Hello dear armor enthusiast,

sadly i havent had time to do reasearch on this myself lately:
for my 15th century kid i usually wear a brigantine with just chainmail arms/voiders as arm protection
given that i like my elbows and they get hit in sparring tho id like to know if jackchains atop of the chainmail would be a historical way of adding extra protection.

some short looking around for depictions have not shown me jackchains anc chainmail in combination
are there any sources for that having been done during the 15th century ?

thanks for any information you can give me

I am going to make my first trip to the Wallace soon. What can i expect there? Any MUST SEE things there I should not let myself leave without seeing?

I've got a few ideas but I'm not quite sure what construction would be accurate regarding the sleeves. I'm certain I can eliminate complex ones like the "Charles de Blois", but for the rest I'm a bit lost. Modern type sleeves, with a curve deeper on the front than the back? Isn't that more 1360? Does it work for fighting ? Simple T-tunic construction probably doesn't work very well? Or add armpit gores maybe?

What would be your advice?

I have an empire that's in a land of temperate rainforests, i.e a lot of rain. I figured it'd be silly to have guards outfitted in iron armour that (I assume) would rust quickly, but I'm not sure what could be a realistic alternative? Stainless steel is weak from what research I did do, and something like platinum isn't fiscally realistic. Any suggestions you guys can make would be appreciated, I wanna make my story as accurate as I can!

I love the gothic armor styles but the churburg s18 armor is pretty cool too. I have also a riveted mail shirt that covers my elbows and reaches just under my groin. So that's a little short to wear under plate and I'll have to get some mail sleeves and skirt at one point. I'm a little bit uncertain where to go from here. I whant to build a kit from the 14th - 15th century. I would love to fight in full armor at one point. I want to get authentic armor, but is there a correct order on what to get first? Like should I get the helmet first or the breastplate?

I'm not in a reenactment group or any kind of sport that is related to medieval stuff. I do this by my self until I find a group of sports team that I can join and reach with my limered free time.

Any help or criticism is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

So ive been reading a lot about the reconquista of spain, and the different orders of knights that formed during that time, and one of them was the order of Santiago, and when looking for their armor style, most of the pictures i found are the classic templar armor style but with the santiago cross, but i also found these two pictures where instead of having the great helm, they have that weird one, one is a drawing, and the other one is apparently an armor set in a museum of spain

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Has anyone bought one from him? What are your opinions on it?

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I've recently been looking for a piece to be the basis for a plate and chain suit, and found this piece by United Medieval Arts.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1151383073/medieval-full-body-plate-armour?click_key=af0bebd37f9e037fb52c219c0acbffa24256d308%3A1151383073&click_sum=ec389dfc&ref=as_recently_viewed-5&frs=1

There's not much in the way or reviews, so I wanted to get a sense of the quality from anyone who's bought this piece before me.

Hi there, I’ve had some questions about 14th-15th century plate armour that I’d greatly appreciate any help with or direction to where the answers may lie.

My first question is about the plackart and breastplate combination. Would 14th century English knights have used such a combination instead of a cuirass, I understand that this is before military standardisation and so it’s all up the the nobles taste but is there any evidence for this? Particularly in use with a hounskull Bascinet? I’ve seen or read of hounskull knights with just a breastplate or a cuirass with plate skirt but never a plackart and breastplate.

Furthermore would 15th century southern Germans have used this combination of plates too? Specifically in a fluted variation? Would this be able to work with a sallet and bevor as well? Would the plackart be able to have tassets as well as the skirt segment?

Thanks!

I am going to make lamellar, but not sure whether i should make birka or klivanion. I know that vikings did have many connections with Byzantine empire, not only the Varangian guard, but also trade routes through Kievan Rus. But I'm still not sure if viking with Byzantine armor would be historically accurate

Hello everyone!

1st question:

Matt Easton is a fan of spears and has quite a few videos about them. In some videos he references short spears (5-6ft) and long spears (Around 9ft excluding pikes), and I was was wondering if anyone had any resources as to where he got these figure. I think he mentioned Fiore dei Liberi as one?

My next project is going to be a spear (reinforced mid-rib armour piercing variant) that a knight or man-at-arms would have carried. I want to go with the short spear configuration. I plan on adding a spiked butt cap to it as well.

2nd question:

Was it common (or at least plausible) for individuals to have their less glamorous weapons decorated? I know that pollaxes, hammers, etc were decorated in the period but what about spears? The reason I ask is because I think it would be neat to include a Latin phrase (In hoc hora) somewhere on this specialty spear.

Any resources/opinions/info is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Looking for the axe mentioned above, but Kult of Athena says ship time is 10-12 months. Anyone have a source to buy one with quick shipping in US?

Edit: any similar examples with similar price I am open to suggestions!

if you don’t know what it is

I've been trying to track down Tobias Capwell's book Armour of the English Knight 1400-1450. I've found the 1450-1500 one, but his first book in that trilogy is nowhere I've been able to find online (AbeBooks, Biblio, etc.).

Just wondering if anyone here knows a store or vendor that might have it?

Thanks!