Real Knight's metal Armour New Project

Just picked this suite of Armour up at my local charity shop and now intend to bash it into a full set of plate Armour for one of the Guy's Camoflarge is looking pretty impressed and hope's he get's the old kit made for him



It's a bit bigger than Camoflarge but maybe the legs were made too long as the chest proportion seems to be good size and the helmet may fit



I'm sure with a few adaptions I will make this fit or use a slightly bigger trooper



Let Battle Commence.........

Nice pick up Ian, looks like an interesting project , I shall look forward to updates mate

Looks good Ian, knights are the in thing on the chat at the moment. Good luck with the project.

Looks interesting, are you going to cut it into sections ?

Blondeactionman wrote:

Nice pick up Ian, looks like an interesting project , I shall look forward to updates mate

Cheers Dal well I've started to take it apart and just put the helmet on my headless, headsculpt figure just to see what it looks like for size I don't think it's too bad, what do you think

Reddragon wrote:

Looks good Ian, knights are the in thing on the chat at the moment. Good luck with the project.

Cheers mate yes it was just stood outside the charity shop door as if it was waiting for me to take it home and return it to it's former glory or maybe even better

Jet- wrote:

Looks interesting, are you going to cut it into sections ?

Yes mate, I have started taking it to bits and it was made of old food cans proberbly in Spain or somewhere like.

its really crudely put together on the inside and will need a lot of trimmimg, but yes I will have to cut it into sections and joint it, just like the real armour would be fitted

Ian

LOL awesome find and works nicely for a statue or some modding on the figure.

Stonewall wrote:

LOL awesome find and works nicely for a statue or some modding on the figure.

Yes mate it's already making his knees buckle a bit under the weight of the helmet may need a bigger figure

Very nice Find Ian, looks impressive on the Vam look forward to updates and as always cracking photos Ian

Wolf_Soldier64 wrote:

Very nice Find Ian, looks impressive on the Vam look forward to updates and as always cracking photos Ian

Cheers Mark, I've just picked up this tiny brass Anvil today to help me with my tin bashing and forming the plate armour, but been out most of the day so will be having a good go at the armour tomorrow

ian well done i could not find an anvil so i bought a shoe makers last to use as an anvil

Cool Ian!

blueboxier wrote:

ian well done i could not find an anvil so i bought a shoe makers last to use as an anvil

Cheers Jim yes the anvil is only small but has been useful I also have a cobblers last they are fantastic for tin bashing

inntruderr61 wrote:

Cool Ian!

Thanks Jim I've been hard at it this afternoon with the tin snips and dremmel, got a couple of cuts on my hands tho

Been working on the armour this afternoon here's a couple of shots of the gear up to now

Here's a couple of outside shots of the armour so far

looking great Ian!

Looking good...I'm making a couple of Knights myself so I'm following this
Thread with interest. If you make it over to Chat both RedDragon and myself
Can show you how far we've got!

Have at it!

I'll second that!

There's some nice colour in your garden, clear photos again!

[quote got a couple of cuts on my hands tho [/quote] par for the course m8 aint it

Cheers guys I need to make a few alterations to this otherwise I will have to put two barrels of beer under his arms to compensate for the bodybuilder stance he has at the moment

Just had another go today on this project, it's not gone too bad but still needs more work, Here's an update



Still a bit rough and held together with elastic bands but taking shape



Even got the helmet to fit without removing the head





I went a bit mad on the backs of the legs and will need to probs cut some replacements



Visor opens well but will need better fastenings, but all in all gone well today

Looks like a good fit so far , nice job !

Yes nice job Ian!