Wow! Your whole kit looks great!

My new breastplate, made By "Robert of Stokewood", an english armorer who luckily for me moved to cocoa beach :D

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Playing with this harness again. Working on tailoring some voiders for it at the moment.


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Finally put together enough of a soft kit to show here. Persona is a late 14th c English freeman.
With the exception of the sword (an Albion Crecy) everything here was made by either myself or one of my group's interpreters.

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Here's the latest version of my nicer kit ca. 1570s-1570s ...I have a few variations on more rustic ones too. All of it is handsewn..mostly by me. This was taken at Fort Wayne, IN during an event. A friend and I had a tailor ' s shop demo set up

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Here's my Late Iron Age/ Early Medieval Gaelic kit. I used the Book of Kells and Pictish stones as pictorial sources. I need to start work on a better looking pair of trews and an inar. The main idea was to have a kit that would work from just right before the Christianization of Ireland through the Viking invasions.

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A bit dismembered, but here is a picture of my gothic legs. Made by Via Armorari, based on Scandinavian sources.

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nice lines on that leg armour, its the major reason i justlove gothic plate, and everytime i see these i wanna just grab a chunck of money and buy a set

Gosh, guess I better chip in! Been working on a lot of Greek stuff lately, so first is the garden-variety hoplite of the Persian War era, c. 480 BC.

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The helmet was custom-made by Joe Piela of Lonely Mountain Forge, eons ago. I made the rest, though the spearhead is just cut and ground down from an MRL monster.

I'm also working on an earlier impression, c. 650 BC.

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The helmet I made from a spun brass dome, and the sword blade is a *bronze* Naue II by Neil Burridge (of course!), though I plan to make an iron/steel version soon. Same shield and greaves as the later impression, though I will try to make new greaves. Plus a bell cuirass. Gonna be a busy summer!

Khairete,

Matthew

Some really nice kits recently. Zach, I enjoy the Dark Ages stuff, and like Pictish designs. Neat.

Matthew Amt, excellent work as always, nice to see what you are up to. Do you mean that you are going to have an Iron Naue II made for the earlier hoplite, or that you are going to have a different type of iron sword for that? What kind of sword? Also, how did you come up with the design for the scabbard for Neil's Naue II? I assume you made it.

Regards, Kem

Thanks much! Right, I plan to make a Naue II out of steel to go with this kit, leaving the bronze sword for the Bronze Age! This scabbard is just painted wood--not trusting my painting skills, I went with a couple simple black lines around the edges, inspired by Mycenaean pottery. The suspension loops of bronze wire--hoo, not sure I remember clearly, but they may actually be based on a Danish find. There aren't any decent finds of scabbard suspensions from Bronze Age Greece, just some vague artwork. The baldric tied at the shoulder shows up in a couple different depictions, though.

It was only after finishing this scabbard that I ran across a nice Geometric era vase that shows a delightful Trojan Horse with several heroes leaning out the big windows! Two Naue II swords and scabbards are very clearly shown, with baldrics and rectangular chapes. So that's what I'll be going with for the new one.

And yes, many lovely things to see in this thread!!

Matthew

Here are photos of from our Deed of Arms tournament we had held a few weeks ago. I'm the guy in the black and gold armour :D The harness is dated for the early 15th century, during the battle of Agincourt in the year 1415. I had spent a great amount of time documenting each piece and it took two years to complete ( well...more or less...still work to be done)

My group and I will be attending the 600th anniversary for the battle of Agincourt next year and I cannot wait! :D

-Reece

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Alot of good kits posted recently.

But Reece gets bonus points for the pegleg!

I always love it when people simply have too much passion for something to let something like a missing limb stop them.

Oh, and here is me showing off my new late 15th century clothes:







There are some small details that need to be fixed, like the hole in the jacket, the low-hanging codpiece and the belt needs shortening, but overall, I'm extremely happy with it. :D

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Heres my kit on the left in the red and black portraying a German knight, the helm my friend portraying a Polish knight is borrowing from me and is my Dargen as the Madeln helm I am wearing did not fit him properly. Oddly I measured the sizes and both helms are the same size diameter wise just the distribution of the size is different as the Dargen is wider at the middle and the Madeln is actually longer from the profile. Still have to work on getting my chausses to fit properly.

Damn, I always wanted a Royal Oak armoury helm lol

Mobile phone pic of my later 15th century kit. Taken outside Akershus fortress in Oslo during the Oslo Medieval festival this weekend.

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My 1360-1370 kit, now I'm changing some parts of the armor.
North Moravian lord Pawl de Eulenburk.
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