#plate armour

[we-are-knight]

Enough friends have joked that the new Lord with Greatsword looks like me, that I'm going to have to paint him in my heraldry.

[hugcrabs]

knight

[d0ppios]

royal armoury, 19 nov 2023

[kultofathena]

📣 Check out this incredible set of late Medieval splint/brigandine arm armor! 🛡️

Crafted with 16-gauge steel poleyns, this armor provides excellent protection for the arms. The upper and lower leg armor is made from thick and tough quality leather, riveted with strips of steel. 💪

This combination of materials makes it difficult for any opponent to cut through the leg armor. The thick leather is a formidable barrier, offering significant resistance to piercing and puncturing. 🚫⚔️

Not only does this armor provide outstanding protection, but it also reduces the amount of steel required, resulting in a lighter overall weight. Perfect for the Medieval warrior who values practicality and effectiveness.

[ncagutierrezart]

Sketch dump featuring some OCs.

[medievalsnippets]

There are many instances of repair and refurbishment. A constant battle is waged against rust as attested by numerous payments for oil and bran: by rolling mail defences in a scouring barrel the bran acts as an effective abrasive. Elbow grease was often the most effective (and cost effective) 'substance'. For every piece of plate armour referred to as 'burnished' or 'white', a man (or boy) would be required to diligently polish it to a mirror finish. Emery from Alexandria was used on Edward of Caernarfon's harness and one pound of the stuff on Henry, earl of Derby's. There are white shammies for polishing hauberks and many bespoke trunks, coffers, and bags constructed for the carriage of weapons and armour. Source: Medieval Arms and Armour, a Sourcebook, Volume 1.

[enionline]

The composite armor known as B3 is one of the captivating pieces permanently exhibited at the Diocesan Museum of Mantua.

I want to share extraordinary images of this armor, not taken in its natural setting in Mantua but from the exhibition : “Federico da Montefeltro e Gubbio. Lì è tutto il nostro cuore e tutta l’anima nostra”...

https://www.enionline.it/en/milanese-armor-in-gubbio/

Eugenio Larosa. Historical Research and Consulting

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[demi-lancer]

Multiple suits of cuirassier armor at the Landeszeughaus museum in Graz, capital of Styria (Austria). I had the chance to visit the place last year, incredible experience, you owe it to yourself if you enjoy armor and travel through Austria.

[blueberrymess-art]

Moh's a dragongorn fighter in plate armour who's very serious all the time. This is another commission I worked on last month, I hope you like it, he is one of my favourites. I really like working on different types of characters and it's not often that I get to draw a scaly one or furry people hahah.

If you like this kind of portrait please check out my commission sheet and send me an email with all the details and any questions you may have. See yah!

[lepreuxchevalier]

My retouch of a second illustration of some "Schwarzen Reiter” that I have officially designed to feature the faction iconography of “Hohenrotbart” or “House Rotbart,” the ruling dynasty of “Das Königreich Middenland” or “The Kingdom of Middenland” in my “homebrew” low-fantasy setting. This artwork was designed for a low-fantasy setting of my original conception with technology and material culture roughly equivalent to European History during the compounded advents of The Italian Renaissance, The Protestant Reformation, and The Discovery of America. Where formations of heavily armoured and mounted, aristocratic and noble knights in suits of full plate armour and heavy coats of chainmail fight alongside professional regiments of pikemen and matchlock musketeers. Where medieval-style stone castles are gradually being outsourced in favour of lavish country estates and devoted military fortifications, or “bastions,” due to the technological advancements being made in gunpowder-based, siege artillery. And where fledgling nation-states in the form of kingdoms and empires look beyond the great oceans and the frontiers of “The Known World” in search of exotic riches and territory.

In context to the canon lore of my medieval fantasy setting, “Hohenrotbart” or “House Rotbart” in the “Austere” or "Northern Imperial" Language is the newly crowned and anointed ruling dynasty of “Das Königreich Middenland” or “The Kingdom of Middenland.” "Das Königreich Middenland" under "Hohenrotbart" is loosely inspired by Medieval and Renaissance Prussia under the theocracy of The Teutonic Knights as well as Ducal Prussia during the 16th and 17th centuries. “Friedrich I, Der erster und herrschend König von Middenland und Der Gründungschef von Hohenrotbart’s" legislative decree to formally convert to “The Luxembourgian Reformation” on behalf of both his dynastic household and his hereditary subjects being highly analogous to the secularization of “The Monastic State of The Teutonic Knights” or “Der Deutschordenstaat,” to The Lutheran, East Prussian Duchy in the early 16th century. Designated in my low-fantasy setting as “Shwarzer Reiter” or “Black Riders.” The constituent “Bruderschaften” or “chapters” of “Die Schwarze Reiter” as the elite, pseudo-monastic, martial fraternities of aristocratic and noble heavy cavalry paying direct homage and military service to the persons of “Die Könige von Middenland” from “Hohenrotbart” as opposed to the feudal, private interests of the aristocratic and noble “great houses” of “junker” princeps and magnates. Each “Brüderschaft” or “chapter” is led under the personal command and the direct supervision by “Ein Großmeister,” or “a grandmaster,” who are each personally and individually appointed for life from “legitimate issues” or “dynastic scions” of the princely “great houses” of “junker” artistocrats and nobles to serve the royal, state interests of “Die Könige von Middenland” from “Hohenrotbart” over those of any aristocratic and noble “great house” of “junker” princeps and magnates. “Die Könige von Middenland” from “Hohenrotbart,” by tradition, are the more-or-less hereditary holders of the appointed office of “Der Hochmeister Der Schwarzen Reiter” or “The Supreme Grandmaster of All Schwarzen Reiter” in order to “rationalize,” or otherwise “reinforce” their authority as the lawful, legitimate, anointed, and undisputed commanders-in-chief of all constituent “Bruderschaften” or "chapters" of "Die Schwarzen Reiter" in Das Königreich Middenland. To reinforce both the professional loyalties and the direct homage of the constituent Bruderschaften of Der Schwarzen Reiter to the persons of “Die Könige von Middenland” from “Hohenrotbart” as the traditional, more-or-less hereditary holders of the appointed office of “Der Hochmeister Der Schwarzen Reiter.” Both the personal livelihoods and the unit upkeep of the constituent “Brüderschaften” of "Der Schwarzen Reiter" were funded through a combination of a quarterly land tax generated by “the demesne” or “the crownlands” under the direct administration of Hohenrotbart Des Königreich Middenland and their civil administrators, through any tariffs imposed on the commerce and the industry of Der König von Middenland’s charter companies and the local trade guilds, as well as through tithes and benefices generated by the religious services of, donations to, and property owned by The Conservative Church of The New Gods in joint partnership with Hohenrotbart Des Königreich Middenland over the sovereign rulership, the state administration, and the systematic, mass conversion of the autochthonous Albic tribes religiously subscribed to the druidic, cult worship of “Erdøk” or ”The Great Forest” geographically located beyond the easternmost fronters of “Das Selbst Kaiserreich Der Menschheit” or “The Empire of Mankind Proper.”

The Joint Partnership between The Conservative Church of The New Gods with "Friedrich I, Der erster und herrschend König von Middenland und Der Gründungschef von Hohenrotbart" would come to an untimely collapse with his legislative decree to become the first hereditary, crowned ruler in both the geographic enormity and the recorded histories of The Known World to officially convert to “The Luxembourgian Reformation” to the religious establishment of The Conservative Church of The New Gods traditionally and officially seated and housed within The Holy Sept of Romulus as the historic capital, civilizational kernel, and titular namesake of The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic and “The Empire of Mankind Primus” during "The Civilized World's" historical epoch of "Classical Antiquity" on behalf of both his dynastic household and his hereditary subjects. With Friedrich I's subsequent and consequent “formal assumption of supreme authority over matters of religion” as “The First Supreme Head of The Reformed Church of The New Gods in Das Königreich Middenland" naturally resulting in the systematic persecution, legislative marginalization, and the confiscation of any lands, estates, and treasuries of any ecclesiastical and monastic clergy of The Conservative Church of The New Gods who had both stubbornly refused to submit before, and openly protested against the formal renunciation of his spiritual, cultural, and moral ties of fealty to “The Archpatriarchs” or “The Bishops of Romulus” as “The Anointed, Undisputed, and Universal Heads of The Conservative Church of The New Gods.”

[knight-of-black]

Flame Chaser, by Ilya Popov

[we-are-knight]

Knights of the Blazing Sun / Knight of Bretonnia, by Mihail Gard

[hugcrabs]

Velvetica

[d0ppios]

more armoury photos bc i want to go back and sketch there more

[maxxdick]

November 2023, a joyful portrait of @soothedcerberus' knight-centaur Rembrandt!

(If you like my art I’d love to draw for you! For money. ;-)

[just-a-random-muffin]

Something, something, collabs...