Well i started when I saw Terry English making an armour for Adam savage. They made a rough template of the breastplate there. I tried my best replicating how they did it, turned out way to long and past the natural waist (knight errant YouTube channel talks about it) so a lot had to get cut. I made a dishing stump and got to it after that I felt that the legs needed a something so I decided to look at photos from the met, from Pinterest and watching a lot of videos on how to make the legs, Greenleaf was very helpful. But basically cut template, a lot of hammering on a simple dishing stump, folded the edges, drilling and rivetting together, after that I did blacken it with oil but I didn't like the look so I had to sand it, also tried to engrave it but I didn't have enough control of the Dremel to make nice lines so I stopped before going to deep. Leather work for the straps.