Going back and forth between things, I've made a pauldron with a pike guard for Alek'sander. It'll be held on by sort of a three point harness that'll keep the straps under his chest flare. Instead of a spaulders, which this design doesn't really lend itself towards anyway, it will have a soft goods dueling cape attached to it. I've wanted him to have a dueling cape from the beginning, I just wasn't sure how I wanted to attach it. Shoulder armor seemed like a good way to go. I might try to add three or four small somethings to the hem of the cape, to look like weights. Currently planning on the cape to be bright red, to serve as much to distract an opponent, as to ensnare their blade.
The pauldron is almost entirely made from Apoxy Sculpt. I started with an open skeleton made of styrene strips to give me a basic shape, and stretched a thin layer of AS over that, then built it up, from there. The grey spots, are Mister Surfacer.
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