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Quote:Of course if someone made the effort to reconstruct something like these cataphracts, hmm....
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Waooow! Sean Connery is a byzantine re-enactor!!!![/size]
Franck alias D. Vlattera, byzantine dignitary in "Tagma de Byzance".
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If these guys would lose some weight, it would take half as many scales to make their armour...
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Only Quarf. He's the one in the multiple photos at the top. All the others in the group photo at the bottom are "normal" size.
And BTW, Quarf isn't fat - he's solid. Built, as we say in Oz, like a brick sh*thouse.
And he has the most magnificent Byzantine tent in the known world. It's known as the Quarf Mahal . . .
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Well, I suppose you could get the Deepeeka ones, but they aren't quite the right shape - that folded up bit at the top isn't on the contemporary representations. They also look a little too tight to go on the shoulders. How much are they asking for them?
I made mine, and as I only used 18 ga steel (don't really need anything thicker at that spot) they weren't all that hard to make.
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If you're interested in how I put it all together, there's a discussion about it
here
I can't guarantee it's historically correct, but it does work, and it does fit the available evidence.
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As far as buying the equipment as a kataphraktos, my grandfather is a commercial farmer and might own enough land to total at least 16 pounds of gold. Maybe I can mooch off him! :wink:
John Baker
Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.
- Institutes, bk. I, ch. I, para. I