Please, please, please! I need help!
I'm trying to make some armour in generic sizes to have some extra stuff to lend to people at my group's practices. Could somebody tell me the standard measurements for Arms, Legs, Body, Helms, Hands and Feet for sizes Small, Medium, Large and X-Large? Or at least direct me to a website or a book/magazine where I can get this sort of information?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
[This message has been edited by BW (edited 02-23-2001).]
Need sizing help badly!!!
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Prince Of Darkmoor
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Its a rather broad request, but I'll see if I can help somewhat.
Get yourself a pattern from the pattern archive here. Blow the image up so that it sits entirely on an 8x11 sheet of paper - no margins. Then make the piece using that pattern and see which one of your friends it fits. If it fits your small-statured friend, then the piece is a small. If you put the pattern and blow it up by 5% or so, you should have a medium pattern; another 5% on top of that should get you a large.
This is just the way I did it for my helmet patterns. They came out large enough and had ample room for padding.
Other armourers may have better methods, but since none replied, my word is Gospel
Get yourself a pattern from the pattern archive here. Blow the image up so that it sits entirely on an 8x11 sheet of paper - no margins. Then make the piece using that pattern and see which one of your friends it fits. If it fits your small-statured friend, then the piece is a small. If you put the pattern and blow it up by 5% or so, you should have a medium pattern; another 5% on top of that should get you a large.
This is just the way I did it for my helmet patterns. They came out large enough and had ample room for padding.
Other armourers may have better methods, but since none replied, my word is Gospel