The Armour Archive

RandallMoffett

For a low level knight think mail, lots of mail, maybe some polyrns and a great helm.
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Kit, The armour has turned out very nice. Good job. I have days when I do not want to go out to work either. IT usually happens when a good game is on (it has usually to be a very, very good game to over come the armour) or I am working on a half dozen or dozen helmets that are on dead line, nothing...

RandallMoffett

From what I gather they are in the NAtional Museum in Athens.... Although this report I tracked down is over a decade old.

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Bruno, I love that helmet! I have contemplated making one at one time for myself but went for an earlier german sallet. Someday.... Anyhow if I were to make that I would likely start something of a barbute like top just w/out the front guard that covers the face and the tail. As far as the face it l...

RandallMoffett

I am with Chef I think the face looks wrong. Thomas, If you are ever in York let me know and I can show you what later people repairing armour can do. We have a set of pauldrons and someone put the lames on backwards on one, very funny.... who could wear that? Someone with two right arms perhaps. RPM

RandallMoffett

For reference there are two Chalcis helmets that are bascinets that have the bottom half rivetted on so Stonekeep you now have some good firm ground for your model.... no grill of course.

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Dan,

you mean apart from digging a ditch and rampart and then setting up tents amoung other menial tasks before dinner right....

bright it is then... still think it would look darn cool but it is for historical punch so shiney it it.

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RandallMoffett

thank you both. I figured as much but oh well. The tinning makes sense as the romans were very practical as well.

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Cat,

I am so sorry to hear that. I think everyone definatly understandsif you are not online as often as before. Once again my condolences,
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I would recommend forming the shoulder more next time. THe lightning bolts are interesting though, albeit perhaps dangerous.
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RandallMoffett

I think depending on gauge standard 18 is close to 1mm
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I am looking for one of those wise romanish people on the board. I have made a number of the segmented roman armour and always have cleaned them up on the outside and called it good. Do we =really have any idea if they were really cleaned 'bright' or were they left black from the forge? The reason I...

RandallMoffett

looks nice. The only help perhaps would be to try making the rivet heads stay on the metal as it can be a pest when it catches on everything. Look nice though. If you want you can use sandpaper to clean up metal. Just start at low grit and end high like 600 or more. Good job,

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THomas, I had such a funny time to get the right thickness. I was asked for MM, decimal inch and gauge and once I got it both the 1m and 1.5m were actually both wrong, the 1m was 1.5m the 1.5 was 2m. In the end if you can see the metal yourself and gauge it yourself do it. It works better and usuall...

RandallMoffett

There are a few barbutes (in the RA and MET I think) of construction which a top skull section with a riveted side so I do not think it out of order for a bascinet although I have not seen it before.... maybe I have seems like I have at one point. Sorry cannot be of more help. Stonekeep I have to sa...

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Duco, I wish I would have saved a few of the patterns before it went offline. Well I have plenty of my own and the AA has a pretty nice selection. You can midify most to serve purposes when you are new so it is not too bad. Out of curiousity did he drop the section because too much traffic? I know t...

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I wore long sleeves alot in the metal shop but ended up almost loosing a finger due to an accident at one point. Just take things slow and do not rush. If you are working with a drill press or grinder do not wear sleeves that can get caught in it as well. I also tend to stand parallel to things when...

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Cat,

It looks more like Vendel I to me from the pictures. Late 7th century.
I would not mind seeing one if you make it.

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Mark, Thank you for the information. I found it interesting in the Knight and the BLast Furnace it seems that some of the armour successfully treated were not always the ones I would think were for the very wealthy. I could not find the book yesterday, I think the head curator might have had it and ...

RandallMoffett

Our favorite russian armour website no longer has patterns on it ladies and gents. I went to look at it as I have not for some time know and it has totally been changed. Sorry for the bad news. Basically if you want a barrel helmet and want to do it simple make two long rectangular pieces for the to...

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Konstantine is on this one. There are sales of 1000's, literally, of COP in the last quarter of the 13th. The french king purchased at one time for his navy something like 3,500ish from I beleive brughs and there were even COP guilds in 1250 in Spain (AWilliams KABF). THere are tons, of 13th MSS of ...

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Russ, Nope understand 100% self-supporting student as well (my wife supports me a lot as well though). I know some of the people doing these tests but they all live in England so unless you are in the area it is not very helpful. I can enquire what it would take to use one if possible. I wish some c...

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Atli, I think the general form of the helmet as being possible still a hundred or so years later not too hard to believe. Look at the simple conical top it lasted for a very long time. I think the more generic helmets with a few modifications a good idea. I had a few years straight where everyone an...

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If I am not mistaken one way how they test blunt trama from handguns if with some type of balistic clay. I think it should work on similar ways with arrows and bolts etc. I think this has been a great post as it has really brought out alot of really good points on medieval balistic testing. Russ, Ar...

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Cotasmalla, Funny the reason I was saying what I said was that it seemed you were coming off 'superior' but either way I am glad it was fun. Anyone can be wrong or error in testing, the good ones are the ones who can realize that and more on correcting the error. Also I am fairly sure in their tests...

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Russ, Thanks for the view shift Russ. Is there any evidence for hardened mail? I have never heard this was a big practice. If the shirt of mail was hardened and the tip not that would help. Also were not the heads used on mail specifically the really long bodkins not the shorted thicker anit-plate o...

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cotasmalla, My point was if the other tests that were done had a different result you may want to look into why. (By the way I think you saying your mail was better is a fairly poor and illogical comment considering these people are in the top of their field. I think personally it has to do with ver...

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I think we also are missing the point that just because the mail and aketon/gembeson/fabric defense/whatever stops the arrow if over a vital area you could a. be killed instantly if per se over the heart with enough force or b. have major damage to internal organs= dying later from said injuries. I ...

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Endre,
while on the topic of Scandinavian effigies is their anything published with a good selection of them? Just curious as the topic came up.
I agree he does tend to find some extreme examples.

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An iselman and Norseman still were a fairly close group until the time the chesspieces were made from what I can tell. I think the iselmen may have more british influence but were still rather isolated from the mainland so I think a strong norse influneced isleman would be similar to a norse kit any...

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I think you have to main things to look at both deal with relitivity of what he is trying to get across. He thinks that most things originated in the east because he has done alot of research where he has found it there first. TO me that is not 100% as there can be two cultures that develope things ...

RandallMoffett

SAverio, Indeed. I saw the originals not long back and really, REALLY want a set of them. Of course with all the really nice stuff I would like this is in the top ten so will happen some day. I think making a kit based of one or multiple of the figures would be an excellent idea and the helmet is on...

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Hal,

I agree 110% with that.

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Thanks Thomas,

We will have to work on some stuff. I have been totally engulfed in my dissertation as some things came up and I had to switch the topic... long story. Talk to you later.

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Thomas, Thanks for the links. I was looking at the clarke one but it looks like it would be hard to use for curves and unfortunatly that is something I am really looking for. Let me know if I am wrong in this assumption, it looks very similar to one I worked with in the metal shop I was in. As to th...

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