Another composite armour kit

[Halberds]

The helm was made from Cet's tops, I welded the skirt and grill.
The grill is removable via Revival's hinge.
The knees and elbows are from StoneKeep.
The leather is from Brettuns-Village-Leather.



Now I would like to make splinted armour.
Where does one begin?
I started with poster-board patterns but I am not sure if they connect to the elbows and knees.

The knees are big enough to make shoulders for me.
I was shooting for generic 20th. C. SCA.
I have plenty of blue foam, linen and contact cement.
I can flute the splints to make them stiffer.
I have 16, 18 and 14ga mild steel.
My stainless is 20ga.

I am scared to death to start cutting on my hide.
I fear messing the whole thing up and waisting valuable resources.

How does one get started?

Hal

[Edward MacTavish]

Some people point the elbows onto the vambraces others use two leather straps. I tend to like the leather straps myself.

The legs would be rivited directly to the articulated knees. Getting the patterns right depends on who is going to wear them. Leave out the blue padding. Just go with leather with splints underneath.

Edward

[Stonekeep]

Hey Hal!

Check out my websites pics to get the basic shapes of cuisses and vambraces. You can use steel to splint but ifyou do you will hafta go with 1/4 inch or people will just bend them. I recommend 1/4 inch kydex, and thats what all my customers order nowadays cause theres no weight. Hide em behind the leather like on mine.

save the blue foam for the helm or youcan put strips of it between the plastic splints ont he vambrace which make them comfortable and its a shock absorber for the hits.

On the 5 pc joints you can hard rivet them using four rivets per lame, but on the elbow cops you will need to use floating articulation. ive got pics of all that on the website too.