30th. September 2006

Work on the latest project, a 15th. Century cap-à-pie armour, started in May 2005 and, as with the other projects, pages chronicling the construction were posted as it progressed. This armour was the most detailed of the three and has taken the longest time to make. The armour was finally completed in January 2006 and images of the finished suit are posted on the last page of this project.

We started work on a building project constructing a 'folly' in the form of a small ruined castle early in the year and this has occupied most of my spare time. Consequently there have been no more armour projects until now. Below is an image of the folly at this point in its construction.

I am just about to start on the next armour project which will be a re-working of an older armour I made some years ago. Some of the original pieces, such as the cuirass and tassets, will be retained but much of the rest will be re-made. This is the armour before renovation and I'll be posting progress images as usual in a separate section on the site.