How To Make Plate Armor From Sheet Metal

Secure the fiberglass strips and use the polyresin for coating.

How to make plate armor from sheet metal.

Mix polyresin and the hardener and pour it over the ceramic tile plate and sheet metal ensuring that the sheet metal is placed on the bottom of the mold. Cut the fiberglass into 8 by 96 inch wide strips on a board covered with saran wrap. This is the finished product i had to put light artificially so you could see the textures i painted it black this is a full metal leg armor made out of tin sheet metal and recycles cans you just need a minimum of tools and pretty much anyone can make this i will upload the template when i fix my scanner i used as a reference guts armor from berserk picking another design would be. Ive been making knives decorative brackets tools etc on the forge and id really like to try making armour.

The plate was built with a steel i beam a ceramic floor tile duck tape and plastidip. 22g mild steel 18g mild steel. No bullets got through the plate. Get the template here.

Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it. Im fairly new to metalworking as a whole and i really want to get a taste of as many different aspects of it as possible. I can get old drums for free so i have a virtual limitless sourc. The ceramic tile was demolished.

For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent. Allow it to cure for three days. Metal sheeting has many uses in your home and crafting life. An amateur overview of making plate armor.

Take your sheet metal and bend it exactly half way going from top to bottom meaning that the creace created by the bend is from top to bottom about 15 25 degrees check the image out now take your newly formed sheet metal and slowly move it up and down the edge of the bench holding it in the same direction to slightly rounden out the left and right side of the bend as well as making the bend line less visible. This is the build video of my diy ballistics plate body armor. You can also cut it into small pieces and roll it into beads or bend up and crimp the sides to create containers.