has any one seen or heard of this type of armour

albrect wolfe · Post by **albrect wolfe** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:58 pm

Dont laugh .... I understand plastic armour in this forum is generally not accepted too well to say the least but I was looking for a word on its functionality , construction and its over all appearance .... the picture doesnt have enough detail to make a judgement for myself

also what type of helm would go with this

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:02 pm

ummm...

any that you want. its not a historical piece, unless its there version of an anime suit. with hault guards on teh pauldrons.

Charles the Brown · Post by **Charles the Brown** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:03 pm

Its been discussed before. The rivets look like pop rivets, which (by experience :oops:

) are a BAD thing for armor. For the cost you can get a much nicer looking body armor that will hold up better. granted I've never seen the pice in person, but have asked enough questions of the maker to decide i could do better.

Charles

D. Sebastian · Post by **D. Sebastian** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:03 pm

I don't know, but for some reason I have an urge to wack the haute guard with my polearm.

albrect wolfe · Post by **albrect wolfe** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:12 pm

ok i couldnt find a pic with out the haut guards that still had the tassets :oops:

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:42 pm

if u lsot the tassets and the hault guards, and slit the curiass down teh center and buckled it, it would look like a romanique type armour, so some kinda roman helm maybe?

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:25 am

Since the armor is so...'modern', any resemblence to medieval armor would be so coincidental as to make the choice of helmets superfluous.

From what I remember reading about that armor, it is way overpriced, compared to a bit of time with a jigsaw, and a black barrel.

Please, if you do buy it, cover it completely with cloth.

Louis de Leon · Post by **Louis de Leon** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:27 am

albrect wolfe wrote:I understand plastic armour in this forum is generally not accepted too well to say the least but I was looking for a word on its functionality , construction and its over all appearance

Depends on what you'd like to use it for. Can you be a bit more specific? It's functionality, construction and appearance are relative to your application. In a LARP with a tabard over it, maybe it'd be ok. At the Hastings reenactment, no chance.

What are you looking to use it for?

has any one seen or heard of this type of armour

has any one seen or heard of this type of armour

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