Viking belt

I managed to buy some viking age boots I liked, as well as a tunic.  I make my own knives, so now all I needed was a belt.  So I made one:

Now I can go to the Ren Faire this fall dressed as a viking and not have my pants fall down! It's 1 1/4" wide made from 10oz tooling leather.  All the fitting on it are bronze that I carved and cast myself.

The buckle is an enlarged copy of a find in Birka, Sweden that is now in the Swedish History Museum.  What style of viking art it is I'm not sure - I think the distinctions are fairly blurry.  I'm thinking it's Jelling style, but feel free to disagree.

The strap end is based on a jelling style strap end also in a Swedish museum, but I altered the overall shape and composition a bit to fit what I wanted.
The little round plates are a reproduction of a period belt plate I liked.

The strap connector and it's two attaching plates are purely my design.  I tried to make them fit with the overall design of the fittings, but my fingers have seen to much Japanese metalwork and Cthulu has colonized parts of my brain so there are definite influences of both that I would remove if I did these again.
The strap connector is used to join 3 straps coming together - this case the two belt parts and the strap that will hold my seax.
The square plate on either side of the connector makes up a majority of the plates on the belt.  The design is a slightly modified bit from another belt that I liked.

There are also 6 plate in convenient spots around the belt with Loki's face on them that have loops for attaching items to the belt.  In the picture above the last whole plate on the right is one of them.
All  the fitting have integral posts casts on the back that I peened over with a washer for attachment.  Yes, it was a huge amount of hammering - there are 100 posts on this belt.
 For the next run I may try the more traditional method of making the posts pointy.  They get attached by pushing the points through and bending them over.
I will sell copies of the hardware starting this fall in my Etsy store, and make full belts as commissions.