Description
My Paladin Leg Armor Pattern can be easily scaled, altered or combined with other armor designs and costume pieces. Just use it as your starting point, then add more layers or details and give it your own spin! Print the patterns larger or smaller to fit your own body size.
I recommend using 5mm low or high density EVA foam as well as contact cement to create these pieces. Other materials work as well of course! Check out my blog entry for EVA foam armor to learn everything you need to know! It’s super easy and incredible fun to create a costume!
You can find more instructions on how to make costume pieces and props in my tutorial books or on my YouTube channel.
This Paladin Leg Armor Pattern is a digital PDF download. After your purchase you can directly download your document. You will also get a separate ‘order complete’ email, in which you will find your download link. If you have trouble getting the files to work, please contact shop@kamuicosplay.com! Please check out the printing instructions to set up your printer as well.
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ImperialWalker –
This is the first time I’ve used these patterns.
I purchased the legs, chest, shield, and a few others. They are quite well done, but they do have a few design choices that I found frustrating.
The patterns come in two PDF files. One is the full-size pattern if you want to print it on a large-format printer at a print shop. The other is the sliced version of the pattern pieces, but this is where things get frustrating.
For example, take the knees for these legs. They are laid out in a way that works well on a foam sheet (although I would place them a bit tighter myself). But they aren’t laid out in a logical way for printing.
The knees are split across two pages, requiring them to be taped together. I opened them in Illustrator, rearranged them, and was able to cut out all four pieces without using a single strip of tape. There are quite a few instances like this, such as with the shoes, where every piece can be arranged differently to avoid tape entirely.
There are a few cases where pieces simply won’t fit on a single sheet, like the calves or legs. In those situations, there are no registration or alignment marks. So you kind of have to eyeball the alignment where the two pages join. A dedicated alignment mark would make it much easier to ensure the paper is taped straight along both axes.
Finally, while the pages are all labeled at the top with the piece names, this becomes useless once you cut out the parts. You then have to manually write on each piece so you don’t forget what it is when you grab it from a pile. In Illustrator, I added the part name directly to each piece so I wasn’t left guessing during the build or in the future.
There are also a few quality-of-life improvements I wish were included. For example, it would be nice if the introduction and description noted how much foam the project would require at 100% size. This would help a lot when estimating how much foam to order or checking whether you already have enough.
It would also be helpful to have some key measurements noted somewhere. When scaling the pieces, a starting reference point would be great without having to print, measure, and reprint (or measure everything digitally).
These are perfectly workable patterns, but I would like to see these few things added and adjusted to take them to the next level.
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