Armour SCA

Hugo de Stonham · Post by **Hugo de Stonham** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:38 am

Do I have to put 1/4 inch padding under my armour?

Grendal

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:51 am

If you go with the flow of alot of people in the SCA, you could use 1/4 inch foam as most of your armour...

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 9:13 am

Certain areas do require padding- elbows, knees, neck, helm, kidneys, wrist. Hard over soft. (steel over gambeson sort of thing) Beyond those areas you are not really required to use padding. Check your kingdom's requirements for anything beyond the SCA minimums.

Garth

Madok ap Gruffydd · Post by **Madok ap Gruffydd** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:41 am

A practice I picked up from war practice, for Estrella XX., was a hooded sweastshirt. I saw Master Ivan wearing one and decided it was a great way to wear padding, but it also has the hood to use as a coif. Just MHO.

Madok

Hugo de Stonham · Post by **Hugo de Stonham** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:44 am

In particular I'm planing on making some splinted arms (plastic splints), do I need to place some padding underneath the upper rearbrace and vambraces, or just around the elbow?

Grendal

JPT · Post by **JPT** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:49 am

grendal wrote:In particular I'm planing on making some splinted arms (plastic splints), do I need to place some padding underneath the upper rearbrace and vambraces, or just around the elbow?

Grendal

You don't have to, but you may want to put a little something under them (I always found a layer of cloth (like my pants) to be sufficient) to keep things from chafing against your bare skin, but not everybody does that.

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