Over the course of the next two weeks I have two shields to finish (one for my own character, which is by far the most ambitious leather project I have undertaken, and one for a friend), a pair of vambraces and greaves that match the Athena armor currently in my gallery, my own vambraces, and my own breast and backplate. Fortunately much of it is already tooled (my breast and backplate, my vambraces, much of my shield), though I still need to wet mold all but my vambracers. The real challenge will be coloring everything in time - I mostly use the ecoflow leather acrylic paints and the red and white colors require MANY coats. This crunch is really my fault, as much of the work has been in progress for months (the original designs of my vambraces and the initial tooling are almost a year old at this point). If I were a betting man, I would bet against all of it being done.

Oh, and my wife, whom the Athena armor is for, wants me to finish (well, start really, since all I have is sketches of the design so far) the corresponding breast and backplate and pauldrons by labor day as well. That is not going to happen, I'm thinking. I have this little thing called a real job that is already taking a substantial chunk of time.

At some point I should clean off my belt and post pictures of it. Anyway, back to work for me.