The Armour Archive

I didn't want to hijack the other thread.
MLBlazek,
I don't think there is anything wrong with the BP. I think it has a nice line and the finish is nice, not to shinny or rough.
I just think the tassets are hung wrong (I think they should overlap the fauld a bit more)

I think you are most likely suffering from what many groups suffer from, that is it is easier to look at your buddies gear and copy it or make some variation of it, than look at real pieces and "see" the differences and make your own kit, not a copy of a copy where the person may have not seen the what was wrong with their kit in the first place. Then the mistakes are just compounded.
Most of the SCA and Renaissance fair clothing and armour is schlock. Polyester tunics, cotton trigger skirts, ren fair corsets with cheap gold and purple ribbon trim, and black gauntlet gloves. My issue with this is many of these people call them selves reactors or a medieval history groups. Most of which are wearing watered down copies of what someone told them was “really nice!â€

Sir Gaston wrote:It’s crap. No one who knew what a Vendel should really look like said a word. In fact I was calling it a Viking helmet!

Out of the 'goodness of my heart', I'll take that embarassing thing off of your hands. I feel so bad for you, I'll even pay for the shipping.

Ain't I noble?

A very nice piece.

I've seen the original reconstruction of Vendel 14 that yours is based upon, and the current one - it's here. They're VERY different.

Is there any reason you decided to go with the older interpretation?

The helmet was a gift for someone and this was the helmet he fell in love with many years ago. I also prefer this design over the real one.
The real one wasn't trimmed in fine silver either.

Well said Sir Gaston, ignorance is the enemy. There are manylegitamate reasons for diverging from authentic practices, such as safety. However, does not change one's obligation to know as much as possible about the medieval pieces so the divergences are small and deliberate, not large and haphazard.