The Armour Archive

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I was thinking about kickstartes as well, but I was unable to find something people would pay for and receive nothing for it. I could think something like that: Raise money with kickstarter, if you reach the sum you need, you will make a lottery and extract 2 people from your contributors, and make ...

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I vote for n.2

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If you do, please prepare an essay as you go on, this stuff is highly interesting and I think we would be willing to open our wallets to have a detailed booklet to build our own too. I know too little of electronics to build it myself from the info recovered from those websites, and I can't trust th...

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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*. But the reason behind that is that in the XIV° century military leader led the battles from the f...

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Sorry but I have to ask... kevlar diapers are intended to stop thing to come in or come out?

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The lenght of breastplate (as already told) is often wrong, then even those who have a waistline, think that armour must sit in the natural waistline, while it is not. In the age of the effigy you posted, the waist was worn higher. There is then a question of body conformation. What you see in effig...

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I thinik 2 mm hardened would be much more resistant, but it depend on your budget and the materials and the process of the armourer too.

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Being in Italy I have the luck (or misfortune if I have to drive trough them) to see several cities and town that are still from medieval times, and while woodcuts are works of art and not accurate maps, I think the idea they give is not too far from reality. Obviously this can't apply to other coun...

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Yes surely people just outside the wall were still townsmen, and surely we can't make generalizations, but thinking of cities like Florence, Rome or Bologna, of which there are probably woodcuts avaiable in medieval times, inside the wall I think there was place for larger buildings, while homes whe...

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He is quite used in saying bullshit with a straight face, I think it's a kind of actor. He is one of those guys with a strong ego, and in the years was able to collect around him a lot of followers, he opened schools and teaches, but you'd better take everything he says with a long pair of thongs. O...

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Considering the population of many medieval cities, it is not possible to think that single houses were the norm into the city walls.

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Aaron, the crappiness of their equipment is not excusable, they are in the "heavy tournaments" from many years, but they do only that, reenactment they do not, they do some sort of fantasy stuff that if farther from reality than SCA of '80. They should be in good company with Blan$£%%/%/&eld for the...

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That should be 2,5 mm Alasdair, that is 0.1 inches. I've not read anywhere that hardened steel is not allowed in helms. For the stainless steel matter, we are quite back in regards of materials, reenactors community usually is good with mild steel, spring is starting to be seen around now, but it's ...

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It's sad to see the italian's kits inferior in accuracy and quality from people that earn half the money, considering that we buy armours from those same countries. This will be gladly quoted on their official FB page, they deserve to know that they have to change nearly all of their equipement, it...

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http://www.richieburnett.co.uk/indheat.html
Have you looked here?

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I found an italian factory that produce that kind of machines, but they have very small wands, but build machines from 5 kw to 21 kw.
I fear those machines run at several thousands bucks.

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It's sad to see the italian's kits inferior in accuracy and quality from people that earn half the money, considering that we buy armours from those same countries.

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I've seen worse.
I have no problem with them, they are not selling it as an original, so I see no problem. Yes it's crappy, but we buy crappy things all the time, and most of it ends in our bowels.

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If you want to know, I'm so used to english/french and modern terms, that I find italian terms quite ... embarassing and misleading. Boccia's and Scalini's terminilogy is simply awful and mostly meaningless unless you have a very good dictionary or you already know what the hell they are babbling ab...

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Function is only part of the equation and probably not the most important. Style and personal taste are as if not more important.

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Why Ferrari and Lamborghini coexist with Maserati and Bugatti?
Because to each one his own.

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Louis, try to lurk in the archive memory, there was Ralph Snel that was studying / experimenting with induction coils.

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Plus to the other tips other said, I like to give a rapid hand touch with an abrasive pad to the piece to cancel the strokes your wire wheel may leave. I feel it give a too much nice touch in too little time to not do it.

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That is not a photocamera.. is an electron microscope!

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I know pepakura, but you have to take into account that paper is thinner than 1,2 mm sheetmetal, and they does not behave the exact same way to bends and curves.
Keep us updated, I like this project, and if you are successful, maybe someday I will build a Gundam.

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I think you will discover that you want some excess material around the edges, because you are not simply bending the material, you are making some actual forming on it, this will eat metal. A little excess material would allow you what you need to fill the gaps. You have already cut all your pieces...

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I would use 20 or 22 gauge if you are able to weld it.

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Do you plan to make it with paper and resins, or you plan to make it with metal and welding?

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Maybe count Trapp thought that steel breastplate was too cold in Churburg winters.

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The ones I've seen in museum displays in Germany had leather filling the open areas. The legs were like that too. I second this, in Vienna or Munich (I don't remember) there are armours of the same construction, the holes are closed by metal parts covered with velvet. It appear the metal internal p...

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Gustovic made a good service to me, a friend of mine just informed me that he has been targeted for termination by S.I.A.P. Just a notice of justice for non italian speakers: Boccia, wrote his book in a very old fashioned style, in all honestly in some parts, it's harder to understand than Dante's D...

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As it was mentioned here... what you call 4130 , is this same 25CrMo4 4130 ? I found it in a aircraft materials website.

Thank you

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As it was mentioned here... what you call 4130 , is this same 25CrMo4 4130 ? I found it in a aircraft materials website.

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The only pity is that gap between spaulder and rerebrace.

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I don't think the sides of the center plate should be cut straight, I would cut them a little convex. Le length of the bottom in respect of the top side depend on the body shape you need to cover, but surely I would make it larger than the top because is here that I will dish the most, so it will sh...

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