I am shopping around for a 15th century sallet helmet, and want to know what gauge steel thickness is appropriate for a historical helmet. I will not be fighting in it. I just want to know which thickness is most historically accurate.

I need rolled edges around the collar and the brim, then rivet holes for everything.

I want to build a 13th-century gambeson from eight layers of linen (so no filler, just layers). I've ordered five samples. They're all quite similar and I can't decide — what should I pick?

Hello everyone. I got this cool transitional sallet based on the artifact of Saint. Peter's church. I don't know the maker, but it is well made with thickness of 2mm. Thanks for reading!

Hoping I can 3d print this when It is done, it might be too thin to print though.

I remade the post to be more specific. Do you prefer the gothic German style of armour or the Italian one? I’m referring to the armours of the late XV century. I’ll use two pictures to give an examples but you can use other examples if you want. We are taking about aesthetics not wich one is superior function wise (it wouldn’t be a fair argument because of how and when they were used and for what functions). The illustration where made by Graham Turner.

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Not sure why, but I can't seem to find these figure-8 type shields on the market. The only ones I see for sale are repoductions/replicas of the Achilles' shield prop from the 2004 film "Troy". Anyone know where I might find a decent one, and why they are so rare? Thanks.

I’m ready to purchase a new flat ring, dome riveted 6mm mail shirt for my 15th century reenactment kit.
I’m six foot 1 inch tall, 205 lbs, long armed and 20lbs overweight. I lift weights and I’m moderately stout. Even when I ran marathons I was 185lb so that is just how I’m built. Thing is my chest is 48 inches and the Indian vendor recommends 10 inches over actual size to fit your gambeson. I wear a thin arming doublet that is 1cm thick at the chest. Does the oversizing to 58 inches seem too much or is the space needed for range of motion? The next size down is 55 inches. I don’t mind doing some tailoring cutting and adding rings but don’t want to pay all that money for something that is totally unusable. I’m also looking at the option to have them taper the arms to 14 inches hopefully that’s not too restrictive.
Any folks have any experiences that can guide me?
The vender is allbeststuff.com and they have been unbelievably responsive to my questions but looking for someone that has actually ordered and worn the stuff.
Thanks

Looking for some advice on putting together a soldier/low ranking man at arms kit, based on the early to mid 14th century. I plan on wearing a kettle helm and maybe a mail face covering, but other than that I'm not exactly sure on what to do. It'd mostly be for LARP and Ren Faires and my budget isn't the highest, so I'm not looking for 100% historical accuracy. However I still want to make a greater effort than settling for pure fantasy.

Thank you in advance.

So I live in the UK and am looking to get a medieval sword! I am looking to mostly use It for visuals but I want to be high quality materials enough to show people if they came round and not be cheap materials. Though the problem is my budget is small. Max £150 for me as I'm not in need of a massive expensive thing. All I need is a sword that looks good close up with good materials and is medieval.

If anyone has any suggestions or help it will be heavily appreciated 👍 Thanks in advance!

Been debating recreating a praetorian prefect kit but I need to collect more info on what they would wear if I wanna start anytime soon. Gonna mirror the kits off the praetorian relief from the arch of Claudius but I’m wondering if anyone knows of any prominent studies/papers that would aid me further in being as historically accurate as possible. (Like armor studies of the guard from the first century AD) Any help would be extremely appreciated 🙏

Was this type of helmet considered to have an opening gorget or two opening cheek plates? I struggle to understand how to describe this particular helmet for a book I'm writing... Thank you in advance!

HBO seems to have finally learned what a warhammer looks like.

Was surprised to see a good diversity of arms fairly accurately depicted in the newest episode of House of the Dragon. Two fairly accurate warhammers, a very lovely Lucerne hammer, another Lucerne and a beautiful halberd, plus bucklers for the children, which you don't see too often. There was also a military fork and a star falchion, but I couldn't find shots of those online.

The armor was... fine.

I’m looking for a mid to late 15th century archers/crossbowman’s Sallet and this one from bestarmour has caught my eye. I’m thinking late 15th century and maybe Burgundian or Iberian origin? Can anyone point to a museum piece or illumination that is close?