The Armour Archive

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?

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

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

Thank you

Pitbull

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

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.