[Mostly OT] Beer Can Armor
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), but I can't find any info on it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance.
Imperialus
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Hrm... Don't see how it's possible without finding some way of welding the cans together... Lorica Segmentada uses strips of metal that can reach from your breast bone to your back bone, or about 22 inches for most people. You'd have to be drinking a helluva big beer for it to be long enough.
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What type of armor? If banded I would think you could attach them to some type of padding. If scale, much the same.
I would imagine you cut the tops and bottoms off. Unroll it into a rectangle. Fold it back so each "piece" has the lable centered. Then carefully beat it flat so you don't mar the surface. Then drill small holes in the corners. Take steel wire about the thickness of the hole and try to connect the plates in a manner not completely dissimilar from chain mail. But that's just a rough idea, having never even tried anything, or seen anything similar.
For something more specific, go to a medval fair, go up to one of the guys with a booth, who looks like he makes stuff of a similar bent, and strike up a conversation.
Or if you're not so inclined, lord knows I'm not, google is your friend.
For something more specific, go to a medval fair, go up to one of the guys with a booth, who looks like he makes stuff of a similar bent, and strike up a conversation.
Or if you're not so inclined, lord knows I'm not, google is your friend.
Darraketh said:
I just tried a Google search on this subject... no armor but I did find some interesting stuff about beer swilling, beserking, vikings.
I have done some searhing myself and did turn up a hobbie site that sounded interesting but as a dead link.
alsih2o
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go to your local hardware and buy a rivet gun, go home, flatten a md can and measure its thickness. go back to the hardware store and but rivets made for that thickness of material.
rivet in perpendicular rows, collarbone to just past your waist.
realize this takes more cans than you thought and go on a md binge.
lace together from breastbone out, using the same rivet gun, checking frequently for size and adjusting for your girth.(don't just stand there, move and stretch, armor is for fighting,not just posing)
repest, repeat, repeat.
the most boring part will be getting them all perfectly clena inside, but if you don't you will look like a necrofighter from all the flies swarming you.
and dont worry, pop=rivets aren't dangerous or difficult, and you can usually get a good gun for $20-$30. good luck, email me if you need more help.
alternative: use only tops for a cool look
alt: use sides, with top an bottom removed, but get rubber cement to coat the edges with(preferably the good shoes reapir kind, not the 3rd grade art project kind) so you don't cut yourself into 451,742 small pieces.
then walk around realizing why there is a big negative to move silent chakcs in armor.
rivet in perpendicular rows, collarbone to just past your waist.
realize this takes more cans than you thought and go on a md binge.
lace together from breastbone out, using the same rivet gun, checking frequently for size and adjusting for your girth.(don't just stand there, move and stretch, armor is for fighting,not just posing)
repest, repeat, repeat.
the most boring part will be getting them all perfectly clena inside, but if you don't you will look like a necrofighter from all the flies swarming you.
and dont worry, pop=rivets aren't dangerous or difficult, and you can usually get a good gun for $20-$30. good luck, email me if you need more help.
alternative: use only tops for a cool look
alt: use sides, with top an bottom removed, but get rubber cement to coat the edges with(preferably the good shoes reapir kind, not the 3rd grade art project kind) so you don't cut yourself into 451,742 small pieces.
then walk around realizing why there is a big negative to move silent chakcs in armor.
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