[Mark Griffin]

Recently I was lucky enough to get a harness from the Marketplace here (thanks JF!) which I intend to use for up and coming Agincourt anniversary work. It also ties in with a few local historical happenings as I'm on the Welsh/English border and things are pretty hectic around here in the first years of the 15th century.

The cuirass and helm work well and although the arms and legs fit (the sabatons a mite too small) I decided to take the opportunity to make it far more English. I like the style of the dog fish fin wings on the couters and poleyns and its a style rarely seen in reproductions although pretty common on English effigies of the time

I've therefore asked Josh Davis at Davis Reproductions in Minneapolis to make some for me based on an early 15th cent tomb of the wonderfully monnikered Sir Thurstan de Bowers in Tideswel Church in Derbyshire.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/huntthewumpus/6129707408/

Luckily Toby Capwell also helped out with a great set of closer pics he's taken, saving me a visit.


Josh was over in Nov so he took measurements and I followed up with outline tracings shortly after.

I'm just getting ready to fly out for various US appointments, museum visits and other fun historical stuff and another fitting with Josh. He's just sent me pics of how things have progressed so here are the first shapes basically cut and roughed out.

More to follow...

Griff

[Mark Moore]

Posts like this make me drool at the mouth. I can't wait to get my armor. ...............McM

[Jonathan Fletcher]

Something like this....

Alexander Stewart, "The Wolf of Badenoch", died 1405 and resting since in Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire.

Not just English!

[Mark Griffin]

I can smell the haggis from here! Lovely effigy that one. Thanks

Should definitely be a favourite effigy of the week thread on here....

Griff

[Mark Griffin]

fitting at Josh's bench at Arms and Armour went well, still lots to do. If I wasn't snow bound at Chicago with slack of resources I'd post up a few pics...