Ebay Armor

>>34981175
It is made in India, it is going to be shit.

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The sellers were all from India since they dominate the replica market but most of them had good feedback so I could risk buying one. After two weeks my first order arrived in a huge box. It was pretty heavy, the UPS guy had to help me load it inside the house.

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It was a pain in the ass unpacking and assembling it though. It was coated completely in oil to prevent rusting, which must be a big problem in India due to the humidity.

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After an hour just assembling and cleaning the pieces together I finally got it ready and decided to try fitting it on.

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...only to have several of the rivets snap out of place. The build quality was terrible! They didn't even hammer the rivets in properly, so I had to spend yet more time making sure it wouldn't fall apart!

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Now, FINALLY after all that hard work I get...this. Oh dear...this is...disappointing.

Don't know what else you were expecting really, Indians cannot make anything worth boasting about.

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Now, fortunately I had asked /k/ for advice about this and I believe it was KM who said that the rest of the mismatched armor was based on 15th century armor. So after a bit of digging I found another set of replicas - a burgonet with a better looking breastplate.

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>>34981239
fucking hell that looks ridiculous

>>34981227
>Item Location: India
It pays to read these things before you buy. Hope you learned your lesson. Don't get lead poisoning.

>>34981255
Stop buying shit from India, they laugh at idiots like you Cashcow77.

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Now with a mannequin(only $65 on eBay as well) I decided to try and salvage what I could from this armor.

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Even with replica chainmail to make it looks like it has neck protection, the great helm it originally came with just looked awful.

>not just making your own chainmail
Knave

>>34981175
That looks like sodan cans.

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A visored barbute didn't help things either.

>>34981296
I wouldn't be suprised if it was

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A bascinet didn't look any better either, although this was a really nice helm I got for only $51.

>>34981175
What does the metal quality feel like op

Did you plan on using this at a HEMA event or something? Or did you just want a suit of armor to make your apartment look even lonelier?

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Now finally I got the burgonet helm and the results are better.

>>34981325
Using this suit for HEMA would be a great laugh, it would be crushed within minutes and trap OPs limbs in a pinch.

How's the mobility?
Put on the armor and do some basic exercises.

>>34981313
>>34981330
the pigmask looked pretty alright to me

>>34981336
Just found I had a HEMA group close by. Was wondering what it would cost to get a basic set up? Any idea anon?

I'm already seeing OPs tin can started at $300.

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And so finally I settled in on the burgonet helm. It's still not historically accurate but it does look more like what 16th century burgonet armor was. Overall I'm pleased with the results, especially considering how expensive real armor is for thousands of thousands of dollars more. I still need to do a lot more work on it and fix the rivets more and make the other pieces fit better so this is going to be quite a project.

>>34981315
Feels like a $400 suit of armor. 16 gauge metal is roughly as thick as a metal bucket, I could bend it by hand with enough force.

>>34981325
>>34981338
Absolutely terrible, it was just meant as a display piece. And to make matters worse I'm a manlet and this armor is over 6 feet tall so it fits extremely uncomfortably. I'm planning on grinding out the edges to shorten the armor and make it fit on me but it's going to be a lot of work removing and re-riveting it back in place.

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>>34981358
Real armor used by those guys is extremely expensive, you're looking at $300 just for a proper leather gambeson. Individual plate pieces can cost thousands.

>>34981239
Soo can you wear it?

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>>34981313

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Hello, OP.

>>34981392
just barely, here's a video of the armor made by someone else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYr5mA0bAiw

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>>34981303
>visored barbute
>barbute
>visored
whew lad

>>34981325
>Or did you just want a suit of armor to make your apartment look even lonelier?
Stop, you're cutting too close to the bone here.

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>>34981438
It's not even a proper barbute. It's actually a replica of Magneto's helmet that the indians decided to resell as a barbute by adding that visor.

>can't use a toilet
>expecting them to construct armor

I mean, c'mon OP, really?

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>>34981239
what the fuck is on that chestplate

The only real way is to forge your own armor

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>>34981543
it just gets better and better, how was the burgonet tho

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>>34981543

>>34981583

"lets just tack on some goldy bits, that's cool right?"

It looks like they bought the materials at Home Depot

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>>34981175
>soft untemper metal can be armor

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Found my old clone trooper helmet at last. These are not the knights you are looking for.

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>>34981585
It's actually pretty good for a replica, the cheek pieces and bevor separate just like the real thing

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>>34981640
Plenty of historical armour, we may even dare say most of it, are plain iron or steel so low in carbon that it may as well be plain iron as far as its response to heat treatment goes. So that would be one of few things that isn't wrong here.

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>>34981691
Is there anything else I can do to try and make it more historically accurate? I know it's not much but for something cheap I have to try

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>>34981755
at this point you cant really do much, wouldnt it be better to purchase something more expensive and of higher quality one piece at a time instead of buying a fuckload of subpar ebay shit?

>>34981755

Smear it with tar

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>>34981755
Not really, no.

>>34981808
Real armor costs as much as a new car

>>34981239

I laughed out loud, thank you OP.

The only part that looks really really bad though is just the breastplate.

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>>34981927
that is why i said you should build your kit one piece at a time, so instead of buying a full set of shitty armour, you could buy a cuirass or a pair of gauntlets etc and move on from there to the next piece

>>34981239
At least the helmet can be used for memes.

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>>34981255
>So after a bit of digging I found another set of replicas

>>34981239
>this battle is too loud
>my wrists are too pointy
>my chest doodles are all fucked up
>...my feet hurt

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>>34981946
But it'd just be mismatched though wouldn't it, buying separate pieces from different manufacturers?

Anyway I'll work on this one for now. My biggest problem right now is finding rivets to attach the tassets to the breastplate. Home Depot or Lowes doesn't sell these kind of rivets used for armor at all.

>Gambler's Fallacy: The Thread
>>34982120
If you want to wear armour you need to have it made for you. If you want to just look at it you can buy period-accurate pieces one after the other. Stop buying this cheap trash immediately in any case.
But thanks for the expensive joke, I was almost in tears when I saw the Magneto hat.

>>34981303

Klatu Verada Nikto

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>>34982120
>But it'd just be mismatched though wouldn't it, buying separate pieces from different manufacturers?

It can match as well as it needs to as long as you're consistent in what you ask for.

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>>34982157
I just plan on displaying it most of the time, it doesn't have to be particularly well made as long as it just looks passable enough to be armor. There's just no way I'll be able to buy anything better for less than $5000 elsewhere so this will help pass the time until I have more money years from now.

>>34982256
Spend the money on new furniture that does not look like it belonged to granny.

>>34982256
put cato in armour and post pics

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>>34982212
I found a real set of that armor being sold on eBay. Wasn't too expensive either, it only sold for $7500. Might as well buy the real thing than a replica.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-Continental-partial-suit-of-armor-French-circa-1620-Lot-23-/222489783939

>>34982279
stuff like that should be i a museum honestly

>>34982362
its pretty basic

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>>34982279
Might be real, might not. But at least with forged antiques they have to put in some degree of effort making it look right.

OP. I hope you didn't remove the oil from the armor. Looks to me like it is all going to rust fiercely at the slightest provocation. And stain. Even touching it with your bare hands is going to leave marks; well the humidity on your skin is. The guys who could afford this kind of armor back in the day had people who spent hours polishing it after every time it was worn and before it was fitted on. If you don't coat it that thing will age quick and not in a good way.

>>34981239
Thanks for the laugh OP. I was laughing so loud my wife inquired. She thinks it looks like a dressed up garbage can. It looks better in latter pics though.

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>>34981239

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>>34981755
>all this time and effort put into something that will always just kind of look goofy to anyone but a child

I dont know whether to applaud you for your persistence or pity you op

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>this whole thread

>>34981239
Ermagerd Im fucking dying

> 'You ready for your first day at Templar school, Tobius? You look so CUTE!'
> 'P-please stop coddling thee, mother, Im a proper Knight now like father'
> 'Whatever you say sweetie, dont forget your game hen for lunch!'

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>>34982642
Just trying to make do with what limited resources I have, I'm kinda having fun taking a crash course in backyard armoring as I try and fix this. Already replaced some of the bad rivets on one leg and managed to trim it up enough so that it fits my leg properly now.