Show here your Roman soldier impression

[Crispvs]

Thanks everyone! :grin:

To be fair, I was given the scales some years so didn't have make them myself. The breast hooks came from Len Morgan. It was constructed by attaching the rows of scales to the heavy canvas backing by laying a strip of linen across the top of each and sewing up through the scales and over the linen, following the method used on the fragment of scale from Carpow.

Having had the scales sitting around in a box under the stairs for years, I actually started it in mid March, with the vague and unrealistic aim of having it ready by Good Friday. There was no real prospect of this of course and after Easter I left it for nearly a month before doing any more work on it. Since then work on it has happened in several bursts of concentrated effort, sometime separated by as much as a fortnight. In all it has probably taken in the region of three hundred hours and has used 32 metres of copper wire as well. I feel the effort was well spent though and it is an unlooked for bonus that others like it too, so thanks again.

Crispvs