Boromir - Fellowship, Surcoat Begins

Sourcing materials! Dark blue leather, brown leather and chainmail.

The entire skin is larger than my cutting table!

Surcoat patterned and cut - I'm going to add in the waist seam for strength and the decorative top stitching. I've also patterned the gambeson and acquired a horn and replica sword.

Next stage: Sourcing the other materials. To Goldhawk!

Boromir - Fellowship Outfit, Referencing

Building this alongside my Eowyn build (and a few million other projects) - Boromir's outfit from Fellowship of the Ring. Photos sourced from AlleyCatScratch.com

Dark blue (some sources say black, it always looked blue to me) surcoat, red undershirt with dark red or black collar and heavily embroidered sleeve cuff.

Padded silver gambeson - This is never actually seen given that it's covered by chainmail, gloves, gauntlets and the over shirt. It's still damn pretty though, and protects from the chainmail.

Here you can see the chainmail sleeves are actually attached to an undergarment to save on weight. I may do this at some point but for now I'm using full body chainmail.

This is the full costume, worn with his first cloak instead of the Lothlorien cloak.

Eowyn - Dernhelm, The Cloak Begins

This is a heavy wool blanket, £13 on ebay and formerly pink! I've machine dyed it with half a pack of leftover dark green dye and it is now greyish. Another round or two of dye to go, then I can shape and distress it.

Chainmail! This is riveted mail in aluminium, so it looks great and won't pull apart but it's lightweight. This is really important to me as I have joint problems.

This set was a bargain on eBay, badly listed with a low starting price so only cost me about £70 for this and a pair of chainmail leg pieces. I'll be using the 'stockings' to extend the arms. I'll also raise the slit in the front and back.

Eowyn - Dernhelm, Referencing

Look how gorgeous this is! And also incredibly detailed and probably likely to make me swear at it a lot. First up - referencing. This is a great shot as it shows a lot of the armour detail.

Here in a capture from the film I can see she has a dark green cloak, worn over the split mail. The green tunic worn under the chain mail also looks like it is split for riding, or heavily gathered with enough excess for movement.

There is probably a padded gambeson on underneath the green tunic for comfort.

Here we have relatively plain brown jodhpurs and riding boots, albeit heavily distressed. You can also see the green tunic, tucked into gauntlets, but visible between the gauntlet and the glove. This means the gauntlet isn't attached to the glove, which makes it easier.