For reasons well known to most who have heard the name "MERP", I start this thread with a legal disclaimer.

Disclaimer:
Neither does the existence of this thread, nor my choice to eventually release this armors represent in any way possible a decision by the MERP team to continue their work in violation of the C&D. Any commercial use of the assets as of their release will be strictly prohibited and furthermore I explicitly enjoin the MERP team from using this assets in the event they continue their work unless the C&D is lifted. In addition I want to point out that beside from me no one at the MERP team had their assistance in creating these assets, nor does anyone from the team have access to the current version of the files. All assets were created by myself and if stock images etc. were used, their usage was explicitly permitted for both commercial and non-commercial use.
I do not claim any authorship of the underlying designs and these belong to their respective owners. Because of the nature of this mod neither is it able, nor do I plan to add any content that should make it able to compete with an already existing or planned game utilizing the LOTR license.

Now to the nice stuff:
Well, I believe most people who visit this thread and have heard of the name MERP, know at least on of the following renders:

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/20/19696/gondorarmor.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img688/8563/gondorarmor.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img825/751/towerguardarmor.jpg

Now, four years after I begun this armor as one of my first modeling projects, I eventually want to have this armor in an actual mod, one with which I'm content as well. Because I'm unable to do this now within a TC, I decided to release this armor as a standalone mod.

Status: Most models and textures were revamped approx. one year ago in preparation for Skyrim, but I never got to adapt them to the Skyrim skeleton. This needs to be done.
Aside from that most of the needed work (90-95%) is finished and mostly only a few enhancements need to be added. Probably one or two meshes need to be exchanged wholly.

Please note that this thread is not for discussing MERP or anything else related to it.

Stay tuned and kind regards,
BGS