News for Sep. 27, 2004

Making armour 'like sewing'

9/27/04, 7:23 pm EST - Xoanon

Auckland armour maker Warren Ormsby-Green gets some strange looks when he travels by plane. The master armourer for the Lord of the Rings and the Last Samurai usually wears a full set of armour when he flies to "cut down on excess baggage". "The reactions I get can be pretty amusing. Some people are very interested, some people laugh and some people can't even look at me," he laughed. [More]