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Gerald Fa.
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 Posted: Tue 05 May, 2015 12:20 am Post subject: flexibility of front and back plate armor? |
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I have just got a new front German Gothic plate armor, and I am very surprised of how flexible the front plate is! Each plate from the Gothic armor can move a bit due to the rivets and the oval shaped holes that are in the bottom plate that is over lapped. Is it historically accurate? Either way I love this armor! It is the best one I have!
Thanks!
I can see how a man in plate armor can still shoot a bow on a horse while moving.
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My new new front German Gothic plate armor. 1.2 mm of high carbon harden Steel
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Craig Peters
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Pieter B.
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| Posted: Tue 05 May, 2015 5:08 am Post subject: |
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I believe so.
The faulds tend to start quite near to the navel which means only your upper chest can't move. However since that space is filled with a rib cage you won't do much flexing there anyway.
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Gerald Fa.
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| Posted: Tue 05 May, 2015 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Well not just the faulds, almost each plate that you see in that armor that is connected can move a bit. Yes and the faulds are very flexible! I think the most flexible parts of the armor.
| Pieter B. wrote: | I believe so.
The faulds tend to start quite near to the navel which means only your upper chest can't move. However since that space is filled with a rib cage you won't do much flexing there anyway. |
Yea that is what I mean everything moves on the armor, I think even the upper chest can move a little. Each plate in it can move around but just a little a bit, the faulds moves the most. The way it can move "around" is placing the slight skinny oval shaped holes of the rivet a bit sideways or in a slight angle. This armor is amazing!
I will have a real pitcher of the inside of my plate soon so I can show you what I am talking about.
Let me show a crappy picture I made for everyone to get a better idea what I am trying to say.
This is the in side look at the upper part of the German Gothic plate armor of what I have. (the link below) Is it historically accurate?
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Lafayette C Curtis
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Google up "sliding rivets." It's a perfectly normal feature in 15th-century armour. Your breastplate might have more of them than what would have been typical for its time, but not to the extent of being unrealistic or ahistorical.
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Gerald Fa.
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| Posted: Wed 06 May, 2015 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Lafayette C Curtis wrote: | | Google up "sliding rivets." It's a perfectly normal feature in 15th-century armour. Your breastplate might have more of them than what would have been typical for its time, but not to the extent of being unrealistic or ahistorical. |
Thanks! That is what I was looking for, if it is a fact and as well as the name or term of it. I will start to look it up..
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Gerald Fa.
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| Posted: Thu 07 May, 2015 10:27 am Post subject: In insde |
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Here is what I been talking about.
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Mark Griffin
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Interesting, who made it?
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James Arlen Gillaspie
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Mark Griffin
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or painted with red oxide inside for that matter. Bit of a modern armorers quirk.
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Pieter B.
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| Posted: Tue 12 May, 2015 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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The famed sigismund of tyrol armor does show rivets on the outside (like this reproduction). Can anyone confirm they are stationary non-sliding rivets?
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Bob Haynes
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I just wanted to relate that I think this topic is stellar, gentlemen. I feel I'm learning much about armor and articulation.
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Mark Griffin
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| Quote: | | I can see how a man in plate armor can still shoot a bow on a horse while moving. |
Its kind of doable, but in pretty unique circumstances. Its not something that's considered normal practice outside manuscripts and you'd be delivering a small % of what the bows power was due to your stance on the horse.
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Gerald Fa.
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| Posted: Tue 26 May, 2015 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Pieter B. wrote: | The famed sigismund of tyrol armor does show rivets on the outside (like this reproduction). Can anyone confirm they are stationary non-sliding rivets?
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It is hard to know unless
A. some one moves around in it.
B. If you look in the inside of the armor as the overlapping plates can cover anything.
I love the Gothic look. But now I been looking at some of the Greenwich stuff.
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Edward Lee
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Gerald
That's a really nice breastplate, who made it though?
Thanks
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James Arlen Gillaspie
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| Posted: Thu 28 May, 2015 8:19 am Post subject: |
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I can confirm that there are no sliders in the breastplate proper, only in the fauld. 
jamesarlen.com
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Mark Griffin
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I'll assume by breastplate proper you are excluding the underarm gussets James. Do you know if they slide? I presume so, but not wishing to trawl through Goll....
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James Arlen Gillaspie
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| Posted: Fri 29 May, 2015 7:48 am Post subject: |
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The gussets do not slide, either. There are gussets that simply pivot on the end rivets, and the springyness of the steel is what makes them resume their place.
jamesarlen.com
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Gerald Fa.
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| Posted: Sun 31 May, 2015 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Edward Lee wrote: | Gerald
That's a really nice breastplate, who made it though?
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Oh no, My armor is the one from the very top, it is heavily based on this one, in fact it is the same but with out the bras and not very polished.
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Edward Lee
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| Posted: Mon 01 Jun, 2015 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Gerald Fa. wrote: | | Edward Lee wrote: | Gerald
That's a really nice breastplate, who made it though?
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Oh no, My armor is the one from the very top, it is heavily based on this one, in fact it is the same but with out the bras and not very polished. |
That is the one I meant. It looks really nice, would like to know who made it though, thanks.
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This is a standard topic