retrogarde wrote:
Oh god, don't buy from Golden Armor. Here's a whole thread devoted to trying to salvage something from that hot mess:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11191&hilit=golden+armor Chef's is the most accurate plastic armour for sale. I don't know how fast his turnaround time is and you would be paying for international shipping, but the quality is top notch.
I made my own plastic armour, and then my own aluminum armour (with a ton of help from Schotti). There are links in my signature below. Really fun and satisfying projects!
ah, explains why I am missing one of the helmet lobster armor pieces...
The pieces are vacuum formed ABS plastic. It is a different process to make and form. Unfortunately they went the easy way with forming the pieces by grouping multiples together (making it a pain to trim out some pieces.) As that process is radically different from things you could do yourself the learning curve is too great on a DIY setup to allow for any screw ups.
I think the quality issues are due to bad forms.
The thing with art is you get it close to what you want and incorporate the screw ups in to the final piece to make a more convincing piece. So you got low quality, with some tweaks you can make it high quality with battle damage, or field repairs from battle damage. To a true artist quality is never a problem and every mistake is an opportunity...
That said I will not dispute you claims as with the facts presented they do still stand as valid.