What I have been doing with my nights lately

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I am trying to hold from republican to early Augustan time frame

My current kit includes self made:

linen tunic
caligae
quilted cotton subarmalis with pteryges
gourd canteen (recent thread)
Focale of single needle knitted wool
knitted wool udones
leather balteus
cingulum with 2" plates of .032" brass with repousse of roman style zodiac on each plate in .005" brass foil soldered on. The pugio frogs are also with .005 brass added on top with a hecate's wheel motif. (I know, not from a historical find but the artwork would be period)
butted .25" ID mild steel hamata
Bought items


Simple gladius from SOTW, needs work on scabbard. The pins attaching the rings to the scabbard are definitely not period.

garbage trooper helmet I am attempting to rework into either an Italic or a Gallic D.

Current Projects:

New Subarmalis made from quilting via box pleats in a tube and yoke pattern, similar to a recent thread.

Armillum with a Hippocamp in repousse.

New cingulum with repousse plates similar to Herculaneum.

Helmet as above

reworking scabbard for gladius

.25" ID hamata in alternating riveted and solid.

Hamata hooks repoussed as hippocampus as well.

I'm going for a nautical motif.