Armour, anyone got pics.

[M Wallgren]

In a little project of mine I´m drawing som pictures based on Talhoffers manuals. It´s quite hard thou, to know what the aromourclad men in the pics is wearing. It would help me to have photos of som reconstructions and originals to look at. Do any of you got some links or pics to share.

Thanx...

Martin

[Brian Hunt]

The picture in the 2004 year in review article has a guy in armour at the bottom of the page. The harness that you see there is very close to the harness shown in the 1459 Talhoffer manual. Basiclly a 15th century harness with chainmail voiders, a helmet that appears to be a sallet with a bevor, full legs including greaves and sabatons, full arms with pauldrons, but no gauntlets. You might also look at pictures at some of the places that sell historic armour like valentine armouries or illusion armoury, etc. Also check out www.arador.com and www.armourarchive.com, not to mention an amazing amount of links found here http://therionarms.com/additional_links.shtml be sure to see the one for grimms armoury, they have a online set of photos of actual armour from musuems.

hope this helps.

Brian Hunt
GFS

[M Wallgren]

It helps a lot, thank you verry much. I plan to get hold of a scanner a.s.a.p and give you all a preview of my work so far.

Safe training to you!!

[Allen Johnson]

For period armour here is one of my favorite sites:
http://www.grimmarmoury.com/gallery/albums.php

[Brian Hunt]

Hey Allen,

that was the site I meant when I said grimms armoury, oops.

Brian. <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />