I started making a Hylian shield legitimately a year ago. Made the whole blue and red design on leather, then cut the triforce pieces out of 1/4 inch thick steel and beveled the edges, then waited about 10 months for the medal of Yavin run here to get the go-ahead so I could get the triforce gold plated. Two months ago I declared the project officially dead. If that part hadn't fallen through I would have soaked and bent some boards and made the steel trim, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.