Let's see the errors of this model.
1st : It has a Sicilian Norman helmet .
Some will claim this picture as resourse:
But they forget that the guy with that red helmet is an Anglovarangian guard (Saxon Huscarl )and he is same as him:
Second mistake:
The leather breast plate with the square plates on it IS a steppe culture armor and NOT a byzantine one.
The Varangian on the Left
uses Tagmatic (imperial) armor set exept his sword/axe and shield.
That tagmatic armor looks like this:
CBUR project is lucky enough to work with an armor recostractor and researcher that is under the sponsor
of Harvard univercity.
So i have no opinions in matters that i do not know but if ANY team requires some basic realism in medieval Roman
(byzatine) warriors please contact me.