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Some of the best gear available is made by individual makers and Legions
who started by making gear for their own members. Most of these can be found in the RAT marketplace. Second best but rapidly catching up is the "new" Indian company. Several vendors on Rat carry their products now.
Third best is probably the "Old" Indian company that has some very good products but for some reason seems to want to carry a lot of old inaccurate
items also. Fourth there are a few companies that make one of two decent items but the rest of their gear is junk. Besides the RAT marketplace one of the best places to check on good gear is the XX Legions Handbook. It will be even better if I can pester Matthew Amt enough to make a few updates about new products that are now available. Anyone have that item they need that no one makes yet?
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Another great thread John  It would be interesting to see what the Legions ect are missing.
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How about simple things, like some of the common fibulae for tunic, sagum, etc? And there's always room for more belt plates, buckles, and fasteners for different things.
Fish hooks.
Strigil.
Replica coins.
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Deepeeka now offers decent cooking utensils, a patera and situla, but about a cochlear and/or a ligula? A elliptical shaped spoon with a pointed handle. Make them from either copper alloy or pewter.
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3 sizes of crossbow fibs, a stirigil and spoon are already being done for us. No idea on stock date. 2-3 months probably.
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I agree with David. The items I'm missing from my kit are the "small" material culture items such as documented examples of combs, razors, and other such personal items for sale here in the US. I know there are such items from vendors in Europe, but compare the Euro to the USD and you pay double if not triple, not including shipping.
I'd also like to see and affordable and authentic (having both is expensive these days) cloth items such as blankets. I'm not a big fan of converted army blankets for public use, therefore I've paid a good amount of money for hand loomed blankets which make me cry every time I put them on the ground. Would it be possibel to find a weaver in India that could make blankets, cloth for tuncis, ect that is hand loomed according to period examples.....
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The range and quality of swords from Indian manufacturers is frankly very poor - more effort definitely needed there IMHO. Likewise Pugios (not including the Ltd. Edition Pugio of course).
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Hello all
I think it is easy to find some things, like all kind of helmets, swords, etc, But as Mark and David say, simple things as jewelry are more difficult to find. I usually buy this things from a German craftsman that has good prices and very good quality and of course 100% accuracy. (I think most of you know him, if not PM me).
I don't know about vendors or makers of roman jewelry in the USA (at least in the level of the German craftsman), but I saw the fibulae from soul of the warrior and I liked it! they are simple, and very nice. Anyway in the USA there are some things that are not available in Europe (those wonderful bearskins for example ...)
Finally I would say that basic things are available, I mean helmets, loricas, but everyone want always to improve their gear, to give it a personal touch, and this always take us in two ways: to do it by ourselves or try to find some good craftsmen..
and well, thinking about ask something... I will ask some cheaper aspis, because till I had mine, everybody asked me over 400 - 500 € (plus shipping) for a plain one, and I'm only a student! 
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Quote:Hello all
I, thinking about ask something... I will ask some cheaper aspis, because till I had mine, everybody asked me over 400 - 500 € (plus shipping) for a plain one, and I'm only a student!
Someone makes this Spartan Hoplon now:
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Didn't we put online a very long lists of objects here:
link from old RAT
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I talked to the maker :wink: these aspis are nice and correct in measures and shape, and the price is really nice!
Just now I have an used aspis, but the maker of these ones told me he will do new and better aspis in some time, so I'll wait to see it
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Quote:Didn't we put online a very long lists of objects here:
link from old RAT
Some of the products on that thread are now available from different vendors. That vendor's thread may have not been the best location for a
products needed discussion as they are not as responsive as individual makers and one smaller Indian company.
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yeah, I see, but we made that topic back then with the same idea as you started this one, in my opinion. You're right that SOME products have been produced by that Deepeeka already, but there are still a lot of items discussed in that topic which hadn't been produced by any of-the-shelf company.
On the other side, there really are still a lot of products under development, so I don't know if we want to 'develop new products' before the current are ready, as I see a growing timetable to develop new items by a couple of companies.
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Quote:yeah, I see, but we made that topic back then with the same idea as you started this one, in my opinion. You're right that SOME products have been produced by that Deepeeka already, but there are still a lot of items discussed in that topic which hadn't been produced by any of-the-shelf company.
On the other side, there really are still a lot of products under development, so I don't know if we want to 'develop new products' before the current are ready, as I see a growing timetable to develop new items by a couple of companies.
It is very difficult to know what products are under development by which
maker or company; Some vendors are happy to tell what is in development
while others want to wait until the item is ready to sell. So some duplication of development effort is inevitable but that is not necessarily a bad thing as a wider range of variations and quality of products results. Also competition SHOULD result in better quality items available.
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Quote: So some duplication of development effort is inevitable but that is not necessarily a bad thing as a wider range of variations and quality of products results. Also competition SHOULD result in better quality items available.
I fully agree with you on that, but that was not what was meant to say. I see that there is some growing amount of products under development, which means that when I do develop an item nowadays I've to wait longer for the next prototype than I had last year, as they've to work on more projects at the same time.
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