r/Armor

Real life boobie armor in carbon fiber!

I have breast implants IRL, so I needed a chest protector that was big enough to cover the whole area, and strong enough to withstand stabbin' (I fence HEMA Rapier).

I 3D scanned my chest, a friend printed a positive in resin, then a local company made a carbon fiber cast. Because it's based on a 3D scan, the tolerance is so small that I can actually hold it in place by taking a deep breath. I asked the guy how strong it is, and he told me, "well, just try not to run it over with a​​ car."

This piece goes UNDER my jacket, so there's no risk of the tip catching on an angle or whatever, and it wraps around just far enough to protect my whole ribcage. So exited, and figured r/armor would wanna see!

I'm pretty new to armour, this is my first purchase. it's 2mm of steel, would this be good for buhurt?

Hey all, new to posting on social media, but thought you might like to see some projects I’ve been working on.

Historical armor from the 14th to 15th century is one my obsessions to study and there’s nothing more exciting than to experience history “first hand”. Being able to design helps feed that for me…

Shown is some of my progress:

A fully enclosed globose cuirass (w/ saloon-door backplates) inspired by the CH14 Churburg breastplate and manuscripts of reredos backplates.

As well as, my design of the Veste Coburg Klappvisor Hundsgugel bascinet.

I will preface by stating this helmet is not intended to be a total 1:1 reproduction; I wanted to capture the Coburg style with my own design for the Klappvisor - with respect to the extant examples. The bascinet has its own hand sewn suspension liner and leather aventail (chainmail not yet attached). The klappvisor is removable and can be switched out easily for different styles.

The full set also includes full leg harness, hourglass gauntlets, and arm harness.

I plan on posting more updates and projects. Based on reception, I hope to release my modular designs and sewing patterns for people to be able to create their own. There’s certainly never enough medieval armor in the world.

I hope you all enjoy. ☺️

To my understanding, such helmets moved away from mail aventail attached directly to the sides of the helmet, like we see with open face bascinets and bascinets in general, because that is worse for neck movement and the protection is almost equal.

So my questions is: Did people use only mail collars/standards with celatas and barbutas, for comfort and general ease of use, while the protection was deemed as "enough" (in comparison to open face bascinets, these celatas and barbutas seem to go a bit lower and ofc to the front, so overlapping with the collar much more, almost like a great helm), and the helmet itself provided the lining. OR did people use (half) mail coifs on top of it so that it would be almost impossible to slip a blade in between.

I guess it depends if choosing such helmet is for battle or for patrolling/travelling, and ofc barbutas might lean toward one and celatas to the other, but ofc can overlap for more specific reasons.
So my actual question is if perhaps the coifs started being less popular, because it seems that it definitely happened when articulated plate collars and gorgets moved in and replaced the mail collars entirely, it seems that no mail was present there, but its actually hard to tell.