Posted: Thu 06 May, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: scale armour finds and authenticity
hello all
im putting together a kit over the summer and seeing as scales are relatively easy to make if very time consuming i thought i would try my hand at them.
now the kit will be circa 1275 and is open at the moment to what area its from as it will be at the moment a c.o.p and great helm. i want to make scale vambraces and other pieces to add on to this.
now my question is apart from effigies and art work what scale armour is there? have there actually been any finds of it in western Europe? if so any links and photos will be great i have had to research the hell out of this and am still getting nowhere.
so can you please help?for here starts war carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl
interesting this find was circa 1010 or so wasnt it? so i could make one and add it to my vik kit?
if so how might it have actually looked?for here starts war carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl
Heh. Look at the dodgy illustration on the right - straight out of Braveheart.
Reminds me of that french reconstruction of a norman knight. They basically made a piece of armour constructed from non-overlapping disks rivetted to a backing of cloth to approximate the illustrations on the Bayeux Tapestry.
The only real scale armor I have been able to find and take close up pictures of ......... Japanese fish scale type armor made from hardened leather sewn to cloth. I would imaging that the construction method would be close to that of similar European scales. This is a helmet neck guard. http://s831.photobucket.com/albums/zz238/estc...e%20armor/
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