Choosing Medieval or Fantasy Armor 

You are welcome!

That is awesome! Glad you enjoy them!

KJ-Stray thanks so much! We do our best!

@@fellandfair it shows because you guys are the best! blessings to you!

When asking about sizing, do you mean when making it from scratch, or when altering stuff you already purchased?

@@fellandfair Both! But more towards altering what's already been purchased as making from scratch definitely requires practice.

skerr1932 gambesons are somewhat both clothing and armor. We will probably do an “armor part 2” video to fill in some holes.

We did not make the Hurin heelm unfortunately, we had a craftsman that specializes in Polyurethane casting do it for us. We just did a bit of the painting and weathering. We don't really do 100% recreations of the movie costumes. Mainly because we have such respect for the designers and actors that we want their work to stand on its own. Thats why we do characters that have not been filmed before, or we do background characters that we want to see more of and learn more about like rangers and rohirrim.

Ok I understand now thanks for your time

Also a good option.

ima6pack I often wear a simple padded gorget. It pads your shoulders like a gambeson, but does not bulk the rest of your body.

@@fellandfair Thank you I will look into that

That is a good point. However shoes are often found in bogs, or in well preserved graves. Leather armor would be like modern day protective gloves or knee pads, not something you wear every day or something you would bury people in. And as it is not metal, it would be discarded when no longer useful or when damaged unlike metal items which would be saved, repaired and reused. I'm not saying that people were making whole suits of armor with it, just that things like gloves/hand protectors/gauntlets and greaves would be a huge advantage in medieval combat. Someone could have easily figured that out with medieval technology. There are examples of leather llamelar and other more complex leather armor, especially as you move east.

@@fellandfair in a fantasy setting use Leather as it looks cool and works well, and like you said just make sure it fits the theme and character and all is sweet. But historically there is no evidence of it being used. I mainly focus on the Merovingian period and the early "viking" period and during this period there is no evidence for leather armour or of vikings wearing lameller at all. Mongols and Chinese did use Lameller made from rawhide and we have evidence of this. but this only further proves that Northern Europeans didnt use it as we have no finds. and the "evidence" that some people use to try to justify the use of Lameller in a viking contest is the find from Birka, which was found in a foreign barrack along with arabic coins. that is not prove that vikings wear it as it has never been found anywhere else in Scandinavia. there are Iron Lameller finds in Southern German and Northen Italy, Kerch and Neiderstotzigen are 2 good examples, but never any leather examples. Also these finds are before the "viking" age dating to around 500ad and well out of Scandinavia the only armour finds we have from Scandinavia that are in the period are 1 helmet and a few sets of mail. nothing else. artwork usually depicts them wearing a helmet and sometimes what looks to be Mail (could just be patterns on clothing or just filling up negative space) but never anything Lameller like.

Daniel Thomas we will be selling it very soon! Right now it is hit-or miss on quality elsewhere on the internet.

fellandfair glad to hear it! I’m looking to get into this game, so it would be great to have already approved gear. Waiting to hear back from y’all about the rest of the gear, but this is great news!