The Armour Archive

Lupus Argenteus

Thank you milords.... I may do that, though I have to rethink it, because you have to admit that all the planning and notification take away a lot of the fun aspect, which is the impromptu, spontaneous spirit of such a bout... though I completely understand the constrains and the issues involving t...

Lupus Argenteus

On a second thought, since most people only wear fighting gear to the battlefield, maybe futile as well.... might end up spending my time just waiting like an idiot and pissing off non fighters which is extra un-cool.... Never mind... :? ...unless you happened to have mentioned on some message boar...

Lupus Argenteus

The great bascinet has pretty much the glancing lines of regular bascinets - but it rides on your shoulders, rather than your head. Makes it possible to very greatly reduce impact to your noggin. Can be a challenge to calibrate as a side effect. Ah, I see now. Thank you for clarifying that. The hel...

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mental note.: DONT move to An-Tir as a lefty... got it :D .. Our lefties don't seem to be at any disadvantage, even without "arm hunting". Also, there's a big difference between active arm sniping and incidental arm taking. I only got out to practice in An Tir a few times while I lived in Madrone, ...

Lupus Argenteus

I wonder if my left tear was due to insufficient padding on my stainless great helm? I was polearm-clocked pretty hard at one point, and while I later added more padding to address that, it's always run through my head about whether I'd already aggravated my issues. Be glad you never had the bubble....

Lupus Argenteus

Thank you for your input, everyone! I think what I'm taking away from this is that, so long as I make a point of getting an excellent helm, pad it with something better than some strips of blue foam (or, sadly, probably period liners), it's probably safe enough - though it is an excellent idea to tr...

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Just to be clear, I promise that I'll never blame anyone on this thread if I heed their advice and it turns out poorly. I know it's not exactly legally binding, but it's the best I can provide given the circumstances. I appreciate the feedback thus far from everyone - thank you. I hurt my foot on Su...

Lupus Argenteus

Over the summer, I was finally able to get to a doctor to have partial loss of vision in my left eye checked out. It turned out that I was suffering from a detached retina. If I'd not gotten to the doctor when I did, the detachment would probably have proceeded all the way to the macula, and I'd be ...

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I really liked this video. If people are worried because the beginning is a lot of still images and talking, fast forward to the last half. In addition to the footage of Dr. Capwell (OK, yes, I see people just refer to him as Toby Capwell all over the place, but I don't know him so I don't want to p...

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How large is the corn maze, and is this basically the last thing that's happening with it in the season? If so, and you can make modifications to it, you could set up a fortification assault. Maybe do maze activities in the first half of the day, and chop it up for the next scenario during a rest br...

Lupus Argenteus

Awesome. I kinda wish I did German 14th century, just so I could do that style now.

Lupus Argenteus

Lupus - you are correct, it is pretty close but I think there are enough significant points of difference to conclude that they're not the same (visor, great helm, chain #3). Its interesting though, that particular pose is fairly common amongst effigies of that period. The splints are pretty distin...

Lupus Argenteus

Second from the right on the top row might be Konrad von Seinsheim? There's a couple slight differences, though.

http://effigiesandbrasses.com/monuments ... seinsheim/

Lupus Argenteus

Okay, I personally think advancing under a barrage like that would be -awesome-, but I'm a shield man, myself. :D A non-SCA interjection, but I remember back in my boffer days (oh, the shame...) we routinely used 45# bows with carbon fiber shafts and padded tips, and amazingly, no one was ever impa...

Lupus Argenteus

Anyplace we can flag something for your attention, if we see it? Would leaving a comment in the page just leave a comment, or would you receive a notification of the comment as well? The thing I noticed in this case is that Sir John Giffard and John Gifford in Essex, 1348, are almost certainly the s...

Lupus Argenteus

If you get a sec, you may want to peek at the Historical Research forum. There's a couple 14th century armour threads which are discussing some various oddities, and effigy pics are flying around like mad. Good stuff. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1615490 http://forums.armou...

Lupus Argenteus

Just out of curiousity, what is going on with the Greaves? They look odd to me. Haldan They actually look similar to this other guy, posted on the other 14th Century German thread: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/files/072_1369_konrad_von_sauensheim_schweinfurt_563.jpg They're either splinte...

Lupus Argenteus

Ive been trying to decide that. I was hoping for suggestions. Respectfully, I'd suggest determining the period before deciding what else to do. If the period you decide to do doesn't set your heart ablaze with excitement...well, you might end up being less than excited about the SCA in general at s...

Lupus Argenteus

Another integrated elbow example I happened upon while looking for something else:

http://www.effigiesandbrasses.com/monum ... on_nassau/

Don't suppose anyone happens to have a photo example of this?

Lupus Argenteus

Diverging off of the "duel protocol" thread, I did see the germ of an idea which interested - the concept of a death in one battle rendering one unavailable in the next. I was wondering if anyone had ever tried such a thing, in specific a series (say maybe 3 or 4) of field-style battles where death ...

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I'd hope no one would have a problem with this - this is a blazingly cool project and deserves to be posted about here. However, might I suggest posting something about this over to Classifieds in addition? Some people don't always come into this forum. And I want one of each - once I'm gainfully em...

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You know, it seems very sad to me that stating "This business rooked me out of 1,000$. I have been waiting 5+ years for them to make good on their word. Maybe you shouldn't use them." can be considered Libel, and can be subject to legal action. It's a sad state when we can't even legally warn each ...

Lupus Argenteus

Cian of Storvik does something like that - while I could afford to have SCA stuff, I had one and was pretty happy with it.

Lupus Argenteus

After all we have LARPs, SCA and rebated steel on the list. I wouldn't LARP with the sort of condition described, either, except as a non-combatant. Accidents happen there, too, and it sounds like a simple overly hard shot that would knock the wind out of someone (which I've seen reasonably commonl...

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My housemate has 51 Dragon magazines ranging from issue 37 to issue 282, with the majority falling in the 50-100 range. Originally, she had planned to ask about store credit at a local gaming shop for them, but before she did that I thought I'd mention them on here to see if anyone had any interest ...

Lupus Argenteus

Congrats to Sir Edward!

Lupus Argenteus

D. Sebastian converted me to the use of Arnica Montana to help bruises heal faster - I highly recommend it.

Lupus Argenteus

Specifically, if the money that was given as deposits ever changed hands at an event, or even an agreement was made at the even and then consideration was exchanged later AND it was determined to have been criminally fraudulent in nature, you could force the BoD's hands by going through your Kingde...

Lupus Argenteus

I might be misremembering, but wasn't there someone who was using velcro or some such because they wanted to easily remove and wash/dry out their linen liner?

Lupus Argenteus

I've heard that some people have used boxing headgear or the like without attaching the headgear to the helm - you may want to investigate that option.

Lupus Argenteus

A good place to look up local heavy list practices is http://www.fighterpractice.com . It has contact information for the people who run the local practices. It looks like there's a practice on Thursday nights in Charlotte, and some more in a wider radius around. If you're looking for SCA fencing pr...

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Hedinn wrote:I am squired to the coolest guy ever!

Are you sure you should be bragging about being his squire? After all, it looks like he's the only one who's stuck putting on his own armour in that video.

Tres cool. I remember seeing the other video - the French news report about this.

Lupus Argenteus

It really depends on the individual LARP, not just because of weapon construction rules but also because of use rules - some games require 2 handed contact at all times but allow movement of those hands, some require two handed static placement, and some don't care. I've got to assume the latter two...

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I'm just saying you shouldn't limit yourself to doodles. I see you've got some very nice graphic arts pieces, and that's great! From your first post, it sounded like you only did drawings, and that's the kind of variety you need to show people when you tell them that you do artwork! But since you k...

Lupus Argenteus

Wow, sounds like this week's going to be a party. Wish I was going to be around or that I'd still have my armour...

The folks around Madrone are good folks. I had fun at that practice the few times I went.

Re: Fighting outside the field at Pennsic

Re: Fighting outside the field at Pennsic

Re: How high-impact is heavy list, medically speaking?

Re: The Iron Chicken stance has got to go (SCA).

Re: How high-impact is heavy list, medically speaking?

Re: How high-impact is heavy list, medically speaking?

Re: How high-impact is heavy list, medically speaking?

How high-impact is heavy list, medically speaking?

Multiple Field Battles w/o rez

Non-armour:Any interest in old Dragon magazines?

Re: Ok, so who wants to be like these guys?