The same author did a kit review of the Gondor armor from the movies, and was (broadly) quite positive about it: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/10/collections-gondo

The same author did a kit review of the Gondor armor from the movies, and was (broadly) quite positive about it: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/10/collections-gondor-heavy-infantry-kit-review/ https://acoup.blog/2020/01/10/collections-gondor-heavy-infan... His observations seem to mesh closely with yours; he mentions in particular that the Gondor armour seems to have been constructed "properly", and hangs correctly (regardless of what the materials used were). It seems that the LotR movies did a significantly better job on the armour than the RoP show has. Which is a little surprising given their enormous budget, but I guess they had different priorities (and fair enough, of course; I'd be surprised if that sort of thing is even noticed by one viewer in a hundred).