Threading a Lorica Squamata

[Poftim]

Hello,

Does anyone have pictures or information on how a Lorica Squamata was threaded together in the later Roman Empire (4th Century)? It's really hard to tell from the originals :oops:

[Robert Vermaat]

threaded together

I'm not sure what you mean? The lacing to the background or the attachment of each scale to the next?

[Franklin]

Poftim, are you talking about lamellar (plates laced or wired to each other with no backing) or scale armor (fish-scale looking pieces wired in rows and then sewn to a backing). For either, best bet for starting out is the Leg XX site.

http://www.larp.com/legioxx/squamata.html

Also (if you haven't already) do yourself a favor and go ahead and invest in the Osprey books for our period. They're only about 10 bucks a pop on Amazon and they're absolutely invaluable, with TONS of color illustrations. A couple of the titles are even written by guys on this forum (specifically Roman Military Clothing 1-3 by Graham Sumner) so you have the advantage of actually being able to pose questions to the author! How many times have you wanted to do that with other books?

Some logical first picks would be Late Roman Cavalryman, Late Roman Infantryman, Roman Military Clothing 2, Roman Military Clothing 3, Romano-Byzantine Armies 4th-9th Centuries, Roman Army from Hadrian to Constantine, Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars.

By the way, if all of this is old news to you then I do sincerely apologize for rambling. If not, though, it's hella valuable information to have.

[Poftim]

Poftim, are you talking about lamellar (plates laced or wired to each other with no backing) or scale armor (fish-scale looking pieces wired in rows and then sewn to a backing). For either, best bet for starting out is the Leg XX site.

http://www.larp.com/legioxx/squamata.html

Also (if you haven't already) do yourself a favor and go ahead and invest in the Osprey books for our period. They're only about 10 bucks a pop on Amazon and they're absolutely invaluable, with TONS of color illustrations. A couple of the titles are even written by guys on this forum (specifically Roman Military Clothing 1-3 by Graham Sumner) so you have the advantage of actually being able to pose questions to the author! How many times have you wanted to do that with other books?

Some logical first picks would be Late Roman Cavalryman, Late Roman Infantryman, Roman Military Clothing 2, Roman Military Clothing 3, Romano-Byzantine Armies 4th-9th Centuries, Roman Army from Hadrian to Constantine, Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars.

By the way, if all of this is old news to you then I do sincerely apologize for rambling. If not, though, it's hella valuable information to have.

Nope, I'll look into the books, thanks. Actually, Peroni e-mailed me his guide on making the scale armor stuff, so I was gonna follow that. Thanks for the help anyways though.

[Franklin]

Excellent.

Peroni, I'd love to see what you've got as well. [email protected] .

[Peroni]

Email sent