11-05-2009, 06:12 PM
Hah!
I find it odd that so many people who's opinions i find the best (like you, Giannis) don't seem to have so many Laudes--didn't you used to have a zillion? At any rate, I suspect it's a hard system to administer. Put your helmet up and I'll bet you get a bunch!
Anyway, it's the thought that counts!
As to the leather/scales argument--I realize that I'm guilty of a reenactor-ism! That is to say, when I see patterned leather in the top of the chest, it's because that's the EXACT pattern you see on many 18th century and late 17th century scabbards and even on hunting pouches--diamonds with a dot in the center. So that's my expectation--but 2000 years out of date.
Perhaps it is another fabric--I guess I've made my choice. And in retrospect, I think that I regret mixing Patrokles and Achilles from the Achilles vase--not really good reconstruction style, to mix two originals. And my rush to use taed leather on the chest--when I myself see patterned leather?
Sigh.
I find it odd that so many people who's opinions i find the best (like you, Giannis) don't seem to have so many Laudes--didn't you used to have a zillion? At any rate, I suspect it's a hard system to administer. Put your helmet up and I'll bet you get a bunch!
Anyway, it's the thought that counts!
As to the leather/scales argument--I realize that I'm guilty of a reenactor-ism! That is to say, when I see patterned leather in the top of the chest, it's because that's the EXACT pattern you see on many 18th century and late 17th century scabbards and even on hunting pouches--diamonds with a dot in the center. So that's my expectation--but 2000 years out of date.
Perhaps it is another fabric--I guess I've made my choice. And in retrospect, I think that I regret mixing Patrokles and Achilles from the Achilles vase--not really good reconstruction style, to mix two originals. And my rush to use taed leather on the chest--when I myself see patterned leather?
Sigh.
Qui plus fait, miex vault.
