About Our Production Pipeline
The Prince Armory Academy pipeline begins with a planning phase, followed by the availability of pre-orders for our next round of products. Once these products are more developed and ready, they move to early access, and then transition to our permanent store.
About Pre-Orders
Our students may be excited to learn about our upcoming content and great pricing available with pre-ordering, but we want to be transparent that the filming and production times on these projects spans many months. Pre-orders offer the best possible discounts, but new students should be aware of the waiting period, as the purpose is to help fund the development process. For those who don’t want to wait, the store or early access products may be a better option. Pre-orders are primarily intended for those who already enjoy our products and are excited about the next project. When you commit to a pre-order, it means the product is not yet developed and in exchange for locking in a significant discount and helping us add even more value to the product, the tradeoff is the wait. Thank you for your understanding and support!
New for 2025
Design Academy
New for 2025 is the Prince Armory Design Academy! After 20 years of crafting fantasy armor full time it’s time to fully pull back the curtain on every aspect of the design process. This will be a long running series with many lessons that will cover everything from absolute beginner to supreme mastery. Surveys have been sent out to select students and we are creating the content outline.
Full Armor Suits
Dragon
Extravagant Dragon Armor designs are coming! You can see a teaser with our first premium lesson content!
First Premium Lessons Available
Scout
The next phase of beginner focused content is coming!
Initial Designs In Progress
Mystic
Details Coming Soon!
Initial Designs In Progress
Note: Phase-1 Pre-Orders are only available for existing students! Please sign up to our wait list or check below for suits that are already available or to suggest your own topics for patterns and videos!
New/Early Access Projects
Early Access projects are those that are deeper into their production cycle with portions already finished and available. The progress bar represents the overall body of work that goes into creating the theme including design, crafting, editing videos, etc.
Available Pattern Bundle
Don’t want to wait? These are the suits that are have fully completed armor patterns from head to toe with accompanying video tutorials for the vast majority. Most bundles also have bonus projects coming such as pouches, belts, shields, and various accessories.
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Original price was: $99.00.$59.00Current price is: $59.00.
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Original price was: $185.00.$99.00Current price is: $99.00.
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Original price was: $200.00.$125.00Current price is: $125.00.
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Original price was: $425.00.$250.00Current price is: $250.00.
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Original price was: $449.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Academy Planning
Suggest & Vote On New Products & Lessons
We’re now opening up our production pipelines to viewer and member-suggested content.
Help us learn more about what you would like us to make next!
Complete a survey to help shape the future
We’re offering 1500 gems ($15) to complete a survey letting us know your interests in future crafting topics and content that will come to our academy, guild and channels.
Other Projects
Bonus Content
Many of our bundles have some additional accessory coming, as well as standalone armor pieces. We will look to greatly diversify our pattern and content offerings. You can see the beginnings of this with the hats, and content that focuses on new tools like laser cutting and 3D printing and so on.
– Some Patterns Ready
– Some Patterns & Videos In Progress
Garment & Cosplay
We will begin this series with some useful value-add content like tutorials on how to sew, sewing machine overviews, and some bonus content that would be great additions to our existing themes, things like capes, or arming caps, but we also have a lot of really cool garment projects in the pipeline too like tunics and fantasy inspired garb.
– Some Patterns Ready
– Some Patterns & Videos In Progress
Resin & Foam
This series is being planned and will start coming out during 2024 and will feature numerous primer projects to get you familiar with resin and some of the fun and interesting ways you can use it in your crafting projects.
– Some Patterns Ready
– Some Patterns & Videos In Progress
Community
There are many efforts in place to set the stage for better supporting and growing our community.
We encourage everyone to stop by our discord and join the conversation but that’s just the starting point!
Our Heralds (Brand Ambassador) Program will be launching soon!
Website & Features
The website has been an ongoing evolution with much to come!
A) Index of resources to supplement our video tutorials
B) Improve features, VIP, & Gamification through the site so you can earn XP as you complete lessons, and earn in store bonus currency.
C) Tools & Materials Recommendation
D) Custom sizing widget and more sizing reference & Tips
Kits
We are working with partners to pursue the development of pre-cut kits of our armor designs.
We will be working closely with some of our partners to offer discounted pre-configured tool and material kits too!