Show here your Roman soldier impression

[Robert Vermaat]

Indeed! What 20th-century stuff??

[King Louise Assurbanipal]

It is not Ancient Roman...
but my armor is of Knight of the Holy Roman Empire.

[Julius Verax]

That Armour certainly protects the person inside , not much left to go for . well done .

Julius .

[M. Demetrius]

not much left to go for

Go for the flamethrower and roast the hapless soul right out of there! Beautiful metal work!

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Nice work Jujen!
i see you have modeled your new helmet after me!! Sans hair! :mrgreen: :lol:

[Iosephus]

Hi,

Here are some pics of my "ongoing" late roman kit. I say ongoing, because there's still a lot of work to do, so please don't be too harsh on me

without armour:
http://www.militia.hu/?q=node/1743
http://www.militia.hu/?q=node/1744
http://www.militia.hu/?q=node/1745

what I would like to improve with this one, is to have proper late roman shoes, gaitors (you know the textil stuff for the lower legs), spatha and a better balteus, pannonian cap.

with armour and helmet:
http://www.militia.hu/?q=node/1746
http://www.militia.hu/?q=node/1747

The helmet bowl is spun steel covered with copper alloy sheet (I wanted to cover the skull as well but unfortunately that is something far beyond my skills, so I have to find somebody to do it for me) and of course the cheek pieces will have leather rims finished.

The locking scale armour is made of 0,5 mm thick copper alloy scales (I used 980 pieces for that) laced with steel wire and I'm going to replace the buckles sometimes later on (they are modern ones, I just bought them in a shop and not satisfied with it).

One question:
I'm thinking of adding a fascia ventralis to this impression, but I'm afraid it's out of date for late period.

Do we have any evidence of it's use later than 2nd century AD?
Thanks!

[jvrjenivs]

That seems as a very nice start. I really like your tunic. Nice decorations. Well done.

And your locking scale armour is awesome, even with modern buckles! Good luck with improving your kit, but you surely already did a good job, I think.

[Paulus Claudius Damianus]

Really good job for beginning Iosephus!!! Nice reenactement quality. When you form a late roman group?

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Jószef,

Great impression! Why would we be harsh on you when you are (already!) looking that good? I like your tunic - did you use embroidery for your decorations?

I think that a waist band is very possible for the 4th century. I recall that it remained a fashion item in the Romano-Byzantine army.

I flicked through your pictures - I think your group also has a very good late 3rd-early 4th c. impression!
http://www.militia.hu/?q=node/837

[Paulus Claudius Damianus]

Ah yes, your group make late roman times! I don't know your late roman unit. What is your name? So, the tunic décorations are fine. I wish to see others pictures to your reenactement society.

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Damien,

They are the Pannoniciani Iuniores! wink:

[Paulus Claudius Damianus]

Oh... of course...

[Bran ap Maclou]

Hello !

Here are some pictures and a little movie about our camp in Vannes, southern Britanny. Three days celebrating the origins of Britanny for the national fest (july the 14th). We were happy to set the camp just under the medieval walls of the town, themselves buils ont the basements of the former gallo-roman walls of the ancient veneti capital. The last britto-roman seguntienses legionaries and their barbarian auxiliaries were presented.

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Adwyn map coel our centenarius



More pictures
http://www.bellapix.com/expos/public/vi ... e2407f0111

Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs95USiZlxg

Bye ! Greg

[Theodosius the Great]

Jvrjenivs,

I like how your armor doesn't have those round extensions at the waist that we see on the regular DSC versions. It looks very good on you, too. I remember reading about how scale and mail shirts tend to get shorter starting from the second half of the first century forward. That's why I made mine stop at about the waist as well. At least the scarce evidence we have seems to suggest this was the prevailing style. The mid-thigh length is more Republican. Anyway, very nice job with your kit.

@ Iosephus

I love your tunic design It looks like you put a lot of work into it. Ditto for your pteruges. Nice edging for the strips. I think I know which method you used and I plan to use it myself.

Your armor looks very nice though maybe a bit uncomfortable ? I almost made locking-scale myself but decided to make a squamata shirt instead. I wonder how long it took you to make your cuirass. Your entire kit looks awesome 8)

@ Greg

Is that a spangenhelm in the foreground of the last photo ?
The one with the aventail ? It looks like some in your group wear Ridge-helmets and others spangenhelms.

~Theo

[Bran ap Maclou]

Hi Theodosius !

Yes, I wear a ridge helmet though last evidence for these kind of helmet stop in the first quarter of the fifth century. Our problem is to render an impression of the very roman conservative trends without being too "archaïc". Basically, we did not find any helmet in the region for the period neither a lot of iron objects due to the acidity of our soils. So we have to choose between using barbarian influenced items or truly roman but former fashion items. So my friends chose to use some barbarian influenced helmets or "hybrid" designs between roman technology and later found anglo-saxon helmets. My decision was to present an ancient simple design so I purchased an Intercisa type. However, I'm waiting for a simple spangenhelm bowl which should make me look like less 4th century but more barbarian. We have fierce debate about the east of Britanny which fall under Frank domination but seems to stay really influenced by brittons (i.e romans) according to a few buckle fragments and anyways, Bishops and other important characters remain gallo-roman (and sometimes irish) and finally king Waroch conquer quite easily the region of Vannes in 578AD and Franks doesn't seem to be really well settled even then.
But, you're right to point it, I have no proof !

Bye !