[MR] curiosity plastic armor question

[Siegfried Sebastian Faust]

>For those people who started with plastic armor, how
>many tourneys did you actually fight with it before
>you decided you wanted something stronger?

1 year ... probably 3 events (lived in the boonies at the time), regular 
weekly fighter practices.  Although, 80% or so of the plastic was covered 
by a big ole tabard.  lower arms & lower legs still showed.  This was 
plastic ALL over, PVC greaves/knees, PVC/Plastic splint arms, Burger King 
Pickle Barrel Lorica Segmentica, plastic gorget.  Yes, It is the Teenage 
Mutant Ninja Turtle Armor.  Hence the immediate reason to put a tabard over it.

Next 1 year ... switched to metal legs, 'hidden plastic' brigantine, metal 
spaulders, leather arms, plastic gorget still, PVC half-gauntlets still.

Some X years later (forward to modern days) ... Somewhere along the way the 
gorget & half-gauntlets got replaced with leather, and current kit is: 
leather/metal legs, leather/metal arms, a different 'hidden plastic' 
brigantine, Bishop's Mantle, leather half-gauntlets & gorget.

Siegfried



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THL Siegfried Sebastian Faust     Baronial Web Minister & Archery Marshal
Barony of Highland Foorde        http://highland-foorde.atlantia.sca.org/