South tower Gals

AJ looking seriously bad ass.

A classical pose.

Nadia with her patented killer glance.

Lisa...preparing for the apocalypse

Sonja ready for war.

How lovely they are....

(Now THIS post should get some more views!!!!)

Armour at the show

much of this armour on this post is made from copyright designs, so I must ask readers to treat all these pictures as copyright pics. You can see the inspiration of a lot of this armour at www.clydecaldwell.com, and of course, on the preceeding posts.
Some of the armour I had for sale at the show. This bracer design is taken totally from "The Red Sea" . It is good for guys as well as gals. I made that steel coif years ago.

The delightful Janika posing in the armour. She made the bracers, I made the steel stuff, and the chain mail. Brenda made the chain mail necklace. The tell me it is vampire proof. Good thing. This is a bit of a mix of "The Red Sea" for the bottom because, well "The Leopard and the Serpent" top didn't really have one.

The armour garnered tremendous interest. How can you go wrong when gorgeous women ask to try on your armour. Must be doing "something" right. (Clyde Caldwell's art book makes a great prop, and is used by permission. Copyright Clyde Caldwell 2009)

Oh dear.

This is the only picture I think I have of this particular armour. It is based on "The Worm Has Turned" however there are a lot of flaws in it. Too long in the body, too much modeling in the breast cups. Ah well.. it IS a prototype after all. The best thing I can say about it is that the models tell me that it is very comfortable. Now SHE looks like a warrior! (and in fact, she is....Elaine has been fighting in armour for nearly as many years as I have!)

Artist inspired armour.

Below is a magnetically latched collar, such as you might see in "Slither"

http://www.clydecaldwell.com/large_images/slither.html

although Dirdre and Selene seem to have picked up a couple as well. (I'll let you search them out...smile... try Clyde Caldwell gallery at

http://www.clydecaldwell.com/pages/gallery.html

Inspired by "The Rose Sea" http://www.clydecaldwell.com/large_images/rose_sea.html

above is the background done in "points", and below is the same design done in "crescents". What do you think is better?

Below is a buckled version of the bracers the human woman is wearing in "the Rose Sea". The client will of course cut the straps after they are fitted to her...or him. These were a little more difficult to do because the tops were pointier than usual, and as any armourer can tell you, the outside curves are always the most difficult. These came out better than I thought they would. The apparent simplicity is just that...apparent.

I like the blue straps. Maybe should have been green to match the green silk shirt the subject is wearing...blue clashes a bit. Oh well, if you examine the painting, and the styles of armour, you can see that the elf and the human have exchanged kit in any case. How many would pick up on that???