this is my new outfit :

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Close-up of my little shield I wear attached to my left arm

underneath I wear a small breastplate (more of bellyplate) and I hope you like my outfit!

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this is the bellyplate I wear, it is made by Marek. It is very useful when I fight as crossbowman

What does the shield on his arm? This is a solution of the era (15th? 16th century?)

It's late 15th century, the shield on the arm is very useful when fighting with a pike, It protects my shoulder en parts of my face. I found many pictures of pikemen wearing small shields on their lower and upper arms.

Could you show me?
I know only from the rectangular cut-out arms. I know them a little, mostly Burgundian.

I'm finally getting around to uploading my harness. Funny thing, it isn't me wearing it in this particular picture. I'm also tryinh out the img feature of these boards for the first time.

Most of this is from Merc Tailor. The helmet is from Armour and Castings with an aventail from Atlanta Armoury, the spaulders are from Wintertree Crafts, the gauntlets and sabatons are from Jolly Knight, The sword is from Armoury Marek, and the arming coat is from Revival clothing.

The straps on the fauld weren't buckled up for this picture, and he's wearing our club uniform fencing knickers instead of hosen, and mail is seriously lacking.

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Of course, I now want to move my whole kit to an earlier period...

here's a part of a burgundian tapestry depicting a fight between two armoured men fighting with a vouge française and a glaive. one of them is depicted with a "targe" like they say in french or what others know as an ecranche etc

Decided to go birch bark hunting with my girlfriend. This is what we ended up with. Also decided to wear 12 century reenactment costume for the right "feeling" :lol:

Anyway this is my soft kit. 12. century Estonia.


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A few weeks ago we did a living history event at a small castle, like we did last year.
This year I brought my camera's and we fooled around with them a bit, here are the results:

1: The living history film
A knight receives an important guest, traveling through his lands, so he has prepared a banquet for him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHjoNaLVlD4


2: The fighting film
Training various techniques, unarmed, dagger, sword and pollaxe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ijy8Ky_vrI


We didn't intend to make any specific video or any video at all, so this is just our normal bimbling around. We liked it so much, however, we put it online. :) In the dighting film there's a small bit of a demonstration we did at the Army museum, but it fitted right in. I hope you guys like it. :)

Ben, I like your films very much! Good work! :D And you are wearing outstanding clothes, too!

Here's me in my kit. I'm currently in the works of doing quite a few improvements to it, as there are few elements of it I'm entirely happy about. My ultimate goal is to do an 8th century, i.e. late vendel (or Merovingian period according to Norwegian terms) noble.

Not so much arms and armour in this picture. Unless we are to use "axe" in musical terms. Even then we're probably talking more of a frame saw than anything else. ;)

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I'm extremely impressed with the quality and quantity of kit you fellows have.

I'm very happy today. Maxim sent me the images of my finished leg harness for my new kit.

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This is a not so good photo of me in the start of my kit, taken by my wife on her iPhone, she missed the chausses and shoes as we were waiting in line to get into the Abbey Medieval Tournament yesterday :) I still need to tailor the sleeves on the hauberk to make them, a) shorter and b) smaller diameter, as well as make my coif and integrated mittens :)

I'm wearing a linen shirt, linen braies (from Revival Clothing), linen gambeson (made by me), alternate riveted/solid ring mild steel mail (CAS/Iberia - GDFB), linen surcoat (made by me, green also dyed by me) and linen chausses with leather norman shoes (Revival Clothing) and carrying my shield and the VA Crusader sword. I left my ring belt on the table at home (d'oh!) so had to do with just the sword belt.

The kit is going to be 12th century based in the end.

Front:
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Back
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Taken by my son (5 years old).
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The kits in here have really been my inspiration in wanting to try and make this as good as I can afford. So I have to thank you all, and I am sure my wife is cursing you all :D

Brett

Very nice Chuck! Can you tell us about the ballock dagger on your belt? It looks wonderful in the photographs. :)