Back to the good old days, we discuss backyard armouring.
>>64312853thats cosplay
How practical are these?
>this threadkiddo, its a 18+ website for a reasonto humor you please just google home made body armor on youtubeit has to do with chicken wire and duct tape over a layer of fire proven cotton as easy as pie to make for slashes and heatfor bullets nothing you make will stop them, they'll aim for your facestabbing motions are like bullets
>Ceramic tiles stop bullets but spallFind something like kevlar to stop the spalling duh.
>>64312853Are you on long island?
>>64312866>>64312882>>64312932>>64312966Post armour or gtfo. Nu/k/ r3dd1t scum.
>>64312870Realistically? Not even good for defending against melee weapons. Leather isn't a great armor material compared to quilted cloth and metal. The guy on the right with the actual plate is best off.
>>64312853What did you use for the chainmail? Are people still making armor for fun? Here's some lamella I made when I was 15.
>>64312870football pads are for crashing into other guys, not melee
>>64313697Shut your cum hole you noodle armed faggot! But yeah Im working on a Kozane-do that should be a little more put together than the right pictured here. No hating on whoever this guy is but the chest section is not reinforced so an accidental chest would not be good for him.
Working on several technical fabrication techniques. Soft/ hard fiberglass joint articulation. So for example how to rib a section of fiberglass sheet for the inner elbow. How to join two thick plates with a semi flexible one, how to form a complete seal for fire proofing. I'm looking at that for the same kind of application as chain mail, peripheral armour, and to avoid the more complex plate fabrication.Second I'm looking at mounting points for modular plates, which in the field I've found supremely practical. So you can just hang a shield on your shoulder while you're waiting around or fiddling with things. Skirts, large pauldrons, mantles, all a liability in melee especially if you're grounded or grabbed. But very useful if you have to sit around in missile fire or take point. Thinking ball and socket. Also looking at composite plates. To give my fiberglass a harder strike face and abrasion resistance. What I can paint it with, harden it with, laminate it with. And finally I'm looking for the best ballistic plate I can manufacture, I may well mount an AR500 stock plate. Because wearing armour invites people to shoot at you, and someone always takes it too far.
These kinds of ball joints would work well as armour studs, and allow for the handy alignment of modular plates. If grounded i could probably roll out of them, though you'd never go onto melee with these plates attached on purpose.I'm thinking left hand side, hip, shoulder, to simply hang two large rectangular plates, so in profile I was just a wall and everyone could stand behind me.Then on the chest, RHS. A mount for a jousting shield, ballistic, so taking a right hand corner I'd have two plates covering my exposed centre mass and the lower half of my face. You see swat stacks doing this with two men, clearly there's validity in the practice. And then three more on the left rear shoulder, simply to hang and carry redundant gear because straps are an enormous pain when you're in armor.
PAXCON is expensive but the go to choice for backing. And this might be important because there are certain sections of armour which i really wouldn't want to cut into me, which they might well do if smashed or perforated. So rather than a full coat I might simply dip the edges of articulated plates. Usually the fiberglass wild serve that purpose but there are some areas it's not worth fiberglassing for reasons of ventilation, or because the armour would be external. It just seems wise to dip the edges of certain plates
My thinking with the fiberglass is that I will have to make a foil suit first to take measurements of the articulation, then use that at a template to cut the fiberglass. Then press individual hard plates onto it. Laborious but not compared to chain mail.And I can then mold wire insulation sheathed into it for my coms. Possibly a fan. There's really no reason I can't mount a computer fan under my ball sack attached to an integral cable which I can just plug an external battery pouch into. And goes for microphone, earpiece, the armour would damage it otherwise and it can be very hard to communicate when in armour due to the limited visibility, rattling noises. Twenty knights are like sheep, impossible to organise, you have to hold something like a banner and just Shepard them.
>>64312853neat
i got myself my modern body armour, works against melee shit as well. fugg off
>>64318000Talk is cheap on an image board.
>not posting the GOATOP guzzles cock
>>64318000Quote from man stabbed in armpit
>>64321444>can't see anything>can't shoot properly >got shot in the head>clang>shot in the legs>captured and hungDidn't really work out for him though did it?
Which material is best for fabricating segmented plates?Fiberglass, steel, there are so many plastics now and I have no experience with plastic fabrication
>>64322230Kydex, its cheap, can be easily reshaped when heated and absorbs impacts really well
>Actually usable cope armor in a modern contextCollect milk jugs, melt milk jugs into plates. You can either stick with plate shapes and buy/make your own carrier (Even duct tape can work) or try to cover more of your body. The HDPE plates if they're thick enough to stop bullets will tank a lot of strikes in melee as well.
>>64321750>shot in head armor, survived>shot in spot he forgot to armor because he's a drunk potatonigger bogan, nearly bleeds out>still a folk hero to this daySounds like the armor worked exactly as intended, he should've stayed out of CQB range and armored his legs or used cover regardless
>>64322230I would actually try shredded fiberglass insulation compacted really small and maybe melted into thin layers under extreme high heat and pressureCould even use scrap material from junked wind turbine rotors
>>64322595I imagine this actually would work if you compress and fold enough sheets of kydex to get something like 5000 layers
in the good old days everyone on this board was younger and none of us could afford guns. having an AR at all was considered richfag shit
