The Armour Archive

Owen

NECK You will probably need to wear a seperate gorget to comply with SCA rules. This might be hidden beneath your tunic, or if visible, styled in a way that makes it fit artistically into the period. I have mine covered with fabric. You could also wear a neckerchief (focale, in Latin) over it. FEET...

Owen

I've long thought (or at least thought since I saw Matt's) that the linothorax would make good SCA armor. I'd use a modern adhesive rather than hide or ehite glue, and if you were in the mood to cheat I'd bet you could sandwich thin plastic (pickle bucket weight) in between layers of fabric. I do Ro...

Owen

I should mention that I fight part of the time in my LH rig; I love it!

Owen

<whistling casually> Or you could just MAKE and fight in an accurate one - since they work better than the SCA-ized versions... The SCA version I'm planning will appear historically accurate, but it will have some modernisms. It will be SS, the hinges will be of modern design (although the lobes ar...

Owen

The Army of Bhakail, under Baron Sir Tristan von Holstern, was the second unit inducted into the Blue Tyger Legion. The Thin Red Line.

Owen

Branches are switching what they wear.
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123005370

Owen

Matthew, how are you going to keep an empire together if you can't even agree on the color of tunics?

uh oh...the US military is switching all around now!

Owen

http://washington-monument.visit-washington-dc.com/
The cap of the Wshington Monument is aluminum.

Owen

[img]http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/tart/RUR%20Bob%202.jpg[/img]
Rifleman Snerdly, face blackened, ready to hit Jerry where it hurts

You need to aim about a foot higher to do that...

Owen

You know, it has been an awfully long time since we had that argument...

Vive Le Rouge!

Owen

Osprey's "The Roman Army From Caesar To Trajan" shows legionaries in a variety of tunica colors, but makes no mention of it in the text. I think it was done to make the pictures more visually interesting. There is very little in the way of evidence either way, actually.

Owen

Now if you can explain how to soften rock crystal with blood I'll be *very* impressed!

Easy; soak the crystal in blood, then drop an anvil on it. It will no longer be as hard. Or intact, but that is a mere detail.

Owen

Doesn't mean epoxies are period. Different chemical mechanism, more related to aerobic adhesives.

Owen

No, because epoxies are a different kind of adhesive; they do not "dry" (volitile fraction leaving the adhesive matrix behind), or soften with heat and reharden upon cooling, as animal glues do, they polymerize and crosslink in a series of complex chemical reactions. Epoxies weren't developed until ...

Owen

From the description, this isn't what most people would think of as "plastic", ie. a thermoplastic resin, but more like a clear/translucent adhesive resin. Glue. Once it sets, it's set.

Owen

I didn't say they weren't allowed. I was pointing out that they can be tough to do. They are.

Owen

Giles- "outer" means "the part not in contact with the weapon". As you said, it could be written better, but it is fairly clear what they mean.

Owen

Jedi-Legionary

One Roman-One Army. A fair fight!

Owen

You have added the word entire without telling the reader it is your addition to the rules. We can debate where the "outer" surfaces of the hand starts and stops all day long. Since it doesn't say "part", that implies "entire". Again a rule that leaves it open for marshal debate! True; yet again po...

Owen

Kith- an important part of that rule is that the entire outer surface of the hand must be covered, and that includes the sides of the fingers.

I wear EGG gauntlets with street hockey gloves inside.

Owen

Btw, the Pub (the "Porker's Stern"!) was great!

Owen

Does anyone have any pics of the free-for-all?

Owen

I think it's pretty clear that the SCA formed to give the founders an excuse to whack each other with sticks.

Owen

[img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/winter/MTT04/AAmembers.jpg[/img]
"Can't we all just get along?"
"Yes. Yes we can."

Owen

SCA and Legio XX Valeria Victrex.

Owen

shhhh...I'm saving that for my retirement!

Owen

But of course, Quintus; got a really nice red one right here!

Owen

Sew, sew, sew...

Grind, grind, grind, pound, pound, pound. Trying to put Lorica Segmentata back together after over a year in pieces.

Owen

My guess would be either 1 or 2, with only minimal Sarmatioan influence, perhaps details on armor and clothing, traditional ceremonies, and the like. After 300 years, they aren't Sarmation, they are Romano-Brits like those around them; that's where their women would have come from.

Owen

Jenny and I will be there.

Owen

Cool! Nice dolabra!

Owen

I think Bob would make a good monk. Mind you, monks can't be married, so you'd be back on the market!

Owen

Actually, the SCA's policy on religion was as much in response to a fruit-loop pagan threatening to curse people and claiming to have "created" the good weather at events and wanting to extort to continue doing so, as anything else. I think the concern is also that they do not wish to be seen as end...

Owen

ummm..."People called Romans they go the house" ?

Owen

I disagree; I have found that a low-profile tip adds little weight, and gives you another line of attack, often unexpected because so many think like you do, even after being told it's there.