Hello, I am planning to build a shield. I have experience with Dagorhir full contact shields, and SCA shields. For LARP Adventures I was thinking a 26" center grip round shield with 1/4" ply core, steel boss, foam edging, with canvas or linen glued on and painted. Would that work in this game sin

For those who may like to create something unique for themselves, but have no idea where to start, this thread will document my progress creating some new leather armor for my character. Hopefully some others can take inspiration from it to try to make something new.

Ever since Sir Ceannric's first post of portals on the Facebook page, I've been inspired. I've incorporated ideas from it into my character's backstory. And because of it, I've liked the idea of making a self glowing orb. So far, the closest I've gotten is whats pictured above, which is an actual

Adding pauldrons to my leather jerkin. I had originally made a set of courbullio, wax impregnated leather shoulders for this armor that I used to wear with a chainmail apron, but that was some 20 years ago and they have been lost. With a little care armor pieces will last many years so putting i

Recently I've been working on on leather crafting and getting some idea's out of my head and into real world. Strangely that seems to be taking to work on Orc armor. Yeah that's not where I started off but it's how it's going. I can't show any pictures right now as I'm just getting the patterns wor