ARMS AND ARMOUR THREAD

>>46549665
That's really nice, whats the context?

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>>46549746
Just something eyecatching to open the thread before your post about what period you wanted.

Anyways, you're looking at a pretty simple set. Maille is the main armour.

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>>46549868
Holy crap captcha is an anus

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>>46549868
Ahh okay, Maille is something we could spend time making together to ease the load. Was lamellar armor used during the crusades for the Saracens, or is it from a later or earlier time ?

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>>46549987
>it's a select images that appear in place of the ones you clicked captcha
>it fucks up every time

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>>46549989
Sorry im being so slow, captcha thinks im spam

Yes, you will find some forms of lamellar, brig and plate reinforced maille, depending on what individual part of the middle east in question, obviously indicative of technological trade with their nearest neighbors. The ease of their armour seems to be that it rather stagnates and doesn't evolve much past the 13th-14thC.

I am also assuming you're using it for a larp and don't need to have 100% single point documentation

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>>46550121
I recall seeing that with the caption that it was from the Philippines.

>>46550122
captcha is really terrible and kills me every time, especially on mobile devices.

Yeah we will be larping with it so it doesn't have to be dead on accurate.

Would some lamellar armor like this look out of place?

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Question for people who know shit about archery: Not limiting ourselves to weapons of war, what are the largest kinds of bow?

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>>46550121
Im getting fucking videos and huge codes to copy and paste.

>>46550236
Yes, >>46550121 is Phlip.

Here is an excelent SCA sports harness. The plate gorget was even etched to look like maille.

>>46550296
Ballista

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>>46550316
Here is my buddy in his combat fencing rig as a Pashtun Tribesman of Afghanistan. He's sinces added a silk head wrap over the mask and a maille drape around the head. A maille shirt is next.

>>46550296
I was going to say a yumi

>>46550316
Wow thats some beautifully intricate work, what shops would you recommend to buy lamellar plates from?

>>46550296
Of any kind of tension-powered projectile launcher, ever? What >>46550316 said.

Specifically of wholly muscle-powered bows loaded, drawn, and fired entirely by hand and release? Biggest one I know of is the Japanese yumi, also known as a daikyu.

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>>46550296
The Japanese Yumi is the largest I'm aware of that I know the specific context of. Often times they are made by binding multiple strips of bamboo, and are so large that they are held from a third of the way from the bottom instead of the center.

I remember my anthropology professor talking about a tribe that used bows that would basically fire atlatl darts by dropping onto their backs, holding the bow with their feet and pulling back the string with both hands, basically turning themselves into human ballistas.

I do not recall any identifying information on the peoples that did this, if anyone happens to know anything about this.

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>>46550452
I actually managed to find an 1800s rendition of a Brazillian tribe using this technique with a google search, from what I've read loosely it seems that it was something random Native American and South American tribes did sometimes.

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>>46550386
Ringlord.com for wholesale, western made (and thus wester QC), though you can buy backs of decent paki and indian made off of kult of Athena.

>>46550415
>>46550452
Supposedly, the Indians has giant Kaman (steel bows) that mounted on their elephant's tusks and was drawn by the trunk of the animal.

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>>46550316
>>46550386
>>46550415
>>46550452
Muchos gracias /tg/!

>>46550584
Reminds me of pic related.

>>46550121
>>46549987

>he hasn't switched to legacy captcha
ishiggydiggy

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>>46551231
Doesn't work on my phone, as far as I tried. I suck at tech.

Any requests?

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>>46558157
THIS THREAD SHALL NOT DIE AS LONG AS I AM AWAKE

>>46551231
TEst

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>>46558194

>>46551461
Android or Iphone?

>>46558279
>helmet hat

Nice.

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>>46558279

Yeah whatever. This shit aint gonna stop a bullet or a good wack... But it looks cool as shit and is easy enough to do with basic tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2-rO0wFAQ

>>46558514
It's the real black knight!

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>>46558514

>>46550626
Would selectively breeding elephant brains into organic targeting computers be considered unethical?

I feel like an elephant would have a naturally poor ballistic skill, as they have poor eyesight.

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>>46558732

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>>46558416
Android

>>46558554
Its design is based on a historic pauldron with haught guard. depending on the alloy, gauge and temper, it will work fine.

>>46558734
Unethical, but cool.

War elephants on a whole were not very good, outside of shock and awe, as they are too smart to really get stuck in and panic easily. That said, the elephant bow, much like the oversized swords and maces they made to be held in the trunk, were more for intimidation than anything. Lets face it, it worked.

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>>46559299

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mountain pattern scale

>>46559299

Gotta love the sword on the elephant's trunk.

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On the topic of plated mail, I've been interested in japanese tatami (folding) armor. Might make some. I'll post examples, but I've also got a couple questions to go along with them.

Japanese mail is unique in that it's the only stuff that's butted, though most commonly it'll be a double or triple coil, and reinforced by being sewn in to a cloth backing. Is it strong enough for SCA kind of stuff?

Another unusual aspect is the weaving, using a mixture of regular round rings and oval rings linking together in a cross or hexagonal pattern. What's a good idea for something to wind the wire around to make the oval rings?

I'm having difficulty finding any reference to padding worn under this stuff, like an aketon equivalent. Closest I can find are Manju no wa, a pillow like thing worn on the shoulders and neck to make armor more comfortable. Any hints?

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>>46560195
Collapsible helmet.

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>>46560206
Collapsed

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>>46560216
Torso

>>46560195
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/katchu/katchu.html

This site will not only answer most if not all of your questions, but also gives instructions on how to make SCA compliant Japanese armor.

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>>46560195
Caught a little error here, mixed up my tabs. The padding stuff is Tate-eri

>>46560221
More Torso

>>46560225
Sweet, thanks.

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>>46560233

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>>46560241

>>46560233
God damn, why are so many SCA sites so 90's? You'd think a gathering of nerds like those would have decent web devs among them. At least it beats all the javascript/css bloat these days.

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>>46560265

Any..paper armor?

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>>46560303

>>46549716
bruh...tell me someone didn't do that for an entire hauberk

masha'allah

>>46560310
There's no such thing.

>>46562229
>There's no such thing.
The Koreans apparently made some. But then again, paper pre-wood fibre pulp was closer to felt than what we'd think of as paper. It was made with a significant portion of recycled fabric fibers and other long plant fibers, which could result in a very tough final product.

>>46562229
http://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/2015/02/paper-armour-of-ming-dynasty.html

>>46549665
>armour

Fuck off frenchy