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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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you only have to move the left side of your helmet a little bit upwards! Otherwise a good start!
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Spectacles?
"In war as in loving, you must always keep shoving." George S. Patton, Jr.
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You could use peperoni for the rosetta rivets :lol: :lol:
Thats how I did mine so great stuff
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@Mcdermott: I was too lazy to get more authentic at the time of photo opp.
@Drake: My "armour" smells faintly of Calzones.
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hhmmm i think i have seen worse. and i hope the pizza was good!
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Good lad. You have the pointy bits towards the neck
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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.
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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?
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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."
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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....
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Quote:I made a mock-up in cardboard for my lorica segmentata.
Wicked! Carry on and enter
Box Wars!
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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
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Errrrr the Green just doesn't do it for me.
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"Vescere bracis meis" (eat my shorts)
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