Thank you! The leg armour and sabatons (shoe armour) I made myself. It’s part of my plate armour that I made fully by myself. I did make my own gauntlets but the ones in this photo are real steel from Amazon too. The sword is handmade by my dad and I painted it. I got the cape and hood from Amazon and the chainmail shirt from an online store called The Knight Shop. I used plastic from flower pots to make the leg armour and sabatons. And for my chestplate and other armour (that you can see in other posts in my profile) I used EVA cosplayer foam and more plastic. I found it easy to work with plastic and it has a metalic look. However, it can be tricky to spray paint and I used silver spray paint and a see-through top coat.
However, sometimes the paint flakes off which is the downside of not using real armour. I would love to get into real blacksmithing though but I do not have the training or space for a forge. But that would be epic. The chainmail shirt weighs 9kg and the hood weighs 2 kg so I was just getting used to it, lol. It did feel slightly heavy but not uncomfortable and even moved in the wind. I could easily run around and stuff like that. But if you want real chainmail it comes with lots of oil from the warehouse so you have to clean some off and it smells somewhat. Airing it out in the sun can help. Sorry for the long answer but it did take a few years to make though more that I kept tweaking and changing it. I will definitely save up for real armour like a chestplate but that might take time.
Did you make some of that yourself or did you buy? That looks pretty well done the stuff you have on
Thank you! The leg armour and sabatons (shoe armour) I made myself. It’s part of my plate armour that I made fully by myself. I did make my own gauntlets but the ones in this photo are real steel from Amazon too. The sword is handmade by my dad and I painted it. I got the cape and hood from Amazon and the chainmail shirt from an online store called The Knight Shop. I used plastic from flower pots to make the leg armour and sabatons. And for my chestplate and other armour (that you can see in other posts in my profile) I used EVA cosplayer foam and more plastic. I found it easy to work with plastic and it has a metalic look. However, it can be tricky to spray paint and I used silver spray paint and a see-through top coat.
However, sometimes the paint flakes off which is the downside of not using real armour. I would love to get into real blacksmithing though but I do not have the training or space for a forge. But that would be epic. The chainmail shirt weighs 9kg and the hood weighs 2 kg so I was just getting used to it, lol. It did feel slightly heavy but not uncomfortable and even moved in the wind. I could easily run around and stuff like that. But if you want real chainmail it comes with lots of oil from the warehouse so you have to clean some off and it smells somewhat. Airing it out in the sun can help. Sorry for the long answer but it did take a few years to make though more that I kept tweaking and changing it. I will definitely save up for real armour like a chestplate but that might take time.