Making plastic cuisses

Lucas · Post by **Lucas** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:22 am

So I have nice, heavy, basically *unbreakable* polyethelyne ready to make plastic cuisses from. I have all the cutting tools necessary. Where do I go from here?

Johann Lederer · Post by **Johann Lederer** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:08 am

Check here:
http://digital.cs.usu.edu/~watson/barth ... barmor.htm

Pitbull Armory · Post by **Pitbull Armory** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:22 am

Hi there, If you need a pattern let me know. Pics of my items at pitbullarmory.com.

Thank you

Pitbull

losthelm · Post by **losthelm** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:48 pm

http://www.pyrokinetika.com/Boris/armor ... carmor.htm
http://sgtc.20megsfree.com/Plastic.htm
www.thedentedhelm.com also has some intresting plastic/metal armour shapeing tecniques

Konstantin the Red · Post by **Konstantin the Red** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:44 pm

Do you like plate cuisses or splint-construction cuisses? Splint construction within early-fourteenth gamboised cuisses is going to look like Harry Potter quidditch armour, whereas metal splints alternating inside and outside the leather (rivets visible for the inside splints, less obvious on the outsiders) looks like splints, spaced. Any of these variants will wrap around the legs readily.

So anyhoo, let's ask the usual Archive question for our homebuildin' pals: what kind of helmet do you have or want? This determines the style of everything else by establishing what decade of what century your armor inhabits.