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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 187599" data-attributes="member: 177">The major thing to note is this - making &quot;real&quot; armor is not for amateurs.&nbsp; To make it, you don't need instructions from the Web.&nbsp; You need a few years of apprenticeship.Many fighters in the SCA don't wear what looks like &quot;real&quot; armor of a specific period.&nbsp; They wear a hodgepodge of things that work, usually including anachronistic things like hockey gloves <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I have seen some types of SCA armor made out of heavy guage plastics (the sort of plastic some recycling bins and garbage cans are made from).&nbsp; But the vast majority of people in the SCA who wear metal armor buy it from professional armorsmiths.&nbsp; Expensive, but unavoidable. A relatively inexperienced person can make chainmail (I myself buy from the Ring Lord).&nbsp; But, chainmail does pretty much nothing against blunt attacks.&nbsp; All SCA combat is blunt weapons.&nbsp; You'll need something made out of plates.&nbsp; And working metal plates into armor is simply beyond the skills and equipment available to the average joe who hasn't done it before.If you want to get into SCA combat, the best way to do it is to go talk to SCA members.&nbsp; Go to an Event, ask where you can find the &quot;heavy list fighters&quot;.&nbsp; Ask them how to begin.&nbsp; They will be eager to tell you <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 187599, member: 177"] The major thing to note is this - making "real" armor is not for amateurs. To make it, you don't need instructions from the Web. You need a few years of apprenticeship. Many fighters in the SCA don't wear what looks like "real" armor of a specific period. They wear a hodgepodge of things that work, usually including anachronistic things like hockey gloves :) I have seen some types of SCA armor made out of heavy guage plastics (the sort of plastic some recycling bins and garbage cans are made from). But the vast majority of people in the SCA who wear metal armor buy it from professional armorsmiths. Expensive, but unavoidable. A relatively inexperienced person can make chainmail (I myself buy from the Ring Lord). But, chainmail does pretty much nothing against blunt attacks. All SCA combat is blunt weapons. You'll need something made out of plates. And working metal plates into armor is simply beyond the skills and equipment available to the average joe who hasn't done it before. If you want to get into SCA combat, the best way to do it is to go talk to SCA members. Go to an Event, ask where you can find the "heavy list fighters". Ask them how to begin. They will be eager to tell you :) [/QUOTE]

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