2018 was definitely the Year of the Black Panther! Even in the months before the film’s release, buzz was already heavy with magazine articles, trailers, and other teasers. Before the Becoming episode, I’d already taken a commission for the Jabri leader M’Baku’s armor set. The Challenge My client hadn’t planned to wear the armor until […]
If you subscribe to my site, you’re probably wondering why you’re getting notifications for ancient posts from last summer. The summer of Awful Web Happenings ™. July was a bit not good. There were several issues with the blog: first a PHP mishap of epic proportions and later two malfunctioning plugins. At the time, I […]
I’m a huge fan of learning while creating and making. When I first began seriously crafting armor, I was more than a bit put off by the number of Tony Stark-esque basements and garages that seemed to be the official club houses of so many professional builders. They were chock full of hand tools, electronics […]
I get a lot of ‘how’d you do that’ questions and thought I’d start sharing my build process and progress on a regular basis. Everything I know, I learned from online resources and asking other people endless questions. It’s time that I gave back! You can now join me on Twitch for weekly, live build […]
The Pauldrons Based on photographs, the shoulder armor appeared to be functional multi-part pauldrons. (Months later, I learned they were molded from a flexible rubber-like material.). The Nakia costume also had a variant shoulder piece, so I’d have to create two designs. I started by tracing patterns in Illustrator over references images, which were then […]
Walter Invites Me on an Adventure When my friend Walter Dean, of Dean’s Lyst, first approached me to recreate the armor for the Dora Milaje episode of Marvel’s “Becoming” web series, I knew right away I wanted to take part. Like everyone else, I had watched each new trailer with growing anticipation for the film’s […]
That time @MarvelStudios and @deanslyst let me play quartermaster and recreate @iamRuthECarter‘s fantastic armor designs. @AliciaMarieBODY and @blikku brought it all to life with beauty, power and confidence! I had a wonderful time. Thank you! If you’ve been following me on social or Twitch, you probably noticed that I disappeared in January. That’s because the […]
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