How to make Spartan Armor from cardboard

Step 3 The arm and leg armour

When I first made the armour I just basically made tobes, but it looked like just that. SO I decided that they needed to look stronger, ripped, and tailored. to do this I took some cardboard and cut it into long slivers a bit longer than I actually wanted. I then put two "bracelets" of cardboard, one at the baseof the peice9ankle or wrist and the other at the end or summit(below the elbowor knee).

then comes the fun part, Bend the card board so it matches an extremely muscular contour of your leg/arm, and then glue those long vertical strips two both braclets(try not to burn yourself, I ended up doing that about 5 times), don't for get to include a nice beefy calf muscle.

then keep it up untill you've done about two thirds of your legs/forearms, leaving only the underside; gotta get it off somehow.

from there I cut both bracelets and took the whole thing off, then duct taped the bracelets back together. After you have gone as far as you want to go around, take tiny slivers and jam them inbetween the small gaps you should have inbetween the strips, this will make it stronger, and easier when you get to the resin.

next just cut the overhanging strips, I made my bracer with a point at my non-hand end, and the legs have a big square of card board I added , as wel as a raised outline of a rectangle.

now just one last thing, there is a little raised area on the bracer in the movies so for that I simply used two left over strips and placed them down onto the bracer so they made a curvy I.

then I filled it in with hotm glue and horisontal strips.
Tada! one cardboard bracer.

it's the same for the arms so I didn't take pictures

Comments

[The Jamalam]

the arms are called vambraces, and the legs are called greaves.