Tweaks and Tales

Tweaks & Tales

Learn about our tie-on system, armour placeholders and mountables

At Epic Armoury, it is our goal to ensure that everyone everywhere is equipped for their quests! For this reason, we offer various styles to help you act out the character you wish to play. Our products are applicable straight from arrival, but we also understand – even encourage! – the need to add a dash of creativity to make your kit unique. Some players even chose to make all their equipment themselves from scratch! Fortunately, your gear is not an absolute choice between all-bought or all-made. You can combine different styles, mount a few accessories, alter the colours or even add your own wear, tear and patina. That is why we say our products are cool from the box and hot when modified! Get ready to tweak the tale, modify the gear and change your character with these three tips:

The Tie-On System

What is the most affordable, effective and convenient way to combine armour pieces? A simple lace might be the answer! For this reason, Epic Armoury has developed a tie-on system that allows shoulder armour to be easily attached to torso armour. The system consists of several holes that have been fitted to the armour items, allowing the wearer to adjust for size and style. This way, you can combine armour pieces like the Woodsman Armour and Woodsman Shoulder Set. However, it is also possible to combine armour pieces across design universes. Do you wish to pair the Woodsman Armour with the Shoulder Armour & Neck Guard to make a Woodsman Sergeant? No problem! You can even combine with a metal shoulder armour set, such as the Captain Pauldrons, to make a Woodsman Captain.

Placeholders and Mountables

Clothes make the man; armours make the warrior! While we offer many armour styles, there might be adventures that require characters to express their affiliation with unique traits. A hero may need bling of war, a villain spikes of villainy, savage horns of barbarism or your character may even be chained by fashion. Either way, as a player, you can upgrade your armour by applying mountables. These accessory pieces are fitted with screws allowing for easy attachment to armour pieces with matching holes. Some of our armours, such as the Marauder Armour, are adorned with aesthetic placeholders that can be removed to attach a mountable, such as the Mountable Demon Horns. The type and amount of mountables are a matter of choice. Perhaps your character even gradually changes appearance throughout the story?

Modifications

Sometimes both armour and thinking need to be outside the box! Could your armour do with a few mountables, but lacks the required holes. Drill them yourself! Does it look too new and polished for the character you are about to play? Slice and dice! Would it be fitting with a slightly different colour scheme to emphasise your background story? Brush it up! The possibilities are endless. Look at this example, where one of our product designers, Gabriele, modifies the Shoulder Armour from stalwart to ruinous!

It’s been a tiresome day of training, and you’ve been trapped inside your completely sweat soaked gambeson for the better part of eight hours. The last thing you need as you finally settle onto your cot is to mess with stubborn ties!

Thankfully your Off-White Tie Strings with Points make the lacing process simple, and you untie each individual tie with a quick pull. Within a minute your cloth armour hits the floor, and you can properly collapse onto your pillow. Phew!

Epic Armoury’s Off-White Tie Strings with Points is a set of six cloth aiguillette cords designed to easily thread through eyelets on your cloth costume. Each end is securely fastened to a brass tip that makes lacing a breeze, keeps the cloth from unraveling, prolongs the string’s lifetime use, and gives your costume a polished look. There are five available tie string colours, so feel free to match or contrast your strings with your costume! For example, use this Off-White version to replace the strings on your Imperial Gambeson, or change up the look on your Tristan Vest by adding a different colour to the seams. It’s a great way to make your costume a little more unique.

Available in colours Off-White, Epic Black, Dark Red, Dryad Green, and Dark Blue.

HISTORY

This type of tie is considered an aiguillette, aiglet, or point due to its metal tip
Points were used for practical and decorative reasons since the 16th century
These ties would have been used to hold up armour and close seams along sleeves and jackets

The Tie-On System

Placeholders and Mountables

Modifications

Featured products

Mountable Demon Horns

SPIKES OF VILLAINY!

Tie Strings With Points

HISTORY

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