Armour, weapons,... Archers in the 1st Century AD

[FAVENTIANVS]

Hm... I was looking in the "Show your Roman soldier impression", and I saw this guy:
link from old RAT

He's wearing leather, or I'm becoming blind?

Hehe, that's leather indeed. But that's not a 1st century AD soldier, the period you are inquiring about.

I believe Faventivs based his leather lammelar armour on 3rd century finds from Dura Europos. But I'm not sure if the leather armour parts that were found belonged to Roman armour.

Vale,

My hardened leather lamellar is inspired in the eastern peoples armour, probably made of lacquered rawhide (or boiled or waxed leather), I portray a late Roman soldier who acquired it through his Persian campaign... as a foreign-souvenir...
Of course, we have the examples of Dura Europos, but it's not properly lamellar but scale armor, made of lacquered rawhide and was intended to protect the rider's upper leg (probably Persian).
Metal lamellar is surely more effective but leather one was lighter and cheaper, and was better than having nothing at all in those bad Late Roman times...

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p142 ... sses_1.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p142 ... uisses.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p142 ... ses_21.jpg
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=19779 (scroll down)