help Ian's alternate reality self

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FB0goDq38Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYXu8LGddWU

ex-military helicopter pilot too.

good bloke, knows far more than Lloyd.

So, free bump.

>>32524465
Wow, I thought no one watched his stuff here. Already subscribed but bump for more armor talk.

>finally understand why plates are the size they are

>>32527042
In which video does he explain that?

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>>32527127
Forgot but it has to do with the way the waist bends, a plate that comes down to the hips will dig into you and make things like running near impossible. To actually protect that area while retaining mobility you'd need to have a series of sliding plates or flexible armor like Kevlar. Maybe both given the plates would need to be rather thin to move right.

Capwell also has a good set of speeches regarding armor and Gucci armor too

>>32527127
Found it, around 9:00 https://youtu.be/ExJdZigxn-M

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>>32527042
>finally understand why plates are the size they are

armour is an exoskeleton, and as such, you have an issue of surface area which increases with volume. one of the principal issues of armour is to allow biomechanical motion, you need to keep it as close to the skeleton as possible - a large plate away from the pivot points has to move further, relatively speaking, than a small one close in - its why armour is slim, and form-fitting, rather than the bulky stuff you see in sci-fi or fantasy with giant pauldrons.

combine that with scarcity of material, and you get the main reasons for economy of scale.

its a fascinating subject.

>>32527601
Was referring to modern plates, wish there was more research done into custom fit armors with maybe composites to aid in shaping, would look like orcs or some shit compared to the biomechanical artwork people used to make in the late middle ages to early Renaissance

>>32527780
the same issues of scale and exoskeletal mobility apply to modern armour.

In many ways, modern plate carriers are very similar in terchnology to the 1300-1330's coats of plate, which are the very earliest rigid defences.

which rather makes me wonder, given how much more advanced plate became by the 1450's, where will the solutions for modern rigid armour go in the next 200 years?

>>32528208
Imagine by about 50ish years we would have figured out away to mass produce carbon nanofiber and weave that into a plate of titanium or high strength steel

The main problem now is the mass manufacture is geared towards one size fits most. There's some armor that is kind of shaped into a vague curve but that's not by much, until there is a market for fitted armor it's going to mostly be the same shape with differing materials.

>>32527228
>love armor
>your thesis defense is a suit of armor
>become the premier expert in armor
>get in charge of one of the largest armor collections
Capwell is a legend