|
Post by darknesscoffee on Oct 18, 2021 18:30:17 GMT
Hello lads, I'm completely new, and know this is a Sword Buying forum so make fun of me, but I noticed that there was discussion about medieval armor as well as arms. Like probably all of us, I've been interested in medieval arms and armor since I was a child, but my experience with armor is fairly limited. I've purchased a set of Gothic Armor from Epic Armoury, delivered today. www.epicarmoury.com/metal-works/complete-sets/gothic-armour-m-l/c-297/p-21224/I would like to catalogue my journey in the hopes that maybe in the future someone with a similar complete lack of experience finds this post and can navigate accordingly. I've just unboxed the set and meagerly wiped the cuirass/tassets with paper towels. It was shipped with a thick coating of grease so I wiped the excess off with paper towels, but I didn't remove any sort of the coating. Pardon my smug expression, but here's what the cuirass looks like unaffixed.
A question for the upper management:My intent is to remove the grease entirely and recoat the set with renaissance wax. The reason for doing this is that the set is going to be what I wear to my wedding, and no armor will prevent my fiancée from killing me if I ruin her dress. I want to use JASCO odorless mineral spirits and paper towels to remove the grease from each piece, then once the grease is off, applying Renaissance Wax with a chamois cloth. Does any of that raise a red flag? Many thanks, friends.
|
|
|
Post by Lord Newport on Oct 18, 2021 19:15:44 GMT
Looking goood but...it looks its fitting a bit tight for true medieval armor but maybe you can adjust it out. Don't forget you are supposed to have a well padded gambeson and maybe some maille armor underneath the plates.
|
|
|
Post by Sir Thorfinn on Oct 18, 2021 19:47:00 GMT
If you have not bought the renwax yet, try turtle wax paste. Store the armor in cloth bags, the movement in the bag will help keep it polished. Do the inside and outside. Oil the straps. And heck, if you really wanna degrease, wash in dawn soap, dry immediately, wax.
|
|
|
Post by Lord Newport on Oct 18, 2021 20:11:09 GMT
Looking goood but...it looks its fitting a bit tight for true medieval armor but maybe you can adjust it out. Don't forget you are supposed to have a well padded gambeson and maybe some maille armor underneath the plates. The kind of variance in armor and under-armor materials is staggering. The kind of gambeson/aketon/arming doublet worn under plate armor in the time that this gothic style of plate was around could also be quite thin with minimal padding. The Maille could have just been under the arm pits sewn directly onto the garmet adding minimally to thickness. Just one of those things that there is not really an exact standard on. Just an observation from a historical perspective...I would think you also need room to move and breath heavily while actually engaged in combat...but I'm no expert.
|
|