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by Chris Gilman
Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:40 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Casting for armour fit
Replies: 39
Views: 2169

Well done!
This is how we do casts for film costume work. You can mix the alginate very "thin" by dental standards and there is no real need to lubricate the arm, as the alginate will not stick. For legs, I build a “bootâ€
by Chris Gilman
Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:38 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Star Wars Armour?
Replies: 55
Views: 2095

Lee,
My comment was related to the person wanting an SCA legal Boba Fet helmet. I see you are in Burbank, if you and your son need any help with your project, feel free to contact me. I have a full shop for just this sort of thing.
by Chris Gilman
Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:49 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Star Wars Armour?
Replies: 55
Views: 2095

What a dork. :roll:
by Chris Gilman
Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:32 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Tandy leather glue - getting too tacky too fast
Replies: 19
Views: 253

I have seen so many rabbit pelts for sale without their rabbits; I would think the rabbit hide glue doesn't work so well on the rabbits either! :wink:
by Chris Gilman
Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:25 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Khatangu degel - Mongol and Korea birgandine type armor proj
Replies: 24
Views: 877

Nice effort, it is nice to see different styles of armour being made, but it seems too big. Not well tailored. The helmet looks too big or perhaps too round.
by Chris Gilman
Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Non-Laurels Only! Please post your work!
Replies: 609
Views: 39217

Congrats :!:
by Chris Gilman
Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:54 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Rus helm for Greenshield
Replies: 45
Views: 1666

Very Nice. Really handsome kit. That picture goes in my "SCA Favorites" folder.
(Even with a helm made by a fellow Polock! :lol: )
by Chris Gilman
Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:25 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Brass-framed spangenhelm--in progress
Replies: 70
Views: 3815

Nice looking. Nice clean looking pattern.
I wimped out in putting the dot pattern on mine. Nice tip for getting the dots straight. That was the main reason I didn't do punch work on mine, the crooked lines bugged me.
by Chris Gilman
Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:03 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

A whitesmith works in tin.
by Chris Gilman
Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:12 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

I have been asked if an armourer was a "blacksmith", my response is, in the same way a “hydraulics engineerâ€
by Chris Gilman
Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:10 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Phyrgian contest
Replies: 49
Views: 3276

An old one I made, with a poorly shaped skull.
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by Chris Gilman
Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:42 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Hinges for greaves and vambraces.
Replies: 7
Views: 386

In your own workshop. :wink:
by Chris Gilman
Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:27 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: landsknecht breast plate by St.Prosek -CZ
Replies: 31
Views: 1889

Very nice.
by Chris Gilman
Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:13 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

Deca= 10
Mate = to screw
So, you screw every tenth man! :roll:
by Chris Gilman
Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:31 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: 1330's Knight Gaston's sugarloaf & harness progress pict
Replies: 222
Views: 36517

You know what is jumping out at me on this one? The angle of the knee cop. And that is something I have _always_ noticed in effigy vs recreated armor.. is that legs are "slanted" kinda, in real life.. yet when we remake them, we very often make it a straight line.. from the cuisse down th...
by Chris Gilman
Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:22 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: 1330's Knight Gaston's sugarloaf & harness progress pict
Replies: 222
Views: 36517

Thank you all. I will try to post some, how I did things as well. Here is the effigy(s) I combined to give myself a reference of the look I'm going for. The vambraces, I have decided will not be the scale versions but will match the cuisses. http://www.globaleffects.com/Temp/effigy.jpg
by Chris Gilman
Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:08 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Laurels - Please post your work.
Replies: 50
Views: 3168

I really do love this picture. Well done!
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by Chris Gilman
Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:58 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: 1330's Knight Gaston's sugarloaf & harness progress pict
Replies: 222
Views: 36517

All of the effigies I looked at from this period have the mail very neat an orderly around the ankle as well as the entire leg. My experience seems to indicate that unsupported mail doesn’t behave in a way the effigies and artwork of the period seem to depict. Mail supported by a foundation (cloth...
by Chris Gilman
Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:36 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: The Mail Trend
Replies: 76
Views: 2751

I had a butted mail hauberk by, um 1981 I think. Wore it for a number of years but the weight (36lbs) really messed with the 2 herniated disks in my back. If could afford the nice superlight mail available today, I'd go back to it just for the look. The only negative I remember is when it got down ...
by Chris Gilman
Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:32 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

The word "decimate" when used to mean slaughter, massacre, or the simple and accurate "kill all of them". I see supposedly well-educated historians misuse it at almost every turn. Stop it! It's a fine word when used for what it means, please stop turning it into a buzz-word. Yes...
by Chris Gilman
Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:51 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: TURKEY ARMOR!
Replies: 17
Views: 617

Jonathan Atkin wrote:i demand to see a turkey in armor!

You asked.....
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by Chris Gilman
Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:10 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: landsknecht helmet by St. Prošek
Replies: 17
Views: 799

Very nice. Good lines, nice finish work and attention to detail. :!:
by Chris Gilman
Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:00 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: TURKEY ARMOR!
Replies: 17
Views: 617

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We're all rebels in my family, so we're not having turkey. We're having organic, naturally fed bison. But not the entire bison. With respect, -Aaron Dam and I thought our oven was big! or with a crane do you drop the Bison in to a dumpster filled with boiling oil?
by Chris Gilman
Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:58 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: The Mail Trend
Replies: 76
Views: 2751

One of my first "big" armour commissions was a mail Hauberk out of Titanium. Weighed 10 lbs. .062â€
by Chris Gilman
Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:37 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

OK, gotta throw this grenade into the room.... maybe it's been brought up already, but truthfully I can't be assed to read through 9 frickin pages... I HATE this crap term "full contact" jousting. Let's face it, ALL JOUSTING IS FULL CONTACT. Jousting is by its nature a full contact sport....
by Chris Gilman
Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:50 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: 1330's Knight Gaston's sugarloaf & harness progress pict
Replies: 222
Views: 36517

After taking some time off of this project, I have an update.
This is going to be 1340’s English armour. The idea is to attach the mail to shoes and hose. The hose are slightly padded and made from linen dyed to this red from natural linen. The “Sâ€
by Chris Gilman
Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:49 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Rus helm for Greenshield
Replies: 45
Views: 1666

Nice job :D
by Chris Gilman
Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:05 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Pics of armor
Replies: 13
Views: 1346

Ugo wrote:I made it!!!!

:wink:

I recognized your work by boxed out eye feature of mine you copied... :wink:
by Chris Gilman
Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:55 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Raising and repousse' not armour
Replies: 20
Views: 708

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:
Chris Gilman wrote:
Ugo wrote:Why I aughta!!!!!

Yeah!...ya aughta!


I triple dog dare him...

Boy :roll: , that’s a breach of etiquette jumping right to the “triple dog dareâ€
by Chris Gilman
Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:30 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Raising and repousse' not armour
Replies: 20
Views: 708

Ugo wrote:Why I aughta!!!!!

Yeah!...ya aughta!
by Chris Gilman
Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:19 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Raising and repousse' not armour
Replies: 20
Views: 708

Ugo wrote:I love some of the kettles and vessels. He uses the same technique I do filling the piece and doing the work from the outside! .... I can't wait for my damn arm to heal! Very inspiring, Thanks for posting.

I don't think you could do that... :twisted: :lol:
by Chris Gilman
Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:16 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: (was) "made a boot" (is) "posting your work&q
Replies: 32
Views: 681

I realized I may not have been completely clear in my reasons for wanting an area for open critique by an experienced person. Context.
Understanding and seeing the level of work in the real world, verses our little corner of it.
Here is an example of what is going on in other places.
http://davidhuang.org/gallery2/main.php ... g2_page=13
by Chris Gilman
Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:10 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Non-Laurels Only! Please post your work!
Replies: 609
Views: 39217

I'm selling. Pool your money and it can all be yours!
by Chris Gilman
Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:56 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Non-Laurels Only! Please post your work!
Replies: 609
Views: 39217

If story telling where that hard to present, I wouldn't have the job I do.
Video, audio, text.
YouTube
by Chris Gilman
Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:58 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: (was) "made a boot" (is) "posting your work&q
Replies: 32
Views: 681

Chris Gilman, I love your work. You are a master of what you do. I wish I had a 1/4 of the talent for crating things as you do. I really love looking at pictures of the things you make/made. That being said. I can't talk to you about them, don't feel that I would ever want to show you anything I ha...

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