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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2009 3:47:22 GMT
Looking to make armour that can take abuse, style and period are not a concern. This is for friends to wear as we hit eachother with *blunt* sword-like/ ax-like/ bladed-weapon like objects.
(i.e. leather hauberk with 1/4in washers riveted on)
Any ideas? Things I can make at home/ on the cheap would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2009 22:42:25 GMT
ive been wondering how i could do this too and i saw this image of a madmax reproduction www.madmaxmodels.com/images/proparmor_belt11.jpgerr um costumes and props and stuff from the movie the humvee driver shoulder armor except not out of diamond plate just some good gauge steel and lochtight bolt it all together with leather backing all the plates. i would want to wear some chainmail inbetween places that there are no plates like possible the inside of the elbows and behind the knee. thats a place ive always seen zombies biting someone in platemail. a and i was thinking make two of them and wear them as a set with two of these shields from zombietools zombietools.net/post/new_prototypes_scarab_shield_and_ubm_mark_iii/ modified to two wrist and forearm straps so i can still use all of my weapons. guns included.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2009 2:25:27 GMT
The best thing for cheap, but functional armor when you don't care about appearance is plastic, from my experience.
Ask around at a couple of local car washes, depending on how their soap is delivered, they might have thick-walled plastic barrels laying around, and my local shop is happy to let me take them, so he doesn't have to pay to have them hauled off.
Wash them out thoroughly, cut a slit down one side then remove the top and bottom. Once you've got one curved piece you can straighten it with a heat gun, assuming the plastic is the correct kind. (*note* Some types of plastic are not thermoform, and so will not get soft and, well, plastic, when heat is applied. Some will not harden again. Either one of these can be discarded.)
Once you have the sheets, head to the armor archive, and print out a couple of patterns. What I did for mine was make one set slightly smaller than I wanted it, using the heat gun to shape sections once more, re-enforced that with a thick pad of cardboard so it wouldn't deform. Then I bent my actual 'user' pieces over this smaller set, giving me an easier way to make identical patterns.
Hope this helps
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2009 5:15:21 GMT
You will find some ideas here.
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The most important parts are the knees, elbows, throat, head, shoulder, groin. You can find knee, elbows and shoulders for about $25 to $35 each. It may be worth just paying for it. The other cheap alternative is Bazerbons. These are leather vambraces that come up high and cover the elbow. The same design will work for greaves that come up high and cover the knee.
If you are are going to be thrusting at each other with steel blunt blades, I suggest you get rubber tips on those swords and put a washer on the inside so it does not punch through. If you don't use rubber tips, you should get good mail because a rounded steel tip will always find openings to get into and can do damage.
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