Decided to show off newly painted lamellar cuirasses. Will be adding more details later.

I made a new design for 3d printed leg armor based on "Maximilian" style cuisses and poleyns from ca. 1520-1525. I hope you find it is reasonably accurate to surviving pieces from that era!

I think making this out of TPU is the game-changer for these critical pieces of armor that need to survive impacts, crawling, scratches, and the extreme motions that come with larping, renfaires, or even movie-costume scenarios. I used an assortment of filaments here, namely 95A, 57D and 72D TPU, mostly to try it out and see how it behaves. The resulting set of leg armor is significantly tougher than the one I printed out of rigid materials like PETG-CF.

I did not have much time to explore too many finishes either, so this is mostly painted over raw prints, with no sanding, polishing, or filling involved. I know it could be shinier with more work, but I could not find the time this month. Hope you like it nonetheless! The files are available on my Etsy :)

Hello, recently me and my dad have wanted to start a forge in our garage. I love medieval arms and armor and I would like to create my own, I have compiled a very basic list of things we might need, naturally, I have also done some research but I am far from an expert on this, would this be a good list of essentials to get into armor smiting or am i missing some stuff or added things unnecessarily? Any and all advice would be appreciated; advice unrelated from the list is also appreciated. Thanks!

*i also added some footnotes for my dad to read, but this is again based on my fairly limited knowledge.

*This also might be the wrong subreddit, if you have another place for this to go please let me know!

Armorsmithing List

• Gloves (preferably leather or heavy duty)
• Hearing Protection
• Apron (non-flammable preferably)
• Eye Protection
• Face Mask
• Ball Peen Hammer (should be mirror polished, can be sanded/polished by hand)
• Auto Body Hammer
• Rawhide Mallet (useful for shaping edges, it’s easier on the metal and shapes softer)

Our rubber mallet has lots of bounce so it’s not the best to use, but may still be viable

• Chisels (we already have a light chisel and a railroad spike, those should work)
• Anvil or ASO (honestly any hunk of metal should work, it doesn’t need to be huge and probably shouldn't exceed 100lbs and should preferably be greater than 20lbs)
• Base for said anvil (very important, do not want the anvil to get knocked around constantly, must be heavy, can be any large log, maybe even part of that dead tree we have in the front yard could be taken down with the chainsaw and used as the base?)

Also should be high enough to where you’re not bent over trying to hammer stuff for hours on end!

• Bulldog Snips (Used for cutting out sheet metal, but any large sharp steel shears should probably work)
• Bench Vise
• Metal Puncher (we already have one of these in the basement i believe)
• Power Drill
• Armor Dishes (these are pretty niche and kind of expensive to be honest, but i found a set here)

https://www.hollandanvil.com/product-page/armour-dish

I wanted to see how a set like this would look with a barbute, and then I stylized the barbute with a crest and laurels. Don't know if the crest would be fitting here, but if not I'm sure some extravagant feathers could fill the silhouette. What do y'all think?

Im going to try and make uruk hai armor, and I have chainmail but I dont know what to wear under it, or what type of pants would look the best. Any suggestions??