Woo, leave for a while and there's a lot of comments.
The mail is galvanised, and I have been told how to get it ungalvanised, I'm just not sure I want to involve myself with those many chemicals at the moment, but I do try and get everything as period as possible, so it will happen in the future. Martin is making his hauberk himself and so it will be full sleeved in the end, with attached mittens.
Helmets are a matter of contention for me. Being the youngster and the newbie I find it quite hard to criticise others kit, and try to put it as nicely as possible when I do. As you can see though, we all own 15th C helmets (picture 5), and it is Martins choice to wear his sugar loaf for tournament as he feels safer in it. I should probably have insisted on a later period helm for the photo's as we hope to use them for publicity shots, but I wasn't really paying enough attention.
I probably won't be at lanark by the way. I really do later period, and just dress up in earlier when really needed. I don't even have an early style helmet
the harness I'm hoping to get in the end is going to be a late 14th early 15th century one, very much like this one:
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although mine will be plainer and more battered as I have a slight feeling that wearing that onto the battlefield would be like walking on with a big target painted across my front. I also intend to get a great helm for 14th C jousting.
In the far future I'm hoping to get a WotR period harness, with interchangeable barbute or sallet depending on what I'm doing in it (barbute for battlefield, sallet for jousting.)
Incidently I'm also going to get the correct period swords for my various harnesses.
Cheers for the interest.
Zac
Slowly realizing just how far is still to go.