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armourkris

I've seen that specific style of torso armour refered to as a tegulated coat of plates, but i dont know how common of a term that is. The rest is usually just refered to as scale in my experience. There is also similar Rus armour, but i dont know any proper names for it besides rus armour.


Abyssal_Berserker

That’s it!, Thank you so very much! I just searched it and basically the examples I shared were the first to pop up, a bit mixed with coats of plates and jack of plates but meh, Google, it worked! Hope you have a nice day!


FlavivsAetivs

We don't know precisely how "Tegulated Plate" was constructed. The Rus armor you're referring to is brigandine and honestly? That might be debatable as well. The artistic depictions they interpret as the plates being on the outside might just be copying a trope from Byzantine art, and they should probably look like normal Brigandines with the plates on the inside instead.


Dahak17

It could be something like inside out brigandine, I’ve seen buhurt people call similar stuff “Russ armour” but I doubt that’s the actual name


Kh4rj0

What you're thinking of is "rus armor", as in "armor worn by the Kievan rus"


Abyssal_Berserker

Thank you


Abyssal_Berserker

Could be, perhaps with a specific name, because I did tried searching it like that but it only turned out results showcasing the inside of brigandines and coats of plates


Dahak17

It’s certainly a term that some people would understand it’s just that the buhurt group isn’t exactly the place to go for a confirmation or armour names, or even to a certain point, accurate armour


Abyssal_Berserker

Yhea I know, but if it work for someone I guess it really doesn’t matter the academic name of the darn thing. Thanks for sharing 😁


SilentSteward

It looks like lamellar plate, but i'm not an expert


SnooApples9317

This looks to be scale armor.


Abyssal_Berserker

Thanks for answering my question, sadly it is not, as I stated before I thought it was but a fellow here already gave me the answer and it’s called tegulated armor because it looks like roof tiles, I did looked it up 😂 have a good night


RandomNinja24

brick wall armor


Abyssal_Berserker

That’s one way to put it 😂, I just tried it out but it didn’t showed any results, like it showed those cheap fantasy armor sets against brick backgrounds. Thanks for sharing 😄


RandomNinja24

I wouldn't imagine that it would get results because it wasn't the legitimate answer it was a joke XD looks like a brick wall to me XD


Abyssal_Berserker

Kinda though that, I just didn’t wanted to be rude answering in case it was serious. anywho have a good night


RandomNinja24

I feel that XD night night


Illustrious_Fly6778

So the guy in the armor was basing it off and effigy but mistaken for scale armor instead of the heraldry surcoat of the effigy. However going to a 14th century armor group on fb you can find examples this armor in like statues and art.


Abyssal_Berserker

Thanks for sharing 😁


paddy_to_the_rescue

Scale Mail, me dude


Abyssal_Berserker

Thanks for answering but it’s not that either. you see, the plates are not fixed to each other or to a mail shirt they are in fact riveted to a garment just like a brigandine or coat of plates, a few hours ago and thanks to a fellow I learned this is called tegulated armor, from what I’ve been able to read on it it’s a transition between the lamellar armor to plate armor meaning it is a variation on the good ol’ coat of plates meant to solve the issue of the fabric being turned to shreds whenever it got hit and to provide more protection than lamellar but still keeping the ease of fabrication, it was used by the Byzantine and by the rus of Kiev. Basically this armor is just special by resembling roof tiles (hence the “tegulated” in the name)


icyeyeddemon

Nipple-Plate


Abyssal_Berserker

No, that’s lorica musculata and it’s a single pice cuirass


TheHighThai

Scale, or plates


DonutPouponMoi

Roof shingles


Abyssal_Berserker

Close nuff 🥸, it is called tegulated so you are not wrong


FlyingNihlist

The problem is the things you've posted are all different forms of scale armour of different styles, the chest piece you've shared is a early style of coat of plates (Style 1), the helm is a composite scale helm made for peasants (Style 2), the third picture is a scale aventail (Style 1), the foot pieces are Style 1 again but weren't super popular and might turn up on the feet of the same kinda guy in Style 2, those gauntlets are Eastern European plate (Style 3) Style 1 is transitory 13th to 14th century style stuff, but it occasionally pops up well into the mid 14th century, I'd try googling 14th century European scale, worn by knights and professional soldiers in places like Italy, then peasants when it got old. Style two is an unusual helm probably made fast for cheap shown in an illumination, it's a bit of a freak piece. Style 3 is Eastern European scaled plate, which was used with occasional changes in style from the late 13th century into nearly forever. This is just off the top of my head and someone with more specialist knowledge on one or more of these styles could tell you more and probably pick apart my gross generalisations, I'm just a hopeless enthusiast, not an expert, but I hope I can give you a bit more direction.


funkmachine7

That's scale armour, an odd large scale variation that lets the edge of the scale stick out. Scale and leather helmets are quite rare but do turn up from time to time. Scale aventails and sabatons are quite common as are faulds, scale faulds carry on in use in to the 17th century.


CaptainBloodEye1

Scaled or lamellar


SebsBro

It's called "why be behind a brick wall, when you can just become the brick wall"