Here are the full sized patterns for the greaves and vambraces that fit our Theoden. You will probably need to adjust for personal fit. They are in .pdf format. Greaves and Vambraces.

This photo shows Gamling's finished gear, with part of the scale mail coat at the bottom of the photo. You will notice that Gamling has knee cops on his greaves, while Theoden does not. I don't know why this is so, but it is.

I will continue at this point with Gamling. The mail coat is construsted just like the mail skirt. It was handsewn to a garment. The mail coat also has a leather yoke that was added later to the garment. It is attached with 8 rivets. There are grommets in the base garment where the rivets pass through it, and there are brass washers to re-inforce the leather and the garment so the rivet will not pull through them. There are an additional set of 4 rivets that I added to the design to keep the leather attached and aligned to the neckline opening of the inner base layer.

The mail coats in the film open up the back like a hospital gown, but this would not really be so practical for a fighter. The cloaks worn by the royal guards hide this. I elected to make my coat open only at the neck, and it has slits for and aft for riding. It goes on and off like a chain mail hauberk.

Gamling also has a very beautiful and elaborate gorget of mixed metals. The pattern was worked out by our embossing specialist, and consists of the everpresent horsehead motifs and botanical designs, with the addition of triskelions like those on the leather yoke. The collar was constructed on a base of 6 pieces of ABS plastic. The pattern was embossed on appropriately colored metals by hand. These were glued to the plastic sections and the ABS sections glued to each other. The edges of the various sections were then trimmed with brass ball chain and airplane cable. Embossed leather straps and buckles were added to each side.