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Show here your Greek warrior impression
Hello. I see your point,however there are some things to consider. Firts of all,we don't know the percentage of bronze faced shields. The non bronze ones would be hide most probably,which would be painted. So you would cetainly see full coloured shields. We don't need much literally evidence since we have pictoriqal ones,but in fact there is even literally. One example,the white faced Argive shields. This doesn't have to be universal in any cased,but it certainly implies that some/many shields were painted.
Even bronze faced shields could be painted,though i tend to believe that few people would like to paint their expensive bronze! At least i wouldn't. After all, according to Xenophon one of the utilities of brnze facings was that it gets polished and cleaned easily.
And all these are related to the reason why you don't like many of the modern reconstructions. As far as i know,few shields today are covered by rawhide,and even fewer with bronze. And since many of the shields that re-enactors carry are made by themselves and not by a proffessional, their quality varries. Also,it needs devotion even for an artist to imitate precicely the ancient styles of decoration.
Howeven,in general the quality is very quickly becoming better and better. In everything,not only shields. Since the standards are getting higher,i'm sure you will find very nice impressions more and more frequently.
Khaire
Giannis
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou
a.k.a.:Thorax
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