now I have a good design to work with

 It occurred to me last night that I truly haven’t time/energy to cut leather by hand to cut the leather for my Charlemange’s camera, the leather circlet to hide my new GoPro camera that I want to make for Crown, so I asked Alfarin if he could do it in his laser cutter. He was willing to give it a go, so I spent the day doing design. The original crown has 8 very different panels. It was faster and easier to make the the two side panels the same as one another, and the four small pieces the same as one another. My panels are differently proportioned than the original, in part because (I assume) my head is smaller than Charlemagne’s was, and in part because the height is dictated by the need to cover the GoPro camera. The full design looks like this:

 

The furthest left panel  of the image is the back center panel, and then the panels progress around my head. Note that the colours are likely not what I will go with in the final version, they are just random colours selected to show that the original had lots of different colours gems, and if there was a pattern to the colour placement, it isn’t obvious to my eye.

 

The coloured bits representing jewels, and the larger arches with my arms and the laurel wreath will be painted silk. All the tiny black dots are holes for either sewing the panels together, or sewing the silk to the leather.

 

The leather will look more like this when it is first cut out (the black bits are holes):

 

Then “all” I will need to do is to paint the leather gold (or gold leaf it), and sew the silk in place, sew the panels to the headband, and attach the camera.

 

We don’t need it for a full week after I will be able to pick the leather bits up from Alfarin, assuming that it even works to print it. What can go wrong?

 

While I spent the day at the computer working on that Keldor slept in, and then moved to the couch to relax, and then went to the store to buy cat food and orange juice (he is not certain he’s 100% healthy today), and then he relaxed some more (hopefully it won’t develop into being actually sick). Good thing we made good progress yesterday on the house, but it would have been nice to have come even farther.