It's 14ga. throughout, So hopefully I'm thinking i should be able to fight most formats in it.
The skull definitely gave me some grief. I made it from 10 panels and getting the last one to overlap the first one took far to much sweat and swearing.
I blackened the lower plate and the perf plate with burnt on linseed oil, In my experience it's tougher than paint and will keep things discreet under the maille drape when I get one on there. In the mean time I threw together the drape and torse from an old t-shirt, That actually worked better than was expecting.
