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Any tips for painting Dendritic Armour?

Started by eques, April 19, 2018, 09:11:58 PM

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Andreas Johansson

"Dendritic armor" or "dendritic crystal armor" is apparently a thing in Dungeons and Dragons, with online images mostly looking like spiky versions of plate or laminar armour. But that is perhaps unlikely to be what eques meant to ask about on this forum?
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eques

Quote from: Andreas Johansson on April 20, 2018, 09:13:11 AM
"Dendritic armor" or "dendritic crystal armor" is apparently a thing in Dungeons and Dragons, with online images mostly looking like spiky versions of plate or laminar armour. But that is perhaps unlikely to be what eques meant to ask about on this forum?

Of course not! This is an historical forum.

I.meant rhe stuff Achilles wore ;)

Duncan Head

I am still not completely sure what the question is, because of course strictly, Achilles didn't wear Dendra armour. The Dendra style is worn c.1450-1350 BC; Achilles, Trojan War, if historical somewhere around 1180s.

Some armours that may have been worn at the time of the Trojan War are bronze plate built around a similar solid cuirass to the Dendra style, for instance the Thebes finds, but with less massive skirts and fancy bronze helmets rather than the Dendra boars-tusk. So are you asking what this stuff was made of, or how best to paint bronze plate? If the latter, then in 15mm I just use brass paint with the same brown ink-wash as everything else :)  Other techniques are no doubt possible, especially in larger scales.

See:
http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/armour1.htm
http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/armour5.htm
http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/art1.htm
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Cyrus

Two good colours that I find useful for bronze are Foundry Shiny 36 C and Vallejo Model Color Bronze 70.998. Followed by a wash of Army Painter Soft Tone or Strong Tone does the trick. A lot of the bronze paints that are available have to much copper colour in them.