lamellar armour

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

The Mars of Todi armour was not meant to represent bronze scale or lamellar armour. It is hardly unique in etruscan art and literally all depictions that have colour show the scales in white colour, while the bronze of the helmets greaves and even some fittings on the cuirasses themselves are bright yellow.
This was probably leather armour, made from the same white material that the greek tube and yoke was made of.
It also seems that some of the greek depictions of tube and yokes show this scaling or lamellar of leather and not bronze, like the statue of Heracles in the Aphaea temple pediment.
Khaire
Giannis