany to paint/stain it. Most of it just needed 1 coat of stain, but the bamboo “frames” were still a little light so they -and any missed spots- got some touch ups/ a second coat.
on the one side we have GORGEOUSLY handcrafted armor. Looks like actual plate, the white tree of Gondor clear and easy to see and echoed on the pauldrons and even pressed into his belt! Which is folded in a LOVELY knot to hold it in place. The chainmail is REAL chainmail. And over all there’s some good wear on it, it looks like Boromir has owned and worked and lived in this armor
And on the other side we have stuff that looks like it was created for a shoe string budgeted made-for-TV Camelot production. It’s CLEARLY plastic. And wtf is that LENGTH that leaves a huge swath of his VITAL ORGANS unprotected???? The symbol is PRINTED on it, not even embossed, and so poorly you can’t even really tell what it’s supposed to be. It looks, as far as I can tell, like someone smooshed a bunch of pseudo celtic symbols together. Those shoulder things are NOT pauldrons. They seem to be some half arsed attempt at coin style chainmail? Maybe? I have NO idea what that shirt is. It looks like maybe the designers were going for a type of Gambeson, but it’s just way WAY too thin. It ALL looks like they hit the after halloween sale at party city for supplies.
This was a show with no grasp of time, no grasp of distance, and no grasp of even fantasy realism - swimming from Valinor back to Middle Earth? Shrugging off a pyroclastic flow? - so I’m not surprised it has no grasp of Hero Props.
“Hero Prop” is the term for Boromir’s armour, indeed any armour, costume or accoutrements worn by a Principal Character in LOTR or any other movie.
“Hero” has nothing to do with the character’s alignment, applying to Sauron and the Witch-King as well. It means any costume, weapon etc. made as detailed as possible because the character wearing it will be front and centre in very close shots, where an IMAX screen might make any flaws a metre high.
(Bernard Hill was amazed by the details in Théoden’s armour, some of which only he and his dresser ever saw. More here.)
Now there’s the Numenorean bargain-basement rig up there, and the full plate of the Action Heroine here.
I don’t know what it’s made of, but it looks like vac-formed, spray-painted plastic.
Compare it to an example of Elven armour from The Hobbit movies, which notoriously didn’t have anything like the development time of LOTR…
No further comment.
I remember seeing this post and I finally went past some armour today and grabbed some pics of how amazing the LOTR armour is.
why is this site trying to become twitter. why must everything i love die
(every CEO in the last 5 years for some reason) hmmm today i will catastrophically mismanage my company to the fullest most embarrassing extent imaginable
@staff this is truly a basis for me to never open tumblr desktop again so if that was you guy’s aim congrats, you nailed it!!!! Now if you wanted to keep “what makes Tumblr unique” you have never failed better
@staff Please, please go back to the normal layout.
You don’t need to mimic Twitter.
You don’t need to mimic Instagram.
You don’t need to scrub away everything unique about Tumblr in an attempt at luring in people from other websites.
What you need to do is keep being Tumblr. You already have a dedicated userbase who loves the unique features of Tumblr, the features that make it different. A userbase that’s existed for years.
Do you really want to throw all that away?
This layout is super hostile to anyone with ADD.
I have to reblog this again because that’s WHY they did it. That’s why the other websites are doing it. The layout is designed to make you never understand when you’re finished scrolling through it or know what to focus on, that is a FEATURE not a BUG and Tumblr is switching TO that on PURPOSE because abusing people’s attention is WHAT ALL THOSE BUZZWORDS MEAN. All ‘modern’ web design is ADHD hostile by design, because it’s intended to induce attention malfunction in people who don’t even already have it.
Hi! List five things that make you happy; then, if you'd like to, put this in the ask box of the last ten people who reblogged something from you and spread some positivity ✨💙🌺
Answer:
1. Talking to my sister! 2. Tea ☕ 3. Dogs, cats, Bears ♡ 4. Autumn 🍂 5. Running! 😄
You know that study that found when doing a blind taste test the majority of people prefer pepsi over coca cola so coke changed their recipe to taste more like pepsi, and people actually liked the new coke a lot less because the people who were buying coke didn’t want it to taste like pepsi they wanted their coke to taste like coke. That’s what a lot of the new changes tumblr is working on feel like.
these teenagers and their dog are trying ruin our money laundering business. no tony put the gun down were doing this the old fashioned way. were gonna dress up as monsters and scare them
