Ed's Mid 14th C. kit

[Sir Wolf]

add a diamond in between the shoulder blades and maybe one over the breast bone. it helped james barker.

[Joshua Santana]

After listening to the advice and recommendations from my instructors at SIGMA along with deep considerations.  I am now all for a 14th Century Harness or Kit.

I will be using Sir Wolf's recommendations on the Merc Tailor kit prototype and I will be posting more prototypes for full harnesses or kits.

[Sir William]

Sir Joshua, in all seriousness, make a list of all the kits you've been ogling- unless I miss my guess, you will acquire them all in time.  Choose the one you want the baddest and make that your first kit...it is a process that we all have or are going through...and as I'd said before, that's half the fun right there!

[Sir Jason Simonds]

I wish I could even consider dropping a large sum of money for a good steel kit, but unfortunately at this time I am going to have to stick to my lighter stainless steel variety.

[Sir Edward]

I wish I could even consider dropping a large sum of money for a good steel kit, but unfortunately at this time I am going to have to stick to my lighter stainless steel variety.

I really do think the best way to go about this for most people is to slowly build the kit up, little by little. It's hard to drop a lot of cash all at once. The advantage to doing it all at once of course is that it's easier to make everything match. But really, I find that a lot of the time you have to buy things from different places to get it all to fit better anyway.

And besides, the cost is always an issue.

[Sir Brian]

Absolutely!

Here is a picture of Sir Edward and me @ 2007 MDRF when I wore armor for the first time compared to this past Sunday. Four years doesn't seem so long but there was a lot of changes since that first day.

[Sir Jason Simonds]

One day I will get there. I do have this Breastplate and backpiece that was donated to me by Sir Edward that will be a great starter piece for me. First thing First i need to get it cleaned up. I think that Set may have to wait another season before it makes its first apearance.

[Sir Edward]

Man, I love going back and looking at those pics from a few years ago. It's really cool to see how a kit evolves! Especially when the end result is as photogenic as Sir Brian's is.  

Oh, and cool.. that second photo has me in the kit that this thread is for... so we're back on topic too.

EDIT: Yeah, my kit has come a long way since those "full moon" days too...

[Sir Brian]

I think your 14th C. kit is really excellent! I can't wait to see it with your new surcoat and don't take this the wrong way but I like your legs!  (except the side plates on the knee cops, I never cared for them when I had them)

[Sir William]

I wish I could even consider dropping a large sum of money for a good steel kit, but unfortunately at this time I am going to have to stick to my lighter stainless steel variety.

I can attest to that...I've spent the last five years cobbling together my kit...and I don't have anything left from the original set, except a butted steel coif that I still use from time to time.  For me, that was part of the fun of it...don't get me wrong, I felt pangs of envy every time I saw someone else post up about a new bit of armor or sword but as long as you work within your means, you'll do just fine.

At least that's what I tell myself, daily. 

[Sir Wolf]

i feel like the shoemaker. always making kit ideas for others but never myself hehehe

[Sir Jason Simonds]

I didnt know you do WWII Sir Wolf, I used to do 1^st SAS Brit. years ago.

[Sir Wolf]

do u know scott cozad, don burkett, rob slater, bob davis and those guys?

[Sir Jason Simonds]

Sir Wolf,

I do know Don Burkett, and Rob Slater, as well as Ray Partenheimer (Hans), I have also meet other WWII Reenactors that enjoy coming to the Ren Faire as well, just don't remember names.

[Sir Edward]

Well, I had a chance to actually fight in this kit last night. It performed pretty well, but it's clear I need to get that torso armor over the mail. Bill and I talked about the idea of using the GDFB simple breastplate, and take the plackart off, and use it like a cheap globose breastplate. So I have one on order now from KOA. I'm going to give that a shot.

I canceled that order for the GDFB "pot helm" I mentioned in another thread. I'm looking back through this thread at some of the klappvisor and round-faced bascinet options out there. The one from Anshelm we mentioned earlier is gorgeous, but we misread the page. It would be something like $900 for that visor, aventail, etc... but not the helm itself! That's another $500-$2000!

So I'm still looking.

This one is listed as "out of stock", but is still an option, and comes with padding and strapping, just no aventail: http://armourandcastings.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=68

I figured I'd post a few photos that I'm using as inspiration while putting this kit together, as a reminder:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8765199@N07/3796182715/