The Armour Archive

coreythompsonhm

I use a 40 year old jigsaw. I lucked out and inherited it from my grandfather. It makes all the other jigsaws I have used look like wimps.

I also use a band saw and a die grinder with a cutoff wheel to trim pieces.

coreythompsonhm

Are you moving on to a different design for the 3d model, or your actual armour?

coreythompsonhm

Well then! I have been working on this during breaks at work and have progressed to actually cutting wool and linen :D I have the the lining, outer material, and the cotton batting all cut for the body of the CdeB. The upper back piece has been quilted and trimmed to size. The lower back is approxim...

coreythompsonhm

I havent set foot in my shop for two weeks now. I need to finish unpacking and most importantly, finish an order.

Its pretty depressing when life (read job) prevents shop time.

Don't worry, you'll be back out hammering soon

coreythompsonhm

I knew that kit looked familiar!!!! I saw it last February, but paid more attention to the maximillian down the row.

Im also interested in what leather to use; I never made splinted armor.

coreythompsonhm

I agree with using resin.

If I had the spare cash, I would be so tempted to bribe you to make me a medieval style chess set

coreythompsonhm

Mac was talking about this down at Chris Gilmans last February. The fit at the top of the calf and ankle are key from what he was saying.

coreythompsonhm

Wedge or round rivets?

coreythompsonhm

This is what I would do if it were mine- First, drill the holes where its marked on the skull and visor. Attach with nuts and bolts and test it out. This would lead to two options depending on results- A) Pivot point gives satisfactory results. Sweet. Leaving the visor attached, I would then draw th...

coreythompsonhm

What program are you using? Awesome work!

coreythompsonhm

I have been thinking about 2x4 shoulders covered in styrofoam thats been shaped to look like shoulders, with canvas glued to the surface to protect the styrofoam. I havent tried it, so it might work, might not.

coreythompsonhm

Signo wrote:Corey with unwrap you mean the UV texture channel?

Yes. I'm still new at Blender, so its still hard for me to explain some things.

This is a basic tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obB9T3jXlak&feature=plcp

Hopefully that's helpful?

coreythompsonhm

I use Blender for 3d modeling when I have problems visualizing a 2d pattern. I just "unwrap" the mesh and bam, I get the basis of a pattern that I then tweak. Also I can "slice" the image to print side and front profile. I also use gimp to scale images to life size for the size I need it to be at, e...

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I just had to restore my phone to factory after clicking that link

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I wonder where they got two such hard to find pieces and nothing common. Wade I have found with a lot of european artifacts that are in that museum they have been donated or loaned from private collections, or on loan from other museums. The Seattle Art Museum has a pretty small budget and buys mai...

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Those are awesome! I wish I had more time to do small projects like this.

coreythompsonhm

I took the side gores out with rh patterns. Just adds too much poofiness.

coreythompsonhm

Gaaah that is almost exactly what I want! Whoever gets it is lucky!

coreythompsonhm

No problem! That glass case and the position of the helmet in it made it hard for getting good shots. My camera kept refusing to focus due to the angle of the glass. The pictures also lost the sense of depth. Im pretty disappointed with how the pictures turned out. I would really like to take a clos...

coreythompsonhm

I would be willing to volunteer to delete spam as well

coreythompsonhm

Spammers are people, too. We should contact the guy and find out how much Yuan he's being paid to post this on the forum, and then provide him with targets where he might actually get a customer w/o having to register accounts. I can think of several people who might benefit from his valuable comme...

coreythompsonhm

This huhu guy has popped up a few times with different variations to the name. So I doubt there is something we can do

coreythompsonhm

I was getting two different standards mixed up as far as I am aware. The one I was searching for had a collar made ofsmall id rings, making it a very dense e4-1 pattern. The rest is made of larger rings of a more common size. I believe I know of only one example with a 6-1 weave, but I am not at hom...

coreythompsonhm

Im also in the market for this also

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Still have straps left?

coreythompsonhm

Im not exactly sure yet. I have just scratched the surface on researching how to make bloom. I understand the general concept of the furnace and whats going on in it, but have yet to find sources for ore, etc.

coreythompsonhm

So, is there any change to the actual rings they are producing, like say, not so flat?

coreythompsonhm

Sean Powell wrote:It would be a lot of fun to build one of these even without the elaborate decoration. experimental archeology as concerns the missing and unknown parts.

Sean

You read my mind

Plus, I've been wanting to play around with iron bloom and make it into wire, then make some maille out of it.

coreythompsonhm

What else do these guys have? This really cool 16th century room that they reassembled in the museum. And somehow I walked away without any pictures :roll: They also have a stilleto, a 16th century lock and key, and a fairly nice 15th(?) cen painting. They dont have any armour other than that greek...

coreythompsonhm

Ok, heres a good side view. My memory was wrong about how pronounced the top is. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8475/8121437892_d25153f823.jpg Seattle art museum 002 by coreythompsonhm , on Flickr And heres a shot of the back (with my ex sneaking into the picture in the background :roll: ) http://far...

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Both the barbuta and mitten gauntlet are munition grade (according to the museum). Let me take a look through my pics and pull up what I have of these. I dont remember the top being that pronounced. If needed, I can go back and take specific shots if you guys need them. How the rivets were peened is...

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hell, link him to the aa.

coreythompsonhm

yeah, like Ugo.

Nevermind the fact there are tons of armourers on the west coast. Maybe we arent good enough to count as existing

coreythompsonhm

This is what we did when we built our sound booth for recording... Get a shit ton of 2x4's (you can do the math to figure out how much you need), cut them to length for the height of the wall. Stack two together, wide face to wide face, screw or nail them together. Stack a third one on, etc until yo...

coreythompsonhm

Being able to see the shape in your mind is key. Trust your eyes... If something seems "off" to you, keep tweaking it until its "right."

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