There is a very easy way to get full Dragon Plate/Scale way before you hit level 20

All you need to do is kill enuff dragons for the mats, which is no problem since they are UP
Then you need approx 10k Gold and about 1h boring quick travel between 2 cities, where you simply buy out iron inglot and leather scraps.
Then you level your smithing skill by making iron daggers which need 1 iron and 1 scrap. up to 100

biggest problem is the money for the iron, but if you "focus on the target" from the beginning of the game and watch out for a good price/weight ratio of the items you loot its ez-mode

enjoy

to bad deadric is BETTER than dragon atleast for heavy armor so why bother with dragon

How many scales/bones does it require to make the full set? also where do you buy the iron inglot and leather scraps?

btw..its only round 10k if you dont have any points in barter. i guess if you have you can have it much faster.

dunno exactly how many you need and i cant be arsed to look up..think i killed something like 6 or 8 dragons

i would recommend to buy the iron in the 2 first cities you meet , river something and winter something, becouse the smith is close to entrance when you quicktravel. they have the mats in the misc section

I already started doing this.

i kinda want to do this but i feel like it would be a waste of time n money cause i would only need the boots n bracers since i am mage. and i might not even need any armor later on if i will be using armor spells since they are way more armor when alteration perks are spent. it would just be annoying casting it before each battle.