New Form of Plastic Armor

MJBlazek · Post by **MJBlazek** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:32 am

Interesting....thats all Ill say

http://www.suremold.com/suremold_pages/ ... armor.html

Maeryk · Post by **Maeryk** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:24 pm

yeech.. I'd rather stick with the "old type", if they were my only choices and even THAT is uglier than blankenwhatsits produce.

But.. wonder if it can be done thin enough to do a StormTrooper rig? (and smooth enough.. that vaccuformed ST armor is smooth)

Maeryk

sulla · Post by **sulla** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:04 pm

Awww, you can't get better trooper armor that vacuformed! Besides, that's the way ILM did it...

Mike F · Post by **Mike F** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:15 pm

That's the way the Glactic Empire made them, too. Havn't seen 'em stop a shot yet.

I'm not entirely sure if I like it or not. I dislike the plastic concept in general, but if it was done well, it might not be too bad. Well, it might not look too bad, I mean.

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:40 pm

Sorry, but I've worn carpet armour that looked even better than that. (Over 10 years ago, mind you)

MJBlazek · Post by **MJBlazek** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:12 pm

It probably all depends on the mold..

http://www.by-the-sword.com/acatalog/images/dc-509.jpg
http://www.by-the-sword.com/acatalog/images/dc-509a.jpg

those to links are pretty much the same thing, and thousands of times better looking

Ceramite · Post by **Ceramite** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:07 pm

That had the word fiberglass in the instructions.... Fiberglass is EVIL!!!

Fiberglass killed my pet dog and told my mom she had a big bum, Fiberglass took my dad's job and ran over my bike, Fiberglass took my uncle's leg and touched my sister in the no no spot on the first date. Fiberglass and I will never hang out again. :evil:

If i was going to use plastic i would use plastic styrene.

MJBlazek · Post by **MJBlazek** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:21 pm

Yeah well fiberglass killed me just to watch me die!!

I totally I agree with the fiberglass being a no no, I know guys who used to make boats out of the stuff...totally killed thier lungs, plus if it gets cold it get brittle.

Henry of Bexley · Post by **Henry of Bexley** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:02 pm

Notice the battle pictures on the side... which appear to be SCA events in which probably few to none of the fighters are wearing said product. Gotta love deceptive advertising...

Klaus the Red · Post by **Klaus the Red** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:23 pm

Ye gods. It looks like spraypainted plaster. And it doubles as a body cast after your opponents beat you to a pulp for insulting their battlefield by wearing such ugly crap...

The funniest part is that they actually want $185 for it. "Some assembly required," too.

Klaus

Jehan de Pelham · Post by **Jehan de Pelham** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:53 pm

I especially like the picture of that old man cackling while holding the armor up to his chesticles. I can imagine the caption now..."We'll fool a whole new generation into thinking that plastic armor is okay!"

Evil jerk.

Jehan de Pelham, esquire and servant of Sir Vitus

St. George · Post by **St. George** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:01 pm

Yuck. Yuck, and $185 to boot.

If you have to do something that nasty, at least use kydex or ABS, or at worst barrel plastic, that stuff really won't break, and depending on how you mold it (or use it in a CoP) it could actually look good.

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Scary stuff and he wants to charge for it!

Alaric

Sir Gaufred Kelson · Post by **Sir Gaufred Kelson** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:10 am

If I only had the 100,000 dollars for tooling I would set up a nice injection molding process that would rock the armor world. But, I don't have that much money, and I am sure that someone would have a problem with it

Hey Alaric