Welcome to the RPF, Omegaman; good to have one of the experts from the RAT over here and contributing. I'm not a member of RAT myself but I do lurk there a lot and I find a lot of the info there very interesting if a bit over my head at times. You'll find that there a lot of the same kind of people here as on RAT, just switch out historically accurate for canon and you'll find the same attention to detail as well as some of the same debates.
Definitely looking forward to what a Roman history/gladiator expert can contribute to this thread. With your input this thread will, hopefully, move some more and we can start seeing some Spartacus costumes being made.
This is what i have so far. I am making a costume of Spartacus from what he wears in the ludus. First time working with leather, i need to stain it to get the right shade, weatherize it and I am also planning on etching hieroglyphic drawings on it. I will be working on the belt and "underwear" or whatever it is called once im done with the manica.
I started with a pen marked piece of leather because this was a practice peice but it ended up coming out decent so i hope that once i stain it, the pen markings go away. if not i may need to make another.