cleaning up bad armour

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:17 am

Hello...again.
Yet another question have I today! I have had this little project brewing in the back of my mind for about 4 months now, I want to recreate a Blankenshield armour, and clean it up a bit. I have decided on the "German Field Armour". But, I am wondering about the gauntlets, I am not sure of a good design to replace them because on Blankies one they're well...eeeeeew.

so I am wondering whether anyone knows of an example of a 16th Century set of German mitten gauntlets.
Thanks,
Archie

JJ Shred · Post by **JJ Shred** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:19 am

Quick, we need an exorcism!

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:22 am

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Really though, its B***********d. you're better off looking at a lot of real pieces and starting from there.

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:50 am

I am not turning over to the dark side, I am just taking the armour and making a sort of..."what it could have been if it had been made well". Don't worry, I ain't turning cold on you guys!

(There was a very bad pun-joke thing in that sentence) I am not making a blanky harness, I am taking a blanky harness and exorcising it. What I meant by "clean it up" was: completely redo it in the correct way and make it an actually decent harness. Please don't think ill of me for this. But another thing is that the construction of that harness is very simple, and very well documented, not to say that. It's the main harness at which I look, and I say: "Y'know, self? If that harness were polished, not all the edges crudely rolled, the rondell actually ROUND, the harness made of decently thick metal, the plates fit better, and the gauntlets changed, and the copper rivets w/ washers replaced with decent rivets, then it might be quite nice, and that's what I'm doing.

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:41 am

dont worry, i was only joking. Anything mentioning his name tends to either get laughed at or create a topic full of jokes.
Tell ya what i'll do. I'll compile lotsof images of 16th century suits similar to the 'german field armour' and put them on my archive space for you to save and study. i think i have some mittens too.

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:51 am

Here you go. These should get you started on 16th century stuff. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/h ... %20pieces/

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:33 pm

Thanks a bunch!

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:45 pm

Thought you might enjoy those.

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:45 am

Archie Zietman wrote:I am not turning over to the dark side, I am just taking the armour and making a sort of..."what it could have been if it had been made well".

If you want it to look like the real thing, start with 'the real thing' as a model.

Don't try to make a good car starting with a Yugo (especially if you found a beat up clunker in the junk yard ;-)

), copy a Mercedes.

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Sun May 01, 2005 9:12 am

I am thinking now, of doing something like this armour from Valentine armouries:

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Sun May 01, 2005 9:13 am

But with this type of bending over mechanism:

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Sun May 01, 2005 9:15 am

And I might replace or put on top of the left pauldron, something like this:

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sun May 01, 2005 10:06 am

Try to find somehting real but like the valentine armouries suit. Basing it off of something real will give you less headaches as there will be more images and decsriptions of real pieces. if you get my meaning.

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:20 pm

would it be feasible to do something like picture MI02351g02a in relatively thin metal? (18 and 16 guage) It would probably not get much use, and be a display piece, so thickness would not be a major concern.

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:37 pm

I'd use 16 for most of that, 18 for the gaunts and gorget.

Archie Zietman · Post by **Archie Zietman** » Mon May 02, 2005 4:41 pm

Thanks! Your advice is very helpful!