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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8294917" data-attributes="member: 21169">The Knight and the Blast Furnace (2003) Alan Williams has a section on armour thickness:There is a continuous production of armour from the mid-15th to the mid-17th century of fairly constant thickness. Breastplate thickness between 1.5 and 3 mm corresponds of course to an armour of comfortable weight. The limbs would have been protected with thinner armour. For example, most infantry armour comes into this category, except that some is made of thickness up to 4mm in the later 16th century. Secondly, there is a steady rise in the maximum thickness, from around 2mm in the 15th to around 6 mm which is regularly found by the late 16th century, and even including some astonishing examples at 8mm). This suggests that while many customers may have preferred armour of the accustomed thickness and weight, there was a growing market for bulletproof armour, nothwithstanding its greater weight.He provides a chart comparing breastplate thickness of many different armours in museum collections, from c.1470 to c.1685:[ATTACH=full]137862[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]137863[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]137864[/ATTACH]</blockquote>