This may not have been one of my flashier costumes, but there was so much research done to make it, that I cant help but look back and smile. It's certainly a case of the journey being better than the destination, in that it was a complete joy to see how real armorsmiths made traditional Japanese samurai armor. I may have not emulated those principles exactly, and there are certainly a lot of fantasy elements thrown in there, but overall the process of creating a set of armor that is even REMOTELY historically accurate was fun.
Naturally, I tried to do things differently as to, again, learn new things. Learning is the best!