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I’m convinced this guy is undercover IKEA employee, he must be the one that write all of those IKEA instructions.
Here's how I make my chainmail dragon tails. You can see it starting as just a few scales linked together, and growing to be a full piece. Along the way there are some shots of the interior tension supports I put into them to keep the tail from folding flat, and also some detail shots of the belt loop attachment. I use the large sized scales from The Ring Lord, linked together with 16 gauge 5/16" inner diameter rings.
I fairly regularly get people asking for pointers or instructions for these tails, and I give what advice I can, but I've avoided doing something too specific. I prefer to leave the messy details as a learning exercise for the reader. After all, I sure learned a lot about chainmail construction from figuring these out.
But there's a consistent point of confusion for people, which I'll try to clear up. Most people seem to start out thinking of it like a sewing project: they make a big flat triangle of all the scales in the project, then they try to connect it up the back. This is Hard, for a variety of reasons:
Because of the diagonal nature of the scale weave, you can't just join up two symmetric edges--either you have to make the piece asymmetric, or you have to add in the center-most column of scales in between the mirrored edges.
Joining it up like that means the expansions happen along the same seam as you're joining together. Keeping track of all these things is hard, especially because the naked edge of the scale weave is floppy and messy.
It's difficult to get your pliers in there to close up the tip.
You can't really get in to the center of the tube to do anything useful like building the tension supports that I do.
Instead, think of it like a knitting or crocheting project. If you've ever seen someone knit in the round, this may make sense. Basically, I start out with a (tiny) ring of scales, and build rows above that one. So it's a tube the whole time, and I only ever have one edge active. But people tend to stall out on how to build a tube.
Oh, and I guess my weave direction for scales may be different from other people's. All the instructions I've ever seen for weaving scales weave from the top to the bottom, with you looking at the underside of the weave the whole time. This is fine for learning, but I found that I greatly increased my speed by instead weaving from the bottom to the top. I look at and interact with the top edge of the weave, and link each scale down to two below it. After all, it doesn't matter if it's hard to see the rings from previous rows, because they're already there, and I don't need to touch them anymore. Anyway, I could go on about the advantages of weaving in this direction, but it'll just get preachier than I'm already being.
I hope this helps anyone who's thinking of trying their hand at making a scale tail! And for non-maillers, I hope the pictures were fun to scroll past on your feed!
Oh, and here is this tail finished. I made this one a while ago, but kind of forgot about posting the progress shots.
Hello! I've been wanting to give dragon scalemaille a shot (mainly want to make my Dragonborn's tail) but I keep getting stumped on two things.
One: I was wondering if you may have any resources for inner tail support? The way you have yours set up is fantastic but I'm not exactly sure how you did itplus I dont want to copy you exactly ^^' I've seen the videos on how to weave them together but not any on the inside.
Two: For making it thinner near the tip of the tail, do you shrink the scale size at all or just use less scales and pull it closer together?
Thank you so much in advance!! -Kodiak
So the inner support on my tails is kind of complicated, but it grew reasonably straightforwardly from first principles and experiment. When I made my first tail, it was just a tapering hollow tube, and I realized immediately that it wanted nothing more than to fold flat. Which sucked.
The first edit of it was to just add a few straight chains bridging between opposite sides of the tube. I'd noticed that when worn, the tail flattened itself top-to-bottom, flat against the butt. I figured that having the sides of the tail held together would reduce how badly that happened. I added like 4 chains spread along the body of the tail, bridging from left side to right side, and I just adjusted their lengths to match the appropriate diameter at those points. (I think I actually did this with string first, then switched to using simple chains of rings because it would hold to consistent incremental lengths better.)
That worked OK at reducing the vertical squash factor, but it opened the door to the tail folding the other direction, flattening into a vertical eel tail shape. So I opened it up again and added in perpendicular chains, so that looking down into the tail you saw a line of + shaped braces.
Again, an improvement, but not enough to reliably keep the tail round. It still folded, but now at weird angles, and in the spaces between the cross braces. I needed (1) more directions of folding being resisted at each brace point, and (2) way more braces total.
More total braces is easy, you just got to add in more of them.
For maximizing the number of directions of radial bracing, this was approximately my thought process: Start with just joining each pair of opposite scales all along the circumference. That'll leave you with a whole lot of chains overlapping at the center point. So instead of a whole bunch of separate diameter chains, just have one center ring with a bunch of radii chains linked to it. That gives you a wheel-spoke arrangement, which is fine. But what if you joined all of those spokes to their neighbors, to make more of a disc? Then it could resist squashing forces that were not purely diametrical. OK now how do I make that disc structure more efficiently?
The particular structure I came up with is basically a Japanese weave structure constructed concentrically. I know that phrase probably conveys no meaning to anyone other than myself. The specifics of that structure are also so tedious to enumerate that I basically just decided to call them a trade secret. But I think by going through through the basic goals and thought process, anyone else with some patience and determination could figure out an equivalent workable solution.
For the thin tip, I just reduce the number of scales. The tip of my tails is a few rows with just 2 scales in them. These really want to fold flat, and adding in cross-braces to fix that in that tiny constrained space is a bitch even for me, so I'd probably recommend just starting with 3 scales in a row. It would be cool to try blending it to smaller scales at the tip, but splicing together weaves of different sizes is really hard to do gracefully.
Cereals - Maple and Brown Sugar Instant Pot Oatmeal
A fool proof plan
1.) People answer anon questions more than non-anon ones
2.) Ask a question as an anon
3.) They answer it, none the wiser
4.) Repeat steps 1-3 for any blog that accepts anon questions
It's the perfect crime!
Know thyself. You’d be surprised how many people can’t follow instructions.
Jacob (via thesculptorceo)
Know thyself. You’d be surprised how many people can’t follow instructions.
Jacob (via thesculptorceo)
Know thyself. You’d be surprised how many people can’t follow instructions.
Jacob (via thesculptorceo)
How to make hot chocolate
Step 1: Create the universe.
Step 2: Make hot chocolate.
a revision because my sister says one must be all-powerful to create the universe:
Step 1: Become all-powerful.
Step 2: Create the universe.
Step 3: Make hot chocolate.
How to make hot chocolate
Step 1: Create the universe.
Step 2: Make got chocolate.
another revision because my sister thinks she cannot become all-powerful without a universe and because my brother poses a further argument that there already is a universe and therefore no need to create one or become all-powerful to do so:
Step 1: Make hot chocolate.
How to make hot chocolate
Step 1: Create the universe.
Step 2: Make got chocolate.
"Rare steak" is a lie.
If it was really rare steak, you would need to:
-scale a great mountain and enter the cave at its peak
barter and haggle for passage with the gnomes for six days
-cross the great magma river Buorgenoasl in a canoe
-go through the chamber I can't remember the name of with all the stalactite constructs
-Eat a really weird herb that smells like the middle F note of a guitar but doesn't taste like anything
-Translate the ancient texts to discover your long sought after recipe
-find out this is instructions for teaching shrimp to fry rice
-repeat from step one in a different mountain
