The Armour Archive

Josh W

Bump.

I am interested in this thread. I can't wait to see how these turn out.

Josh W

Does anyone have any good photos of the armour of Fernando of Aragon, King of Spain from 1475-1503? IIRC, it is kept now in the Waffensammlung, in Vienna. I am particularly interested in detailed rear views of the armour...

http://flickr.com/photos/roelipilami/20 ... 211510771/

Thanks in advance.

Josh W

mordreth wrote:
Joaquin wrote:
audax wrote:20 naked dancing girls precede me sprinkling flower petals across the list field whilst carrying my armour and perfuming it with their delicate scent....

Can I change my answer to this?

Bernard of Clairveaux would scarcely approve

No, but Henri II might have approved!

Josh W

How thick is the steel?

Josh W

audax wrote:20 naked dancing girls precede me sprinkling flower petals across the list field whilst carrying my armour and perfuming it with their delicate scent....

Can I change my answer to this?

Josh W

My harness is too elaborate to carry all of it to the field. I just put it on at the spot I've got it stored at, and wear it to the field. I usually leave the helm and maybe the gauntlets off until I get there, but that's it. When I can, I try to obtain assistance to lug the rest of my gear (shields...

Josh W

I'd like Dagorhir a lot more if the archery weren't so overpowered--I hate that your rules allow arrows to pierce all armour, and I hate that the archer gets to decide whether or not he's killed you, rather than the "on-your-honor" system we're used to in the SCA. In particular, I like Dag...

Josh W

If you don't mind doing a little finish work yourself, Dave Rylak from Rough From the Hammer Armoury does excellent cuirasses very affordably and in in several styles.

Josh W

Looking good, amigo! I can't wait to see what they look like when they're done.

Josh W

I'm not sure why you think the opinion of Dr. Alice Blackwell has any bearing on this topic. She is, by your own admission, an expert in Anglo-Saxon culture, literature, and folklore. Nowhere among those credentials do I see anything to suggest that she is in any way familiar with (much less an auth...

Josh W

Weird.

I was thinking about this very subject myself this afternoon.

I wish that I had some profound insight about it to share, but I don't.

But I was thinking about it.

Josh W

I ran into this issue once. Someone tried to tell me that I was required to wear a kidney belt even under my steel plate cuirass, which amply defends that area of my torso.

Josh W

I remember how badly you wanted this armour and how hard you worked to get it, Matt. This just seems like a hasty decision.

Josh W

I own a couple of pieces made by his apprentice, Benaiah Anderson, who sometimes posts here at the Archive. Fabulous work.

http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/download.php?id=12858

Josh W

I'll take a stab at it, though my Japanese is far from perfect. Unfortunately, my Japanese is rusty and I am armed only with a low-quality dictionary. "Tsuke" might have something to do with "following" or "pursuit." "Kake" could mean "hanging," from...

Josh W

You got a new harness? Any pics of the new suit?

Josh W

I simply have to make it to one of these someday. My life will be incomplete until I do.

Josh W

Awesome! I always like to see more well-executed 15th century Italian-style cuirasses. This is my very favorite style of armour.

Josh W

I can't believe that nobody has nominated Cortes yet. Questions of morality aside, the man's military genius was unquestionable.

Josh W

Nope, no pagans in 13th/14th century Scotland. I know that there is a certain minority of modern neo-pagans who want to believe that some sort of authentic "celtic" paganism flourished underground in medieval Scottish/Irish society, but it just isn't true. There is no evidence to support s...

Josh W

I like the archery. Are you kidding? The archery is the worst part of the game. We complain about SCA combat archers shooting "nuclear arrows," but it's even worse in Dagorhir--you're dead if the arrow strikes any part of you, even your weapon (but not the head), and it's the archer --not...

Josh W

I have a lot planned for my kit in 2009. 1) Have a new plackart made. 2) re-shape or replace a few lames of my fauld. 3) replace my tassets with a set that more closely match the rest of my kit. 4) make or commission new pauldrons and armharness. 5) add a tiny bit more curve to the tops of the backs...

Josh W

So yes, I am saying that D. Sebastian's ancestors were likely still wearing uncured skins 1800 years before the common era, depending of course on where D. Sebastians ancestors were then. If I am wrong he can find me on the battlefield and beat an apology out of me. Let's see some proof that his an...

Josh W

Nissan Maxima wrote:They had civilization when your ancestors were still wearing uncured skins.

Did they? Cite, please.

Josh W

Maybe some of these would fit:

http://www.gijoeelite.com/f_display.asp ... oosePieces

Note that that website also sells full suits.

Josh W

I can do a somersault in my cuirass, which looks like this:

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/mycuirassfront1.jpg

As Dierick recommends, the breastplate stops around my navel.

Josh W

Interested. I've always wanted a reliable pattern for these gauntlets.

Josh W

The Church deserves a certain measure of credit for the preservation of literacy in the West if nothing else.

Josh W

Too few 15th century effigies. Why does the 14th century get all the attention?

Josh W

My original SCA kit, from back when I started in the mid-90s was this:

More views of it can be seen here:

http://www.stormpages.com/dwarlock/joaquin.html

I like to think I've come a long way. That old kit embarrasses me a little...

Josh W

However, on Gothic and Italian harnesses, the faulds seem to have the articulations of the fauld somewhat to the front, over the front of the pelvis it seems, rather than at the side over the hips. ie: m For what it's worth, Dave, those rivets on my fauld in that photo are not structural-- they do ...

Josh W

I do not yet meet all of your criteria...

...but I will meet all of them soon enough. I want to be included. What you guys have been doing is exactly the direction I'd like to take my medieval re-enactment interests.

Josh W

Alexander of Derlington wrote:Joaquin

That is a lovely harness. Who made it?

Always nice to see decent SCA spec kit.

Alex

Thank you. Patrick Thaden made most of it, though the cuisses are from William Hurt, and the armet by CLANG. I made the pauldrons, and most of the arms and gauntlets.

Josh W

I've heard it doesn't work with SCA 'knee-fighting'.... I have not found this to be true. I fight in a pair of legharness with the bottom lame of the upper leg/knee defense fastened to the greave by a pin arrangement similar to that one, as seen here: m I have no trouble kneeling in SCA combat. It ...

Josh W

It would have been a much better movie if they'd left out the inaccurate paganism...

Armour of Fernando of Aragon

Re: word me up on fauld articulation