The Armour Archive

Signo

Only 7 days? That's so little time. Unfortunately I can't help you too much with Rome and Venice, as are cities that I don't know very much. For sure in Venice there is Doge's Palace, as already told. But Venice is entirely wonderful (beware that in this period high tides are common, bring rubber bo...

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You basically need to have a slighty reducing atmosphere instead of an oxidizing one. What does it mean? That if you heat treat with a flame, the mixture need to be rich instead of lean. In this way, the combustion will consume all the oxigen, and there will be none to oxidize the metal. If your kil...

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I planned to do that process on my riveted maille, but I've not done it for two simple reasons: 1) My maille is half finished, and need at least another 150 hours of work. 2) At 300 Hours of work the fear of a epic fail and the loss of the maille is a little too much considering that my life is not ...

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I don't see an offset of the place of 1 mile as an issue in the medieval mind. I think the idea of the construction is more important that it's precise location. From what I read in the article the piece of land where the battle has been fought appear to be much more steep, maybe someone decided tha...

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I think the two towers are around 30 feet tall.

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Corey with unwrap you mean the UV texture channel?

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OH HO! That's really Cool Jiri! I'm really happy to see your new work, and what a work!
Keep us updated!

Cheers

Signo

Wow, very deep and interesting.
Please people, stay in one piece, or at least, reattachable pieces!

Cheers

Signo

Well, there are two things that I would like to see (if I can dare to ask). 1) When we see cutting exercises, we usually see people try to deliver the strongest blow possible, while, in actual combat, the chance to perform such blows are certainly less than the quantity of "smaller" cuts that two fi...

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Well, I think that the gauntlets are completely wrong, and they even mount the greaves on the wrong legs... but I may close one eyes over it. I don't think there is any kind of pauldron on this armour, there should not be, and I can't see any trace of them. I would vote the reproduction with a 7, co...

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What I find interesting in the painting is the wear texture of parts of the gambeson. It is very similar to the damages our gambeson have after few years (the outer layer wears out exposing the layer below.

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I don't think a task like that would be taken on the shoulder of the last of the helpers without the involvment of the master. And you can't think the economic burden was on the shoulder of the weapons smith, and you can't think weaponsmith were poor in any way. they were a quite powerful lobby, and...

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http://www.123dapp.com/catch http://www.agisoft.ru/products/photoscan In 2004 I had the chance to visit the Stibbert Museum to make a research over a famous XIV° century visor. Being a kind of nerd in love with 3D, I took the chance to take as many picture as I could of the piece, and make a 3D vers...

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You can destroy the first few samples, but then you find the right way. Those people while not having a scientific knowledge of what they did, had a great first hand and pratical experience doing their work. They experimented and learned and developed, otherwise we would not have seen the evolution ...

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Great find! We should institude an archive archeological group do dig all that good.

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Wow that's great! I forgot about that!
Thank you Tom!

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Bravo!! I need a cleenex!

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That's great, please share other pictures!

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Yes I remember tinned maille, but I've never seen helmets or other parts different from brigantine plates. Do you have some pictures or indications where those pieces are? We may assume they have been tinned in their service time, or there is a chance they have been tinned later? There are some writ...

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Thank you very much Dafydd. We have a long winter to train ourselves.

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Thank you for the advice! We will give it a try for sure!

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I would find more plausible, and appealing, that the maille aventail of his bascinet wrapped around his upper arms and torso to offer a seamless protection to one of the most exposed area of the body: armpits, neck, shoulders. This construction would be entirely possible and not even a lot complicat...

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Thank you Gaston for your kind words! What drove our armour design, was our intent to reenact a kind of fighting that relied on thrusts a lot, I was worried by neck and face protection, and we decided for this design, we lenghtened a bit the faulds too to cover entirely the torso, achieving a bit of...

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I put my vote on the straps to keep the maille sleeve to open and displace.
Very interesting the 4 lames feature, just like the covered aventail.

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The body armour is from the same armourer, while arms legs and gauntlets are of various producers (there where 6 different people using the armours, I don't know how many are in the video). I appreciate your entusiasm, I'm sure for the next year we will be much more credible. Keep tuned, I hope you ...

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This is how the first day in armour gone (just an excerpt) http://vimeo.com/50935738 pwd: compagnia ferri Please, do not share it, this is just a quickly made trailer for our project. Thanks Opinions are welcome, just remember that there is not a great show of techniques because it was the very firs...

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The shoulders are too wide, I would halve that lenght, in this way you will be able to raise your arms without pulling up the gambeson. The back centerline should be shaped too. Remember that Basic Armouring PDF is quite old, thus the information within could be a little outdated. I suggest to switc...

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Oh that U.F.O. thing is interesting. Gaston, we made the visor in this way because we need to be able to thrust with reenactment grade weapons with safety. I'm sure we will get used to these restrictions. It's one of the most important part of the whole armour, the only one I would not modify. We wi...

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If the whole armour was 2mm I can believe it, but I need to know the idiot that commissioned it.
And blaming the armour for you poor swordmanship is ...... FAIL.

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Our great bascinet is similar to those:
http://www.azincourt-alliance.org.uk/uk ... aising.htm
And they where used for foot combat too.
The vision is good, is just restricted compared to an open face helm.

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Tom B. wrote:
Signo wrote:Use chapes made from a fusion and not rolled ones.
In europe you find those for 0.50€ , they are better looking and sturdy, but larger (5 or 6 mm diameter).
Are you talking about cast aglets?

Sorry for the delay, yes that was what I meant, but I didn't rememeber the proper words.

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This weekend we fielded for the first time our new two suits of armour, they are field harnesses with great bascinets. It was the first time we fought with such complete and somewhat restrictive armour, and after this first contact there is surely a lot of work to be done to use them properly. Just ...

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Use chapes made from a fusion and not rolled ones.
In europe you find those for 0.50€ , they are better looking and sturdy, but larger (5 or 6 mm diameter).

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Thank you Jan, I think the idea could work, I took the time to make some wild speculations: Supposing you plan to raise 15.000 €, it could work like that: Ticket price : 10 € (this make 1500 tickets avaiable) Prizes: 1 suit , (the winner can chose between 2 or 3 types). 2 helms , of different kind a...

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For sure no, but we have actual armours, and in the XIV century, I don't remember a single example of armour for a fat man. While they are more and more common as you go toward the XVI or XVII century*. ... What about an alternative hypothesis, why do we have a lot of child's armours surviving? Bec...

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