[Aaron J. Cergol]

[Felix R.]

Hello, unfortunately I am not the maker of this basinet. I gave an order to some armour smith and he send me the picture of the piece when most of the work was done. I just asked him for some different angle views, so to better compare it to the Wallace piece. On the other hand, even if it is not a copy of this basinet, though I would have liked it to be one, it is a nice looking piece. He now only has to get the vervelles and the liner holes right.

The manufacturers name, a review and information on the questions asked regarding welding or raising I can give as soon as I got it. But considering the price I assume a welded piece.

[Felix R.]

Here is a side view of the original piece.

[Felix R.]

The Bascinet arrived, this is what I got, what do you think?

[Felix R.]

Would one of these legs would be appropriate for the kit in northern Italian around 1400 style?

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I was looking for legs with top rounded cuisse without a top lame, one lame above and below the knee and I think the laame on the shin should be cut straight and not leaf shaped.

[Felix R.]

After sending back this bascinet I got my finished Perpunto as the first finished piece of my kit.

It is a darlk red linen on the body with about 4-8 layers of cotton batting, depending on the area and lined in linen. The neck and the lower arms are natural linen filled with one and two layers of cotton batting, respectively. The hole garment is closed by 16 points.

[Felix R.]

Now the kit is slowly developing.

Today I got the first pictures of the bascinet (Wallace A69) and the gauntlets which should be in the way of those from the Churburg armoury.

As on the previous page you have seen the disaster of the first helmet, so I changed the smith and now it looks much better. It now goes to the soft kit manufacturer for finishing the lining and the gloves.

[Felix R.]

My Christmas presents came in.

Churburg style gauntlets, a Wallace collection inspired Bascinet, both from polish makers and Spaudlers in italian style by William Hurt.

[Felix R.]

[Jonathan Hopkins]

I have nothing practical to say, but congratulations on a very nice-looking kit! Thank you for sharing its progress. Are the legs next?

Jonathan

[Felix R.]

Thanks,
I have the upper armour to be finished first, that is a Haubergeon, arms in Churburg style and a breast plate with fauld like those from the Pistoia altar piece. A scabbard for my Fiore longsword is in the making, as is a Basilardo dagger.

Then I will give the leg harness a thught.

At the moment I am modifing an aventail and I have to to more training, because this is quite heavy in total. Perhaps I shouldn´t have ordered the bascinet in 2mm mild steel. On the other hand, when looking at the Bascinet feature, a complete set including everything is between 5 and 7 kg and taken into account that knowadays folks are bigger than 170cm northern italians.

[Felix R.]

Hello together,

after having some nice discussion about my improving kit and some helpful hints by some nice PMs I found that I would need a more open faced helmet too. Some recommended an early Italian Barbuta, some a Kattlehat. Because I can take of the visor completely the difference to a Barbuta wouldn´t be so big I think. Together with my appreciation for Kattlehats I would like to give this type of helmet a try. Now it is up to the design, what would be a well suited helmet for 1390-1410 that would still give an Italian appearance. Do you have ideas where to look?

[Felix R.]

Found a line drawing that is similar to a helmet in Ospreys Italian Militiman, though the interpretation of the latter shows a longer Nasal, what do you think? Would this be an appropriate helmet?

[Felix R.]

Hello folks, todays the day. When I woke up I just checked my e-mails and to my surprise I got a mail from Tod.
To start from the beginning in about November last year 'I asked Tod for a late 14 cent. dagger that could go with my kit of an northern Italian man at arms. We decided to go with a Basilardo dagger, especially as I had the opportunity to see some original pieces in Italy. We decided for a diamond section dagger with double fullers, the grip should be some dark wood with not to wide guard and "pommel" and the sheath in nice chestnut colour.
And today I got the pictures from him I would like to share.

[Felix R.]

Finally finished the modification of the Aventail and attached it to the basinet.
It is flat ring with alternating rows of solids and wedge riveted rings (GDFB).

[Felix R.]

Here an update. Got my Haubergeon a few weeks ago, but it needs some modification, so no kit picture at the moment.
Yesterday I got my arms. They are made from springsteel and weigh 1280g each, they feel really light. The fit seems ok, may be better, but I doubt this would have been possible without personal visitation.

[Greg Mele]

Hi Felix,

YOur kit continues to look better and better. Who made the arm harness?

Greg

[George P.]

Those arms are great , who made them?

[Felix R.]

Hello and thank you, hope to be able to post a picture of the whole things worn by the end of summer. I am just waiting for breastplate and fauld, work should be started in August.

The arms are form Jacek Matera from Poland. He also made the helmet and gauntlets.

[Randall Moffett]

Your harness looks very good. Nice to see the time and effort going into it! I hope that you get some harness pictures up with your newest additions soon!

RPM