Late C15th archer kit inspired by illustrations in the Beauchamp Pageant.

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Hi guys! It's been 6 years since i started to build my own suit of armour, and I've posted pics of my harness on this thread a couple of years ago or so, so now it's time for an update!

My harness is totally handmade by myself, based on milanese harnesses from the second half of the 15th century. The only part which was not made by me was the sallet and bevor, but even those had some work done to them. In order to increase safety for full contact fighting, I joined both helmet and bevor so they articulate and lock together as a single piece of armour. This makes the helmet a lot safer but greatly reduces head movement.

The plates are all 1.5mm thick mild steel, except for sallet, knee and elbow cups which are 2mm thick. The breastplate has 3 layers of 1.5mm thick plate, so it's about 4.5mm thick. You can tell this is a fighting harness, i didn't build it to look pretty.
Excuse the patina and overall lack of polishing, i intend to shine it all up for the summer events here in Portugal.

Cheers!

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I would advise you to remove the last plate section of your back fauld and cut out a triangular one instead, it will look much better, something akin to this;

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Peter Spätling, although you're joking, i did research and found no evidence of any type of specific Portuguese style of armour. What i did find through paintings was that we imported a lot of Italian armour in the 15th century, so that's that.

Tapeçarias de Pastrana, show the conquest of Arzila and Tanger in 1471 by D. Afonso V, king of Portugal.
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Mario, i intend to redo both fauld sections of the harness in time, and possibly adding the smaller side tassets and the triangular back one too. Just a matter of me having the time to do it.

Looks like solid work, kudos for making that suit of armor yourself! How about a pic on person with the whole gear?

(as an aside, how come that the only two comments on this huge piece of work are "why did you not do that, change this" and not a single word of "cool, I like it"?)

Great looking brigs, Tjarand and Nik!

Martinho - impressive work! It certainly looks like it would hold up well in a fight.

Thank you all for sharing the pictures.

Nik you look great!

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Early auxiliary kit I'm working on CA early imperium/late republic. all made by me except the helmet and sword. First attempt at shield making and it was super fun! Still need to trim the edges of the wool overlap on shield a little. Tunic is heavy linen (because wool is way too hot in Texas right now!) Big thanks to the Legio XX website and MR. Amt for the help that they unknowingly provided me!

1) How much does your shield weigh?

2) That is a pretty big gladius.



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1. beats me, not overly heavy or overly light. Faced with canvas and covered in felt on back
2. I'm not a very big person!

Sharing the current state of my in-progress Late-13th/early-14th C. Hospitaller kit.
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And my 14th-century "peasant levy" kit.

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Great looking kits, Eric.

This goes against the grain of most posts on this forum (being mostly European armor), but I wanted to show off this nice set of samurai armor made by Iron Mountain Armory. This armor is based upon late-16th C. Japanese armor - Tosei-gusoku "Modern armor". The helmet is the zunari type, which was a simplified version using only three plates and developed during the Sengoku period. The plates are only about 18-20 gauge so quite light. The cool thing is that I can put on all of the armor by myself in about 10 minutes or so. EDIT: I've since learned that I tied my kabuto and menpo incorrectly. I should've made a loop with the helmet cord for the hooks on the menpo. :blush:

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Dean,
I love that! While I don't know much about that style of armour, I really like seeing something different. Thanks for sharing it.

My pleasure and honor, Chad. BTW, the rep at Iron Mountain Armory, Michael, said he they will be offering armor kits in the very near future. Something which may be of interest for the membership. Thanks again! Dean