The Armour Archive

Owen

Pretty!

Owen

Owen I gotta agree but in this circumstance a thrust is a lot more likely to skip than if you had a sharp point which is why I dont use it nearly as much. It's sheer laziness on my part, but I think that's why the thrust isnt a dominant technique.

Point control!

Owen

I don't use thrusting tips on mine,

An SCA sword with no thrusting tip is pointless (sic), especially a two-handed weapon. The edge wounds, the point kills.

Owen

Right; you are so getting circumvalated!

Owen

Why not use brass?

Owen

EEK! It's a rampant Dwarf!!! Look to your gold!!!!!

Ok, your gold is at risk, but dude, I'm six feet tall!

Owen

Mandrake, custom mods to a stock helm.

Basic helmet with brow guard and ear guards riveted on and eyebrows and reinforcing ridges raised on skull and neckguard.

Owen

Legio XX Combat Engineers; we do more before the 3rd Century than most people do all millenia!

Owen

Owen

Polarus- you are reading far too much into a joke. That's what Bascot is here for, there's no need to overlap his duties.

Owen

They are good groups to study as long as you are not putting people to the Inquisition.

Putting people to the Question is acceptable, as long as you're asking things like, "And now, m'Lady, does it tickle when I do...this?"

Owen

All the armor on Armorman's island will be Blue Plastic. (gotta find some way to make it unpleasant; all the cool people will be on it, apparently)

Owen

Ivar uses some kind of water-proof foaming adhesive, but he'd have to tell you what it is.

Owen

Good thing we ain't LH then, isn't it?

Owen

Step back; why don't you want galvanized hoops? Do you not want metal at all? Or just not galvanized?

Owen

My local homebrew shop carries both lined and unlined. You can also check Lehman's Non-Electric-
http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product ... ord=barrel

Owen

I do have a pair just like them, but somewhat less scruffy looking.

Owen

The Romans had socks.
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk:8080/ex ... shtml#sock

Owen

Russ- no, most helmets of that era were raised from a single piece, including the neckguard.

Owen

Looks like a houppelande.
http://www.virtue.to/articles/circle_houp.html

Hmmm...look, wedge tents!

Owen

I'd bet wrought iron, not steel.

Owen

Bad Charlotte! Spank, Spank!

And after the spanking...

Bad Zoot!

Owen

The type known as the Imperial Gallic I, both Aquincum pattern and Mainz pattern, were brass/bronze (Roman "bronze", "orichalcum", contained zinc as well as tin, likely not intentionally). As well, several Imperial Italic types also were made from brass/bronze. The helmet you point out is interestin...

Owen

A lot of the older Roman helmets were spun, neckguard and all. Nice sites.

Owen

Try to find black or other colored plastic if you can; paint will very rapidly develop scratches and generally look like hell.

Several armorors sell reasonably priced steel and aluminum plates; they have a major spiffy factor going for them, as well as being better protection.

Owen

I'll be 41 next month.

"That stick-jock life is fun, when you're 21,
but mister, I ain't 21 no more..."

Freiman- I use that exact strategy in the Woods battle. When the cannon goes, everyone runs up the hill. I walk. Plenty of MidRealmers, bound to be some left when I get there.

Owen

With the manica, you could try build it so that a couple of lames are solidly connected to form a cop yet maintain the outer appearence. You'd also have o extend a few so the points of the elbow are covered as required. Also, the one Matt built might pass inspection on it's own, with said extensions...

Owen

For authentic armor, you are pretty much out of luck; they didn't usually wear it. You could use manica- http://www.larp.com/legioxx/manica2.jpg from the Legio XX website, m . It was used by troops fighting the Dacians to protect against their nasty weapon called a falx. You could go my route, just ...

Owen

Looks like warped impression of Lorica Segmentata, with no shoulder or collar plates.

Owen

I use this type of glove under my EGG gauntlets, best thing.

Owen

umm, guys, Anheiser-Busch makes Micholob...
It's Bud in a suit.

Owen

Vladimir- I attribute it to the idea that the truly egregious events stand out in our minds, while the good are accepted as normal.

Owen

Coolness, and well thought out.

Party at Logan's!

Owen

Seal it with a tough epoxy, and perhaps first seal the joints on the inside with aquarium silicone sealent. As you have it cut, I would set it up with that opening as the "back" of the keg, not the bottom; casks are set sideways to serve, on a trestle or other support called "stillage". Put a faucet...

Owen

It will never hold beer, only ice for cooling coils? How do you plan to open it up to put the coils in? For simplicity, it might be easier to place a smaller cooler containing the coils inside it.