/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10483992
That's.... wow. Now I gotta admit my archery group just has a 14 year old boy who runs between our standing pavises and sometimes takes it off to go arrow catching.


Sounds like you guys need specialist as well

I have a little time so as I promised I post a few painted armour.

A little foreword is that painting just one of the many posibilities, and there are a lot of different way to paint armours also, different kind of paints obviously.

What is clear to me as far as my knowledge goes in this that painted helmets were way more common than any other kind of painted armour. BUT there are a shitton of breastplates that MIGHT been painted but we doesn't know for sure because of all the scrubbing and cleaning to make it a "shining armor"

Also my own guess (so by no means the truth) is that painting was cheaper and easier than all the gliding, blueing, etching and various other means to decorate armour so it would be used in the less pricy ones but above the munitions grade stuff.
Blackening and black paint is kind of an exception to this as it can be seen in both on high and low grade stuff, though the reason behind this might be that those where less scrubbed by morons. Probably we will never know.

Anyway, example of surviving breastplate with paint