The Armour Archive

Magnus The Black

I find Madu's Nagamakis & unpadded glaives all cheesy. The 1st two are not close to historical European weapons, in fact the 2nd no longer qualifies under the GS rules in Meridies and I hope it remains difficult to make under the KGA rules. The first I find often in the hands of those who are lookin...

Magnus The Black

[img]http://www.seancoburn.com/indecentbystander/images/magic8ball.jpg[/img]

Magnus The Black

Pole ax, greatsword, bastard sword in that order in foot combat. Shields are artifically resiliant in our game.

Magnus The Black

I nominate Duke Logan! Odo What about that Duke Odo guy. Vebrand ducking for cover Why don't you put your card in the hat? You've been around forever and traveled all over the known world. You have intrest in Youth combat and historical accurarcy. Your not too pushy either. Go for it.

Magnus The Black

look on amazon.co for the Medievel tailors assistant.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

Magnus The Black

Eh it looks like crap. I'll tell you what since your such a nice guy, I'll dispose of it for you. Heck I wont even charge you disposal fees or shiping. Send me & PM and I'll give you the address to chip it to for "disposal".

Magnus The Black

It saddens me that some Knights feel that they must give up their belt. The men who consider this or who do this are often those who are mosted needed as an example. If you see evil than fight it Sir, and do not back away. Do not give up your order because of your feelings towards a few. Instead sho...

Magnus The Black

I decided last week not to enter. I in all honesty cannot with good conscience enter knowing the sacrifices I would have to make financially and with my education right now. It would not be fair to my wife with the sacrifices we have made for me to go back to school to extend that burden longer. Whi...

Magnus The Black

Its not who can throw the most shots its who can last the longest. The last guy standing wins. That doesnt mean dont throw shots but why waste energy and give your opponent oportunites to strike.

Magnus The Black

You never see Medieval Italians, Greeks and few Spanish personas. I've never seen a Portugese persona. What about Catalians? Burgundians? Austrians? Also few French, almost no post "viking" Scadinavains. We need am I wanna be on them. We have Tons of Imperial Romans, pre period barbarians, post per...

Magnus The Black

padded chausses attach your knees directly to the chausses anduse shynbalds. No need for padding then. Use linnen or cotton for the inside & outside shell (hint striped fabric on the inside makes the quilting easier) with 6 layers of cotton batting between them. use 7 layers on the area suround the ...

Magnus The Black

I think not because joining 2 different metal speed up corrosion, and because copper is too soft: they hitted their head with a bit more force than SCA standards , so why not spend a bit more on iron rivets? Not being cheap. I just like the look of copper exspecialy after it begins to turn colors.

Magnus The Black

Is there any historical precident for copper being used in armor from 1200-1400 in western europe? I see plenty of copper rivets used in leather & even some plate on the sca field. I have seen some copper plating on helms in the sca. I have not seen any copper rivets used in SCA helms though for som...

Magnus The Black

[img]http://www.shogunofsorrow.com/jackbio/jackbio-d.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.shogunofsorrow.com/jackbio/jackbio-e.jpg[/img] Ok for real http://www.iaidokai.de/iaido_grafik/7_2_iaido_samurai_ruestung.jpg [img]http://www.delank.com/pictures/yf_samurai.jpg[/img] [img]http://eduweb.brandonu.ca/~studen...

Magnus The Black

AWESOME KIT! You well definatly look the part of the top 1% on the field! I cant imagine fighting in pattens though

Good luck in your fighting and I hope you make weapons & sheilds on the same level of apperance. Just Awesome...

Magnus The Black

http://www.revival.us/ProductImages/armour/polehammer_1467_web_big.gif m Brian had some of these @ GW several of our local folks looked at them @ they have the same compression as the rathbone axes. Pretty much a good portion of the more experianced fighters in the local barony bought them. POLE AX...

Magnus The Black

I have never had good luck with the foil leaf. Maybe I just dont have the touch. The paints have turned out very well for me though. If you want to do silver leafing I use a roll of metal tape on what I want to leaf. It gives a good apperance and easy to do. Now if I could only get it in gold....

Magnus The Black

Hobby Lobby.

Magnus The Black

Your Grace it was a pleasure to meet you @ the Ft Battle. I hope to see you again next year. Perhaps as allies.

Magnus The Black

I only wear mine for reading or detail work. I dont wear them to fight.

Magnus The Black

earldrake wrote:Well, all I can say is...

Thanks for looking after our real estate until we and the Trimarians come back to claim it next year

Timo and Odo

Come get sum!

Magnus The Black

Mateo wrote:I had a grand time at Gulf Wars, despite the cold. The joke around our encampment was "I can't wait to get back to Northshield where it's warm!"

We were blaming ya'll for packing up your weather and bringing it with you!

Magnus The Black

I have not YET done tempeture blueing. I have done Chemical blueing before. With chemical blueing the more steps you do the darker the color. The smaller the piece also the easier it is to do. (Helmets are a bitch!) If you are going to do heat bluein with a torch pick up some firebricks. They are fa...

Magnus The Black

What I read in the marshals handbook is thus d. Weapons used single-handed shall have a wrist strap (or equivalent restraint) which will keep the weapon from leaving the immediate area of the user. A basket hilt will be considered to be the equivalent. In a melee, the "immediate area" may be defined...

Magnus The Black

Murdock wrote:boy am i one ugly guy

at least your a period height!

Magnus The Black

Now thats dumb. Meridies does have a Lanyard rule I believe for single handed weapons in tourneys. But a bastard sword by defination is pretty much a 2 handed sword. I would have raised the BS flag.

Magnus The Black

Steve that sucks. It makes me wonder my shield wasn;t sprayed only my weapons.

Magnus The Black

Marvin wrote:I'm the doofus in the foreground with the spear.

http://public.fotki.com/Gabercrombie/gulf_wars_05/img_0161.html

All you combat archers should be really familiar with me by now....

Dude you HAVE to duck! LOL!

Magnus who was only hit once good by an arrow this war.

Magnus The Black

I have an aircraft aluminum heater and 2 birch laminated heaters. The birch is supperior in everything but longetivity. I expect a birch heater will last 2 years. I use 2 1/4 inch pieces of birch & laminate them in a shield press. I then add aluminum angle which is screwed down and folded over the s...

Magnus The Black

I had a blast. I got to at least speak briefly with many friends from the archive. We had many great battles. On Thursday In the ravine battle I got to storm through a hail of arrows and defend our lines to the end. We lost that battle to our friends from Trimaris but never did we fail on our job as...

Magnus The Black

Its per bend, a paly of 4 Gules and Or, Sable (if its black azure if its blue can't really tell with the lighting in here) an Anvil of the second.

Magnus The Black

I'll be there wednesday afternoon. I'll be staying in the Small Grey bear Encampment. I'll be wearing this except for a Gleann Ahbann Surcoat & Drap on my helm (at least till I get some mail). And I'll be carrying this GA Sheild. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/Magnus1500/Armour%202/Kit3.jpg h...

Magnus The Black

My padded cuisses work as such. They slip on and sewn completly closed. They knee points to them with leather laces. There is 8 holes on the top & 8 on the bottom these go to around the sides. They still use straps. The cuisses are 6 layes of cotton batting except ove the knee then its seven. behind...

Magnus The Black

Uno's pizza is a must eat at place. Shed aquarium is awesome also.

Magnus The Black

Zero. We only have 1 knight that is active in all of Arkansas and he's in another group. That group has 2 other non active knights as well.

What is the cheesiest weapon?

Copper in armor