Here it is! It's 1,50 meters long and 60 centimeters width at its maximum!
It's made of 3 layers of chestnut wood, each one applied perpendicular to the other, covered with 5 layers of linen and chalk.
It's 1,5 centimeters thick, which makes it 1/3 thick than an original 13th century one which is currently stored at the National Switzerland Museum - this one is almost 5 centimeters thick  :o

http://i67.tinypic.com/2vkkqhl.jpg

He who'll recognize the heraldry and the quote behind the sentence will get a bravo  ;D

Wow that's amazing! How heavy is it?

Is this using the traditional materials they would have used? Nice looking shield by the way.

huge!
it was used as a pavise or a knight's shield?

It's not heavy at all, around 2 kilos.... Morpy, I did use traditional materials (chestnut wood, linen and chalk) and traditional technics (applying each layer of wood perpendicular to the other) but I also used modern tools and glues.
All this just because I wanted a shield that was funny (I'll tell you about the heraldry and the motto if nobody guess it) but still looking historically correct.
That's why I translated the motto from English to Italian and then to Latin, and why I drew it on the shield using a typical Medieval font  :D

It could have been used as a knight's shield, but they soon changed it with a smaller, triangular one.
This has been the classic footman's shield from the 11th Century to the whole 13th at last, and it was spread throughout whole Europe.
The Swiss one dates from 1200 to 1275.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_shield

In forma ariena MF fecit mmxiv. I was made in this form by Mauro Fiorentini in the year 2016.  the other side is not visible
Et...........................Terra est. And............land it is.
Im not good at latin, but i think it would be better MF me fecit and maybe before 2016 to write Anno Domini.