Arms and Armor thread
Post rare armor types and you favorite styles of armor
Arms and Armor/Armour
Parker Morris
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Ryan Thompson
*your favorite
Nathan Long
wish there was more modern armor like this, I sadly only have the two pics
Brayden Wright
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Oliver Mitchell
Tell me more about this armor
Andrew Hill
Modo Antiquo, aka ancient style armor. Also known as Heroic armor. It's a style from 15th century Italy, made to emulate the ancient greek and roman armors. They didn't know exactly what the greeks and romans wore, so they made fancy armor with a bunch of brass/bronze finishes.
It's beautiful style of armor, shame how rare it is. I don't think there's even a Wikipedia page on it
Parker Phillips
damn it, I thought I changed the name on this pic to lamellar
Elijah Gray
It is very nice, about how practical was it in combat?
Liam Phillips
They weren't really meant for war as far as we know. Parades and festivals were very important during the period, so having special costumes made for them was a sound investment.
Jaxon Collins
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Angel Gray
I don't know why, but I love crossbows/scorpions/ballista.
This is pretty much porn.
Kevin Mitchell
Jeremiah Williams
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Ryder Davis
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Ethan Turner
bump
Blake James
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Andrew Williams
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Cooper Ramirez
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James Richardson
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Austin Jones
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Angel Ortiz
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Leo Jenkins
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Jeremiah Garcia
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Anthony Perry
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Gavin Morales
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Jaxson Carter
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Alexander Sanders
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Hunter Roberts
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Gavin Gonzalez
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Bentley Mitchell
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Joshua Young
I fucking love pavises
Noah Myers
I like poleweapons. Do you guys like poleweapons?
Jacob Clark
Tell me serfs, what is needed of me.
Chase Ortiz
Is that Loss?
Jace Gomez
It's some kind of guisarme-y thing. I don't know what a Loss is
Adrian Kelly
Crossbows are sexy.
Jordan Smith
Sorry, /co/ meme/running gag.
I'd crack my Stone to see what he calls it (if he has it documented), but am too lazy/tired.
And yeah, I like poleweapons.
John Butler
Rhodok thread?
Nolan Martin
Google seems to think it may be a billhook.
Samuel Harris
Gorgeous.
Dylan Howard
Does anyone have any men-at-arms images with kettle helmets? Preferably not full plate armour but maybe just chest plate? This is the kind of armour I like and I'm creating a sci-fantasy setting which is kind of He-Man-ish with medieval settings but modern tech. Any help would be fantastically appreciated.
Connor Allen
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Aiden Reed
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Luis Watson
Arm armor coming soon, wooo!
Pic related
>it's them
John Rodriguez
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Jace Powell
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Nathaniel Martinez
From whom did you order them?
Grayson Gonzalez
White armour
Mason Jackson
White armour shop*
I should also add they have an etsy page and are based out of Ukraine (where all halfway decent to good and cheap armorsmiths live for some reason)
Benjamin Carter
Many thanks, some great pics here and some helmet designs I have never seen before. Bless-ye!
Lincoln King
What was the point of the metal skirt? Oh wait, is it for protection whilst on horseback? Just seen the front opening!
Sebastian Wilson
French knights wore really big skirts underneath those metal ones, most early armor had no ass or crotch protection so the skirts hide it or, after the development of the metal one, make the commander stand out.
The skirt thing was an honor symbol
Austin Watson
Oh right, so I was completely wrong! Thanks, and that's why I love these threads, you always learn something.
David Myers
Extra leg protection in on-foot combat tournaments of the 1500s.
Landon Clark
No problem you're half right as the skirts also protect you and you're horse
This particular outfit is made for melee tournaments, the one posted was made for French cavalry (they had a name but it eludes me, also they were in AC brotherhood too), skirts were used to fair degree in tournaments but most people preferred short tassets hanging of theirs cuirass rather than something longer like that.
Trying to get up in that would be a lot harder.
Christopher Price
Same guy here just expanding
They're called bases and the plate ones could be taken off during unmounted combat
The French knights who were them were known as gendarmes
Leo Sanchez
>Trying to get up in that would be a lot harder.
Pretty sure from looking at the lames and their overlap is flexible/collapsible so wouldn't really hinder anything like that. Never seen a pic of the internal construction though.
Anyway, time for pron.
Eli Parker
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Easton Barnes
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Leo Kelly
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Jayden Moore
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Eli Lee
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Asher Reed
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Charles Gonzalez
Yuck finger gauntlets
Nathan Murphy
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Justin Green
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Luis Lee
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Isaiah Nelson
>"...my dream kit. I wish to be a reenactor, reenacting a reenactor reenacting."
Fucking kek
Brody Diaz
First time hearing about that. Skirts being worn with armour wasn't exactly unusual during the 16th century, but those steel skirts were. They're usually only found on foot tourney armours and those that we got maybe one actually has hinged openings on the front and back to make mounting a saddle possible.
Mason Myers
Oops just saw that I wrote "can be taken off for unmounted combat" meant to write can be taken off for unmounted combat.
Sorry user
Nicholas Murphy
Mounted*
Autocorrect
Camden Davis
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Thomas Bailey
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Mason Reed
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Aaron Foster
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Anthony Evans
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Alexander Johnson
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Kevin Diaz
Ribbed for your pleasure.
Jason Martin
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Ethan Young
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Andrew Sullivan
Horse Helmet (this probably has a technical name or at least a fancier sounding latin/french term)
Andrew Wilson
Metal plated horse arse
Ian Price
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Easton Edwards
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Parker Myers
Oh, hey, Thats me :3
The image in is the bottom of a waffenrock, not a tonlet. The katzenburg tonlet in is tournament armour.
Pic is a man in a waffenrock.
shaffron
crupper
Jonathan Mitchell
Chanfron
Owen Cruz
>shaffron
>Chanfron
According to wiktionary, you're both right.
Nathan Hughes
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Julian Carter
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Angel Young
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Owen Morales
KM/Gropey/anyone else
Have you ever seen a decent (inevitably speculative) recreation of the scale helmet, as depicted here an in many other bits of artwork of the era?
Adrian Nguyen
Why speculate? We have several extant artifacts.
Jace Long
And a modern reconstruction of the same
Juan Moore
This comes as a surprise to me. Especially given just how unlikely to survive they seem.
Ethan Anderson
You'd be surprised. I can at least think of three, but this is the only one I have saved on my phone.
They suffer the same fate as many other "low" or "common" armours: Those that do survive, languish in storage as they are not what the public at large wants to see.
Samuel Mitchell
And the element of not seeing reenactors and the like using them because they're going to be less protective (and far less easily available) than typical designs.
Owen Morris
...That made more sense in my head.
The element of not seeing them around as reconstructions increased the surprise of finding out that there actually are extant examples.
Incidentally, got any rope helmets? I can't remember if those are actually supposed to exist or be a misinterpretation of designs like but the idea of a thick rope tied in a coil for a helmet is way more plausible than a lot of modern improvised helmets I've seen used.
Robert White
what is that type of helmet called?
Kevin Allen
Here you go. I need to get around to making one, as its literally just a head-sized coiled basket.
Chapel de fer. You could also argue it being a peaked morion or kettle helmet.
Cooper Torres
an early morion if I was to guess, there's a lot of overlap at the beginning of styles