Does anyone know where I might find some good patterns for leather greaves? I'm working on a costume, and am considering building a pair, even though they'll be mostly hidden under my skirt.

Luckily there's not going to be a lot of stamping on the armor itself- just some beveling around the decorative grooves cut into it, and maybe a few simple designs here and there. I'll have to post some pics of the leather apron I made for my Shaak Ti cosplay, now THAT was a tooling job! At the mome...

I have some more pictures of that armor, the site used to show pics of it from the back, and since it's only got a partial back, the insides were visible, making it obvious that it's made of quite a few segments of leather- I'm guessing this made shaping easier and cheaper, also a lot of the plates ...

So I want to make a breastplate similar to this: http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/popup.aspx?src=/images/product/large/mci-2701_2_.png It's going to be shaped similarly, but with Art Deco ornament instead of Celtic. What's the best way to go about it? Now, I want this for cosplay, it doesn't have...

Last year I bought a steel buckler from Valentine Armoury before they closed up their Canadian shop, and I love the thing. It's got a lovely weight and feel to it. Only probem is it's got some fine, light rust on parts of its surface now. Not sure how it got that way, all of my other steel is intact...