Yes thanks all, honestly couldn't have done it without all the help.

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thank you all, that's great

So just to clarify if he moves his arm forward the lames that make up his pauldron come closer together in the front and move further apart at the back? so they aren't all parallel? or do they still stay parallel but the bottom of the whole pauldron moves forward? Am I making sense? I just want to m...

ok, so all the lames(?) can move ? i thought all the rivets in them would hold them tight to each other? or are the rivets for something else? EDIT: I just saw a photo of a contemp set and the rivets went into leather straps underneath, so it could flex up and down but maybe not sideways at all. Is ...

thanks for your help,

@Mac, if the pin was straight out of the shoulder strap whouldn't the movement be really restricted? I mean you wouldn't be able to hardly move your shoulder at all would you?

Hi everyone, I've run into another "??!!!" (there's been a lot of them on this job!) I can't figure out how the pauldrons attached to the breastplate. I've seen a lot of pics and photo's where they attach by a buckle. This armor seems to attach by a pin coming up from underneath. I've also...

thanks Galvyn, I've had a another look at all my ref and i think you're right,

So the wrist can turn around freely inside the lower arm portion of the armor? I thought it was oblong in profile (where the wrist comes out) , or is it round?

thanks for your help

thanks everyone for your help, I have another quick question. How does the does the armor on his arms articulate? - specifically in relation to his wrist and the "cut out grooves" opposite his elbow ( I notice this space is somtimes filled with mail or sliding plates) The end of the armor ...

That's great thank you

He's the Earl of strafford - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford


I don't know anything about such things but I would have thought could be a lot older than the painting, family/personal armor ?

I need to have the whole thing finished in around 3-4 days so unfortunatly can't go traveling. The painting was done in 1636 by Van Dyck. I'll look around online for shots of the Earl of Pembroke and see what I can find, thanks for the site info will go and have a look thanks everyone for your help

Hi Robert, I think i'll probably leave the cullet off ( as I mentioned the bust stops around waist level) instead of just sculpting a cm or so of it. "Other times, the cullet is set on a pair of small posts, and secured by pivoted hooks which fall into transverse holes in these posts. " Do...

thanks again,
I only have to sculpt him down to the bottom of his sword hilt so all this info has been great.

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thanks!

so the cullet is a fixed part of the rear breastplate(?) ?

Hey,

I'm making a 1/10 scale bust for a museum that has the original painting. The Earl died in 1641 approx so the armor could have been from an earlier period.

thanks for all the help

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Hi everyone, I'm a sculptor that makes military miniatures for companies. I've recently been comissioned to sculpt and Earl in the 17th cen. The sculpt is based on a painting. I've been trying to find photo's of armor similar to the one he is wearing but haven't found anything so thought I'd ask peo...