I need to fabricate a few pieces of crude plate armour this week, and figured someone here would know. Theory is:1mm Steel sheet, railway anvil, masons chissel, pound hammer. Not going to bother with quench hardening, just going to spray paint it enamel and pop rivet it into that car interior material. Should be able to make non segmented plates, very quickly. Questions I have:Does anyone have a diagram of the strapping/load bearing rig for a 1mm full plate? Though crude this armour will see serious use so needs to be wearable.What is the easiest way to articulate plate? I can rivet bands to leather straps, I can rivet if necessary but can't measure the plates properly so this wouldn't be a good option. Lamelar is possible, though gambeson may actually end up being the answer.
>>64212459>1mm Steel sheet, railway anvilOh boy.
I've got mixed armour at the moment, the need for plate isn't for better protection but for better coverage.This is a historically relevant and relatable struggle. Armour on the body can be layered and mixed, some articulated plate can hang. But plate is needed for armour which for tactical reasons has to protrude or be raised, you cannot simply bolt it onto gambeson because gambeson shifts. So the pieces I really need:Gorget plate that can be worn under a helmet. Very important protection against knives. Lower abdominal plate, because I'm likely to get kicked in that region.Need a cauldron with a raised section, again to protect the neck. I also got run down by an armoured horse, which was accidental but hardly improved matters. Relatable infantry issues. Can anything be done to avoid this? Is there anything an armoured draught horse won't trample?
>>64212486My crude armour is better than your imaginary armour, fite me irl belligerent peasant. 1mm plate will deflect virtually everything because when you fight, you don't just stand there like a mannequin. Something a peasant would not know because peasants come in only two varieties. Those run through, those not yet run through
>>64212570*stabs you through the chest*
>>64212459>1mm steel sheetA proper breastplate should be raised from 3-6mm plate in 1050 or similar, with heat treatment. 1mm is about right for period gauntlets, but gauntlets were very flimsy and mostly just there to keep you from getting accidentally nicked. Modern gauntlets are insanely heavy because modern hema and its derivatives are so heavily gamified that aiming for the hands specifically is a winning strategy.It doesn't really matter what you're using it for, trying to build an entire harness from 18 gauge is not going to stand up to repeated use. It's not even going to offer much protection for a single use.
>>64212459is plate armor and a polearm a decent modern day choice for killing home intruders?
>>64212624Get a gun instead. Either a pistol, SBR or a shotgun with 00 buckshot
>>64212570Medieval armor varied from about 1.8mm on the thinnest parts to 3mm average.
let me guess, you will be doing this in your parents garage
>>642124593mm for serious use if its suposed to last1mm will stop all but dents kinda easyWhat kind of furnace are you using
>>64212459Making some shit costume tier armour will be possible with what you're planning, but if you're planning to use it, you're way better off just buying something.I've seen a smith fold the basics of a breast plate using his hands on a piece of railway, but that was just to get the very basic globus shape. There was still a lot of edge rolling, shaping, planashing and sanding to do.What are you going to use it for?
