Any armorers/blacksmiths on here?

Gonzalez said:
It's a thing here, it wouldn't be the same without it.

The movie is Alatriste (2006).
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Is it a historically accurate film? War movie?
Also, English subtitles? My Spanish is decent, but not enough to keep up with the dialog.
 
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The battle was a real battle if that's what you ask. The weapons and tactics are from the period.
 
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Looks interesting, does Viggo Mortensen speak Spanish!?

We need more historical dramas - in general - especially because of the habit of botching up historical dramas, in most of the attempts - making them too summarizy, too dramatizy, and so on.
Norwegian cinema is staaarved of historical drama, we have made exactly ZERO serious viking movies, can you fucking believe it? It's like a strange aversion, or something, like we don't wanna "brag about it" or something, I just don't get it.
We ARE currently making a movie about our greatest civil war though, during the viking age, which is about goddamn time... !

A bit off topic there, I realize now. Ah well :0
 
Mortensen lived in Venezuela and Argentina when kid, and is fan of a local Argentinean futbol (football) team.
 
I had no idea. Now I wanna hear him speak Spanish. I grew up bilingual, but my Spanish never really became "authentic", mostly cus my dad is kindov bilingual himself (mixing Peruvian and Iberian Spanish)
 
Anyone know of a good alternative to leather that is relatively cheap, and won't rip from the weight of about 25 pounds of steel riveted to it?
 
Any of those synth stuff in not only non historical, but unnecessary, and might even be expensive too. Historically they used velvet or silk, I'm sure there is plenty of more mundane cloth available that is resistant enough. Remember the weight will be distributed and not all in one place. Look for options, however armors weren't cheap back in the day and aren't cheap now. You also happened to fancy one of the most difficult/expensive to make, plate armor would had been way simpler, for one you don't need much fabric or leather, and you have bigger plates. It all goes down to whether you want to do it right or not. Using such modern materials as aramid for a brigandine makes the effort of making all the plates that compose it kinda not worth it. I mean, why go trough the effort of making a realistic, combat ready brigandine and then use aramid on it?

If you want cheap alternatives however, this guy uses old jeans.
 
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Yup, synthetic materials looks like a nonsense from historical point of view. They are extremely durable though, just like boiled leather. Aramid is very resistant to abrasive forces, plus it doesn't melt or burn.
 
I wish I had a yard or something, because right now I really want to build a cheap-ass forge and start hammering away :D
 
Okay. I'll spend the 600$ for real leather, then. I don't have bills to pay or anything. Also, I don't have access to a forge or yard large enough to build one, and well-fitted plate armor is much harder to make than a brigandine as a brigandine leaves more leeway for mistakes. Not everyone has access or space to everything needed. Sorry.

Also, that old jeans video? He's using cardboard. Sorry. Cardboard plates are not good enough. Denim sucks. I tried it. Velvet doesn't hold rivets on its own, nor does silk.
 
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It all goes down to density, you can use any material you like, as long as it's dense enough, the same goes for leather.
 
Gonzalez said:
It all goes down to density, you can use any material you like, as long as it's dense enough, the same goes for leather.
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Yes, but by the time you reach the same strength of leather with denim, you're taking 20 layers. Even more with cloth. More is not always bet- not arguing anymore. Will do it my way. Will post pics.
 
Someone asked earlier about Agincourt and arrows penetrating armor, I found a very interesting video which might help.

 
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Hassknecht said:
Yeah, sorry, that's going to take a while :D Large scale graphene production currently means graphene flakes of the order of mm², if you want good quality CVD grown (and the quality is limited by the transfer method, and thus mostly by the hexagonal boron nitride flakes, which we can't really grow like graphene so far). And it needs to be good quality if you want those mystical mechanical properties, because defects will ruin everything.
Rather than graphene I'd recommend a woven carbon nanotubes cloth. Much better for mass production (no need for pristine, large scale flakes, much higher tolerance for defects).

/edit: God, that Film Theory video... No, it's not diamond's structure. It's single sheet of graphite (not "molecule"), and it's an sp² binding, not sp³ as in diamond. In fact, it's a completely different crystal structure than diamond (which is a cubic lattice, while graphene has a hexagonal lattice). Never listen to laymen when it comes to stuff like that.
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Recently I have read something about bulletproof shirt. :D There are two graphene layers next to each other. When the first gets pierced by the bullet, there is reaction going (don't know how exactly) and it is going to create diamond like structure that is going to stop the bullet (and probably break all your ribs) :D Graphene is really amazing nano-material. You can find new interesting ideas with it almost every day.
 
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