Interesting cheap steel musculata

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Definately a case of false advertisment if I've ever seen one! hock:

[Virilis]

Thanks for the info John, I was very close to ordering this cuirass from them hock: ! I inquired at the end of august from Armae about their brass Deepeeka cuirass and Christophe said that they were having some quality issues with it but they will have a completely new / improved design within a month. I will inform here when I will get some info about it...

[John Conyard]

I would laugh if it was not so bloody annoying. Their response is that other buyers like it and brass is too expensive to use. :roll: No apologies at all.

Steer clear of this one brother.

[Virilis]

Steer clear of this one brother.

I will, this is so frustrating sometimes :evil: ...

[Marcus Mummius]

That's a shame and scandalous false advertisement...

I was interested too!

I'm curious to see the one by armae. But probably that one will be much too big. I was pleasantly surprised to see this one was a smaller size, but luckily you showed a picture of the real thing!

I hope you get your money back!

Vale,

[Magnus]

What's the story with Armae's cuirass?

[Virilis]

What's the story with Armae's cuirass?

I discussed about the develepment of a new cuirass with ARMAE / Christophe last autumn. Christophe said that they were developing a complete new musculata and the first prototype should be ready early 2012. I inquired about it a couple of months ago but unfortunately Christophe said that they were not able to produce one. I don't know what was the company they were planning to develope the new cuirass with. This is sad, I surely could use a reasonable priced musculata ...

[PhilusEstilius]

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Here is one that I made some years ago for the late Doug' Arnold and I took the style from one that is in a museum in Cagliari in Sardinia.
It is also shown in the book by H.R.Robinson and is said to be a statue of Drusus, what is sensible and should be considered by anyone is can one sit down in it or can one ride a horse with it as can be clearly seen by Doug'
I think that officers in the field would indeed have to be able to move around, ride and be able to sit down in comfort without the abdoman covering.

[Magnus]

I agree too Brian, we just need to convince one of the suppliers to make one.

[MartinWard]

Hello Tarbicus

I have one of those you mention, not bad at all and very light, i have heavily modified mine.... leather edged around the collar and arm holes ( leather glued then drilled through both leather and armour and 'stitched'),dyed the leather red with spray dye then given a good polish with black shoe polish to deepen the red to a wine colour. Riveted pteruges to the armour at the waist (still have to do the arms) and attached thick leather shoulder doubling. if i can figure how to i will attach pics. I was a size 44-46 when i purchased it and with a bit of deep breathing and strap tightening i got it on....no sub though! have lost three and half stone since last wore it so imagine it will need padding with a sub now. Shame it is steel but i think it came out alright.

Martin

[Magnus]

So I found two of the brass musculata on Ebay that actually looked pretty decent. I emailed the seller (both in India) and requested more pictures. The first one turned out to be the old deepeeka brass muscle cuirass, and the second one, a worse-looking version of that.

Neither Ebay seller was advertising the product they actually had.

Buyer beware!

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Yep, much Like JC's experience...with out the pain.

Nice work on the cuirass Brian!