Mithril: requesting wardrobe assitance.
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ddgryphon,
Posted on: 2009-05-24 07:24 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Hmm...it might just be me, but with the pattern you've got there, the second color feels entirely superfluous. I think it would look better in just a solid white hue there.
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the golden hue that always caught my eye is on bass-ackwards' character Valkyrior. They posted it in the Magic Booster thread awhile ago and I bookmarked it as I thought I could use it for a look for Flame on the redesign game thing we did in the other thread.
I'm gonna keep an eye on this thread as I have an Sun Folk elf, called Lightfoot, that I play now and then that's trapped here. Her bio and backstory and what not may be just as campy as your idea Des. A few friends wanted to run some elves, so I made an elf. lol I haven't really figured out a more modern look for her yet. Luckily I don't play her quite enough to worry about that as a costume yet. But it's something I had thought of and had stumped me.
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I usually make mithral a light sky blue; not because it's accurate, but it helps distinguish it from steel >.>
That's just me of course <@_@>
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I usually make mithral a light sky blue; not because it's accurate, but it helps distinguish it from steel >.>
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Do you have a screen shot as an example?
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I'll have to log in and take one, gimme just a sec and I'll see if I've got a character with a set. (If I don't, I can recreate an old one from memory)
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Okay, here we go <@_@>
Now clearly this isn't the same character as yours - it's one of my older ones re-created just for SS. (With the Valkyrie pieces used largely because they're good for showing off armor)
Mithral Armor 1
Mithral Armor 2
Mithral Armor 3
This as opposed to the way I do steel -
Steel 1 (Lily Knight)
Steel 2 (Lily Knight)
Theoretically you could go for a lighter variation on the steel (I'd say about 3 from the right on the top row); but that becomes easy to mistake for steel, as not everyone follows the same conventions <@_@> Then again blue armor might just seem to be dyed blue - sooooooooooooooooo...
Really it's just the way I do it <@,@> hope it helps though
*edit*
Hrmm... those aren't coming out well, let me go inside City Hall and try to get some better ones ><
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Okay, better shots uploaded >.>
*sorry for triple*
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Thank you mistformsquirrel.
Looks good, but unfortunately that won't work for my character. Since her skin is blue, it would end being too much blue.
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took a stab at it and came up with this. Made a slight change. I thought the assassin plus top seemed to have that fancy mithril theme to it so I went with that.
And the color that seems good to me for gold is shown in the screenie.
Hope that helps, or at least spark some ideas. lol
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Ok, I tried to incorporate several of the suggestions made here. Something still seems off though, but I think it's closer to what I was going for. I changed my mind about the blue, but I decided go a dark shade to contrast with her skin.
Mithril costume?
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I'd consider a lighter shade of blue. I'd also try a different set of boots.
Amusingly, I have a character named Mithril. I use a combination of the metalic body parts and the psych pattern with modestly contrasting greys to create a nice 'Damascus Steel' effect that I thought gave good 'Mithril' feel 
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Like this
Closer look
Extra shiney with Invulnerability
Back side
wow I really like that morgen
Volt Sentinel Reference
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but lightning does the work.
... that is very clever <O.@>
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Amusingly, I have a character named Mithril. I use a combination of the metalic body parts and the psych pattern with modestly contrasting greys to create a nice 'Damascus Steel' effect that I thought gave good 'Mithril' feel .
Like this
Closer look
Extra shiney with Invulnerability
Back side
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Oh wow, just saw that, very cool effect.
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I received the following suggestion via PM. I think I'll play my character with this costume for a bit, but I think it might be a winner.
Desduende
The green never occurred to me, seems almost perfect.
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Amusingly, I have a character named Mithril. I use a combination of the metalic body parts and the psych pattern with modestly contrasting greys to create a nice 'Damascus Steel' effect that I thought gave good 'Mithril' feel .
Like this
Closer look
Extra shiney with Invulnerability
Back side
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Okay, I'm adapting this idea. And by "adapting" I mean appropriating.
A ways back, I designed the character Desduende (DB/WP scrapper). The word duende is Spanish for elf. Her concept was my imagining of how elves would come to walk among us in a contempory setting. I got the idea years back after watching The Santa Clause. There's a scene where a group of elves has to rescue the new Santa ala special forces style. Basically I've extrapolated that idea to a arrangement made long ago by ancient elves with Santa Clause. In this arrangement, smaller more creative elves (maybe really young ones) work to help Santa make and/or procure toys for the children. Older and more aggressive elves chose hibernation instead. Waiting for a time when they would once again have a place in the world of men. Santa's secret task the rest of the year is to safeguard these sleeping elves. Desduende was thawed out (frozen for several millenia turned her skin blue) to aid Paragon City and prepare man kind for elf kind's return.
Yes, it's silly and campy but it brought a smile to my face when I came up with it. Besides, it's a departure from my usual "dark" characters
OK, back to the point. I created Ivory (DB/WP brute) to be a rival character. Ivory was a part of an ancient group of humans that made a deal with the elves prior to the deal with Santa. The humans wanted elf powers for themselves but when the elves deemed them to corrupt the deal went sour and the rivalry ensued. While I am pleased with the sexy elegance of Ivory's costume, I wanted an equivalent "counter costume" for Desduende.
I originally thought I could create a mithril inspired costume but I could never come with anything that looked like silver. I eventually came up with this white and gold costume. I like the costume, but gold doesn't seem very elven.
Anyone want to offer me some suggestions?