Help with Back armour Plate

Malkavian

Hunter
Hi Guys

I created the armour pieces with Sintra (using Wizard's guide) and using a heat gun to shape them.


I totally messed up my back plate. I am having a hard time fitting it to the curve of my back and I don't know how loose or tight is it suppose to follow my body especially near the shoulders. I think my mistake was I bent the side flaps first which adversely stiffened the rest of the back piece. Next time I will shape my back first.

Does anybody have any guidance or reference pictures on how it should looked sitting on someone's back. Also, how does it terminate to the front collar guard. Do they overlap or sit flush to one another.
 
I am also having a similar problem, so I am no expert, but the advice I have been given is that you have to use the heat gun over large areas to get the compound bends. Take your time and work slowly; heat, bend, validate, repeat. In the end, don't worry too much about looks because most of it will be covered by the jet pack.

The collar and the back should overlap. You will want to put bolts through both pieces to hold them together. The bolts will be covered by studs (I used keyboard keys sanded flat).
 
This is my third try now (going thru Sintra like Candy) It seem my shoulder pieces are too short to over lap the front collar piece. It seems like I might need to add another inch to Wizard's shoulder straps.
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Hi Notlewis, fantastic back plate. It appears your back plate sits higher than mine, this may help me cause my straps are too short. I'll raise the back plate and try re-shaping.
 
All, I raised my backplate a bit and was able to get some overlap with the front collar piece. I still have some wrinkles I need to work out, but how does it look? The lower sides plates, are they bent at 45 degrees?
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By Jove, I think you've got it! Yes, I believe the sides are bent on two planes at about 45 degrees each for a total of 90 degrees. Two things remaining, which you may have already planned for, the slots where the JP harness comes through would need to be pulled out a bit on top and pushed in on the bottom portion. Also, the rounding of all the edges.
 
By Jove, I think you've got it! Yes, I believe the sides are bent on two planes at about 45 degrees each for a total of 90 degrees. Two things remaining, which you may have already planned for, the slots where the JP harness comes through would need to be pulled out a bit on top and pushed in on the bottom portion. Also, the rounding of all the edges.

hamsandwich, yes I already modified it for the JP straps. Thanks.
 
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