Musculata Images

[ValentinianVictrix]

Romans were fashionable. Can someone explain to me, why an officer who makes really good money, would waste it on a plain looking, dark brown leather musculata? I can pretty confidently say that they wouldn't.

Paint it then? Ok...guess what happens to paint on a flexible surface, especially milk or casein? It cracks...then it flakes off. So now you have a high ranking officer looking like a piece of crap. Not exactly inspiring to the troops. So you can't have the leather flexing like it does and being painted. Not to mention the creases in the actual leather (if it will flex once it's been molded) will ruin the smooth finish on it.

Sorry guys, but we've been over this, and over this. There is simply nothing solid to lend weight to the leather musculata theory, especially if you look at it from all angles. Statuary alone isn't going to cut it either. If you look at the painted images of musculata, they are all light colours....white, yellow...etc.

Can you imagine what someone 2,000 years from now would think of our civilization if they took our "art" as being culturally accurate???

You of course know that leather is not painted, it is dyed? I have belts in a variety of colours, my current one that I wear most is jet black, and has remained the same colour as the day I bought it quite a few years ago now. My good lady has leather belts in colours ranging from pink, white, blue, green, red etc, and none of those colours have faded or run either.

It is simply a falsehood to say you cannot colour leather, in fact you can colour leather in any colour you see fit as leather takes dyes so well, so the colour argument is a complete red herring I'm afraid. You can also chaste leather and then fill it in with precious metals which will not fall out as the leather, when wet and untanned, will shrink around the metallic strips, holding it fast in place.