The Armour Archive

Owen

I have to get a new dictionary, they seem to have changed the definition of "exact" and I didn't notice.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
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Owen

http://www.larp.com/legioxx/crests.html

See the white crest on the Montefortino helmet, down near the bottom.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
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Owen

In keeping with my portrayal of a Roman legionary, I have a shovel and a dolabra (pick-axe).

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
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Owen

Swordsmith- EtOH boils at 173F, HOWEVER, the boiling point of the mixture is slightly higher, based on concentration, and the vapor that comes off is also a mix, mostly EtOh but some water. Think of it this way; when making beer, the mash is only about 150-154F, but it steams, as water vapor is bein...

Owen

Only ones I know at that price is Depeeka.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

http://www.larp.com/legioxx/

Check out the suppliers section, and reviews of items.

Define "pricey". Do you want cheap, or good?

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

yes, please do.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Note to self: Don't do that again.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Unfortunately, House Kaffa practices on thursdays as well, and practice is only 5 minutes from my place, so... Thursday, ~7PM, at the Allen's Lane Art Center, Allen's Lane and MacCallum Sts., Phila. One block from the R8 Allen's Lane Station. We usually are around behind the tennis courts. ---------...

Owen

I used a product called "CLR", which is sold to clean mineral and rust stains from household items and pipes. It's acidic, andd has to be rinsed off. I then WD40d it to exclude the water, final step will be to degrease it again and use silicon spray. Leaking shed? Count yourself lucky; I had to deal...

Owen

Your chem professor isn't thinking clearly; carbonic acid forms when CO2 dissolves in water. So, as long as it's carbonated, it's acidic. Interesting chemistry trivia (ok, interesting to me), that's why a can of soda that has gone flat tastes so sweet, there's no acid "bite" to balance. ------------...

Owen

Swordsmith- boiling off the alcohol is NOT going to taste anything close to the original mead, for several reasons. First, you aren't just boiling off alcohol, water goes too, smaller amount than the alcohol, but some. Second, you are cooking the product, producing Mailliard Reaction products which ...

Owen

Just looked at WMA's; THAT'S how I'm hoping mine will look. Cool!

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

I use wax-hardened leather, 3"x 14", for mine. I have two rows, staggered, on a belt, but I am redoing them attached to a leather subarmalis. I am still working out final design, but it'll probably be done to be two layers, not staggered, with one lower than the other. Ok, that sounds confusing! Pic...

Owen

I've SEEN the big ass spoiler on an Escort.

Never really understood spending $50,000 to trick out a piece of crap car.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Clermont- flails DO accelerate dramatically faster than a mace head does; that's why, for instance, trebuchets use a sling. As you swing, you impart rotational energy to the head, and the chain then increases it by decreasing the moment arm. ------------------ Owen "Death is but a doorway- Here, let...

Owen

First, I gotta ask, how old are you?

Second-

Ahh, yes, Vitamin I, Fighter Candy, ibuprofin is your friend!

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

"No shit, there I was" is past tense, present tense is, "Oh, shit, here it comes".

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
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Owen

The bending part of the design of the pilum was more "gravy" than the primary intent. The point is wedge shaped, about twice the cross section of the shaft itself, so that when it struck a shield and punched through, the shaft wouldn't get stuck and it would keep going and hopefully hit the man behi...

Owen

Folric- that's nice. Lose the pauldrens, they don't go with the Classical look of the rest of it.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Re: Trueheart's female breastplate. The first thing to cross my mind was that it would look amazing with repousse nipples and inlayed etching of a demibra.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

They work. It's a breast plate.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Bela- oh, I realize that, but a man must have dreams. I dream of having just a single century, all armed with pila. I dream of making some poor midrealm unit's day utterly suck by making 80 pila fall on them at once, killing some, removing shileds from others. Then I dream of doing it to the poor bu...

Owen

Dmitriy- you fool! You HELP her make it, with all the fitting work that that entails!

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Sorry, Matt, but I think you'll need a bit more than 20 pounds of muscle to pull off Lurtz!

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Come to MTT; all of the groups DO stuff. The Legio XX does a marching drill demonstration. We keep trying to talk the celtic groups into allowing us to chase them down and slaughter them, but so far no takers, even when we promise to only sell the kids and cute women. http://www.armourarchive.org/ub...

Owen

In the Legio XX, curent rule is that you must be male to portray a legionary. Given Roman standards of modesty, the type of physical examination recruits underwent, and the types of training they did, as well as how skimpy male clothing was in warm weather, it simply was not possible for a woman to ...

Owen

http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif I mean as in, "if it hits your shield, you lose it". Probably be to hard to determine if a shield hit would have injured the bearer. A Roman pilum was designed to do just that; not simply stick in the shield so they had to drop it, but punch the wedge-sh...

Owen

Well, aren't vikings just big blond ninjas with horns on their heads?

I've always wondered; how do they get the helmet on over the horns?

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

My partner's armor is a Wisby CoP, only "concession" to her being female is that the upper chest plates are overlapped so as to be rigid. I can't see most armors being made specifically for women, more that it's made for that person. My armor would not fit Bela, for example. There are extant example...

Owen

I want a set of pila, and I want them to go through shields like the real thing.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Lorica segmentata- oil them or they will rot from the sweat.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

I'm just going to go and lie down quietly now, until the images get out of my head.

Ow.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Stop yelling, and read some history yourself. And I mean READ; Hollywood doesn't count.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Roman cavalry typically wore mail. There is sculptural evidence for some musculata being made shorter in order to wear by riding.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"