hey guys it's Adam I am here in San Diego at comic-con 2017 and it is now
time for my official incognito walk and this one is the culmination of perhaps
the longest arc from obsession to completion of anything I have ever done
I will be walking the floor as King Arthur from Excalibur an armor made by
my hero Terry English who actually built the armor for the movie Excalibur from
1981 oh my god there's so much to go over we're going to cover this in an
extensive thing untested but right now I'm going to get armored up and walk the
floor all right we start with the legs no one every night needs a vassals
enormous my vassal today
normally in a suit of armor like this I'd be wearing a full chain maille short
of hauberk I think that's how it's pronounced but I am NOT this time
because this is a more like a movie prop I'm going to be wearing more like movie
prop kind of chainmail and that is where this stuff comes in this is actually a
plastic plastic team mail developed for the Lord of the Rings films by my
friends at wet a workshop and Richard Taylor sent me some chunks and those are
going to be what I wear underneath this armor okay
I'm wearing my signature single contact lens so that I'll be able to you know
see inside the helmet which means I'm blind in one eye now and I'll be blind
on the other eye once I get that going okay now comes the top part of the
chainmail again this is plastic chainmail which means it's super
lightweight and I've got sorry micro
there we go I know it looks weird right now but this is what everyone's going to
be wearing in the future all right so here we go
I'm compressively it's now time to put on the helmet but in order to hide my
identity in the helmet I am going to be wearing this faceless counselor
all right who's in here build a nose what if one was claustrophobic this is
not the costume to wear because you are literally strapped in okay let's do the
left arm yeah you a piece of this chain nose so I suspected this might be the
case so I actually purchased some knitted chainmail this is a technique
that's been used for hundreds of years really to use knitting stitches to look
like chain mail for stage productions they actually also did this on Lord of
the Rings and for countless other movies over Hollywood history this is a fairly
heavy knit but it'll actually I think it's going to be quite comfortable yeah
I'm psyched about this this will be great oh so much better oh
my god so much more comfortable Oh
see this that teeth that's Terry English's armor mark and the a
underneath it you means the die assisted him Oh
already I'm so much happier about this yeah there we go
moving feels good yeah well it feels great you can see what it's smiling when
I take pictures with people I'll be smiling inside this even though it
totally doesn't matter and through grace so don't miss must for a living in here
but one of the myths about armors that it's really really clunky and inhibited
I'm not here to tell you that when armor has been fitted to you totally move as
much as you want to move it's pretty awesome it's very very flexible this is
one of the weirdly most comfortable costumes I've worn that come Akash all
right great okay touch my face I can reach my credentials yep alright time
for the story okay now to complete this outfit I need this sword and the sword
is a key build on tested I built my own Excalibur that's going to be one of our
builds but I can't take a metal weapon out on the floor I'm taking a large sort
of foam sword we also have a one-day build about the treatment of this but
even before I hit the floor with a foam sword I need to go get it checked in at
the weapons desk so that they know I'm not bringing a dangerous thing out on
the floor but that is let's see the last part of the costume for Christopher
hey yo woman that not a freshman on the map
this is the quarter
putting on tonight
not to heavy aluminum
doing with my cage fight
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throughout your person look Amen Betty Wow
thank you you're welcome
Hey
now to the second yeah Oh God that's nice
I did I say that place one more string is it is it is like you're going to go
home
yeah I couldn't check the horse in at the horse you're welcome have a good day
you guys that was a good one I think that was our longest costume walk yet
obviously I did not have this on my costume but might notice um the line at
the weapons check in was so long we abandoned we abandoned Excalibur in
favor of success this was great we heard lots of comments people saying
oh I can't believe what a trooper you are the that must be hell to wear and
the answer is no he's really comfortable if you breathe this all the way through
this armor that was the longest walk because this is one of those comfortable
costumes I have ever worn we're going to find more reasons to wear this in the
near future oh oh yeah no I can't take the shoulders
on myself
I've been having to actually fight and spin like this night and this is like up
this whole suit weighs about 20 pounds if that compare that to a real medieval
harness which would probably weigh neighbourhood of 70 pounds three times
that much and again you know when these things are custom fitted you have
tremendous amount of flexibility holy hell
all right there it is my lifelong dream to dress as King Arthur from Excalibur
has been full filled yeah and this is a tip of the iceberg we went to Cornwall
England I assisted Thierry English in building a piece of this armor riveting
and polishing it learning armor techniques from him we covered it in a
serious videos on tested as well as when they built for Excalibur as well as the
one they build for foam Excalibur oh man this is basically a Content juggernaut
about to head your way I will see you there