/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2470306
I'd sugest this. get a batman costume that fits good on you, also it should come with good straps. Then build on it, I did so with the skateboard helmet, all other pieces so far are modelled on gypsum prints. 3a rating is easily achievable. In #1 I have everything posted about progress, saved it as pdf and pngs. Dunno how to post the entire thing.

I would think you'd need about 20m2 glass cloth, discussed this prior. Glass filament comes in various weights and weave patterns, what I did was to combine a tightly woven light weave and a heavy duty type called woven roving used mainly in boat repair. I calculated that a 18 layer patch sized 33cm x 33cm (bit larger than medium sized ballistic front plates, also the rolls come in either 1m or 1.2m so you can cut out 3 width wise without any loss) needs about 750 gram/0,75kg (also volume is almost the same so 0,75 litre) mixed epoxy resin with hardener. So about 500g resin + 250g hardener. You mix resin and hardener in a ratio of 100:50 up to 100:60 in either weight or volume. Never measured mixes perfectly, cured hard all the time. Usually buying epoxy on ebay, it comes with both fluids.

Innitially I looked up how cosplayers and furries build their suits as they have it all figured out. For adhering straps they suggest E6000, if you don't wanna bolt straps on that is.

I won't bombard you with youtube vids proofing that 15+ heavy glass filament layers with epoxy/polyester resin. Presonally I wrote to techthisoutmeow about my project and asked him to build a test panel like my build, one backer with 18 layers and one with additional household porcelain and the 6 layers topper. Still waiting for response video.

>pov you invaded the wrong bean bunker