Is anyone here familiar with real knight armor? I'm thi

>>34698565
it looks as an armor of some teutonic order knight how they are portrayed in children's books

The rest of the armor is solid, except that helmet, get a bassinet or salet. I believe the Templars were an organization until the 1300's, which is when plate started getting popular. It's not historically accurate, but it's a nice suit. Overall I'd rate it a 7/10.

to add to it, the teutonic cross should be black iirc

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>>34698614
>teutonic order knight

They didn't wear plate armor either

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>>34698565
Not even remotely close.

that.... thing.
well, its not Templar. its a mashup of all sorts of shit. the shield is fantasy. they were not made of metal. real heater shields are wood linen, leather and gesso. and then painted.

the helmet is a bad repro of an earlyish 14th century style known as a great helm or haume. the breast fauld and tassets are 15th century.
the shoulder pauldrons, couters, gauntlet cuffs are 16th century.
I cant see the polyen wing to date the legs, but the sabatons are at best 15th C too.

The Templars, of course, being an order founded in the end of the 12th C, and disbanded at the start of the 14th, this armour is roughly akin to dressing up in modern plate carrier with an AR, and modern fatigues, putting a powdered wig on your head, and saying you're dressed as an authentic costume from the War of Independence.

it is in effect a collection of random shit thrown together for people with no idea what they're buying.

Pic is what the Templars actually wore:

>>34698675
they did though, they are a late medievbal order

there is a pic right above your post, dunno how authentic

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>>34698943
for most of the 13th C, a knight's equipment, for a Templar would've been similar to this illustration, only with a white habit, rather than black.

Could be just some ceremonial armor, the Templars and Teutonic Orders didn't cease to exist after the crusades.

Also the various types of plate armor are way more aesthetic than chainmail, even the transitional plate looks better.

>>34699096
templars ceased to exist in 1312
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_the_Knights_Templar

meantime the teutonic order was active in the 15th century, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grunwald

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>>34698960
>they did though, they are a late medievbal order

the templars were disbanded in 1314.

the earliest effigies to depict plate armour elements are in the 1290s, for poleyns (the plate for the kneecap), and the first effigy to depict a greave, the shin plate, is dated to 1312.

the articulated plate harness did not exist at the time of the dissolution of the Knights Templar.

the best you could have would be mail hauberk and chausses, with plate additions of poleyn, greave, and maybe, just maybe, a couter, on the elbow. not articulated arms, no gauntlets (those would be mittens of mail, at teh end of the hauberk), no breastplate, no shoulders, no sabatons.

>>34699180
Derp! typo - 1312, not 1314.