German-language blog on a Japanese armour project

[hanaya]

I know that this is mostly an American forum, but you might enjoy the pictures of progress and his shop:

schindis-armour.blogspot.com

Here is his pile-of-books and here is a Zitat to the "extrem hilfreiche Website Nihon Katchû Seisakuben vom versierten Japanologen und Samurai-Rüstungs-Guru Anthony J. Bryant."

[Please Delete]

Very nice!

-Ii

[Kozure Okami]

Very cool! While searching the forum, I've seen one or two posts by schindibee about his project, but this blog is much more detailed

[schindibee]

Oh? Interesting that my (old and not very much updated) blog is read haha!

I haven't visited this forum for a long time now - was very busy with other stuff and worked on my armor only very intermittendly - but with some crazy nightshifts I managed to get it into a wearable form a few weeks back! I'm not completely finished, but fairly advanced by now...

I'll try to update you guys here as well as my blog as I find time. Here - as a little teaser - just one pic from an event two weeks back (my sister's wedding - I wanted to be then, so that's why I "nightshifted" so much recently haha!):