Well, that is a good start and I would only have two comments for now. Always tie your helmet! Never let the cheekpieces hang loose.
Secondly your shield seems to be a little broad. But well, hard to see on this pic. Nicely done!
________________________________________ Jvrjenivs Peregrinvs Magnvs / FEBRVARIVS
A.K.A. Jurjen Draaisma CORBVLO and Fectio ALA I BATAVORUM
Here is my impression (with some other comrades who also did not study the drill manual) last year at the Castra Lafe event (ad43.org)
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When I messed up and slipped off to have a drink from the Fountain of Eternal Youth the Centurion said I'd be on guard duty until Hades froze over and now with this Global warming stuff looks like I'll be standing here ANOTHER 2000 years!
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I agree with Jurjen - very nice so far! There is just one improvement I would suggest. The pugio should be higher, so that the upper suspension rings are in line with the belt. This is how they are consistently shown in Roman depictions. Also, the upper suspension rings should be tightly attached directly to the frog buttons with thonging rather than with straps. Although commonly used by re-enactors, these straps are nowhere to be seen in the contemporary evidence and are therefore simply a 're-enactorism'.
Agrimensor,
Some nice new bits and pieces I see. Just a couple of things though (sorry to have swapped my own eyes for those of the imperial eagle):
Firstly, if you shorten your baldric so that you sword pommel ends up near your armpit you will find that you no longer need to pass your belt over your baldric. In much searching through contemporary depictions I have never seen an example in sculpture where a belt passes over a baldric and in fact there are two images I am aware of (one from Mainz and oe from Adamklissi) of soldiers wearing sword baldrics but not waist belts. It would seem that the Romans did not see any need to secure their baldrics with belts. Since I started doing the same five years ago I have not found any need to either.
Secondly, trousers?? Why not instead do what we know the Romans habitually did and wear two or more tunics, thus giving plenty of insulation to the vital organs? Again, I have tried this out myself on a number of occasions in all weathers and have found that with two tunics, a cloak, socks and lower leg coverings, all of which we have ample evidence for the Romans using, you can stay sufficiently warm throughout a day or weekend (and, from my own experience of weeks at a time spent above the snowline in New Zealand, probably much longer) and retain higher energy levels than those not similarly insulated against the cold. Trousers can quickly be found to be unnecessary.
To our modern mindset, as we have all grown up wearing trousers, they are an obvious solution to cold. The same mindset might not have been present in the mind of the Roman citizen, even if he had grown up on the frontier and was used to seeing Germans in trousers, if he already had sufficiently good solutions to the problem of staying warm which still allowed him to maintain a cultural difference from the non-citizens around him. Citizenship was something both to be aspired to and to be proclaimed. Refraining from the use of something unnecessary to him but more essential to the Germans (who might be expected to do some things differently) might underline that.
'Common sense' arguments in favour of trousers tend to fall flat, as 'common sense' in always culturally based and so what seems common sense to people of one culture might seem the opposite to people of another culture. We are not like the Romans, and equally, they were not like us.
Lecture over. Now putting my own rather more blurry eyes back in place.
Crispvs
Who is called \'\'Paul\'\' by no-one other than his wife, parents and brothers. :!: <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_exclaim.gif" alt=":!:" title="Exclamation" />:!:
Please bear in mind that this is an outfit for a child.Making the lorica and the cingulum, we all had to scale it down to 90% so it fits my son. I am fully aware of the fact that some details might not be 100% right. And yes, you have every right to point that out. But then again: how many 13 yr olds do you know that wear a kit like this, know more about the history of Rome then many do, and are proud to be a mini legionairre?
Me, I am just the one who hammenred nails and rivets, my son is the one who wears the outfit. And Mr Wim Jung and Mr Paul Karremans should be mentioned, since they helped me
As all lawyers do, I only have 1 last thing to say: I rest my case.
the smart ones die inthe shadow. 8)
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