Arms and Armor Thread

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>>3210701
14th century armor

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>>3210701
Posting the GOAT of all armor!

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>>3210701

>>3210727
looks more like an estoc

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to spice up the thread

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>>3210803
Thanks mate!

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rate boys

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Dream armour right here lads

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the man

>>3210832
8/10
I'm not much of a fan of blued/blackened armor.

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leftmost guy makes me moist

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are drawings allowed in these kind of threads?

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anyone have something like this, but irl

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MATCH ME FAGGOTS

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>>3210840
>>3210852
>>3210856
Byzantine Lamellar is purely A E S T H E T I C

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>>3210862
OP here, I really don't care as long as it's arms and armor.

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>>3210866
lamellar armor best armor

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>>3210873
k

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>>3210873
thanks op

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>>3210874
Not my favorite but it's in my top 5

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I wish I could be a medieval tank

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>>3210904
follow you dreams

>>3210904
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

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>>3210927
My Schiavonna from Wulflund, with a scabbard I made myself.

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>>3210936
>>3210927
Will post more tomorrow if the thread doesn't die.

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>>3210944
>stop watching porn

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I can only contribute with this, have a bump.

>>3210927
>>3210936
neat, keep up the good work

>>3210832
10/10

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Rus amour

>>3210715
God bless the Poles

>>3210865
For Honor

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Reconstruction of Tang era lamellar.

>>3210858
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?

>>3210709
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.

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>>3211333

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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>>3210701

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>>3212035
Another Tang armour reconstruction.

>>3211333
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.

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>>3212040
Han lamellar armour.

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>>3212060
Qin lameller.

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>>3212075
Song armour.

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>>3210944
Good morning /his/.

Left: Kopis
Right: Claymore from Depeeka

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>>3212765
Here's the front of lamellar armor I never finished.

>>3210746
The hexagonal cross section screams Type XVII

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>>3212772
Here is a shield I made from scrap wood lying around.

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>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

>>3212035
>>3212040
I like it.

What did the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasty use?

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

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>>3212790
>tfw swords are not used in combat anymore
>tfw even sport fencing and HEMA are almost dead sports

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>>3212800
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?

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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.

>>3213004
oh i forgot the Roman Gladius mainz style in the middle

>>3211992
Were flails actually used as weapons of war?
This seems disputed.

>>3212807
>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.

>>3210803
>that hand placement

If I take that mask off will you commit Sodoku?

>>3214076
It ruld be extreemli painfuu

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>>3212798
>Song
Lamellar
http://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/2016/06/scale-and-lamellar-armours-of-ming.html

>Yuan/Ming
Reintroduction of front opening lamellar >>3211330

Brigandine/cotton for the rank and file.

>>3212790
what the hammer thing

Did they cover breastplates in leather?

If not, why not?

>>3216753
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.

>>3216809
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?

>>3210971
looks like a de clare on the right

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>>3216753
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.

>>3213409
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.

>>3216753
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.

>>3212807
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...

>>3213409
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.

>>3210845
simple and boring

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

>>3212077
Hehe, there's a chunk in your armor

>>3213004
I want the the knife.

>>3220133
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

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>>3217708
>>3217750
Ok , thank you guys.