So to start off, I will be doing the shins. For measurement references, I am 6'1".
Here is a picture of one completed shin.
Looking at the templates, the tall piece that is in the middle is the piece that goes over the front of the leg. The thinnest part at the top should be built as wide as your shin at the widest part plus about 1/4" or however thick your material is. do only one extra width this will allow the shin to angle outward a tiny bit and curve more. The height of this piece should be from a little bit above your shoe to a bit below your knee roughly 1/8" from each. The angled part on the bottom of this piece is about a 1/4 of the length of the height of the piece from the bottom. This is about 5/4 the size of the top width. so if the top width is 4 inches as mine is, the bottom should be 5 inches.
The side pieces should be as wide as your calf from front to back about halfway up your shin. This becomes the width of the side pieces for the entire curved section. The curve is a shallow curve, displacing about an inch total for me. A good rule for this curve is it should be able to touch your knee, touch your shin at about the middle and curve back out to be about 1/2 to 1 inch away from your shin at the base (where it meets your foot). The upper portion that is wider is somewhere between 1 and 1.5 inches wider than the rest of the curve where it bends back in. This point is about 1/4 of the way down from the top. This top section is about 1/2 an inch wider than the curved section.The bottom part is about 1.5 inches longer than the piece that goes over the front of your shin. This should cover the sides of your ankles.
The side detail pieces share the bottom rear side with the back curve (the one at the back of your leg) to be about 1/3 to 1/2 way down the side portion. the forward curve is about 1/2 an inch from the front of the side pieces. The rear edge of these pieces is about 1/4 of an inch from the back of the extended portion.
The detail portion on the front of the shin is from an inch below the top of the front shin piece to about halfway down. The cutout is centered, 1/4 of the width of the piece, and goes to about an inch down from the top.
I don't now if this is different than DFT's build but when you assemble the shin portion, the side panels get mounted behind the front piece.
The buckle and the small piece that connects the knee to the shin are self explanatory. (Just follow DFT's tutorial).
The front section of the knee should be the size of your knee if you want it like mine or slightly smaller. The side panels extend to cover about half of your upper leg. The top panel for me was about 1.5 to 2 inches tall and 2 to 2.5 inches wide.
Any of these dimensions can be changed to better fit your liking. I personally feel that I built my shins a little too tall.
Please use DFT's video tutorial to help with the assembly portion.
This tutorial is created with the permission of DaFrontlineTrooper.