/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9006661
Don't worry, I'll use a load of scatter shot! At least one of them will hit the helmet!

>>9007033
As much guff as I give them (mostly because it gets a rise out of hungarian), there are a few "noble" pieces. The one in the comment you linked is one, and here is another.

>>8978329
>Jealous of the bling
>True inheritors of Rome

>>8416681
The segmentata is actually a pretty poor design that wasn't used or especially liked by the legions.

What you might want to look into is my beloved late 15th/early 16thC fashion of In Modo Antiquo: Armour inspired and designed to suggest the armour of archaic greek and roman heros, but using contemporary technology. Note these pics >>8413067
>>8413075
>>8413089
showing a solid breast plate and a brigandine trunk, which brings to mind segmentata and musculata.

>>8016377
That said, placards are perfectly fine if blinged up with random peturges!