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by Uryen
Thu Dec 04, 2003 7:37 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Business WithTalerwin Forge?
Replies: 1
Views: 5

Talewin Forge is fantastic quality, and the price is quite good. Unfortunately they can be difficult to get on to. I think Alex checks his email fairly infrequently, and he has a tendency to disappear to another country for research trips every so often. I have his phone number, but thats not going ...
by Uryen
Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:20 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: No tools, no garage, no nearby shops...
Replies: 12
Views: 20

When I finally get my giant underground armour making bunker finished the armouring world will be mine...Mine I tell you... MINE!

Oh thats right I havent started it.
by Uryen
Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:56 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: what buttons to use
Replies: 16
Views: 16

Under armour cote with buttons: (sorry I have no idea what the source is, I discovered this while looking through my pictures for something else)
[img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/erstwhile/armour/gamwbut.jpg[/img]
by Uryen
Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:52 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Churburg breastplate
Replies: 6
Views: 35

IT is indeed #13. I dont have any patterns for it, although it does detail how to make one in TOMAR (well mostly anyway).
[img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/erstwhile/armour/chur13_side.jpg[/img]
[img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/erstwhile/armour/chur13_int.jpg[/img]
by Uryen
Sun Nov 30, 2003 9:47 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Churburg breastplate
Replies: 6
Views: 35

Which Churburg breastplate?
by Uryen
Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:53 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: what buttons to use
Replies: 16
Views: 16

Charles VI cote button details:

http://www.mallet-argent.com/buttonholedetail.html
by Uryen
Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:37 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: vacuume forming/
Replies: 9
Views: 18

Here they are: http://www.axolotl.com.au/ I remember reading about them in a car mag once. From memory a guy had got his entire dashboard coated in titanium, then polished it up. Some of the stuff in their gallery is even more impressive from a technical standpoint. [This message has been edited by ...
by Uryen
Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:28 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: vacuume forming/
Replies: 9
Views: 18

There is a company here in Oz that does electro-plate on plastics, and wood, and foam, and absolutely anything according to them. I'll see if I can dig up info.
by Uryen
Sun Nov 23, 2003 1:18 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Can I use this?
Replies: 5
Views: 6

If it is felted wool, it will not be woven but just be compressed wool fibres in a random pattern, if it is fulled wool it will be woven with the fibres thickened using one of various means. They are used for different things. I dont know much specifically about 900AD, so I will leave that to someon...
by Uryen
Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:06 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Curburg armour using the hacked photo
Replies: 32
Views: 37

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by White Mountain Armoury: Thats a realy leafy tree in the background, there are a whole series of pics of this kit taken outdoors. </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Sorry I thought the sa...
by Uryen
Sun Nov 23, 2003 12:50 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Curburg armour using the hacked photo
Replies: 32
Views: 37

It is amazing how much trouble these 'others' go to to sell their 'inferior copies', even using photoshop to add in a leafy tree filled background. http://www.arador.com/gallery/ct1.jpg This is Christian Tobler's rig, mostly made by Christian Fletcher. [This message has been edited by Uryen (edited ...
by Uryen
Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:53 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Dishing w/ Sandbag?
Replies: 3
Views: 14

How to make a sandbag: http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/art_temp/beatit2_p1.jpg 147kb http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/art_temp/beatit2_p2.jpg 164kb http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/art_temp/beatit2_p3.jpg 160kb http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/art_temp/beatit2_p4.jpg 150kb http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/ar...
by Uryen
Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:44 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Armour of the 100 years War
Replies: 4
Views: 8

What exactly do you want? I am not going to spend the time putting up 800 links about 14th-15thC armour.
by Uryen
Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:38 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: X-post Reproduction Late Medieval Book
Replies: 7
Views: 8

sorry for the dumb questions, but where do you get cotton paper from? And how close is it to mediaeval papers?
by Uryen
Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:32 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Papenheimer rapier w/dagger and rapier belt for sale!
Replies: 1
Views: 5

Use the shworts lone star:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2203891254
by Uryen
Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:28 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Chain mail for sale!
Replies: 1
Views: 8

try this young padewan:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2965284418
by Uryen
Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:17 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: So who's set themselves on fire making armour?
Replies: 28
Views: 31

While cutting pieces out with an angle grinder I set my shirt on fire.

"what the hell is that smell?"
by Uryen
Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:26 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: (Warning Fantasy Armour) Alban Harness.
Replies: 3
Views: 23

Sounds like a fun project Rod.
by Uryen
Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:49 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Lochac Armourers
Replies: 19
Views: 21

I'll be in for a meeting of Australian armourers.
by Uryen
Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:16 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 6-year Rule?
Replies: 40
Views: 45

For my group I based the deviation from the technology and style of our time by the person's social standing. The richer you are the closer to 'high tech' you would own. Since our high-born are fairly poor in terms of global standards of that time, they are allowed 10 years deviation, while the lowl...
by Uryen
Sun Sep 28, 2003 9:23 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: What armour at Crecy or Poitiers?
Replies: 2
Views: 28

2 examples: John de Creke c1340 http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/erstwhile/1340_John%20and%20Aleyne%20de%20Creke.gif Hugh Hastings c1347 http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/erstwhile/1347_Hugh%20Hastings.gif Generalised: Bascinet with aventail, with greathelm worn as well for mounted combat. Gambeson, 3/4 ...
by Uryen
Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:19 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: My first flat top greathelm...pic...
Replies: 22
Views: 17

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Halberds: I wonder if he ever got that computer spangen program to work? I was to test it also. </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Um... Sort of... Life got in the way. I'll let you know...
by Uryen
Sun Aug 31, 2003 1:07 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Oldest home in Britain
Replies: 3
Views: 2

added... In case no-one knows what I"m talking about:
http://www.missgien.net/stone-age/skarabrae.html
by Uryen
Sun Aug 31, 2003 1:04 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Oldest home in Britain
Replies: 3
Views: 2

What about Skara Brae?
by Uryen
Sun Aug 24, 2003 6:22 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Most menacing helmet
Replies: 46
Views: 57

The pigs in space helm obviously.
by Uryen
Mon Aug 18, 2003 9:12 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Klappface visor when and where
Replies: 16
Views: 65

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Otto von Aachen: Im basing it off not only discussions with some of the top armourers on this board, including a couple who have seen the effigy up close in person, but also on...
by Uryen
Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:49 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Klappface visor when and where
Replies: 16
Views: 65

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Otto von Aachen: He is not wearing a coat of plates. That is a big assumption, what are you basing that on? but most armourers i've spoken with agree that its a mascled breaspl...
by Uryen
Mon Aug 04, 2003 10:28 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Welding aluminium?
Replies: 9
Views: 9

Someone asked this before, so I scanned some articles from a car magazine for them:
http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/art_temp/hitit2_p1.jpg
http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/art_temp/hitit2_p2.jpg
http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/art_temp/hitit2_p3.jpg
by Uryen
Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:45 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Armour pattern links?
Replies: 3
Views: 7

Patience Grasshopper. We only give our inner secrets away to those who have found their path. Go, make thee basic armour, then return when thou hast proved thyself.
by Uryen
Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:14 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Australians- Looking for a merchant review
Replies: 20
Views: 11

Newcastle, NSW.
by Uryen
Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:47 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Mail Research Journal
Replies: 12
Views: 11

Well, it has arrived Image Now I just have to find time to read it ;-)
by Uryen
Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:39 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Australians- Looking for a merchant review
Replies: 20
Views: 11

Rod's group:
http://blakpryns.tripod.com/

My group:
http://www15.brinkster.com/authentensity/
by Uryen
Sun Jul 27, 2003 11:25 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Talking to people in the 14th century - revisited
Replies: 9
Views: 10

For those here in Oz. Saturday at 5:30, on SBS.
by Uryen
Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:07 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Australians- Looking for a merchant review
Replies: 20
Views: 11

I have seen Rod and Justin's stuff made by Alex. All good quality. It is exactly what it appears.
If you order anything right now I will come and kick your arse, because I have been waiting for him to be able to make me a bunch of stuff. Image
by Uryen
Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:04 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: 14th Century Hourglass Gauntlets
Replies: 2
Views: 16

here are my patterns: [img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/bp_gaunt.gif[/img] They are supposed to be a copy of the Black Prince's funerary gauntlets (the originals were gilt copper): [img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/bp_gaunt_orig.jpg[/img] They need a lot more work before I will be happy with them.

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