Red Bull Knight completed
Been working on this build for around 4 months now, I could’ve be done it sooner but life gets in the way - finished it a few nights back - final touches where learning how to use EVA foam to make some shin and boot armour (they’ve turned out okay). I’ve seen a lot of can craft which I love and I think it’s awesome, but this time I wanted to try and make a knight “inspired” by the can, taking some concepts from it and turning them into relatively real world features that don’t look overly out of place. Some of the features are:
- Red Bull Can Tab on the top of helmet: to me this just looks like a decorative design or the base socket for a helmet plume
- Accurate Nutritional Values on the back of the helmet: it’s not really functional, but I thought it seemed cool to have as all of the drink themed knight helmets I’ve made have accurate nutritional labels
- Can design as Ser Coat Heraldry: I really think the logo really passes as solid medieval heraldry, weather it’s accurate to how Ser Coats are laid out idk, but it looks cool. Also, the bottom of the Ser Coat features the two tonal stripe featured on the bottom of the can.
- Logo as eyes/helmet colour way//wings: I found the bulls made for excellent eye holes as they are actually super visible through and look really cool, tied in with the blue, silver and gold colour way it just looks like the actual can itself, along with the can tab it pulls it all together. The wings where a stylistic choice also nodding to the infamous phrase “Red Bull gives you wiiings”
- Bracers: these also feature wings, as in my head canon these are similar to batmans gauntlets that include spikes on the side to prevent incoming attacks, so for a knight in melee combat I saw this as pretty viable.
- Chain mail: to keep in theme with the rest of the pallete I painted one side blue (on the blue themed arm)
- Cape: this was simply just for some swag, I made the cape holders look like the tops of a Red Bull can, they feature embellishments all over
- sword: once again I just found the logo to be pretty good at becoming something other than a logo, to me it looked like a great cross guard, and gave of some classic hero sword vibes. The sword is also two tonal all over to continue to palette of the armour. One side of the blade is silver with a blue groove, and the other side is blue with a silver groove.
- boots/shin armour, gloves and shoulder armour: none of these are particularly crazy in their design, they just simple feature the Red Bull logo or colours as I thought it looked cool
- belt: the belt features two can holders perfect for holding 2 x Red Bulls
