The Armour Archive

Jason Grimes

Excellent, Looking good! Greaves are something I have never tried to do, yet. Some day I will have a full set of armour instead of bits and pieces.

Jason Grimes

Excellent! Very cool helmet Gruber. Now you need to make a full sized one.

Jason Grimes

Blender 3d might be able to do it, and it's free. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1YIafaqF7A Here is another example using the rigid body physics in Blender. 2050 links simulated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T7JWcCm5OU To simulate a full shirt you are going to need a pretty beefy computer to ...

Jason Grimes

Sean, I think that's in Madrid. I am stepping out right now, and have not time to check, but it is probably in here.... http://www.scribd.com/doc/39510494/Calvert-Spanish-Arms-and-Armour The plates are in the back. Mac Excellent find! I forgot completely the Madrid armoury. It seems that it is not ...

Jason Grimes

I have never seen that one, It might have been lost in WWII. It does look very Negroli-esc doesn't it?

Jason Grimes

Thanks Wade,

I will decrease the overlap by a third and not flatten the links as much and see if I can punch them. Getting the 'pent' roof shape means modifying my crimping pliers which I'm not sure how to do exactly. I have some ideas, but I only have one pair of the pliers.

Jason Grimes

Hi Wade, I was hoping you would join in. I think that playing with A-100 and A-47 would help you get a better feel. Wandering out this way? God would I love to, but it's not going to happen in the foreseeable future. :cry: My first impression is that your sketch is a little long overall. It has just...

Jason Grimes

Your drawing is missing the central flute on the back of the hand - it's pretty subtle in the original source, but you can see the change in reflection along this axis, and those little "v" notches on the back of the hand plates are a tell-tale that there is a flute under them. That is intriguing. ...

Jason Grimes

Spring is in the air and the snow is starting to melt so I'm starting to get an armouring itch. :) I was searching for still-life examples and came across this one by Italian artist Jacopo De Barbari in 1504. It depicts a pair of German hunting gauntlets in a early Maximilian form, very similar to W...

Jason Grimes

Steerpike wrote:The second harness was made for the Margrave von Brandenburg ca 1525, and appears to be at the Museum du Stadt in Vienna- there's a good pic on p172 of Eddge and Paddock, AAotMK.

Thanks, that's the one.

Jason Grimes

If the above is correct... Is there a combat grade suit that has a similar skirt? Not that I know of because, as Mac said, the solid tonlet is not very practicable to wear in combat. If you look at other tonlet suits that were made for tournament foot combat you can see more practicable tonlets for...

Jason Grimes

And here is another one made by Konrad Seusenhofer for a very young Karl V in 1512-4.

Jason Grimes

I think this is the one here Sean. Really bad image and you can only see the very top of the tonlet.

Jason Grimes

Here is the rapidly produced suit for the FoCoG in 1520:

Still looking for the other tonlet parade suit.

Jason Grimes

I think Sean is thinking of another suit made for Henry VIII in 1520 for the field of cloth of gold, when Francis I changed the tournament rules. This suit is 5 years earlier. This suit is not made for the tournament, it is a parade suit. There are some disagreement on just what would have been plac...

Jason Grimes

These are fairly common with parade armour at this time. I know of at least 2 or 3 other suits that have a solid tonlet like this. This suit is covered with engravings and the entire surface is silver gilt.

Jason Grimes

A period fix is to just bury it in the ground and level it that way. I'm in the process of curing a new stump for my anvil and planning on using an angle grinder to level it and the anvil. You could also use wood planes or an adiz too?

Jason Grimes

Looks great! Very nice, I couldn't see the other photos though?

Jason Grimes

*sigh* Can't wait for the big reveal.

Jason Grimes

And just as we are talking about it a new 3d printer has shown up with a 24"X24"X24" envelope!

It's $2750 and has a 100 micron resolution which I think is .01/inch. Soon these things will come down in price and fun will be had by all.

http://www.gizmag.com/gigabot-3d-printer/26594/

Jason Grimes

Excellent! Looks like fun.

Jason Grimes

But then it occurred to me that we live in the 21st century (though I loathe to admit it). If people had the time and inclination, it would be of great benefit to 3d scan some armour pieces which can then be 3d printed, to correct shape and thickness. These models could be handled and viewed from a...

Jason Grimes

I agree with Xtracted on the sculpting. You can get Blender 3d for free and the newest version just added dynamic topology to the sculpting tools. You can down load it here:

http://www.blender.org/

It's not too hard to use and a whole bunch of fun.

Jason Grimes

Yes, that's true. :( I paid $200 for my 150# Hay Budden, but that also included a forge and a crank blower. My current anvil cost me $460 but that was about 8 years ago (damn, has it been that long already?). Now that same anvil is $1125!! :shock: If I had a choice, I would still prefer a length of ...

Jason Grimes

I'm going to have to disagree with some here (so what's new right? :) ). I find an anvil essential for making armour. You can do it without one, but you will be so much happier with one. I'm coming from a historical point of view, so take what I say from that vein. I started, like most here, poundin...

Jason Grimes

It would definitely work for what you want to do. It's pretty abused though so I don't know if $2/pound is a good price or not. In the past most wouldn't pay more than 50 Cents/pound for it. But with the way prices for anvils is going these days it might be worth it. If you do buy it you will need t...

Jason Grimes

Putting aside that shaped plates fit and work better, I was thinking that the other difference might be caused by the material started with. Earlier armour was probably made from billets. So they already had to do a lot of hammering before they even started to shape the piece. Unlike today with our ...

Jason Grimes

It looks cast to me, check the edges and see if there is a mold seam.

Jason Grimes

There has been, over the centuries, successive waves of peoples moving out of Siberia into Alaska. The new ones push the old ones either down the coast, up the coast, or farther inland. It wouldn't surprise me at all to have artefacts here that were carried or traded from Asia. Much of the armour st...

Jason Grimes

Oh! I hadn't thought of those--there's a pair shown in Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight, if I recall correctly. Something like this? m I've also seen other examples of those, but it bothers me that they are SO similar, and generally very well preserved. Could they be some kind of WWI or WWII h...

Jason Grimes

In the 16th century it was used just like Swamp says. In my woodcut books you can come across woodcuts of Landsknechts with their titles, like Ritter {name}. I'm pretty sure that they would have had to have been knighted to have the title. Or maybe it would have been heireditary by this time in Germ...

Jason Grimes

This conversation reminded me of those simple spangens that were from the 5th century (I can dig up a picture). I'm assuming that these were used all through the time period in discussion. The only real difference between them and the later one, is that the latter were made out of one piece instead ...

Jason Grimes

Thank, that is kind of like what I was thinking. After thinking some more, I think I remember a pair of spaulders in the Negroli book that had some leathers and pins attached? I will check when I get home tonight and see. Well I looked but it was not spaulders, but a pair of couters from the palm-b...

Jason Grimes

Many of the wealthy at this time would purchase equipment for their retainers that was very much of the same quality as their own equipment. Another outward expression of their wealth and power.

Jason Grimes

I always thought that they were used by night watchmen? This one has a built in lantern but the others I have seen just have a hook on the outside to hang one.

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