The Armour Archive

Murdock

well poo

i was hoping to cut the hammering time on em.

Thanks though

Murdock

My helmet is the heaviest thing i have on it's about 13ish pounds my whole rig sans helmet is 20 something pounds it's lighter than the same coverage would be in the standard 1/4 in abs plastic. i have seen many plastic rigs that are significantly heavier than my rig. The same with sports gear rigs....

Murdock

If you wouldn't mind

could you please send me the pattern you used for your vams.

It looks like it would be a better shape than the ones i reverse engendered off an old set of mine. My pattern makes a good cone, it looks like yours lends itself more toward the tulip shape.

thanks

Murdock

"
Has anyone else talked to L.E.O. SCA fighters and heard how the similarities between Nightsticks and Rattan have been very helpful to their work?"

SCA training helped alot.

You can crack a femur with a Monodock baton, you can shatter a radius.

Murdock

Valerius

cuz he's muh buddy

Murdock

Seeing a commonality among "bad" kits

the helmets seem to be similar in most of these kits.

Murdock

"As I'm hitting a tree, I'm using a branch of similar size to my rattan after I sanded it down to fit through the basket hilt Hjalmr so kindly made for me."

Stop

yo'll mess up your shoulder and arm

Murdock

I really want some Samurai armour

too bad i has no money

Murdock

Back in the day i had a couple 2x4's set into the ground with a layer of foam a layer of carpet and a rope around them. I used it for everything from a pell to a punching kicking post. In fact i had made it to use for karate and such before i even found the SCA. Just enough give to not break your bo...

Murdock

The clothes in the "return of Martin Gurrer" were pretty good iirc

Murdock

cuz it's freakin awesome

Murdock

What side do you wanna fight on?

Murdock

"You and me both Bub. "

Sucks don't it

on top of that i have been reaaallly slacking on practice since Estrella.

So i look like crap and i kinda suck

Uggg

Murdock

His Excellency Sir Stephen is the English Capt
I'm on the English side

ummmmm

dunno who else for sure

Murdock

sigh

i look the same

actually my kit is starting to show it's mileage

Murdock

just kill people with it

look straight ahead

kill the guy on your 45' angle who's not looking at you

Murdock

I was there

it really captures the moment

Murdock

"but here it is- did women typically show cleavage in the late 14th century in western Europe?"

YES THANK GAWD!!!

Murdock

Wade makes the best Kid Armour

Leo has some nice stuff too

HE sells little plastic great helms that look realish

Murdock

yes there are some sources and it can be done, i've seen where the I-33 has been used to extrapolate the use of larger center gripped shields. I do it myself. It's probable that it was done in some manner similar to the video's suggestions, but from what we can tell that's not the primary tactic the...

Murdock

Yeah we do From what i can see from primary sources big ole shields were used primarily in formations. Phalanx, Anglo Saxon shield wall, Italian paviseari, used in mass as more or less mobile fortifications. IN single combat?? We do see a little bing shield singles in humalgags (sp) and a few in oth...

Murdock

i dunno what to tell ya

almost everyone is bigger than me so it's just fighting

course in my head i look like Micheal Clarke Duncan

Murdock

This thread reminds me of a Ron White Joke

"i didn't know how many guys it would take to kick my ass, but i knew how many they were gonna use"

Murdock

Afaik SSG and CSG have no such problems

AEMMA??? dunno

Murdock

Thought it might be the one i won from ya at the 30

they look similarish

Murdock

Leo that helmet...

i think i recognize it

Murdock

I've been known to sing (loudly but badly)occasionally in Melees Hotspur, Se Moi march of Canbreth Had a guy in the Allied champs battle once just stop and say "are you singing" i stabbed him in the face "verily i am" and went right on think he laughed all the way to his side's h...

Murdock

medieval

spoon

fighting

Murdock

the stock pavillion at Jara

if it smeeld better and had some heavy bags and i could go use it anytime i wanted

instead of not being able to go at all

Murdock

used to have a room

now it's all over the house

smaller house

less room

Murdock

"What's a parking deck? "

a building made of multiple parking lots stacked on each other

Murdock

Murdock: I've never heard that theory, have you got a source for that?

yup

it's in one of the 2 zillion books up here on the shelf

it was someone's conjecture they had some good arguments for it.

No idea which book it was in

Murdock

What are you looking at

it's a effigy

it's like a coffin but has a statue of the dead guy layin on it

Murdock

i think mine is about 5'4"

i like it

ymmv

Murdock

It's summer there though isn't it?
there's ice over everything here.

And is a carpark like a parking deck or like a parking lot?