Your first armour reminds me of one of my first rigs, Foster. It's a good start and well executed for a beginner rig.
It's not in this picture, but it shows my general line of interests and progress. I started doing serious research, saving and planning for my armour in 2007. It might help you and other beginners to show that not every suit of armour is assembled overnight. :)


This is my 2013 upgrade:

Got an armet to go along with the armour, works fab! Kept the wrapper off in this session.

Your kit is absolutely astounding ^_^ There are a bunch of very nice forum members who are helping me out right now to put together a higher quality kit of my own; Reece Nelson is one of them, and i'm very appreciative for his help. I know that it's going to be a fairly long time in the making, but i'm blessed with having a few really good re-enactment groups here in Canada that can push me to push myself.
That is a wonderful brigandine :D who made it for you, and what is the exterior made from?

Ben, that's really cool to see the evolution of your tastes and kit upgrades over time! The current iteration is gorgeous!

Thanks! There are more photos of other variations of this kit on myArmoury if you want to see more. No need for me to clutter thread wtth redundant images. :)

The brigandine is covered in black velvet and was made by White Rose Apparel. It has served me very well and I still use it occasionally.

I just got a new brigandine, and I think it looks lovely ^_^

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Here are a few of my 16/17th century impressions.

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Artillery crewman, I'm acting as loader for a Falconette.

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Musketeer armed with a Snaphaunce Musket. [ Download ]

Work in progress mid 13th-early 14th century templar.

I am very new at this so I lack a historical accurate helmet, gambeson, belt, chainmail and sword.

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Here are some pics of my current kit, I am the one in the red and black with the heraldic knight kit. I worked rather hard on this kit and tailoring my maille, the sword I'm using is my friends Del Tin, which I don't have a proper high quality sword to use as of yet. It's supposed to be around the year 1300. I did not wear my chausses because it was really muddy at the ren faire due to the rain and I was lucky enough my hauberk did not rust or anything, just got a slightly black patina on it. My friend is doing a rus viking kit but now after seeing my kit he wants to do a 13th century one.

Nice!

What are your plans for the hands?

I am not sure yet with the hands, I bought a pair of riveted maille gloves but they have yet to arrive. I might need a new gambeson because my current one has integrated mittens which originally I was planning on attaching maille mittens to my hauberk, but I am deciding against that due to the fact I want it more versatile, maybe i could just make some maille mittens and LACE them onto the hauberk instead, or just use the gloves I ordered, either way I might have to tuck the mittens into the gloves palms which they're size large so they should fit hopefully, if they dont I am getting a new gambeson without integrated mittens.