I made one from TRL's kits (with jump rings - not my choice) for a friend... I did it in less then 100 hours. He would like me to make another one with split rings this time, and I plan on taking a lot longer to do it, then again, I will have longer then a week to work on it. I had originally built it with just 5 days to complete it for he wanted it for a LARP, but with that kind of rush, mistakes happened... It took another 20 hours to repair and finalize the armour and with that, I would call it at 120 hours for me to do it with jump rings.