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Jace:
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--- Quote from: Jace on 17 Apr 2012, 18:47 ---Aren't spangenhelms and chainmail a little early for renaissance? I thought they'd mostly moved on to plate by then.
:-D
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I think the people who wear plate (like...real plate armor, not the plastic stuff) at ren fairs are a little crazy, mostly because I think they would be too hot to enjoy anything. Also it's all heavy and stuff, not that chainmail isn't. Though I have seen some guys make really fantastic leather armor and wear it and I am always jealous. Also one dude had a magnificent set of wood armor (he was an elf, not really renaissance, but still cool) that I pined over.
Personally, the things I'll be making for the ren fest will be more medieval, but I do not have skills to make an Elizabethan dress. This I can handle, but this is way beyond me.
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Actually! Plate armor that is made to fit the wearer (as all plate armor of the period was) is not as heavy as one would think. It was generally 18-22g steel and had many arming points to relieve the weight.
Chainmail rests solely on the shoulders and generally a belt is worn to help mitigate the weight but plate often weighs less than chain.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: tuathal on 18 Apr 2012, 14:45 ---
--- Quote from: Jace on 17 Apr 2012, 19:31 ---And firearms were coming into more prominent usage right around the middle of the Renaissance time period, I think.
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^this
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Defensive technology is always behind offensive technology. And "more prominent" usage is not the same a "common" usage. Most people were still getting hit with blades in battle (or cannonballs/grapeshot/shrapnel, but what're ya gonna do?), so chain was still being used quite a bit through the renaissance.
Not by the wealthy, mind you...
BeoPuppy:
doombilly:
gun skills, bo staff skills...
um anyway, I'm only gonna tell you kids to get off my lawn one more time.
BeoPuppy:
A friend of mine being all weeping angel.
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