So you've been wondering what good armor looks like

[Sialia]

Check out the website of Robert Macpherson for some views of beautiful armor.

http://www.lightlink.com/armory

Click around a bit--there's more here than there initially appears to be--make sure you page through the views of "satisfied customers." Robert Macpherson's attention to historical accuracy and detail is very high--where he's modified designs or materials, he'll tell you.


For lots more pages by contemporary armorers, see:

http://www.westisles.org/storm/Links/TWMGlinks.htm

 

[Sialia]

http://www.varmouries.com/gallery/gallery.html

also seems well worth checking out.

 

[Sialia]

and, of course, the Met

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view50.asp?dep=4

 

[Sialia]

http://www.historicenterprises.com/ will give you a look at historic underwear, among other things.

 

[Sialia]

And this is a must have site for armor reference: an illustrated glossary of terms


http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/gdaub/armor/picgloss.htm

 

[Sialia]

Last one for tonight and then I go to sleep.

http://www.arador.com/

(an online Library of Armor.)

especialy the page http://www.arador.com/gallery/pics.html

 

[Sialia]

yeah right.

a half an hour later, and I'm still looking for photo references for a sketch I want to do.

here's another you can't afford to miss.

http://www.seattleknights.com/Gallery/gallerypage.asp?Gallery=3&Page=1

and don't forget, if you scroll all the way down tot he bottom of http://www.westisles.org/storm/Links/TWMGlinks.htm there's links to pages about siege engines . . .

 

[hong]

http://www.westisles.org/storm/Links/TWMGlinks.htm

I can't be the only one who parses that URL as "westicles".

And THIS is what good armour looks like:

 

[alsih2o]

hong is lost, THIS is good armour-

 

[Mouseferatu]

Sigh.

Not to resurrect--and then beat--a dead horse, but this is exactly why I have a problem with some of the style of third edition artwork. This sort of armor--the real thing--is so much more evocative than the impossible spiked stuff they've put all the heroes in.

Thanks for the links, though. I know what good armor looks like, but it's always nice to find visuals, if only to hand out to players.