Mission: Make as accurate a Suit as possible.

[Kamakazee88]

This is going to turn out amazing and I cant wait to see it complete. If its ok with you I would like to use your designs to make my own undersuit.

[this-guy]

i've been reading this for a while now and i love what your doing. i'm extremely new to this and could use any help i can get on making my undersuit. some of the things in this thread didn't really make sense to me, as i said i am very new to this so any help is welcome.

[Caledonius]

I really like your design so far. Presently, I'm in the construction stage of my outer armor, and the research/design stage of my under-armor. At this point, I believe this will be the design I'll be basing mine off of. I have a few alterations in mind however, and I thought they'd be worth sharing.

Essentially, I'll be dividing it into pants, shirt, and vest, as well as sewing the outer-armor's harness into the under-armor. That way, the clips from the suspenders will serve to attach the shirt to the pants when it attaches itself to the garter belt. This would make it far more bathroom friendly, as only the codpiece would need to be removed to detach the whole rig at the center point.

It's only a crude drawing, (overlain on your much nicer image) with the red squares indicating the buckles, but it gets the above idea across easier than my words may have. The garters are too far in etc, but it gets the point across.

[this-guy]

i had the same basic idea for mine, any tips on how to do that

[Necrogenesis]

@ Caledonius: i like your modification. have been focusing on my over harness assembly (posted on the medics page) but your work will serve as a great addition to the undersuit once refined

@ Tsau-Mia: how goes it? hope all is well, know you were busy as hell wit work some time back, has it calmed down at all? have something to discuss with you re: undersuit materials when your schedule permits.

[theTavernKnight]

Yea, not to bring up a stale(ish) post (especially being new here), but I'm also wondering how the project is going. The design is obviously top notch; I'm curious how the actual construction is fairing. It makes me want to work on the under-suit first (which might actually be easier for me since I have more sewing practice than armor creation). it has me plotting it out in my head anyways. Heh.

It's an ambitious project and design. It makes the doublets I create look like child's play. :-) Love it.

[wulfric]

This thread seems to have gone necro which is kind of disapointing. for anyone who is still interested, for hanging your hard suit you might want to check some of the SCA or other medieval recreationist sites to see how they hang their armour. Arming points have been used for centuries to hang armour onto the body. The Tome has lots of how to information. Good luck with your builds and keep this thread running, it's too interesting to just let it roll over and die.