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http://www.corvuscorax.de/

I saw these guys at a Mittelaltermarkt down in Baveria, they rock.

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Not to dis on Revival at all, but you can make a supertunic very easily. 99 bucks for a silk one is not an unreasonable price, but if you are looking for a less ostentatatious presentation, linen would work fine. It depends on if you can sew or know someone who can.

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Syr Finn,
Have you seen this book? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/071372 ... 39?ie=UTF8

When I was doing my Roman Twilight kick, that was the book that inspired me.

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Musee de l'Armee and Cluny in Paris eh? I will add those to my desired list. How long would I need to see each? If I had one day to see the usual tourist sites of Paris and another to see armour, would you suggest picking one of those museums or attempting to do both in one day? I would sya that you...

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Because in almost all cultures the sword is the only weapon who's sole purpose is war. To carry and use a sword with skill is the mark of a warrior in almost all cultures.

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Everyone at work will now wonder I have a pic of bondage gear on my desktop for adoration Jenna Jameson, sigh. On the 40K thing, I thought the suits from the 80's would work. I've got the old Rogue Trader around here somewhere and it's got a break down of the MkIII armour. The Marines in that versio...

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http://www.lanser.dk/
It's a 14th century Danish group's website. Click on your language of choice, then pictures, then effigy.

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Wow, you guys have better search fu than I do. Thanks for the pictures and the links!

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Wow! It looks like a Polish kontusz or the Turkish del, so it's probably accurate. Certainly accurate enough for the SCA. If you don't mind, I'll post a link on Zagloba's Tavern, a Polish/Eastern European Reeanctors group. Especially since it's too big for me

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Were bascinets ever blued, blackend or painted? I know that great helms, chapel de fer and sallets were painted, russeted blackend and such, but I don't know if bascinets ever were.
Thanks!

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Hi all, Osprey's German Medieval Armies cites the Hans Haberkorn effigy from the Mainz cathedral as a source for an illustration of a German knight wearing a scale skirt and breastplate instead of a fauld and breastplate. The book claims this was somewhat common in the eastern Empire. I googled and ...

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I found this site while googling for a padded aventail pattern. http://www.bagrit.pl/bractwa/bractwa.php?lg=en
It's a Polish site with pictures, links and articles pertaining to reenactment. Made me homesick, it did.

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I'll be there. Living in Abilene has to be good for something

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Osprey has a book, Medieval German Armies 1300-1500, that has some good ideas and source information. Also David Nicolle's Big Green Book, formally called Arms and Armour of Crusading Era, Wester Europe and the Latin East. Tons of line drawings taken from effigies, manuscripts and bas-reliefs. For c...

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You've got nothing to be ashamed of! Anything you do to improve your kit now will be to move it from looks authentic to the average SCAdian to being really authentic. Using linen and wool, using copies of extant examples for belt fittings, that sort of thing.

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Aethstan, No, unfortunately the Air Force saw fit to send me and the family to Abilene, Texas. No more events in castles for me. Nice place for people who like all that small town Southern Americana stuff. When yÃƒÂ³u're a family that enjoys hiking in a old Celtic ringfort over going to the mall, it...

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Hi all, Those of you that mya have followed my postings throughout the years on the AA know that my interest has wandered all over the SCA spectrum. Roman Twilight in Britain, Scottish Wars of Independance, HYW, Provence during the Albisigian Crusades, The Armada and most recently Polish Hussars. Th...

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The reason I want to make the behkter go over the maille is I only have one maille shirt and I want to keep it intact for doing other impressions, like a pancerni cossack or a crusader serjeant. I do have some extra maille from where I trimed the maille shirt from thigh to hip length. Maybe I can us...

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I've attached a pic of my inspiration for an Eastern European flavoured armour. I say inspired because I don't want to make it so that it is attached/part of the maille shirt. I do want to make so I can wear it over a maille shirt for demos and high class tourneys. I suppose the body will maybe use ...

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I can say that what attracted me to the SCA was the fact that I didn't have to mess around with drills and forms for months before armouring up and going out to play. I was one of those guys who showed up to my first practice and knew that this was my hobby. I was lucky that the guys from White Moun...

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With renovations the cost was 945,000 Euros. Not too shabby.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Medieval-castle-in- ... dZViewItem
First thing I found when I did a search for medieval on Ebay. If money were no object

Have my own schloss with vacation apartments to fund my travels

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It all depends on your area of interest. In Munich there is Pergamon museum, chuck full of ancient Greek statuary. The Alte Pinotek has tons of paintings from the middle ages. In Dresden, there is the Zwinger Palace Museum, which in addition to painting and art from middle ages forward, has a a room...

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For most armour geeks, transitional harnesses are those that combine both maille and plate elements in abundance. For instance, in the attached pic, the reenactor is wearing a full maille shirt under the coat of plates and arm harness. Think 14th century. Other examples include early 14th late 13th ...

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What I've had to do because of my long neck is make a brigandine drape for the front of my helms. I just used some scrap heavy suede and some left over hardened leather. The leather plates are riveted to the suede and the suede is sewn to the helmet using artificial sinew. On the loaner helm I first...

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What jumped out at me with Osprey tapestries was wthere there was no attempt to make any folds or textures on any of the clothes or surfaces. Having seen real 14th century frescoes, tapestries and miniatures at the Palais des Papes and the museum right next door in Avignon, that's what characterizes...

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Krag,
I may be able to head down your way, depending on work. I've got a conical spun dome I need to turn into a slatted back SCA helmet to achieve the cone with drape Eastern European feel. What supplies would I need to bring?

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Food | In the Magazine The Way We Eat: Olde School By CHRISTINE MUHLKE Published: April 30, 2006 When the chef Heston Blumenthal acquired the Hinds Head Hotel in Bray, England, in 2004, he really just wanted the attached offices and parking for his three-Michelin-star restaurant, the Fat Duck, next ...

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Maybe not lamellar, but scale over mail was used. Osprey's Knight of Outremer has a reference to a joust ran on Cyprus where the combatants worn scales over their mail. Sicilian, Spanish and Italian artwork from the same time period show a few knights in scale and mail. Not a common armour, but it w...

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I found this while perusing Ebay for "medieval"stuff.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Orlando-FL-Medieval ... otohosting

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What about a short axe in the off hand? All my books are still in boxes, but I know that in medieval Japan, axes both long and short were used. To avoid the impression of a madu, don't put a spike on the top or bottom of the axe, but hold the haft near the base of the axe head. It's not a shield, bu...

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I know this has been asked several times, but I can't find the search function. Anyhow, I've decided to go with a Polish pancerni impression and as such, will be wearing maille as the primary visible component of my armour. The look I am shooting for is in the pic below. I don't plan on covering the...

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Sold pending reciept of payment. The archive is better than ebay

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Hi all, For those of you that don't know, I've finally settled on a time and place for personna develpment, 1590s Poland. It lets me wear the steppe influenced armour and clothes that I think are so cool, plus learn about early firearms and pike and shot tactics. Plus great-great gramma Bagutsky was...

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Everyone, I bought this helm with the intent of doing a Scythian inspired impression for the SCA. After a lot of soul searching and consideration, I'm going with a Polish impression, which leaves me with a Corinthian helmet to sell. I'm willing to part with it for $250 plus shipping. I'm willing to ...

Awesome effigy compilation website

Bascinet treatments?

Looking for pics of the Hans Haberkorn effigy

Great European Reenactment Website

The 14th century bug

Ideas on how to make a behkter inspired armour?

Castle for sale in Germany

NY TIMES Article on Late Medieval English food

FS: Castle in Florida???

Maille and SCA combat

1590s Polish Pancerni from the skin out.

SCA Legal Corninthian helm