brass breastplates

[Chuck Russell]

who has the best deals on brass breastplates?

[Tiberius-maximus 3rd]

what kind like muscle greek. Cause i am also looking for some and i found a couple of sites.

[Magnus]

I dunno Chuck...but I'll be keeping an eye on this thread no doubt!

[Chuck Russell]

cool, i decided to go ahead and make a linothorax. just couldn't bring myself to spend 400 on a breast plate i may never wear

[richsc]

All repousee I suppose, from a single sheet of brass.
Now, suppose you did a model of your chest say, the duck tape technique over tshirt, then stiffened it enough to mash into a very large container of pitch, then hammered the brass into the hardened pitch. Could work. Extra repousee for the detail. Anyone done this?

[Matthew Amt]

You don't copy your own musculature for a muscled cuirass, because it won't fit. First you size the armor to fit you, which means it's going to be shorter than your torso and quite narrow between the arms. Then you make all the anatomical features fit in that space. The navel will be higher than your real one, and everything else kind of "scaled down". But the relief work can be done with pitch, sandbag, dishing forms, etc., whatever works.

For a Greek muscled cuirass you really want bronze, of course, or at least a "low" or "red" brass.

So far, I think the conclusion is that a decent muscled cuirass has to be custom-made. The commercial ones just aren't very accurate, overall, and they are bound to fit badly.

Good luck!

Matthew

PS: And WHY was this not posted in the GREEK section, eh, Chuck? Tsk, tsk...

[Aurelianus]

Are breastplates for a Lorica Squamata an option for a Signifer (transition between 1. to 2. AD)? I just know that breastplates first came in use in this time by cavalry men.

[Marcus Mummius]

Are breastplates for a Lorica Squamata an option for a Signifer (transition between 1. to 2. AD)? I just know that breastplates first came in use in this time by cavalry men.

What do you mean with breastplates, Patrick? The two part chest-collar pieces? Those are all dated later AFAIK.

Vale,

[caiusbeerquitius]

yup, not before 180 AD I would say...

[Aurelianus]

Hi Jef

Yes I mean these breastplates:


Junkelmann wrote that they have been found already often in the middle of the 2nd Century AD. So I thought that It could be possible that the first plates came in use around the change of the Century.

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[caiusbeerquitius]

No, not at all.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Find dates do not mean date of manufacture.....surely?

[Hibernicus]

try:

http://www.westcoastarmoury.com/

[Aedinius]

Aurelianus... Does the scale shirt with a breastplate open up at the front? I would be really be interested in seeing the picture of the entire front of the scale.