Working on an triumvirate impression

[kevair464]

So I built my first belt ever from scratch, I will post pictures later, but will describe it here, let me know what you think.

Interpolation of what a very late republican, Caesarian, belt would have looked like:

Used veg leather treated with e.v. olive oil, gives it a lovely tanned color

Buckle is a very simple early augustan model by deepeeka

belt is relatively plain having 2 long narrow plates, and 2 small square plates

The long narrow plates are brass/bronze, punched in a diamond pattern, these hide the rivets for 2 ring pugio frogs

The 2 small square concentric circle patern plates are evenly disperesed along the wide end of the belt between which the gladius would be strapped with a cross pattern.

Since there is no evidance for plate types of this period, i used thin augustan models I had lying around from a deepeeka belt. In the future I will mod the plates to more accurate ones once more information comes out on this period.

Comments, constructive critisim are welcome and encouraged as this was my first attempt at a belt, i will take any comments into consideration for the future when I modify it.