This is my set of plate armor. I had gotten it put together in 2002, originally
with the hopes of doing combat with it. The reenactment society I was
participating in didn't last much longer though.
It's SCA "munitions grade" armor, but I wanted it to look decent too so I paid extra for the
fluting. The only piece I haven't been happy with is the gorget, which
you never see me wear to the renfests, so it's absent from these pictures.
I wanted to use a sallet with bevor anyway, so it wasn't a big deal. The helm
I have is in fact such a sallet, built for SCA combat, that I purchased used.
Technically I just need to add greaves and sabatons now. As you can see there's
not much in the way of an integrated fauld and no tassets, so I've been working
on a mail fauld/skirt to use in that function. I'm also considering a set of nice finger
gauntlets, as the gaunts I have now are not optimal (I have a set of clamshell
gaunts that are a bit loose, and a set of badly-worn finger gauntlets that have
an injury hazard built in.
The ones you typically see in the pictures here are my studded leather gaunts,
which are considerably easier to wear all day)
I'm not a real purist when it comes to complete historical accuracy. I just
want my stuff to be a reasonable approximation.
I weighed the set, and it's about 48 lbs for the breast+back, legs, arms, pauldrons, and mail
fauld. I'm sure it goes over 50 if you add the gorget, gauntlets, and all the leather
I wear with it. And yes, I wear all of it for about 8 hours straight when I take
it to the renfest.
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