my black & white gauntlets

[tank]

here is the first peice of my black&white kit im making for toupo

[Mad Jim]

Awesome nice work! they look very cool...

[Oskar der Drachen]

Those look sweet! I like the chasing you put into the cuff, and the roping on the roll.

Did you use sliding rivets in the wrist articulations for lateral movement?

The detain on the base of the thumb is clever as well, I like the way you polished sections, and left the background black for contrast. What kind of blacking did you use?

I noticed that you are using what I would call feathered plates for the fingers rather than tunnel plates and gadlings. Why did you go that way as opposed to a more historical pattern?

Oskar

[tank]

as for the blackening i have to tell you what i have to tell everyone that asks
there are a few people out there thatl kill me if i tell ppl how i do it
exsperiment with stuff and u may find out
tho i cant tell u its not black paint

also there is slideing in the sides

by fethered you mean with the creace down the middel?
as to tunneld and gaddlings please exsplain what u mean or better yet a picture

[Oskar der Drachen]

These are examples of the tunnel and gadling construction. The finger bones have single sections shaped in cylinder sections, and the knuckles have the gadlings or caps that cover the joins between the tunnels. Then there is quite often, but not always a mostly closed fingertip.







The feathered style (just what I call it, there might be a proper name), is the style you used, a series of small lapped plates from just under the knuckle plate down to the fingertips. Now I have seen other gaunts like this, and though I thought the Gadling style was the most accurate. Then I thought to check out Jiri Clepac's site because IMOHO he is one of the best there is, and I found these beauties. You will have to scroll through the pictures here, but about two thirds of the way down are the gauntlets. They are also in the black and white style. He has placed them in the 16th-17 century block, but Meh, pretty is pretty for me.

http://www.armour.cz/fotoalbum/nezarazene/16th---17th-century

[tank]

those are of erlyer period
all the pictures ilv got say the "feathered" look
im working off 1580-1590 examples from germany/austria

[Oskar der Drachen]

Yep!

The Black and White gaunts Jiri has up he had dated to the 16th-17th century as well. I'll admit to being wrong anytime!

Like my favourite saying goes...

"Ignorance is fixable!"

[Freebooter]

[tank]

yeh toupo is an exolent escuse to up kit my collection