hey everyone adam savage here in my cave with a show-and-tell that i'm very very excited about
regular watchers of this space know that i love cosplay i love armor and all types of armor i love
foam construction and cheap ways to make expensive looking stuff
and today's show and tell encompasses all of that in one fell swoop and it comes from my friend
ben eady up north from our brethren in canada ben we've covered this before ben came up with
this amazing innovation of laser cut foam for making super lightweight super easy to assemble
chain mail for cosplay and this was the piece i demonstrated back then this is a gorget i'm gonna
put it on my neck so we'll get some microphone scratching and i apologize in advance but
this is like this is amazing for cosplay this is just incredible and it got me super
excited back then well ben and his team asked fans of the chain mail what they wanted and
their response was nearly unanimous they said they wanted scale mail and what i have here
is the first iteration of ben's product of scale mail and here is how it comes in its raw form
oh yeah we're just going to bring break out a piece here to show you
there you have it that is one length of benny d's new chainmail now he's formed
a company with stephanie chan called foam armory and they have a kickstarter
going right now you can follow links in the comments uh for this scan mail but it's not enough
for me to just show you this uh this basically knits together in the same way that their
previous chain mail does and the effect is freaking spectacular how do i know because from
another oops scary from another friend of ben's this is a thomas hannah from much props studios
we have an example of how the scale mail looks dude check this out so on the front we have
uh the classic ben edie chainmail from foam armory that's the stuff i covered before
on the back this is what the scale mail looks like look at how that moves
so this uh this scale male back is about 15 rows deep which means it's only three laser-cut sheets
to make the entire thing and you can see from the back here how it quote unquote knits together
you could probably put this together in less than an hour it really is very much like knitting and
it doesn't feel it's lightweight but it doesn't feel super delicate which is really like that's
also always a problem with cosplay stuff out of thin foam can sometimes tear they've
also done the scale mill up here as a detail along the crown of the helmet and it really
it looks functionally different and it's it's just beautiful um
this kind of thing where you could buy a kit like this and assemble it in a day
and wear it out unbelievable yeah dude i could wear this all day whereas a fiberglass helmet
presents some really unique problems for uh long-term cosplay and trooping
similar to the original chainmail the paint scheme is actually pretty simple you could
paint it before you started to knit it together that's certainly plausible um it looks here like
much props has done a technique that i would do which is to do effectively a dry brush of a
kind of a rub and buff or a paint treatment that hits the edges of this you can see that it's not
painted all the way through so they've really just done effectively a dry brush along it and
it looks terrific you can see how you could add rust effects or burnt metal effects to that or
smoke damage and stuff and it would just it would all integrate just beautifully um i this came a
couple of days ago and a friend of mine came by the shop and i handed him this helmet by the way
this helmet weighs maybe like five ounces it is so freaking light but i handed my friend wave
to someone i was like here check out this helmet and he took it he was like he almost threw it in
the air because he was expecting it to be so heavy yeah the effect sells right in person uh again the
company is foam armory the kickstarter can be found by following links in the comments below
ben edie stephanie chan what you guys have done is magnificent and i salute you