I Tried to Make Historically Accurate Knights In LEGO!

I've been playing a bunch of ck3 recently and was inspired to try and make some historically acurate-ish knights & soldiers today.

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[Philipp.of.Swabia]

2:49 the Rohan helmet might work for that.

[AlteredRubix]

This is super cool! I love history, especially the Byzantine, and Roman soldiers. The armor they used was always so cool!

[revol_]

YES! It feels so good and refreshing to finally see a fellow history enthusiast! Thank you for this video, brother

[FeudalBricks]

That gambeson torso is perfect. I reccomend pairing it with the blue mando legs and changing the arms out for dark blue

[innocentBystander]

Best part of the Harry Potter knight that you made is you can swap out that plume with a different color, give it a shield and cloak/half-cloak, and you instantly have a knight with a different faction or heraldry. Good for a tournament knight or “knights of the round table” situation.

[Bohmond]

You can actually make very historically accurate byzantine skutatoi (standard byzantine infantry) by using the same torso and the legs of the queen from the lion knights castle. You can also use the legs from the tax collector of the medieval town square. Byzantine infantry usually wore skirts with light coloured boots. They would also mainly use spears and kite shields that were sometimes painted. For the helmet you can use the standard lego knight helmet with the nose protection or prince of persia helmets.

[michaelnurse]

Princess Mononoke spotted in the background. Possibly the greatest movie ever made imho.

[karterver]

No, no, Byzantium rarely had black colors in their uniforms. Honestly, purple or bright red details would suit them, and arms could be replaced with brown or red, and l gloves could be brown. And besides the Rohan helmet, a helmet with a nasal and aventail or a golden helmet from the sets for Prince of Persia could be suitable, or the most reliable option is an old-school helmet with an aventail.

[fidelitascastro]

The dragonborn torso looks really good, but having a hounskull would be a more historically accurate helmet

[Toshiro]

The combination of that torso and those legs for the Byzantine soldiers is really interesting, great work!

For my part, I created a war elephant, more Persian/Carthaginian style, however I would like to place it in a Byzantine formation.

[Tadicuslegion]

My wallet: Oh, no! Wait a minute. I know what you're thinking, and you're wrong. Don't even-

[rawchocolatier]

By far your best direction yet, going for medieval realism is what the best and most ingenious designers in the MOC world do IMO. Finally removing the yellow which had it's controversy during the "SW yellow, but one brown" gate. I also think most of your followers are adults and the yellow heads are for 3 year olds... 😅 But in all seriousness, great work ❤❤❤

[moriskurth]

The "Helmet Castle with Chin Guard", like the one on the first figure in the video, might work if you can get them in a fitting color, as it could stand in for conical and Phrygian helmets with mail coifs that the Byzantines wore in the 10th to 14th Century. Especially neat since you can use them as a substitute for printed mail coifs on the heads.

The "Helmet Castle with Neck Protector" could also work, even if the nose guard looks more Norman than Byzantine, but it would be a good fit for some helmets that were worn by Byzantine Skoutatoi around the 10th to 11th century.

[zanderfus]

Cool video today :), I love how the crusaders turned out especially, I'm just so in love with the dragon torso

[matthewneuendorf]

The gray balaclava head with exposed eyes makes for an excellent alternative to the mail coif head. I use it for my medieval Romans with the pearl dark gray nasal helm with aventail and the spectacle helmet.

[runkelpokk]

0:50 you should use a icecream cone for the shield, its a lot more sturdy

[shibumi]

Interesting builds. Definitely going to have to acquire some of these parts.
I see someone has been watching Princess Mononoke. 😊

[witoldwisniewski]

Excellent video, more of these please!

[TyronBezzina]

Lego missed so much potential with historical themes like rone and carthage

[Z_Brick_]

The prince of Persia, or rider of rohan helmets could work quite well