Good one

Just like the commoners who discovered that butted mail, and even riveted mail, will part when hit with a small, quickly-moving object [like a bodkin-pointed arrow], I think they would not be protection in that way. Use a very well-polished aluminum scale, and enough people, and you might blind your enemy?

It depends on whether you have welded maille or butted maille - but for either, not very. Just like the commoners found out when they started using bodkin-pointed arrows, a fast-moving small object will break the rings apart.

you're very welcome.
I've never made one, but there are lots of instructions around and I'm willing to give it a try if you want! You should look around at the types of scales they sell - laser engraved and beautiful - and colors. I THINK that, if you choose a light-reflecting color, that they are not much warmer than skin FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME.
I have to tell you, before I bought my first corset, I didn't know where I would wear it either. Since I have discovered that it is the world's best back brace, disguised, I wear them everywhere. Yes, people look.
I will be making an order from The Ring Lord within a month. PM me!

I think I'll have to order one for myself. I've never been to a Comicon, but there are always Halloween parties.
It would work for sci-fi, space alien, Mad Max-ish post-apocalyptic scenarios, and probably more once I give it some thought.
Thanks, Winterwind!

As in, "colder than a witches....?" ;-) I wonder what Wonder Woman would be wearing these days.

answers: that's why you line it with silk or leather.
If you use aluminum, it's not much colder than bare skin - until the aluminum cools off. The rings the scales hang from are usually steel and you would know better than I which heats up/cools down faster.
Yes. But the "what are you smuggling?" questions are short.
*giggle

I know that they have silver-plated scales, and sterling, fine silver and silver-plated rings. I think they have various kinds of gold rings, but no gold-plated scales. The do some nice engraving, tho...

I know you can get silver-plated scales, but I don't think they do gold-plated. They do a very nice gold COLOR, and a lot of cool laser engraving.

Why bother? Because your enemy is so sex-starved that they are paralyzed by the sight, and you can just mow them down, of course!
I avoided 300 because a number of my students saw it and all had bad reviews.

Things haven't changed much, have they? Except then, the scales were probably steel, not aluminum, so it was all heavier.
Thanks for the first photo, in particular.