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WORST armour ever! - griffin - 03-11-2008
I made a mock-up in cardboard for my lorica segmentata.
Proof that the Romans ate Pizza. One pizza box is sufficient to make a complete shoulder set. Now if only I could find some mild steel pizza boxes.
The rest of my legion thought the picture was hilarious
Enjoy!
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Re: WORST armour ever! - jvrjenivs - 03-11-2008
you only have to move the left side of your helmet a little bit upwards! Otherwise a good start!
Re: WORST armour ever! - John M McDermott - 03-11-2008
Spectacles?
Re: WORST armour ever! - brennivs - tony drake - 03-11-2008
You could use peperoni for the rosetta rivets :lol: :lol:
Thats how I did mine so great stuff
Regards Brennivs
Re: WORST armour ever! - griffin - 03-11-2008
@Mcdermott: I was too lazy to get more authentic at the time of photo opp.
@Drake: My "armour" smells faintly of Calzones.
Re: WORST armour ever! - thecrocman (anton) - 03-11-2008
hhmmm i think i have seen worse. and i hope the pizza was good!
Re: WORST armour ever! - muskitear - 03-11-2008
Good lad. You have the pointy bits towards the neck
Re: WORST armour ever! - Magnus - 03-12-2008
By far...by far the funniest picture I've ever had sent to me. The real stuff is going to look GREAT mike! Well done!
PS - I think the rivets came today...had a purolator package slip on my door.
Re: WORST armour ever! - Crispvs - 03-13-2008
I actually made some cardboard armour which was almost identical to yours when I was at university, to demonstrate to a friend how the different parts of the upper sections of lorica segmentata related to one another. He then took inspiration from what he had seen and proceeded to make something which was nothing like what I had showed him out of pieces of plastic drainage pipes.
hock: :roll: 
Crispvs
Re: WORST armour ever! - griffin - 03-13-2008
Quote:He then took inspiration from what he had seen and proceeded to make something which was nothing like what I had showed him out of pieces of plastic drainage pipes.
To fight some cardboard or PVC pipe armed barbarians?
Re: WORST armour ever! - A_Volpe - 03-13-2008
Good start, Mike! Good luck with the project!
As for the glasses, we in Leg III Cyr like to joke with the public,
"Romans invented Glasses, ya know, they were adopted by a Greek inventor by the name of Spektakles, and his apprentice Biphokeles."
:twisted:
Re: WORST armour ever! - griffin - 03-13-2008
Quote:"Romans invented Glasses, ya know, they were adopted by a Greek inventor by the name of Spektakles, and his apprentice Biphokeles."
I'm definitely going to borrow that line....
Re: WORST armour ever! - Libitina - 03-13-2008
Quote:I made a mock-up in cardboard for my lorica segmentata.
Wicked! Carry on and enter Box Wars!
Re: WORST armour ever! - griffin - 09-19-2008
I thought I would update this post as I finished my armour this past week. So without any further ado, here's the armour that I made after my cardboard mock-up
Re: WORST armour ever! - Cavok - 09-19-2008
Errrrr the Green just doesn't do it for me.