Leather armour....

[Robert Vermaat]

Actually, it's hybrid polyurethane, but that does not stop Norton Armories from producing beautiful stuff! Thank Chariovalda for sending me the link!

http://www.nortonarmouries.com/

How about this:

Or this Boetian Beauty?


How about this Thracian helmet?

[Robert Vermaat]

Or Dark Ages helmets:



Alexander is there, too:

[Robert Vermaat]

And, of course, the (in)famous leather muscular armour with the overdone pectoral muscles:



I liked this set of lamellar, btw:



Detail:

[Comerus Gallus]

Why the corinthian photo is not there? it use to be

I saw it and its perfect!

From By the sword...
http://www.by-the-sword.com/acatalog/LRP_Helms.html



polyurethane is leather or paint that look metal?


I thought they where 10 lb of weight bit its around 1lb ok!.

[FAVENTIANVS]

The lamellar is also made of polyurethane?

[Magnus]

Really cool!

[Tarbicus]

polyurethane is leather or paint that look metal?

It's the very sturdy plastic with a paint finish that looks like metal. Apparently you can run over some of these things with a car and it just flops back into shape again. Used a lot in films.

I see the legionary helmet comes in a few finishes including non-antiqued steel. I spoke to these guys a few years ago about Roman kit and sent them a shedload of references. The cost was pretty jaw dropping.

[Chariovalda]

The stuff certainly doesn’t come cheap. In essence they are selling it as LARP items (apart from the movie business). The helmets, at between £80 and £200 vary from the relatively cheap o the moderately expensive. The armours are quite pricey though, in some cases you can get the real thing for less.

My own interest mainly had to do with a light, sturdy and good-looking helmet for kids, like Robert’s son (Robert and I have discussed briefly about me perhaps trying my hand at a light leather lamellar shirt like the one Ivan / Faventianus has :wink: ). Unfortunately, apart from the price, it only comes in one, adult, size.

Anyone with me in bombarding Norton with inquiries for a smaller sizes for kids and early teenagers? The latter group especially LARPs a lot  . Ah, to be young again…

[Tarbicus]

The armours are quite pricey though, in some cases you can get the real thing for less.

I calculated that for one Norton seg (we did talk prices, etc, for making them) I could get 10 metal ones from Deepeeka using a minimum 10 order. Might be different now, it was a few years ago.

[Comerus Gallus]

Before that I'm going to bed....

Tarbicus, thank you for that useful info!... 8)

laudes paides!

Chariavolda...good idea, I would give some thought about it, it all depends how cheap it comes...since kids grow so fast, why I would buy a costly kit for my kid rather an adult?.