Thermen museum project... armour

[anytime]

Hi,

I just like to let you all know about the project I've been working on.

For the Thermen Museum in Heerlen, the Netherlands I was making 3 lorica's & helmets.


Not yet finished - raised helmet...


The first finished lorica...

See more at [url:25vqskku]http://www.pixis.nl/anytime/customer/thermen/Thermen/Thermen/lorica035.jpg[/url]

[jvrjenivs]

Wonderful. Looking forward to the endresult!

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Nice work! 8)

[anytime]

That lorica pic didn't seem to work.... again:


I hammered all the loops & hooks from soft brass rod, not just folded plate
All the hinges were cut out of brassplate, folded&shaped by hammer & hand.

The 1mm mild plate I used was pre-hammered by an polished hammer (done with the assistance of a special made-by me for the purpose air-planishing hammer) to get rid of the industrial rolled-plate look and get a very good genuine pre-industrial look.

Bosses were stamped out of annealed brassplate on a leadblock with a handmade die.

Only parts I did not make by hand were the rivets.

For more pics, see my (Dutch) blog or visit my website.
[url:3gi92q1w]http://www.anytimehistorischereproducties.blogspot.com/[/url]
or
[url:3gi92q1w]http://anytime.pixis.nl/[/url]

[Hibernicus]

Very nice. Glad to see you hammered the modern plate steel and planished it.

I'd like to why you upended the arm cut out of the top torso plate.

[Matt Lukes]

That's nice work Duco- but I would also point out that the outermost lesser shoulder guards are not rolled on any orignal artifac I've ever studied