If you are a large father and work full time, then you are unlikely to have a lot of money and free time to fill the children with steep toys. The artist Warren King went his own way and began to create a gaming arsenal from the most affordable and safe material - cardboard.
First, like a hobby, then there is already a concealing interest in kids who asked that the helmet of the super hero from comics, then the sword is Jedi. But once the eldest son threw the challenge to the Father: Dad, and you can do something really complicated and realistic? And Warren did - on the envy of all boys from 4 to 40 years.
All, absolutely all the main elements of this fantasy replica of medieval armor are made of all the same cardboard. It would seem, the case is simple - before that Warren made an infinite number of cardboard swords, axes, daggers, shoe and other toys. But almost all of them were, in essence, disposable and primitive. Here he had to build a one-piece, fully functional suit in which the child would be able to run and play.
Warren immediately realized that the work would take much more time than it seems at first glance. And therefore allocated for himself a whole year, deciding to coincide with the premiere to Halloween. This was the project of the century, a whole event and really answer to the challenge. A little to make armor with beautiful and similar to the original, it will also be necessary to develop, and then somehow implement a number of engineering solutions. Otherwise, the cardboard will not turn into a strong and mobile suit of a young warrior.
When asked him, what was the reaction of the son, Warren replied "And how to describe the delight of a 6-year-old child who got a personal full knightly suit? Yes, I want such a thing! ". Complete to the armor there is a good sword and a reliable shield - the father is glad to give her son with such wealth.
"The next armor will be for me" - the artist is joking. In its main work, it creates serious, complex, but boring for an inexperienced viewer embossed sculptures and products from cardboard. But sometimes I so want to take a faithful cardboard saber in the hands and jumping to hack to cut the invented enemies to the right and left.
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