10-22-2019, 02:57 AM
Okay, so have a complete section of scales cut out, and I've positioned them on the right side of breastplate layers instead of the left side where they will actually go cuz I didn't want to reposition them again! But I can still show the construction plan, with these offset layers.. The casein water-toughened goat leather seen on right is the backing for the scales, (to be trimmed to correct size later). The scales at the edge next to the edges of breastplate (and backplate layers), will be lashed with the linen lacing to equally spaced holes in the inner layers of the front plate (and backplate), and the outer layers will have matching corresponding holes so that they, with their edging, can be sewn through the same holes to the inner layers, making everything strong and whole, and matching the depiction exactly. Now I've got to put holes in the scales (drill) and then paint them. Then to make the same number again, plus a few more, for the overlapped potion at the left side.
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