Finally got a real chainmail shirt and hood (coif)! Weighs 9 kg though the leg armour and sabatons are handmade by me from plastic. The gauntlets are also real steel. And the sword is only from wood and I left my real sword at home since I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to take it to the castle.
Cosplay is exercice. I would have been very disenchanted with my 9 kg armor and these stairs. Congrats on the improvement!
Thanks! And yeah, I definitely got a good work out that day. I climbed all the way to the top of the castle up those stairs. There is even a spiral staircase in the inner keep. You get a really cool 360 degree view of the surrounding town and countryside. It was awesome. Luckily, it was not that heavy once I put it on. The hard part is carrying it to the castle and putting it on or taking it off. Then it feels much heavier. But once it’s on you it’s not too bad.