The Armour Archive

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I will gladly share the pattern as soon as I will be sure that it work properly, this one needed some unexpected trimming and fitting.
Let me make another one or two before.

I have some Chalcis pictures at home, but online there is not so much

http://tgorod.ru/contentimage/chalcis/lii.jpg

http://tgorod.ru/contentimage/chalcis/lv.jpg

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Hello all.. thank you for your reply and observations... 1) Yes, the holes are for the liner, but probably for this kind of shape, fewer holes and a internal leather band would be more appropriate. 2) no, this won't have a visor, but the next one probably will have it, there is a kind of visor made ...

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This is the first try at a welded helm since 2 year, it's a pattern of mine that was miscaled a bit so i decided to add a patch on the back, for this reason from a bascinet it has turned into a sallet. The pattern was developed on some Chalcis bascirbute, i hope to show soon how it would turn out wi...

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On amazon it appears to be unavaiable from several month.. i think i will rely on another source.

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It would be very nice if you plan to make it when it's possible, i think that is a very nice harness that deserve a lot of attention, and your effort will help all of us like me that want to make a reproduction of this beauty.

My dream? A Ugo's progess topic like Patrick made some time ago

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The helm will be for reenactment, so no need for a rigid fundation, the idea to make if with fake bands of scales and rivet/weld the bands toghether is very cool! I already designed the leather cap, i just need to try to make it.. The most interesting part in this kind of helm is that it should be "...

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Hello Carlo, As we are here, and someday i .. cough cough... will make a S18 reproduction for me (i'm, working on the gauntlets now) I take the ball to ask few small simple questions: 1) the gauntlet cuff and metacarpal appears to be in two pieces, they are connected via leather or are connected in ...

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I don't think that 2 castle at 100 yard is a good idea, people will meet between and stall there forever.
I would build just 1 castle, and try to assault it, in the space of a weekend you can swap teams and in the end see which team made more points both in defence and assault.

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To let it move it should have overlapped on the top of the muscle bulges and not in the deep.. i fear it will lock with just a bit of movement.

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James I've seen it on some painting that now i can't remember of, for many reenactors is enough even if extant pieces are unknown. My idea is to make a leather fundation (maybe in 6 pieces sewn togheter like a sort of half football ball) and then cover it with custom fitted scales, maybe i can have ...

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It looks like a sort of item that is never take in consideration by reenactors and armourers, it look like a quite easy project that can be made with few skills and tools. The question is: have someone of you made such kind of items? Some of you have some source material from which start researching...

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I opt for some kind of coat of plates or quilted garment.

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Money in pouch are easier to remove, but they left hundreds of coin with the bodies, probably the number of helms belonged to them was very little, considering that some of them wore a maille hauberk OR a coat of plate, and almost never both togheter (that was the common practice as i know). Other t...

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Make a calculation about how much the mace will weight with such thickness and dimensions, check with some original pieces.. i think you are on the big/heavy side (just in case you plan to use it against someone with just more talent than "raise it, scream, let it fall")

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Send me a e-mail on PM, i will send what i have on the matter (is not much but is better than nothing), My target is someday to reproduce the whole suit, so, any help that you could share will be welcome.

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Maybe artists preferred to depict nice things (i.e. nice armour) more than ugly black munition pieces... it's comprehensible from many artistical points of view. Would you prefer to draw a nice new sportcar with interesting shapes and detail, or a old rusty Ford Taunus? Other than this, usually, peo...

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Powertools are dangerous only if you use them without thinking that you can get hurt, maimed or killed. In general the more spin fast, the more you must take care. I think that you can use them without too much fear, wear proper safety equipment (goggles, earplug, gloves) and until you are focused o...

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The diameter and the depth of the dish are not the most important things in a dish, it is much more important how you place the piece over it, and how you hammer it. The wooden dish with use will collapse and will get more "dished" on his own, so if at first it's not perfect it will get good with ti...

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I agree with the others, find more appropriate footwear, the gauntlet, while mitten could be appropriate, must have less lames on the fingers, those look too modern in respect of the whole suit. I see that your rerebrace appear to stay bad on you arm, maybe you need to fit it better, or is just the ...

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Make a small test patch, play with expansion and contraction rings, so you can understand how it works and if you really need it here without messing your hauberk. I've always made the back larger than the front and arranged the neck so that it came out trapezoid and not rectangular, in that way you...

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I'm always surprised that presumed XIV , or earlier century swords have always perfect blades, no chips, no dings, no cracks, it's possibile that real swords never met another blade to stop onto?

It's possible that they dig out almost only new swords never used?

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Want to see the Frankenstein weed burner

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In the time that you will be able to raise cold a single bascinet and hurt yourself, you will be able to learn how to weld nice, to clean the weld and at the same time put togheter 2 or 3 bascinets made of 2 pieces especially if you dish them hot. The "no pain no gain" rule in armouring must be avoi...

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Sadly is not universally known, most people see crap on books, and believe crap on books. Especiall when the same is cited in other books. I own a copy of his book, and there are things that are good and other that are bad, but If you read that he proclaim that french armour was the best ever (the m...

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It's much easier to keep them clean, and in case of injury take care of it instead of think it's just a scratch. Any wound that is deep enough to sligthly bleed, should be cleaned.
Often there is too much "supermachoman" in our evalutation of risks.

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Maybe you can ask for a normal postal delivery and not a ultrafast and ultrasafe one .. try.

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The numbers itself can't give you the right dimension of the "damage" or penetration properties. Modern common bullets are made of a lead core encased in a shell, the shell ir required to avoid the accumulation of lead in the gun barrel, and the consequent risk that a bullet will stop into the barre...

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Yes.. minimize is the right term.

What is a good weight for such kind of steel weapons?

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I'm in the reenactment field (on the side of the field? ) well, we do rebated steel combat, armored and unarmored. I would like to see if there are around "relatively" safe poleweapons that could be use for our combats. I've seen that many groups rely on heavy rubber weapons to simulate maces, polea...

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Hal, how thick is the metal of your tasty donuts?

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Ehi Jiri(Lucius)! Are you still alive? I was a bit worried!
Wellcome back, you missed here.

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You must take care that the final proportion are right, and that the bowl is deep enough. There aren't magical pattern that you can hammer out blindly and they give you a good finished shape. from the picture is hard to say if things look right. Don't hurry yourself, if you think that you want it ro...

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This is the pattern that you can find on B@#$#@$%ield, the piece that miss is the frontal, so nothing to see there

The skull and the tail are made in a single piece.

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Please nobody help him, or we will lose another good guy (just joking) Try to search "maille" " riveted maille" "rivited maille" over the web, your will have to read a lot and a lot again, you will find a lot of crap too, but at the same time you will be able to understand what there is on the table...

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Like modern architect, "they" made scale models of their projects, it was probably easier to understand for the laborer than a drawing and you can see if things works. A drawing is more "limited", ok it's more flexible if you can read it, otherwise is just toilet paper.

Chalcis inspired protosalletbascinetbarbute

scale head protection and scale aventail

Rubber poleaxes & co.