Sculpting chain mail

[fortunesfool]

I\'m in the middle of a conversion of a doomseeker and have decided that he needs a fair bit of chainmail. Now I\'ve seen several models where they sculpted the chainmail but none of them seem detailed enough.

The tutorial on the GW site is laughable. I checked out the sculpting tutorial done by the man who did Shae. Here\'s the link:
http://www.miez.nl/putty-n-paint/tutes/sculpting_tut01.pdf

Do you know of any other tutorials? I\'m desperate for a tutorial that shows the most amazing way of doing chainmail. I don\'t actually care how long or intricate it is. Your assistance is greatly appreciated as this model will end up being my dwarfen persona and so I want him to be sh@t hot.

Thanks.

 

[GreenOne]

That\'s a pretty good tutorial, actually I doubt there is anything really better.

 

[fortunesfool]

While that tutorial does give a good way, it\'s not good enough. Here are two pics of what I\'m trying to achieve:

 

[DaN]

Well, the first pic is amazing

The second looks like the sculptor used thousands of tiny balls of putty, and squashed them flat, then laid them in place, pushing the centre in with a tool, overlaying them...

If that makes sense

 

[GreenOne]

The first pic looks like its no short of making each ring, and fitting them together on a flat piece of cured putty. You may expand on the part in the tut whare he shows to make chains.
The rings are not in scale tough, I think it may look weird on large surfaces, while making each ring at scale would be short of impossible unless you have bionic hands or something.
Of course it only theorical, I\'m way too clumsy to sculpt anything close to that.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

the first is eastern chain which is a looser pattern (easier to make the real stuff as well)

while bens (the second one) does look good, it\'s inacurate.
the rows should alternate in direction, first one left, second one right and so on.

 

[fortunesfool]

Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
the first is eastern chain which is a looser pattern (easier to make the real stuff as well)

while bens (the second one) does look good, it\'s inacurate.
the rows should alternate in direction, first one left, second one right and so on.

So what is eastern chain? And how do I do it? Is there a list of all the different ways of doing chainmail with their respective names? If so where is this list as I\'m certain that there are many other cool ways of doing chainmail?

Thanks for the info.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

eastern chain uses a looser pattern, whilst western chain has a tighter nit pattern.

this is due to the different types of weapons used and how armour was adapted to cope with them.

this site should prove helpfull for you. http://www.armchair-armoury.co.uk/instructions.htm (they have called the eastern chain ringmail to help differentiate between the two types.

 

[matty1001]

Freeman has done a tute on his WIP thread over at the spanish forums, unfortuately I didn\'t save the link, so I can\'t find it.
Its in the thread WIPing all his 54mm stuff for Andrea, if anybody has it.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

The first one looks fantastic. The secound one just looks like rows of rings or coins. They dont look linked to each other.

 

[Einion]

Okay, first off: mail.

Not chainmail, chain-mail, ring-mail, chain armour or anything else; just mail lol

Originally posted by fortunesfool
Here are two pics of what I\'m trying to achieve:

Ah, well neither of those are anything like mail actually looks, just so you know - the whole point of mail is that it\'s linked together in all directions.

Anyway, if I had to try to do the first type I\'d use a two-step operation, sculpting the rings you can see flat first, then letting these set before adding those you see edge-on. You can do something like this in a single step, but I don\'t think the results are as good as working more methodically.

The second type I\'d guess DaN has hit the nail on the head as regards technique.

Einion