Hard Kit Update! I noticed after examining a couple of portraits and paintings that there are more times that the tassets on 16th Century breats and backplates than those without tassets. So I decided to make a few adjustment to my hard kit, the first is adding the tassts to the breastplates. The scecond adjustment is changing the close helm to an armet (also used in the 16th century) because the close helm appears to big for my head size. So here is the following revised list: (remember stainless steel is the steel I'm going for)
Armet with Punched Visor: $780
16th Century Pauldrons without Haul Gaurds: $233
Peascod Breast and Back Plate with 1 Fauld and 5 piece tassets and strapping for neck, arms and bottom of tassets: $360 + $30
16th Century Full Arms with Strapping: $315 + $60
"Munition" Gauntlets with Strapping: $248
Total $2026
Review of the Soft Kit:
Pendragon Costumes
Italian Doublet: $245.00
Pendragon Shirt: $75.00
Sykes Sutler
Venetian Pants (Medium): $85.00
Museum Replicas
Leather Cavalier Boots: $110.00
Total: $515.00
Grand Total of both Soft and Hard Kit: $515.00 + $2026 = $2541
It is a bit more expensive but it is still within my price range that I would pay with monies in hand.
I know this may be annoying but I have to be careful of what I am willing to invest time and money in, making adjustments helps with knowing what you want out of it. To me, it would be better to take time finding out what you want in a Kit before ordering it and finding out you don't like it. Anyway, I am looking forward to it and my hard kit would now look a lot like this:
