The Armour Archive

Fearghus Macildubh

Space Marine Attack Bikes! All you need are some bolt guns and chainswords! I agree with mrks, I'd like to see some youtube of you guys tooling around on the bikes.

Fearghus Macildubh

Lloyd,
It's a no go, unfortunatly. Our air conditioner just crapped out and we have to get a new, thus eating up my discretionary income.

sorry!

Fearghus Macildubh

I'll talk to my wife tonight about the River Witham Sword. This will go with a classic Medieval kit I'm putting together. If she's amenable, I'll let you know.

Fearghus Macildubh

Did they wear socks over the hose but under the shoes? Or did they go sockless in the shoes? If they wore socks, would they be knit? Naalbound?

Fearghus Macildubh

Could you use a similar method for making greaves?

Fearghus Macildubh

It's largely a question of where and when. Some people on the Archive interpret the decorated and embosed armour of the early to mid 14th century as leather or a leather and metal combination. There are some Italian examples from the 13th century artworks that seem to be decorated leather limb armou...

Fearghus Macildubh

Wouldn't something like this work? http://www.amazon.com/FootFitter-Profes ... B000POJHPU

I've done the wet shoe route. Not quite death by fonging, but painful.

Fearghus Macildubh

It looks like one rider is wearing a maille shirt with a standing collar and the other has a gambeson with same. I have seen some later period maille shirts with standing collars made by threading leather straps through the maille. The straps buckled in the rear. I plan on trying it whan I make a ma...

Fearghus Macildubh

I bought two pair from Westland as part of a bulk order. Nice simple period design shoes. They run about a half size larger than normal.

Fearghus Macildubh

Hmmm, I think the Common Man's Doublet's lines are closest, except for the tabs. Thanks!

Fearghus Macildubh

I'd like to make this outfit. I've got the hat! But what pattern would make the doublet? It's from a Polish website. I wouldn't call it a peascod, is it Cavalier?

Fearghus Macildubh

Norman, I think it's the terminology that is causing the disagreement. You've got the Cossacks in the Ukraine, Orthodox in religion and armed in the steppe nomad manner. The Commonwealth raised regiments in Poland and armed them like the Cossacks and called them Cossacks. After the Cossack Rebellion...

Fearghus Macildubh

[quote="Norman"} Regarding the Cossack / Hussar thing -- it is my understanding that the Cossacks saw themselves as a separate people from the Poles and were generaly not well disposed to them (see for instance "Taras Bulba" by Gogol) My impression is that a Polish boy would get ...

Fearghus Macildubh

In one of the Stuart Press books on English men's clothing 1580-1660, there are woodcuts of men wearing "Northern bonnets" or "Scottish Bonnets". They are different from the flat cap because they don't have a brim or a seam. They look vey much like a large beret. Thye aren't worn...

Fearghus Macildubh

Leave no doubt. I know that's kind of subjective, but there you have it.

Fearghus Macildubh

I know that period technique in my WMA class (held in a raquette ball court) came easier once I swtiched from Chuck Taylors to turnshoes. The stickiness of the Chucks was a downside. OTOH, I never had an issue with stickiness fighting on grass or gravel in my East German boots. Asphalt and concrete ...

Fearghus Macildubh

I know that there is some 12th/13th century Scandanavian artwork which shows kettle hats. Might be the Chronicle of St. Olaf? I think that there is a term for them from the Icelandic sagas, but I don't remember what it is.

Fearghus Macildubh

Hmm, I've fought in just about everything. Combat boots, desert boots, biker boot, renfaire boots, East German officer boots, Converse All Stars, sneakers and turnshoes. Once I became used to them, turnshoes were the best for tournement. The close second was the renfaire boots. For melees in rough t...

Fearghus Macildubh

quote="Norman"] ...none of them are known to give the proper bitterness... Gruit was in some places used to give preserving properties and bitterness instead of hops up until mid 1500's. As to: Linden Blossom, Hyssop and Chamomile... Never used any of those, and they are not common brewing...

Fearghus Macildubh

And his torso protection looks more like riveted scale, sweet! Too bad his helm is being cleaved!

Fearghus Macildubh

I wonder if that design is common throughout the Mediterranean? When we were in Tuscany I saw similar designs. The one I remember best was in Volterra.

Fearghus Macildubh

It looks like a l'antica style armour and some Polish hussar karecena armour. both were a concious attempt to be a throwback to Roman style armour. It's centainly appropriate for a tournement/parade environment. Then there are the finds of scale armour in New Mexico.

Fearghus Macildubh

I've had good luck with old garden hose for quillons. I like a tip heavy great sword, but not too much so, therefore my pommel is just a camp foam thrusting tip. This isn't so I can thrust with it, but rather so it counteracts the thrustie on the proper end.

Fearghus Macildubh

If they won't allow half-swording, then will they continue to allow unpadded polearms? In performance terms they are the same thing. I have to disagree with you here about them being the same. Used properly in an SCA context, half-swording is a useful method for displacing an opponent's attacks (it...

Fearghus Macildubh

If they won't allow half-swording, then will they continue to allow unpadded polearms? In performance terms they are the same thing. Provided that this a SEM ruling and not a KEM ruling.

Fearghus Macildubh

In the Shield episode of Weapons That Made Britain, they test several Viking and Anglo-Saxon shield designs. The lenticular or domed shield held up the best, IIRC.

Fearghus Macildubh

Karl,
That doublet and hosen set is pretty much dead one for what I'm after. You used leather articulation for your armour? I could do that! I make a decent SCA pauldron.

Fearghus Macildubh

Here's the woodcut I wrote about earlier. According to the book, it was done in the mid 1550s. It looks like the bodyguards are wearing paned slops and wams. I guess the Recontructing History patterns are on the wishlist for Father's Day! Karl, Your armour is quite spiff! I don't think my crude meta...

Fearghus Macildubh

Karl,
Plate definately appeals visualy. The woodcut of the dopplesoldner shown below would be my kit to end all kits. Unfortunately, the household purse does not support that sort of expenditure in the foreseeable future.

Fearghus Macildubh

Thomas Powers wrote:Salzburg! Go to the celtic museum in Hallein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.cusoon.at/kelten-museum-hallein

GO!

Thomas

+1

Fearghus Macildubh

The form the examples I've seen in museums, the shield is strapped so to the arm so the rider still has a hand for the reins. The shape is intended to protect the hussar without him doing much. Definately a horseback shield. It's like Justus posted, it's very passive protection.

Fearghus Macildubh

And even into the early 16th. Burgmair has an egraving of Flodden Field showing some English billmen wearing kettle helms.

Fearghus Macildubh

Karl, It could also be a fabric covered breastplate with decorative rivets. At the Stibbert museum in Florence there is a Landskenct armour that is made that way. In fact, IIRC the fabric from the breastplate matches the fabric in the skirting of the waffenfrock. It could be a Victorianism, though. ...

Fearghus Macildubh

Berhart,
Great pics, thanks!

Bastior,
I'll look up Gottfried as well. I don't have time to practice, but I do have time research, plan and buy fabric. Maybe even time to sew.

Fearghus Macildubh

Karl, I fought for years in a waxed leather scale hauberk with SCA style splinted limb protection. Then the hauberk's weight became too much for my back and bum knee, so I now use the same limb protection, but my body armour is a body bracelet splinted with hardened leather worn under a Herolfnes st...

What pattern would make this doublet?