Re: I your first kit as bad as mine?
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:17 am
woodwose wrote:My first SCA kit was welder's leathers that I cut up and retailored into the generic poncho style coat of plates shape that I saw a lot of people wearing. I then riveted leather squares all over it to make scale armor. I think I had football shoulder pads under it, and football thigh pads (?) covered with leather for cuisses. I used the kit for a year or so, then fighting in my first war I realized how horribly unprotective the leather scale was as I took a hard spear shot to my chest that cracked off the bottom bones and cartilage of my sternum. Here's a picture of my dad and I at a public library demo in 1995.
http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/heavy1995.jpg
Ha! That's the Camden Amphitheater!
