RAF Lynham 1995 - 1/5

Sir Edmund De Thorpe and Sir Waterly of the White Vale settle an old score.

Sir Edmund's armour and weapons are from the 15^th century and are as follows:

• Body: Full plate back and breast of the rounded Milanese style. The breastplate is in two pieces and the back three. A set of 3 faulds hang from the bottom with tassets attached.
• Arms: Simpler munition plate arm pieces, with pauldrons on the shoulder.
• Legs: Higher quality articulated leg harness. These lack protection at the back and do not have sabatons to protect the feet.
• Helmet: Visourless salet with beviour which is being worn raised up. Wearing a salet this way does dramatically improve visibility but as you can see does leave the face and exposed. There are many accounts of knights being killed by thrusts to the face or neck because they had tilted there helmet up or removed the bevoir for ventilation and visibility
• Gauntlets: Hourglass gauntlets with individual scale fingers.
• Extras: Mail arming skirt belted at the waist to protect the groin area where the plate doesn’t cover. He also has mail gussets attached to his arming jacket to protect against thrust into the armpit.
• Weapons: Two handed sword as his main weapon, normally a secondary sword known as an Arming sword would also be carried on the belt and possibly a warhammer or battleaxe.

Sir Waterly's armour and weapons are from the late 14^th century and are as follows:

• Body: A Coat-of-plates rather than the full breastplate.
• Arms: Articulated arm armour with pauldrons covering the shoulders.
• Legs: Articulated leg harness. These lack protection at the back but do have sabatons to protect the feet.
• Gauntlets: Plate gauntlets with short cuff piece and individual scale fingers.
• Extras: Mail arming skirt belted at the waist to protect the groin area.
• Helmet: This is also a salet but this time with a visor which sir Waterly has wisely lowered before combat. (Note: this is a bit inaccurate as the salet was more a 15^th century helmet).
• Weapons: He carries a single handed broadsword of a diamond section. He is actually using it two handed in the first photo, probably to help counter the extra power sir Edmund has with the longer two handed sword. Normally a heater style shield, as seen in the second photo, would be carried and used in conjunction with this sword, we can only assume this has been damaged beyond use or lost previously.