Arms and Armor Thread

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8/10
I'm not much of a fan of blued/blackened armor.

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leftmost guy makes me moist

are drawings allowed in these kind of threads?

anyone have something like this, but irl

MATCH ME FAGGOTS

Byzantine Lamellar is purely A E S T H E T I C

OP here, I really don't care as long as it's arms and armor.

lamellar armor best armor

k

thanks op

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Not my favorite but it's in my top 5

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I wish I could be a medieval tank

follow you dreams

Get into HEMA and reenactment.

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OP here posting some of my weapons.
Left: Type XIV Arming Sword from Kingston Arms
Right: Luged/winged spear

My Schiavonna from Wulflund, with a scabbard I made myself.

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Will post more tomorrow if the thread doesn't die.

>stop watching porn

I can only contribute with this, have a bump.

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neat, keep up the good work

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10/10

Rus amour

God bless the Poles

For Honor

Reconstruction of Tang era lamellar.

Can someone tell what was the purpose of all the fluffy parts in the armour of renaissance soldiers? Do they offer any protection or just for show?

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One of my teacher's made this harness. While neat looking, it is in truth extremely inaccurate. The legs are basically shapeless, the spaulders are too big by far and don't belong with splinted defenses and the corrazina is based on a garbage reconstruction in the Met.

I'm an armorer and medieval historian focusing on military organization and military technology - ask me anything.

It's just for show. They were fashionable and most armour in this era is worn over civilian clothes or military garments that mimic civilian fashion.

There's a lovely breastplate in the Wallace that has rivets placed down the front to look like buttons.

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Another Tang armour reconstruction.

I don't know that it was strictly for show. There are early-mid 16th century garments that are puffed and slashed like civilian clothing but were made of leather. I've heard it argued that it may be that the civilian clothing was rather inspired from the military clothing, not necessarily vice versa. The large puffs certainly enable range of motion without requiring the close tailoring of earlier medieval arming garments and the added material in all likelihood was advantageous at catching blades even momentarily and absorbing impacts. Even the split second your opponent's weapon is tangled in your clothing is quite enough to end him. But all thing is conjecture as we do not have any primary source material on the subject, to my knowledge.

Han lamellar armour.

Qin lameller.

Song armour.

Good morning Veeky Forums.

Left: Kopis
Right: Claymore from Depeeka

Here's the front of lamellar armor I never finished.

The hexagonal cross section screams Type XVII

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Here is a shield I made from scrap wood lying around.

>spend a decade intensely studying the greatest mounted fencing techniques around the world to design the perfect cavalry sword
>it literally never gets used in combat
nice going Amerilards

I like it.

What did the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasty use?

>If I don't cover my armor in thistles and Celtic knots, how will people know I'm Scottish?

>tfw swords are not used in combat anymore
>tfw even sport fencing and HEMA are almost dead sports

Do you think King James abandoned his patriotic tendencies because he associated his son with Scotland and when he died he coped by becoming an Angloboo?

here is my small collection
(from top to bottom) Katana ,greek kopis/Iberian Falcata, greek xiphos,native american peace pipe tomahawk ,small knife that came with kopis and a Tibetan phurba dagger.

oh i forgot the Roman Gladius mainz style in the middle

Were flails actually used as weapons of war?
This seems disputed.

>sport fencing and HEMA are almost dead sports
Are they really?
I thought they were still quite popular, I was even thinking of taking up HEMA myself.

>that hand placement

If I take that mask off will you commit Sodoku?

It ruld be extreemli painfuu

>Song
Lamellar
greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/2016/06/scale-and-lamellar-armours-of-ming.html

>Yuan/Ming
Reintroduction of front opening lamellar Brigandine/cotton for the rank and file.

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what the hammer thing

Did they cover breastplates in leather?

If not, why not?

I mean, I suppose it depends who you mean. For western white plate, I guess not: Leather is quite heavy and it's a lot of added expense/cost. It just doesnt add much or even needed protection.

Western plate armor or cuirasses

In a TV show, the breastplates are apparently meant to be covered in leather in preparation for a very long winter (years long). I don't think this was done historically, but also don't see a problem with it in the context of the show (very long winters).

A thin layer of hardened leather might protect against corrosion?

looks like a de clare on the right

Early breastplates were covered to hold them together because they could not yet forge them from single pieces. Freezing in a breastplate is rather unlikely since you'd be wearing padding underneath and you could always wear a cloak on top.

There are depictions of them in artwork, but these were farm implements used to separate wheat grains from the chaff and were weapons of last resort for the lower classes. Ball-and-chain sort of flails probably were not used, or at least I have encountered absolutely no evidence of them.

Leather? Probably not. However, rich fabrics like silks and velvets absolutely were used to cover both segmented and solid globose breastplates, as evinced by depictions in manuscripts, sculpture, written sources and extant examples. Leather was a relatively cheap material, but those fabrics were a further display of the owners wealth.

HEMA is getting bigger and bigger though. It's still small but it's been going for less than 25 years in its modern iteration so...

If they were used, it was their two-handed versions and most certainly never in wars but for rare individual examples of poorer levies.

But they were certainly used as improvised weapons in rural feuds and random fights.

The typical one-handed spike and ball flail is extremely dubious, but maybe as a short-lived cavalry weapon.

simple and boring

arming swords are functional, but jesus christ they're so boring to look at

Hehe, there's a chunk in your armor

I want the the knife.

i dont even know why it came with the kopis. i dont think ive read any sources with Greeks or Iberians that mention having an extra knife with the scabbard

Ok , thank you guys.