very helpful armor website

[Magpie Saegar]

someone posted a link to this page on the national site... and wow. i haven't had a chance to look at very much yet (there seems to be a LOT there) but it looks rather helpful.

www.arador.com/construction/index.html


[edit] yea, like kyrian did, jsut post websites here that could be useful.

maybe we should get thead / page devoted to useful weapon/armor/garb links [/edit]

[Kyrian]

Here is one:

www.armourarchive.org

This one contains information regarding asian armors:

www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505/

Respectfully,

Kyrian

[Chicken]

No set of armor links would be complete without the ever-present Cariadoc's Perfect Armor (improved), which is in large part a tutorial on water-hardening veg-tan, but also has some patterns:

www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Articles/Perfect_Armor_Improved.htm

[kayto]

Anyone know where I could get a visual pattern of Hybrid armor? Want to make a Hybrid shirt for myself but can't visualize the pattern.

[aramus]

I think you need to explain a bit more about what your looking for Kayto. 'Hybrid' armor usually just means a combination of different armors. Like leather armor with some chain and plate pieces worked into it. So give us a bit more of a description of what your looking to make and I am sure someone will have links for it.

Take care,
Aramus

[kayto]

Bo had talked something about an armor that was (from what I understood) made from small plates of leather, about 3" X 3", held together by a strip of chain mail 4-in-1 pattern. I can describe I just can't visualize enough to make it.

[Chicken]

Here's one example. Draggeron's got a nice one as well, though I don't know of any pics with it. Somewhere out there I'm sure there are also pics of a really nice suit someone made with hexagonal "plates", which all have something painted on them.

[Denara]

Well, I think the armor Chicken is talking about can be seen in the back of this picture. I can't seem to find the good picture that I know I have seen. It is not in our photos. I am still looking at others.

[Chicken]

That's definitely it anyway... .

[Kyrian]

That armor was built by Raziel from Wolfpack.

I believe he did a 4-in-1 tube of chain frame and then attached all of the hex-shaped pieces of dyed leather.

[Magpie Saegar]

i know this is a bit late, but he just posted a photo of it in the "show me your armour" thread in the armory section of the national boards.