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Alcyoneus

Yes, that would be missing a visor, probably the typical 'sparrowbeak'. The pauldrons would overlap in the back, what you see on top are reinforces for them.

Alcyoneus

And its bald!

Alcyoneus

Wrong forum, don't you think?

Alcyoneus

You can have the barbute, the mail, the brig and nearly full plate arms and legs and be perfectly fine. There are several late 15th C examples similar to this in Madrid.

Alcyoneus

Here is what the result of the conversation was: That it may be legal, but it isn't very nice and isn't going to win a person many friends?

I wasn't there, so this is second hand.

Agree/disagree, why?

Alcyoneus

Did they view archers as peasants? Or did they consider archers/archery to be valuable? I would think that nearly everyone would have their version of an 'arming sword' if they weren't a peasant.

Alcyoneus

The one showing is going Oh F**K! in steel, of course.

Alcyoneus

You aren't really making any armor. Do you know how I can tell?

Your workshop is too neat.

Alcyoneus

They only use those coolers once.

Alcyoneus

Side view please?

Alcyoneus

The best thing you can get is medical styrofoam chests. They have to keep things like blood and organs really cold. They are much thicker, and last a lot longer.

Alcyoneus

You've ruined it Halvgrimr...We'd just about convinved them that was their reason for doing all that work. Thanks a lot.

Alcyoneus

This has come up offlist, so I thought I'd gather some perspective here.

How do you regard grabbing the haft of someone's weapon, or having yours grabbed?

Alcyoneus

You will find thigh-highs into the 16th C, as well. I dispute that they were only worn while riding, because you often see people on foot wearing them, and some have 'garters' attached to belts underneat their clothing to hold them up while they are walking about.

Alcyoneus

Yeah, it would be pretty hard to read if our damnedEnglishlanguage looked German.

Hey, what is the prettiestshinymildsteelGothicarmor you have seen today?

Alcyoneus

If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?

Alcyoneus

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... OEHOME.HTM

And a step-by-step pictorial:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... oject1.htm

Alcyoneus

The info has been passed on.

Alcyoneus

Have you looked at The Tudor Tailor?

Alcyoneus

I first put armor on in '82, and wanted to long before that. I guess I like it.

Alcyoneus

[img]http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/images/aa/images/aa19.131.1%2C%202.R.jpg[/img]

Alcyoneus

Konstantin the Red wrote:Yep, when it's that cold the nearest you can come to it is to say "gle" -- it's futhermuckin' cold....

How do you think Hochdeutch came about?

Alcyoneus

Mine are fairly good sized, and they don't seem to hamper me all that much.

Alcyoneus

I don't think it is really long enough for that.

Alcyoneus

Yeah, says who?

Black Swan Designs wrote:'He schal have noo schirte up on him but a dowbelet of ffustean lynyd with satene cutte full of hoolis.'

He shall have no shirt upon him except for a doublet of fustian lined with satin, cut full of holes.

Gwen

That one certainly has at least one hole in it.

Alcyoneus

Go to Eric Dube's site, or William Hurt III's (AgeofArmor.com, I think).

Alcyoneus

Freimann, go with the 3' round. The 22-24"ers make your butt look big.

Alcyoneus

The Galiot's armor in the Met (1527) has an armet, so the period you are looking at should have them available as well.

Alcyoneus

Servus! Alcy - what a cool idea! I will be doing that with my new armour! The elbows are made in two pieces and sewn together in the middle. I've made three pairs of holes on the top and bottom of the steel, and sewn the pads in to each pair separately, so that if the thread wears out (leather sewi...

Alcyoneus

I'd say it is very much a lorica hamata. The shoulder pieces are the give-away.

I can't remember offhand, but one of the Roman historians wrote that in the days of the Republic, men that were worth 10,000 dinare (10,000 days wages) bought mail to arm themselves with when they served.

Alcyoneus

And who is going to go home and tell their legion buddies "I slept with the Queen of Egypt, and she is butt ugly!"

Alcyoneus

Linden is very similar in weight and strength to pine.

16thC, yes many of the surviving round shields are about 22-24". This is also an era of plate armor, and the shields weren't the primary protection.

Alcyoneus

I've done something similar with my knees that I've done with my elbows. Sew the padding into cloth 'pockets', and sew them to the metal. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/alcyon/HenryVIII_1520_Elbows/elbows.jpg http://home.armourarchive.org/members/alcyon/HenryVIII_1520_Elbows/elbows3.jpg

Alcyoneus

And I would never ridicule a toddler that believes in Santa Claus... But I wll ridicule an adult that does. Now that's just about the last straw mister! You take that back! Santa loves me! Sir Rhys broke his GS on Johnny's head, Somebody snitched on him. He hid a frog in HRM's bed, Somebody snitche...

Alcyoneus

I prefer 'moderately sized, and well formed', myself. I don't think the coin really says much. Some people are drop-dead georgeous, but if you get them at the wrong angle, it doesn't show. She was Greek, so if you look at what classical Greeks considered 'beautiful', you'd probably have a better ide...

Grabbing hafts