Muscled Cuirass

[Kineas]

Beautiful, Matt. I'll parrot what a lot of others have said--this is one of the first repros I've seen with the "feel" or the originals.

Once I have more specifics worked out and when I get to trying a true copper alloy piece, I'll definitely take lots of 'in-process' photos possibly for a paper on the project. In simple terms though, the 'shrinking' I'm meaning is just reverse dishing- look at the abdomen: the right side is very hammermarked as you can see, while the left is still 'bulging'- I hammered (from the front) in the clefts for the various muscle definition points with a raising hammer on edge (a narrow cross pein would do the same thing), and over slightly convex WOOD form

My young friend Aurora has reached the same conclusion about greaves that you have about the muscle thorax--I wonder if the two of you are on to something about Greek metal forming?

I really should post her first pair here--I have the photos somewhere.