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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: kenc on February 21, 2018, 11:46:13

Title: Medieval Plow
Post by: kenc on February 21, 2018, 11:46:13
I'm not sure if someone has done it before  ;D, but I was always lacking a plow for my medieval world so I customised one that could be pulled by a horse. The result is quite ok :)
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: baden-wurttemberg on February 21, 2018, 11:47:43
Wow very clever! First time I've seen this done and its great!  :D
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: tahra on February 21, 2018, 12:46:53
Awesome :love:
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Post by: Jimbo on February 21, 2018, 15:27:39
Beautiful! :)9
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Post by: Tiermann on February 21, 2018, 18:16:42
Great job, it looks just right!
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: playmofire on February 21, 2018, 18:21:20
Great custom, kenc, and thinking outside the box, but a mediaeval plough would not have had a metal blade but a wooden one.  A coat of brown paint will make it right.
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: Klickteryx on February 21, 2018, 19:32:59
Great custom, kenc, and thinking outside the box, but a mediaeval plough would not have had a metal blade but a wooden one.  A coat of brown paint will make it right.
You're right, the ploughshare would have been wood with a piece of iron attached to the front.
Spades from the period had wooden heads with an iron strip for cutting the earth. The iron strip got steadily larger during the middle ages until the entire head was covered in iron.
It's still a very nice custom and very playmolike. Loved the bells and gate in the other thread too.
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: playmofire on February 21, 2018, 19:45:19
I think it wasn't until the 1600s that iron covering the plough blade (I think the technical name is a mould board) entirely or partly began.
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: Macruran on February 22, 2018, 01:47:36
I "dig" it  :D
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: Klickteryx on February 22, 2018, 03:41:32
I think it wasn't until the 1600s that iron covering the plough blade (I think the technical name is a mould board) entirely or partly began.
The mould board was wood, but the thing that actually cuts the soil is the share/poughshare which was iron. That's ancient and iron ploughshares were used by the ancient Romans and probably Gauls etc.
Not sure, but I think the mould board is designed to turn the soil as the heavy plough tilled deeper than the ard before it allowing heavier clay soils to be tilled. This heavy plough appeared around the 11th century and resulted in a population boom as land previously unable to be cultivated was farmed.
Any farmers here know better? ???
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: playmofire on February 22, 2018, 07:26:17
Thanks for clarifying that.   :wave:
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: Hadoque on February 22, 2018, 18:37:08
Metal being historically correct or not, it looks great  8-)

Klickterix and Playmofire, thanks for the info on Medieval & Renaissance (1600s) ploughs. Agricultural history is an area I´m not very familiar with.
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: kenc on February 23, 2018, 11:36:28
Nice to learn the blade was made of wood! 8-) I did not know that! I took inspiration from a Belgian comic drawing, so the drawing must have been not correct too  ;D
Title: Re: Medieval Plow
Post by: Hadoque on February 23, 2018, 20:48:21
I took inspiration from a Belgian comic drawing, so the drawing must have been not correct too  ;D

Vandersteen´s "Suske & Wiske" never is.  ;) With the exception of the blue series, which he made for the Tintin magazine.
You´ll find a lot of accuracy though in the works of Hergé ("Tintin"), Bob De Moor ("Cori, the shipmate"), Edgar Jacobs ("Blake & Mortimer"), and Jacques Martin ("Alex").

Though JM is French while the others are Belgians, he belongs as well to the "École de Bruxelles des Bandes Dessinées".