My blog, second entry. My first one can be found here and will serve as a sort of introduction. In this one I will try to have a bit more audience-participation in the form of a poll later on. So, without further a due, let's go.

For some time now I've been wanting to make an 'inlay'. Basically this is a sheet of chainmail, but by using different colours from different kinds of metal you make figures.

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(wtffff o_o)

I didn't want to use any artificial materials to make blue/yellow/pink rings (wtf right) so I was limited to iron (grey), aluminium (silvery white), copper (orange) and brass (yellow) - though the latter is pretty expensve and only available in small guages.

So, in picking a design I was limited to images with 3-4 colours. I tried looking at some sprites from old NES games etc, but didn't think Kirby would look very well in grey-slash-orange.

Of course! I should do something StarCrafty! I tried looking at some units (hydralisk, ultralisk) and some icons (stim pack, nuke) but none of them worked out.

Then, I came across this:

It was perfect. Three colours. Awesome dragon. And it's the MBC Hero logo for crying out loud!

My first design looked like this. First I had to re-invent the logo, pixel by pixel, since they had to be either red or white (not pinkish, which is what the jpg format likes)

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Making the design alone took me about a week >.> However, this design would come down to about 20.000 rings, which is too much, even for me (my biggest shirt was ~12.000). Then I noticed this:

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That's right, just the head of the dragon and 'Hero'. So I remade my inlay, to this, consisting of ~4200 rings and thus doable:

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When I was done, the Support-sAviOr thread came about and I considered doing the CJ Entus logo in stead. I made the design, but it was a shitload of rings as well so wouldn't have been done in time.
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So I was off to work. Making the entire thing took me about a week and a half, working 2-3 hours a day. In the next spoiler are the work-in-progress pics that I made along the way and in the second spoiler is the final product.

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The sheet has 4219 rings. Rings are 6mm in diameter, with a 1.5mm wire diameter. I used about 50 meters of iron.

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Cutting rings while watching Leta kick ass n_n

When I have loose wire ends left, helpless apples quickly become the victim of my boredom

My mate Paul made some very excellent pictures using his hyooge camera.
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So, here is where you come in. The big question that remain of course is: What should I do with it? I've narrowed it down *cough* to the choices in the poll. In the spoiler under it I comment on every option.

Poll: What should I do with it?
(Vote): Keep it
(Vote): Make something else out of it
(Vote): Sell it
(Vote): Send it to MBC
(Vote): Give it to ME!
(Vote): Make the big one like a MAN
(Vote): Other

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Keep it - Yes, I suppose I could just hang it on my wall and gloat over it every time I wake up.
Make something else of it - Please suggest things if you vote this option. In the first blog someone suggested making a KTF jersey; I guess I could make a jersey with this inlay in it. As it is, it doesn't have much of a function, but I usually want to move on to other things when I'm done with a project.
Sell it - Would you buy it? Still, if enough MBC-crazed fans are willing to bid on this unique, timeless, completely awesome piece of work I'd totally consider auctioning it and giving the money to charity or smth.
Send it to MBC - Yes. If they'd pick this up and use it as a cheerful when Sea ( <3 ) plays and it gets on TV and whatnot I'd be completely proud and shit. However I'm not sure I want to trust it to the international postal services and I'm not sure if the guys @ MBC will appreciate such a token?
Give it to ME! - Well you're rather selfish, aren't you? Still, if the other options tie and you're the only one, you might have a chance
Make the big one like a MAN - "DUDE SERIOUSLY ARE YOU WUSSING OUT OF SOMETHING THAT HAS 20.000 RINGS AND RATHER GO FOR EZPZLMSQ 4000 RINGS? BE A MAN AND COME BACK WHEN YOU'VE MADE THE BIG ONE" ._.
Other - Please specify

So here you have it, my second blog. Not sure how to close off, so ima just go n watch some VODs now...

Lamentations

Australia211 Posts

January 22 2009 11:14 GMT

Very nice :D I knew you had been working on it, but never thought you'd really finish it - I guess I was thinking about the huge 20,000 ring one.

I'd like to request a KTF one. You should at least make designs for a few of them and see the minimum rings you can get for it - then you can give quotes on time and price and I am sure people here might like some to show their support

Snet

United States3573 Posts

January 22 2009 11:27 GMT

Looks like that took a long time to make.

MrHoon

10183 Posts

January 22 2009 11:41 GMT

that is incredibly amazing, I can't imagine myself making something that can't be done with a tablet >.>

ssystem

United Kingdom337 Posts

January 22 2009 11:52 GMT

That's fucking awesome man! Good job.

Make the big one and give this one to me

lxginverse

Monaco1506 Posts

January 22 2009 12:37 GMT

great job

IMO you should sell it

or perhaps give me the CJ one

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

January 22 2009 12:38 GMT

That's awesome - if you send it to MBC I could get the team to have their photo taken with it.

AdemTheDestroyer

Australia47 Posts

January 22 2009 13:07 GMT

Make a full chest one and go slay a dragon.

Lamentations

Australia211 Posts

January 22 2009 13:24 GMT

On January 22 2009 22:07 AdemTheDestroyer wrote:
Make a full chest one and go slay a dragon.

Ahahaha xD

Also - it would look badass on the back of a leather jacket

Until people found out what it meant...

pangshai

Chinatown5333 Posts

January 22 2009 14:16 GMT

#10

When I saw the template I thought the product would look terrible, but the pictures proved me wrong. Very very nice work.

eth0x

Canada208 Posts

January 22 2009 14:28 GMT

#11

On January 22 2009 22:07 AdemTheDestroyer wrote:
Make a full chest one and go slay a dragon.

This. Grab Arthas' sword, too.

dragoonkf

Singapore1256 Posts

January 22 2009 14:43 GMT

#12

Holy shit, must have taken lots of blood and sweat to make this ! How wish i could make something like that. Great job !

Equinox_kr

United States7395 Posts

January 22 2009 16:09 GMT

#13

Oh my god that shit is fucking epic.

Awesome job, dude.

LosingID8

CA10832 Posts

January 22 2009 23:36 GMT

#14

this deserves more attention.

awesome!

Centric

United States1989 Posts

January 23 2009 00:13 GMT

#15

Wow amazing. Good job.

phase

United States399 Posts

January 23 2009 00:24 GMT

#16

Wow. That looks effing awesome. I would definitely send it to MBC. Make sure to add some korean explaining the time/work it took into making it, and they'll probably bring it out to the TV. That's really impressive.

EsX_Raptor

United States2802 Posts

January 23 2009 00:27 GMT

#17

wow man those are some elite skillz you got there.

id say you send it to mbc and make them post it on a pro game or something ;D

-orb-

United States5770 Posts

January 23 2009 00:28 GMT

#18

That is soooo badass!!

You should definitely send it to MBC with like a letter attached and see if you can get it used as a cheerful.

I bet if they look at it and realize you put together the rings yourself instead of just buying some chainmail and spraypainting it, they'll appreciate how much effort you put into it.