Reenforcing a corrazina breastplate...help please...

[Ringlancer]

Hey all!

I'm reenforcing my old armour until I can afford new stuff. Because of my recent surgery, I'd prefer to have as close to a solid breasplate as I can, without it looking like cobbled together sca shite.

My armour is in three pieces. Left front, right front, back with side plates.

The fronts are composed of three plates each. I used to have it open and buckle down the front.

Each piece of the armour is backed with heavy cotton canvas and covered with 3 oz green leather. The plates are plastic.

I still have a bit of the leather left...I think I have enough to make a strip down the center, rivetting the two fronts together with 3 oz leather.
Would that be strong enough?

I also have some sole bend stuff that I could put underneath. Problem is, the only rivits that I have long enough for the solebend stuff are copper roofing nails...the rest of the rivits on the kit are those tubular split rivits..y'know, you smack the rivit with a special tool that makes it look like a cartoon gun barrel that exploded.

So...thoughts?

[Ringlancer]

...wow, the silence is like thunder!



Anyway, I decided to go with the sole bend on the underside. I managed to use the same rivets as the rest of the piece...holding up pretty well.

Now to do the straps...