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- Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:19 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hi, farewell to armouring...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 937
Re: Hi, farewell to armouring...
Thanks for the kind words, At least I'm working on the jewellry smithing for a hobby, trying to involve armouring design-fluting and patterns into juwellry stuff, and I'm in the process of interresting a Wargame-company in a tool I ivented. Perhaps I will start a great helm project, just because I n...
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hi, farewell to armouring...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 937
Hi, farewell to armouring...
Hi to you all, I'm about 7 years member of this forum, I really forgot, but I started armouring in the year 2000. I made a lot of helmets, shields, Roman armour, 15th century stuff, and a really cool copy of the Brocas helmet. However I never became the best of the best, and did not reach the level ...
- Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:46 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Tinning steel items
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1221
Re: Tinning steel items
Hi Kel, If i need to tin items, I use a product called S39 (that's the brand) Tin-it. http://www.rustbuster.nl/Solderen_enzo/verinningspasta.JPG Just clean and sand down the surface, apply the tinning-paste - just a thin layer will do. Heat it up with a soldering torch, and voila! a nice and shiny s...
- Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:50 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Gambeson Construction Advice?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 692
Re: Gambeson Construction Advice?
One of my older favorites about the gambeson construction:
http://www.geocities.ws/kamillavh/02.html
You have to read this!
http://www.geocities.ws/kamillavh/02.html
You have to read this!
- Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:35 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Etching paste
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1420
Re: Etching paste
My dear Friends, Try the most modern way to etch... Use a car - battery-loader and very salt water. Put resist in any form (Ductape, paint, wax or whatever) use a tub - big or small and put warm water in it. Saturize (just mix as much salt in as you can) the water with kitchen-salt, connect the 12 V...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armoring Video - Special
- Replies: 16
- Views: 978
Re: Armoring Video - Special
Oh yeah! Great vid, rolling over the floor with laughter... some real Monty Python effects... Nice helmet Halberts.... I showed the whole thing to my son, liked it too. Soon I will start armoring again, but just for myself, now only working on jewellry for my webshop. (dutch only) www.terra-arte.com
- Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:27 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Not directly armour, but
- Replies: 5
- Views: 583
Not directly armour, but
Anyone has tips for me on how to forge a skull, as tiny as the top of your finger (1x1x1 cm) from iron barstock?
I need to make fibula brooches with the skull-icon on the top of the pin.
I allready tried 2 skulls today, but not yet satisfied.
Perhaps one of you out there can give me advice.
I need to make fibula brooches with the skull-icon on the top of the pin.
I allready tried 2 skulls today, but not yet satisfied.
Perhaps one of you out there can give me advice.
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:28 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: any ideas on etching aluminum?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 581
Hey Losthelm, I've got the perfect solution to your problem. Use the Electric - salt water etch-method. needed: A bucket full off water Salt (kitchen salt) car-battery loader 6-12V dissolve as much salt as you can in the water put a piece of copper plate on the "-" contact and put is on one side of ...
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:46 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Lorica Dogmentata?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1618
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:57 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: another bascinet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1102
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:18 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Whitney Punch
- Replies: 23
- Views: 880
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:56 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: King George commands and we obey...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1942
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:02 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: King George commands and we obey...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1942
Hi, They same bloke who wrote Sharpe's rifles also wrote "Hornblower". It's also a TV series. About a young constable, Horatio Hornblower, and his adventures in the British Fleet during the Napolenic wars. Not bad, I've bought the DVD box. The only episode of Sharpe's to avoid is the Waterloo one......
- Sun May 16, 2010 4:57 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Who makes, and who sells Gauntlets or Patterns like these
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1499
I dish them - hammer a depression with the ballpeen on for every finger. Then use the chisel to make that depression a ridge. Here's some workpic of the outside chiselling. [img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/17sept09005.jpg[/img] on the leadblock. [img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/17sept09006...
- Sun May 16, 2010 4:43 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Who makes, and who sells Gauntlets or Patterns like these
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1499
O yeah,
for more see my (Dutch) blog on
http://www.anytimehistorischereproducties.blogspot.com/
and look somewhere halfway the page for the mitten section....
for more see my (Dutch) blog on
http://www.anytimehistorischereproducties.blogspot.com/
and look somewhere halfway the page for the mitten section....
- Sun May 16, 2010 4:37 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Who makes, and who sells Gauntlets or Patterns like these
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1499
I did.... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GXOuY9x03WE/S8Qu2vu-rgI/AAAAAAAAAJk/jS8OZ1XPL9w/s1600/mittens01s.jpg I used a ball peen hammer to make depressions on the fingerplates, then used a half-rounded blunt chisel to make the groove in those depressions. After making the inside grooves (those show as hi...
- Wed May 12, 2010 6:46 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Another gauntlet thread! (hidden...)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1650
For the Hastings battle in 2006 I made hidden gaunts. What I did: used a welding glove, made a hand-shaped piece of thick felt (under-carpet it's called here) and covered the "fingers" of the felt with overlapping aluminium scales, like on a gothic type gauntlet. This piece, with the stiched-on fing...
- Tue May 11, 2010 3:07 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The MOST difficult piece of armour?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1609
If you like to see the complete process, I made a little website about the "makin' of "this helmet... part one: http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/brocas.html part 2 http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/2008/brocas_2008.html some pics of the original and other pics of my replic...
- Thu Apr 29, 2010 5:23 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The MOST difficult piece of armour?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1609
This one, the Brocas.
those 2 plates warps inwards and also go around the head...
That was very difficult to do, especially with such a huge helmet.
It cost me an immense lot of time to learn how to do it.
[img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/DSCN0476.JPG[/img]
those 2 plates warps inwards and also go around the head...
That was very difficult to do, especially with such a huge helmet.
It cost me an immense lot of time to learn how to do it.
[img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/DSCN0476.JPG[/img]
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:25 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Ork armour
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1290
Ork armour
Well, The new year is well on its way and I have to start some new commissions. Commission 1 is some Roman project, BIG project and lots of stuff involved.... It is a bit of a secret, cannot explain right now. I have to make a lot of stuff, I have to get the price right. I planned to do some fantasy...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:19 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pitbull Frogmouth Helm Resurection Update
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2564
Well, I put the pages with the pics back on the web.... Here's the link: First part: http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/brocas.html Second part: http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/2008/brocas_2008.html Tomorrow I'll copy the brocas museum pics for your. Some more some museump...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:24 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pitbull Frogmouth Helm Resurection Update
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2564
nice try. It's an awfully difficult helmet to make. I made it using 3 plates. Front, back and top. Bend the frontplate. Hammer the sides roughly in with a big mallet. from the front it will look like \ / > < / \ Then start hotraising, gently using your hammer to push the plate to the inside, until y...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:53 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 1050 spring steel question
- Replies: 16
- Views: 858
Hi Jiri, I've some of the same problems... I work as parttime IT system engineer for a wholesale toolcompany in the Netherlands. No way to get any sheet springsteel like there in the states... I asked everyone there (on my work...) Only company I found was a tools factory (de Wit in Kornhorn, Gronin...
- Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:38 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Black and White harness question
- Replies: 19
- Views: 981
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:22 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New Roman Imperial Gallic B helmet for the Thermen museum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 514
New Roman Imperial Gallic B helmet for the Thermen museum
Hi there. Got the flue again, or something like that and sitting coughing inside is a good time to announce the finishing of my everlasting project for the "Thermen museum" ( at http://www.thermenmuseum.nl/thermenmuseum.aspx ) with one more Imperial Gallic B helmet. It differs from the last one beca...
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:45 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Black sallet
- Replies: 5
- Views: 630
Lorenzo, those holes were intended to stitch a cloth / embroided cover on it. http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/D/durer_albrecht/0002-0051_ein_reiter_im_harnisch.jpg and a far more better pic of Albrecht Dürer (Duerer) "the horseman" (Reiter) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/D...
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:42 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Black sallet
- Replies: 5
- Views: 630
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:41 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Black sallet
- Replies: 5
- Views: 630
Black sallet
Hi there, After a very busy period dooing too much non armour (I also have to be a part-time network engineer to get around) stuff, I managed to finish some projects: A black sallet and a Roman helmet. The black sallet was intended to save myself from injuries during sword fights, I sold my own helm...
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:33 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Tennis Elbow
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1833
I've had and still having it. It started in april last year. I think because I was working a lot while holding an angle grinder in my right hand. Doctor told me to take rest for ... a year! Well that was not an option. I just took a lot of Ibuprofen and that abled me to work on... Then somone told m...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:38 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Raised Kalkriese mask replica
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1323
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:15 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The raising of a Sallet the video :)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2168
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:26 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: How to treat aluminum plates with ferris chloride
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1513
Hi, I used another process on alu. Buy a car-battery loader with 12V and 6V switch. use very salt (kitchen salt) water, hook the alu object to the + and a strip of copper to the -. You will see that a current is running (about some Amps) and bubbles come out of the water, this is hydrogen gas. after...
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:33 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: some b&w armour porn
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1006
- Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:31 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: some b&w armour porn
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1006
Here's the last one.
Bad quality, but anyway.
[img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/segovia_1990ofzo03.jpg[/img]
Bad quality, but anyway.
[img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/segovia_1990ofzo03.jpg[/img]
- Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:27 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: some b&w armour porn
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1006
I found another two pics in a box. By the way, a lot of museums in Spain (and in the Netherlands too) displayed their collection just out in the open, I mean not behind glass... It was just like that in the 1980's. I also have seen a lot of castles that were used for "building material" just torn do...