hauksdottir: Thanks for the comments. Normally I would agree with you on several points you've made. However, I decided to make a few comprimises in the interest of making the armor more feminine. The breasts on the breastplate for example. You are correct that one would wear padding and chainmail underneath. By the time you had the plates over all that you'd have no indication that it was a woman wearing the stuff. The narrow waist is a compromise to make the design feminine. The leg bands are lapped correctly however. The design is loosely based on North west European curiassier armor circa 1600 (while that isn't the 15th Century, I titled it that because it is meant as a companion piece for Micheals version of the same name) I have studied a great many photos of armor and in all of them the leg bands overlap in the fashion I have modeled. They generally fit together much tighter, but the larger gap is there to accentuate the fact that it is made up of plates. nu-be: The gorget (collar piece) is based on a photograph of a suit of embossed armor attributed to Lucio Piccinino of Milan c. 1590. This suit of armor has an articulated neck piece that extends up the neck as I have modeled. You can find many examples of suits that utilize pauldrons (shoulder plates) as I have depicted. Also, you can't see in this rendering, but the leg plates only cover the front and outside of the legs. The inner thigh, back of the legs, and her bum are not covered with articulated plate, so she wouldn't sit on them. Anyway, I did make some compromises in the design, but they were deliberate. This is meant to be a fantasy suit of armor, not an exercise in complete and utter accuracy. I wanted it to be obvious that the wearer was female, so I went with a more form fitting look. This is my answer to the chainmail bikini so often seen in fantasy art. In fact, I have yet to find a photo of a suit of plate armor that was intended for a woman, so there goes the realism right there.