Judy Mitchell wrote:
Jean Waddie wrote: I believe all the armour and weaponry was done by Weta
Workshops, who invented plastic chainmail for the Lord of the Rings
films.
yes. they slice up pvc pipe and use it for the rings in the maille.
It is very light and looks amazingly good. so much better than 'string
maille'. It was striking in the way it draped, wasn't it!
I saw the LoTR stuff when the show came through the Museum of Science in
Boston. It was quite believable (I've seen a lot of metal mail of
varying quality, some quite very good) aside from it having a square
cross-section. Which mostly gave it a slightly weird air, not
unreasonable in a Fantasy movie.
And I had a giggle at the elastic loop yardage glued on the inside of
Elrond's coronet, clearly for bobby pins or similar to anchor it on.
Inventive, if a little mystique-bursting!
--
Cynthia Virtue and/or Cynthia du Pre Argent
Mindless entertainment is the handmaiden of fascism. -- Mo/Alison Bechdel
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