My indo-Persian Harness.
all i made. Bazuband, turban helm is not.

I like Iranian, Russia-Slavic, Turkish, indian Harness.
Mail ring is 2mm thickness. ID 9mm. Spear thrust& sword cuting Can prevent. However, heavier than Historical Piece.

mail Helmet is Flat ring&Machine welded mail. Weight is 2.6kg. Indian <Kulah Zirah> mail helm.

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Indian Kulah Zirah helmet

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All nation is MEIN!!!

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With CS shamshir. Handle Broken. I made Full-tang handle

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Korazin armour

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Arabic Smile

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THIS IS IRANIAN!!! [ Download ]

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Korazin Plate&Mail armour [ Download ]

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Indo-Persian "Zirah Bagtar" Full Harness [ Download ]

@Hong-jin Ji, very cool armour.
you btw do talk on Yoda like purpose?

Hey Allan,

Yup, totally misread what you said. In fact, both points you refer to in my previous post make little sense due to my misinterpretation. I was typing on a bottle of wine. doh Pointing pauldrons to the gorget through buckles is definitely very common, and as far as I know is the best way to get the job done. I was only considering the pointing with laces when I read it last night... Aye, yeah. Funny what a bit of drink does to the senses! :p

-Gregory

Oh, pointing pauldrons or full arms to the gorget seems like a good idea if the gorget itself is very securely pointed or strapped to breast plate/back plate or to the foundation garments: Securely attached pauldrons to a gorget just sitting on the shoulders/neck by gravity could be very much a hazard if the armour is grabbed when the range is close and things get down to wresting ! I can imagine many bad things happening to the wearer from having his neck broken, movement jammed or restricted with the armour locked up in a disadvantageous way.

In other words having one's armour securely pointed is much more than just being able to wear it walking around, it also has to be secure if pulled or pushed on or if doing very acrobatic movements including falling off one's horse and then being able to get up and fight without having one's armour completely disordered and being an impediment to moving.

( Hmmmmmm ...... now that is one loooooooooonnnnng run-off sentence ..... ;) :p :lol: ).

I don't know although most of the pics in the gallery are from Hermmans auctions. As I said i've seen several others including the one I got to handle personally that had a simple front and back plate gorget. Two of the other examples i've seen were displayed with bevor, maille standard and simple gorget. The example I got to examine hands on the gorget has straps for attaching the large pauldrons to, so i've theorized that perhaps the purpose of the simple gorgets in these late harness ( they were all post 1485 ) was not defensive but the begning of the change to making the gorget the anchor point for shoulder and or arm defenses that would become pretty much the norm by 1510 rather than pointing, the reasons for this I can only guess at but perhaps it was founf to provide better stability for the shoulder defenses. The switch to attching shoulder defenses at the gorget rather than pointing was apparently complete by 1510 as most all fine plate harness that I can think of off the top of my head were using it ( see the afore mentioned Wladisla harness dated 1510 ) although by that time locking armets were common on harness and require a multi lame gorget to use as well.

As far as date of the harness pictured, I was left with a far different date impresion, not 16th century, but due to the lack of abundant fluting and file work but typical of Italian export work of the later 15th century. While composite is of course always possible and was done in period as well as later to construct harness for museums http://www.myArmoury.com/albums/displayimage....fullsize=1 the fluting on the legs is rather subdued as on the rest of the harness so I will not rule out either option.

I do not disregard it, but I know its limitations. It is known that there are few intact harnesses left from the late 15th century. To base Ideas of the compostition of such harnesses from possible composites is looking to them to provide too much information. There is no way a probably composite armour can reliably teach us about the composition of armour. It can teach us form, and function, but for an accurate timeline of Harness composition we must look elsewhere.

http://s596.photobucket.com/albums/tt47/reena...E%20Faces/ still need to fill in the gaps. have a few kits started to do so, but not finished enough to show. some kits shown have missing pieces as well that are started... one day I'll get to finish them all.

Nice to have some picture additions besides all the interesting discussion. Hope to be able to contribute an early 14th cent kit sometime this year.

Here's a picture of me from Reenactorfest: Chicago from this past February.

Early 1570's English.

The doublet and hose are handsewn, the cap is knit and fulled wool. All wool and linen.

The sword's a little bit late for my clothing (dates from around 1590-ish), but I was testing out my hanger after a repair.

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Here is my new late-15th century kit. The brigandine is from Steel mastery, but rivets are too big and made of stainless steel...so I have to replace 250+ rivets for 'authentic' ones.

The helmet is a black sallet made by Jiri Krondak.

Before I forget, don't mention the crappy quality of my cell phone XD

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got my breastplate and arms this weekend









enjoy!

Hendrik Im lovin' you're kit! :D May I ask who the armourer was?