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The piece of metal may be a bit difficult to find. It is not pictured, as I had already cut into it before I started taking pictures. Silly me.
Regardless...
You're going to need some metal. Preferably, you will want to find it in one large, flat piece. I found a nice piece of tin in a hobby store for $8. It is fairly thin, gigantic and flexible. At the very least, you could settle for aluminum flashing. Unfortunately, I threw away the container, so I cannot recall the brand etc.
A 1/2 yard of black fabric.
Some coathangers (Not pictured. I use 12 gauge aluminum steel, which works well, but is on a huge roll that I did not want to lug around)
Non-slip rubber drawer / cabinet liners (Walmart has these for 94 cents per 5 feet)
Spray Paint - Black, gray and red/brown are preferred.
Regardless...
You're going to need some metal. Preferably, you will want to find it in one large, flat piece. I found a nice piece of tin in a hobby store for $8. It is fairly thin, gigantic and flexible. At the very least, you could settle for aluminum flashing. Unfortunately, I threw away the container, so I cannot recall the brand etc.
A 1/2 yard of black fabric.
Some coathangers (Not pictured. I use 12 gauge aluminum steel, which works well, but is on a huge roll that I did not want to lug around)
Non-slip rubber drawer / cabinet liners (Walmart has these for 94 cents per 5 feet)
Spray Paint - Black, gray and red/brown are preferred.
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I have gotten giant thin pieces of metal "just" like this from printing companies.
They use it for offset printing and usualy use 4 or 5 per picture they print.
Anyway, they use them only once and throw them away later (or send back for recycling).
So if youre nice and ask them you can get a bunch of giant metal pieces for free.
They are a little soft, but i've made low budget armours and helmets of them before so it should work.