In a message dated 7/29/2003 7:24:53 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Take note of the Return of the King posters now > > appearing in movie theaters. > > > That's not a real suit of chainmaile. Rows of rings > > have been sewn onto something. > > According to the Fellowship DVD special features, the chain > mail is actually made of painted plastic rings, but they do > connect them together by hand, like real chain mail. They may not have had the real suits when the poster was made. There's no standard 4 on 1 pattern to be seen. I also looked to see if they were using two different sized rings. I'll have to go back and take another look. It's a pity that the Arnold crusader movie never got made. The suits were going to be real medieval chainmaile. Made to look like rivited cut strips of metal. Wire drawing wasn't used on iron at the time of the crusades. Chris Gilman, maker of the coins in The Goonies, the half eaten fish in Batman Returns, and the spacesuits for both Deep Impact and Armageddon, had a method for stamping a false rivet head onto the rings. Ah well... William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
