I really like the leather stuff. This is the first time ever I fell in love with a leather armour (Rambler). Nice to see someone doing padded leather. Like your gorgets too. That Drow two-piece is also some of the nicest Drow armour I`ve seen. The Korean armour is also very nice and original, not to mention colourful.

As for the plate, I`d rather spend a couple of hundred to a thousand dollars on some tools and do it myself. But then, I`m not too fond of coat-of-plates, steel-bolted-to-leather kind of armour. I`ll make an exception for some of the gauntlets, though, the Braak especially. Just the thing to finish a gentleman`s evening or dinner jacket in a crossover setting.

Overall I must say the designs are ace, deeply atmospheric without going over the top. And with a sense of humour too. (Hideous Medieval Plate?)

For ideas, I recommend you look at the armour of the Samnites and their immediate precursors. Very basic but very elegant and flexible if you keep discs and squares as separate pieces, instead of attaching them together into one single piece. Very overlooked, too. You may get some original design from that. Seeing what you can do, I think it`ll work great in all (studded/padded) leather, or even metal discs over leather squares. If you can`t find any info on it, post here and I`ll see if I can`t scrounge something together.

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IRL: Edwin Hofstra

- mostly crewing at the moment