06-20-2009, 06:59 AM
Lysandros wrote:
Quote:One shoulder flap is in the air and the fastening in the air supports the theory of flexibility - it has most likely sprung up upon releasing and the painter made the scene right after the release. At least that is what logic tells me when I look at the flap and the fasterning. I can be wrong, of course....flexible ,yes..........springy? ....not necessarily - as I have suggested, the shoulder guard may simply be thrown back. None of the suggested materials for the Tube-and-Yoke corselet has 'springy' characteristics.....
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
