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Like, this sort of shape for the couters and poleyn ‘wings’.
Images from Illuminated Manuscripts that depict a typical European dragon; green in colour, left wing outstretched, showing the shape.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Career-buffbro over here, I have to do a little extra homework to find artists who can honour that so I REALLY appreciate this ^^

Fantastic work btw
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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We’re making the arm/leg harnesses in a fashion that’s going to be based around English style plate, so a lot of barley twist fluting on the rerebraces, cuisses etc., he’s already made a couple of pieces with that type of fluting so should turn out great ^^
Harcourt Effigy at the Harcourt Chapel in St. Michael’s, Oxfordshire - the alabaster figure featured is clad in red plate armour of English style, with fluted couters on the arm harnesses, a cloak with a blazon on the left breast, a golden mail collar, etc. - Profile view Harcourt Effigy at the Harcourt Chapel in St. Michael’s, Oxfordshire - the alabaster figure is clad in red plate armour of English style, with fluted couters on the arm harnesses, fluting on the legs, a cloak with a blazon on the left breast, a golden mail collar, etc. - View looking down on the effigy’s arm harnesses Example English-style leg harnesses made by Steve Lunn. The cuisses (upper leg armour) have prominent barley twists on them, which are characteristic of English plate.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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We mostly did our own thing with this (the front strap is more common on German armour), but the biggest reference we used was of Robert Hungerford’s effigy, which is one of the few pictorial examples of 15th c. English plate. No real, physical English plate of this period is known to have survived.
The cuirass next to a sketch of Robert Hungerford’s effigy (which is in Salisbury Cathedral), demonstrating the similarities and differences in the shape, construction etc. (front view). The cuirass next to a sketch of Robert Hungerford’s effigy (which is in Salisbury Cathedral), demonstrating the similarities and differences in the shape, construction etc. (side view).
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The page is actually really interesting too.
maryrose.org/discover/col...
Archery and longbows on the Mary Rose - Mary Rose
172 complete bows were found on the Mary Rose. Find out more about the longbows and archery paraphernalia recovered from Henry VIII's warship
maryrose.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Lol thanks but it’s not mine, it’s my friend’s, he has said I’m welcome to borrow it for sparring over the next few months tho

He is thinking of selling it and the price he’s looking for is fair so I might actually go for it, but we’ll see ^^
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM