The Armour Archive

Ok, I get to make loaner armour for the Shire. We've got skinny loaner stuff, so this is for us guys who may have a larger waitline than chest measurement (I'm workin' on it!). Anyway, which style would be better for a wider range of guys;

The Wisby # 1-ish with a lot of segmented front plates,

or

The Wisby # 7-ish with fewer plates?

I'm gonna do as I've seen suggested in other threads, and rig it so that more wrapping plates can be added for guys bigger than myself.

So which would be superior?

Or would it matter?

Thanks,
Christopher

are these going to be purchased or made in house?
if your making them in house I would go a different direction with a churburg 13
buckle both right and left side with plate overlap to increase the size ajustment.

Well, if I buy metal, then I'm not cutting anything out. Hoping to get a kit with all the shaping done. I have a tool set from hal, but it's for my leather, so if I use it on metal, I gotta get the mirror polish put back on, and all kinds of stuff. So I'm a little limited on my metal pounding.

If I go with leather, then yeah, totally in-house. However, at this point, I can't justify in my mind the expense of making out of leather what I can get for way less in a metal kit. Origianally, I was going to use leather, and make it ugly to prevent it from wondering away. But the preference seems to be for better looking more historical armour and we'll just try and make sure it doesn't migrate.

I can definitely see advantages in the # 13 style. Tho, from an earlier post I made, the information I got was that the more barrel fronted ones work better for large guys. I'm sure mileage varies, but from the info presented, the horizontal plated fronts seemed to be the preference. Once I am trimmed down personally, yeah the #13 is my pic. Just afraid of how that one wraps around the big ole bacon belly I've built up.

Thanks,
Christopher