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Fearghus Macildubh

I found these pics on a link posted by Shade on the I wanna be a Schwartz Reiter thread. There's no explaination on the website. Are these guys Poles, Hungarians or Turks? I'm thinking Poles, but I'm not sure because of the bows. I think the event was a Thirty Years War event, based on the other pic...

Fearghus Macildubh

Those two really rusty helmets look like they might be Victorian or early 1900's repros to fit into a neo-gothic decor. You see a lot of that stuff in castles that were redecorated/lived in the 1800's on till now. The tour guide for Burg Eltz, a nice little castle on the Mosel was kind enough to poi...

Fearghus Macildubh

I'm in the same boat as Blaine. I picked my SCA name first name quite early in the game, after reading the book "Celtic Warriors" I'd partial to it ever since reading "Battlefield Earth" and reading about Fearghus chief of Clan Fearghus. So that's whre I got the spelling. Then I was helping my with ...

Fearghus Macildubh

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lescot87/ ... /my_photos

Pictures of armour from Schloss Ambras. Not black and white harness, but lots of footman's and reiter armour.

Fearghus Macildubh

At Schloss Ambras, outside of Innsbruck, there is a suit of armour for one of the Ferdinands that is alla romana. I've attached pics. The other place to look for stylized greco-roman armour is period artwork, mostly dealing with biblical events. BTW, Gregory, what was the website for for that model?...

Fearghus Macildubh

I agree with Jester. If you look at Duke Paul of Bellatrix's book and compare it to the sword and buckler work in some of the later fechtbuchs and the guards are very similar ot the stances he illustrates. Top level fighters in the SCA have intuited much of what is in the fechbuchs. That's not to sa...

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Racinet and Braun & Schnieder are very dated. Braun and Schnieder are more accurate than Racinet and give a better starting point. I will say that even the worst piece of Victoriana or Pre-Raphaelite art can be inspriation for research.

Fearghus Macildubh

OK, quarterstaffing is using both ends of the weapon to smash or cut? No worries there.
I'll be leaving Germany in February and getting to Abilene early to mid-March. Should be going to events sometime in May, depending how long it takes mama military to get our stuff across the water.

Fearghus Macildubh

Hi all,
I'm being stationed outside of Abilene so I figured I would check out the Ansteorran Marshal's handbook. Pretty straight forward except for one thing, quarterstaffing a weapon is expressly forbiden. Umm, ok, what is quarterstaffing a weapon?

Fearghus Macildubh

I call shots based on "Thank God I'm wearing armour" principle. I wear hardened leather scale over a mattress pad gambeson, splint legs and arms and a butt ugly spangenhelm. Good shots need to sting a little throught the armour, so that I say to myself "Thank God I'm wearing armour" For head shots, ...

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I like it!

Fearghus Macildubh

I would LOVE to make a simulated thatched "A-Frame" hut such as the type you see in late medieval encampments. http://www.bensonsimport.com/wholesale/palm_grass_thatching/5011.jpg each $14 Order 501 Palm Leaf Thatching, approx. 4Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ x 3Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ per dozen $150 Order 501-12 Palm Leaf Thatching, ...

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I had the opportunity to be part of a small ARMA study group here at Ramstein before the other folks moved away, so I was doing both SCA and WMA. The biggest problem I had when doing ARMA workouts on the raquetball court was my footwork. I just couldn't pivot in my sneakers on wood the way the techn...

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All the SCA groups I've been a part of have been on or near military bases, so that's one reason for the rsie and fall of membership. In my expiriance, most people need their hands held through the begining process of armoured combat. Some guys, like me, will do anything to get on the field, they'll...

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It's ugly, but I made it.

Fearghus Macildubh

Well, that's not me in the pic, but I agree that the crossover jacket looks like a mountain man capote. My coat has a hood that makes it look even more so.

Fearghus Macildubh

Here's my best looking one.

Fearghus Macildubh

Were tablet woven belts used to close Viking coats? You know the wrap around kind, sorta longer than the one shown below. While my mom was visting, she taught me how to sew, while making me the wrap around coat. I dont have enought fabric to make a belt and was thinking that a tablet woven belt woul...

Fearghus Macildubh

D'oh! I appologize, just goes to show you can't tell gender by names. I was thinking that an overtunic or surcote (not the gates of hell kind, but the 13th cent kind) would look nice in that fabric as well. Less overpowering than a houplande or gown. Then you'd have some accent fabric for a dalmatic...

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Hey all, Finally got the oppourtunity to visit the Antik Schiffarten Museen in Mainz Germany. It is a museum for the four Roman ships that were discovered while digging the foundations for an addition a big hotel in the city. There are two full scale reproductions of the fighting vessels plus smalle...

Fearghus Macildubh

How about what the gentleman here is wearing? It is from an Italian medieval clothing maker's website, IRC this is 13th century. If you aren't dead set against post 14th century, I'd also recommend a houplande style gown.

Fearghus Macildubh

Well, my mom is visiting next week and we are going to Paris, so I will have to look for the image.

Fearghus Macildubh

Remember that depictions of "enemies" in Biblical scenes tend to be more allegorical (more fantasy armour, more scale, etc.) rather than what is traditionally worn in Europe of the piece's time. The use of scale, particularly, was one way of emphasizing the "otherness" of the enemy depicted. (This ...

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http://www.pbase.com/joanseeuw/samurai
I found this while browsing Swordforum. These are pictures from some Japanese festivals and reenactments. If you like Japanese armour, have fun.

Fearghus Macildubh

Before his untimely disintergration, I had Gobbo the spear. Gobbo was a normal nine foot rattan spear with a "madball"goblin face for a thrusty. I'm going to make a spear with a closed fist for a thrusty, like some of the Indian fist maces.

Fearghus Macildubh

Here's a picture of a bas-relief from Chartres cathedral. the relief dates from around 1250 or so. It's Goliath, done up in "oriental" armour. It looks like it's based on Byzantine artwork, or maybe actual Byzantine armour. Unfortunately, Goliath seems to have lost his head. What kind of helmet woul...

Fearghus Macildubh

Some of the 18/19th cent Persian dome bucklers that you see on Ebay have straps set like this )( instead of a handle. I use a big X on my saucer sized buckler, but it has a boss that just barely fits my hand and some faux sheep wool padding, so pivoting isn't that much of an issue.

Fearghus Macildubh

I agree with Sir Vitus about the slow thrust to a vulnerable area. I recall reading that proper Swiss pike technique is to place the point on your desired target and then thrust home.

Fearghus Macildubh

Having just returned from a vacation in Bretange, I have to address this. If you were to choose a filler culture, use Welsh or Cornish. ... The problem is that we know about as much about the Welsh and Cornish in that era as we do about the Bretons, and probably less. Then again, the influence from...

Fearghus Macildubh

Having just returned from a vacation in Bretange, I have to address this. If you were to choose a filler culture, use Welsh or Cornish. According to the travle books, Breton culture was influenced by refugees fleeing the Saxon invasion of Great Britain, hence the name Bretange, which means little Br...

Fearghus Macildubh

Elias, If you can get your hands on a copy of "Greece and Rome at War" by Peter Connoly, check out the armour of Phillip of Macedon. It is an iron cuiriass done in the shape of a linothorax. I've attached a pic. There are also tons of pictures of linothoraxes with lamellar reenforcements, scale reen...

Fearghus Macildubh

Does anyone have a pattern or how to on making these? They look fairly simple, but I could be wrong. I was planning on making them out of water hardened leather, then decorating them with some copper that I scrounged. I have limited supplies of both, so would like to avoid the learning curve as much...

Fearghus Macildubh

This is my best looking stuff so far. 14th century cote and hood.

Fearghus Macildubh

F. Only one weapon or shield can be controlled by an arm at any one time. For example, if a strapped shield is being used in conjunction with a spear, while the spear is being grasped, the shield will be treated as a vambrace. Once the spear is no longer in the shield hand, the shield will function ...

Fearghus Macildubh

I know that we are geared more towards portraying real medieval and rennaissance clothing, but my wife just found this link for me m And that got me thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know), while there seems to be a consistent style of dress for the women in Pre-Raphaelite art,(angel wing sleeves, pl...

Poles, Hungarians or Turks?

Ansteorran fighters--What's quarter staffing?

Tablet woven belt with Viking "coat"

Roman Ship Museum in Mainz, Germany

Japanese armour and festival website

I wanna be this guy

Byzantine spaulders..for want of a better word

Pre-Raphaelite Men's costume?