The Armour Archive

Vladimir

Not needing a reason and not having a reason are two different things.

Vladimir

GAA!

My new job classification cannot come soon enough.

Vladimir

Dante della Luna wrote:This helm is perfect in every way.

Except it has horizontal bars where your eyes go.

Just a matter of preference, nice hat BTW.

Vladimir

When I got the job teaching high school I stopped fighting regularly. Of course I pretty much stopped going out of the house, seeing friends, eating, or anything else fun for that matter. When I stopped teaching I wanted to fight again, but I didn't have any insurance. I fight a few times a year now...

Vladimir

Johann Lederer wrote:I use a Hyde knife, or a head knife to cut leather, but I have heard many do use a beverly shear to cut leather. I am not a big fan of shearing leather though.

For straps: (picture deleted)
This is the cats A$$

Those are nice, aren't they?

Vladimir

Oh, I like that Rus helmet.

Vladimir

how much flexibility do you have with your wrist and knuckles?

Vladimir

As long as it cannot fit within the eyeslots or bar grill I don't see a problem.

Vladimir

Agreed

People will want to see what style they are and how well they are constructed.

Size would also be a factor.

Vladimir

NICE, but I just got new gaunts at pennsic. Let me see how the changes in my job work out and I may order a set.

However, that thumb makes me a bit nervous. Is it floating? If so, is there a way to hard point it and still articulate properly?

Vladimir

A couple of things have kept me from entering... 1. I have no desire for the job. 2. I don't have the financial resources to do the job. 3. I don't have the time to do the job. 4. I don't have a consort (though I could probably find one if I tried). Although I stand an almost 0% chance of actually w...

Vladimir

What's wierd? It looks like a mace to me.

Vladimir

snipped for brevity ...As far as the plate and mail and such. Just not my cup of tea, if folks enjoy it, have fun. But I dont particular think it helps our sport. ... Must every tourney be designed only to "help our sport" (which I interpret as increasing the martial skill of attending fig...

Vladimir

Out of curiousity Your Grace, are you also opposed to tourneys like the Plate and Maille, Sword and Buckler, etc? If the "silly" rules are only announced when the fighting is about to commence then I completely understand your frustration. However, if the "silly" rules are advert...

Vladimir

Grandfather any helmet made before 2009. Then require new helmets to have 3/4 inch spacing on bars. Allow low profile tips. Each of us acknowledges the possibility of injury under the rules of the list. Any one of us could refuse to fight against a particular weapon if we feel it threatens our perso...

Vladimir

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

BTW I wasn't refering to Sir Colin all those years ago. I meant Colin McNab, the autocrat.

BdeB wrote:
2. Sir Colin wasn't the MIC and didn't make the decisions. That would be Baron Edwin, who was MIC.

Vladimir

#$^&$$%&^

I'll be working at the Newport News Fall Festival that weekend.

Vladimir

Hmm, flat rings.

Bah, if only you were selling it a month or two later.

Vladimir

kod_x wrote:
hjalmr wrote:I really like this helmet alot, but don't really need it. Crap, I wish I was rich!!

I wish I was rich too, then I would keep it.

Huh? Who the heck is this Rich person everyone wants to be?

Vladimir

Agreed, get some good long movies and re-lace it.

Vladimir

So how come I haven't seen him at warriors of history or something?

Vladimir

I had a set and I liked them. For $90 you cannot beat them.

I stopped using my old set because I couldn't bend my wrist right for greatsword. But he has re-designed them since then and my skills at modifying armour have improved, so I just bought a new set.

Vladimir

Making the links is quick and easy. You haven't saved much time there. Hooking everything together is the time consuming part, and you still have to do that even with what you have. I suspect your new method will not achieve the desired results and still take almost as long as a traditional method.

Vladimir

Nice helmet, but I'm curious as to why you made a dress helm out of such thick metal.

Vladimir

There was a new guy to the area at a demo I went to in Williamsburg VA yesterday. His name is Caleb, he's from Meridies. I've been told he has an awe inspiring suit of gothic plate, but yesterday he went early period. Just as awsome by the way. Anyway, I got a chance to handle a titanium hauberk for...

Vladimir

I can think of several period illustrations of people wielding a sword with both hands while a shield hangs from a strap protecting their side. Perhaps he is trying for this affect without breaking the rules. Whisky Tango Foxtrot? m Whats up with the green goblin guy carrying a strapped scutum to hi...

Vladimir

I'm not sure what you are really asking.

I suspect that the Chucks are just as diverse as us Scadians. Some are cool, some are assholes, some rich, some poor, etc.

Expect a human being and go from there. Nothing more, nothing less.

Vladimir

posterity? You mean posterior. Why do you keep posting this pic of my rear end?

D. Sebastian wrote:I've posted this before, but for the sake of posterity...

Vladimir

On those rare occasions when I use a one handed weapon then yes, I do have a lanyard.

Vladimir

Damn Drogo, that looks good.

Vladimir

I disagree with basket hilts being equal to a lanyard, but I don't write the rules. I have seen multiple instances of basket hilted sword flying off a fair distance. In one case a basket hilted sword flew across the list field, over the fence, through the crowd and into my laurels merchant tent. It ...

Vladimir

I highly recomend the historic enterprises version.

I tried making my own, and they fell down after only a few minutes. I can fight in the historic enterprises without much problem.

Vladimir

Wow, it wasn't even strong enough for costume wear?

Vladimir

Aside from the armour requirements, how does one get in? Do we sign up, get chosen by a captain? Draw straws?

Vladimir

Back when I worked for the VA Game Dept. we got calls all the time asking if there was a spear and javelin season. Sad to say, VA does not have one.

We did get one guy who called and asked if it would be legal to leap out of a tree onto the back of a deer and stab it to death with bowie knives.

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