Scale Armor
Also Called
- Leaf Armor
- Lamellar
- Bad terms developed from D&D books. It is not maille of any
kind, in normal use.
Quick start
'Scale armour can be leather, metal or a combination of both. I wouldn't
know where to find ready made pieces, but I've known people to make their
own. It's a matter of cutting out a lot of scales and sewing/riveting them
to a base layer of cloth or thinner leather.
For show pieces, discarded leather couches can be skinned and the leather
used for projects like this. Free leather is goood. Harder leather
you'd have to buy.
There are two types of scales in metal.
Theringlord.com has brass and
steel scales that are linked together with rings (I'd call this true
scale maille). The other kind can be found pretty much all over the
web, they're flat plates with holes for rivets. That kind can be
found, among other places, here:
http://www.armchair-armoury.co.uk/plate_scale.htm
-- JB
Easy or Hard to make the scales?
>Does anyone know how to make scale mail or leaf mail. Cheap
>easy or hard?
Easy, but some what repetitive....You can cut the scales out of leather, dip
them in hot wax (and be careful!), dry and sew to a leather base. Stain and
or punch any holes needed before 'french fryin' the scales. I used a Singer
127 treadle machine with a leather needle to sew the scales on.
It's *great* armor, sheds blows like a champ, looks waay cool! If you
don't harden the scales somehow, they will curl up like a pine cone--the
voice of experience....And it makes a rattlely noise when you run about...
Cutting the 12 bazzillion scales can get old. Now that we have TMC,
life should be much better <G>!
It's cheep, you can use scraps of leather--I used fairly heavy
leather--3/16" thick I think, it's been a while.
==Carol
More spots out in the web to learn about Scale Armor
http://www.io.com/~beckerdo/other/ScaleArmorII/ScaleArmorII.html has
good tips for making your own from 24 gauge aluminum. You just have to
modify the size and shaping for Rohan-style scale mail. I wish I had found
it BEFORE cutting out over 400 scales from plastic.
http://www.larp.com/legioxx/squamata.html There is also some great info
about scale mail here. Mostly for Roman Legion LARP/reenactors, but also
some valuable information about making scale mail and some cool historical
tidbits as well.
For making leaf mail I would definitely recommend visiting Julia's
Haldir's Elven Archers site as someone else already mentioned
==Lady Angelariel
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