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by Baron Alejandro
Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:25 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How friggin cool is that!!!
Replies: 72
Views: 2306

Bar's gone up again. :D
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:41 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Check out this new film with Viggo Mortensen..late period
Replies: 22
Views: 679

Roibeard MacNeill wrote: I hope to finally have my late 16th hard Kit completed by Pennsic...So long have I had a late-period persona and this will be the first time in armour befitting my period...I can't bloody wait!


Si no demonstra fotos de su armor, vendre a su casa y robar sus armas. :D
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:58 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Hand-quilted Arming Doublet UPDATED PICS
Replies: 20
Views: 773

Cheers, Muriel! Your work is fab. One day I hope to conquer the zen of quilted garments. :(
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:56 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Is this basinet based on historical examples
Replies: 12
Views: 368

It doesn't meet the requirements of shape and function. It's oversimplified and this oversemplification make it a total crap. There are plenty of flat spots facing the opponent, it would be too easy to thrust a point in the face with success. That was my thought. I'm no authority on faceplates, but...
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:50 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: rusty gauntlets help
Replies: 21
Views: 364

If you can polish it to a mirror finish just once , you can then blacken/blue them, and that will keep off the rust. I think painting them would make them look bad. And although I think the greased bag idea is great, I wouldn't use WD-40. Too much other gunk in it. I'd use gun oil, or some other typ...
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:55 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Full Body Target
Replies: 18
Views: 555

Occasionally, in SCA rapier, I can get a Coup de Jarnac* off if I fake a head shot well enough for my opponent to buy it.









*- Cut to the hamstring
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:21 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Check out this new film with Viggo Mortensen..late period
Replies: 22
Views: 679

Vebrand wrote:
That's only because you can't read :lol: :lol: :lol:

Vebrand


Busted. :(







:wink:
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:28 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: German Bounty Hunter
Replies: 38
Views: 922

Götz von Berlichingen Don't miss out on what Sebastian's bringing up. There weren't 'bounty hunters' per se, but there were some very colorful, bad men. Gotz was a soldier of fortune, a robber baron (and Germany apparently INVENTED them); famous for having an iron clockwork hand and screaming for ...
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:18 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Check out this new film with Viggo Mortensen..late period
Replies: 22
Views: 679

Josh Warren wrote:Es el mejor idioma en todo el mundo. :D

This almost makes me want to buy a 16th century armour. It'd be awesome to have been a rodelero during that period...


You know you want to join the 16th Cen Mob. We have guns. 8) :D

Can't wait for the movie, either. w00! I won't have to read subtitles!
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:12 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Look at this photo
Replies: 30
Views: 1101

I've seen several paintings with at least one black person in there. Anybody ever read this wacky work entitled Othello? :wink:
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:41 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Compression testing of padding - Any studies out there?
Replies: 25
Views: 600

I asked a simular question some time ago m I never did get the article but did check and it was avaliable. I dont know if it has the answer you are looking for but if anything does I would think it would be it. Brian I love working at a University. I toddled over to the liberry on me lunchbreak and...
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:02 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: A "cottage" at Pennsic?
Replies: 25
Views: 560

Since your wife has a Japanese personna, let me throw another thought at you. Instead of a Tudor cottage, do a Japanese style house. You'd definitely get points for "style" and stand yourself apart from the cottage crowd! Could be really freakin' cool!!! <I> Cheers, Tim Aaron, A very good...
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:50 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: 300 battle at pennsic
Replies: 132
Views: 3158

Alejandro, He got a bunch of spoons at a garage sale, cut the heads off, and riveted them onto a canvas dropcloth. Not really. Wow that'd be fugly -D Not if he glued nickels all over it afterwards. Jedon , http://www.advrider.com/forums/images/smilies/eek2.gif http://s3.amazonaws.com/advrider/bowdo...
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:25 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: So, ya wanna be a tough man?(Aka: Toughness training)
Replies: 23
Views: 629

GMANDRAGORA FTW!!
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:36 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Getting Authorized for the SCA?
Replies: 40
Views: 746

Flecky,

The best thing to do is go to a local SCA practice. Here's a list of groups near you that should be able to help you out -

http://www.ealdormere.sca.org/findgroup.shtml

Good luck, and keep us apprised!
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:22 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Fighting with a Round Shield
Replies: 44
Views: 900

Think about it this way, your opponent's sword can only transit an area that is a torus (doughnut shape) centered on his sword arm shoulder. The sword must move through arcs that depend on certain things, like the starting location, location of the sword's Schwerpunct (pivot point) and mass of the ...
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:10 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: 300 battle at pennsic
Replies: 132
Views: 3158

Jedon, that's AWESOME! I have always wanted to do scale armour. What did you use for your scales?
by Baron Alejandro
Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:45 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Virtue and Vice
Replies: 16
Views: 597

Hey, I heard my bud Baroness Illadore took the rapier side of that tourney.

And that is one sessay buckler.
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:23 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Just cause i thought it was neat to compare
Replies: 31
Views: 684

Fabulous! Rerebraces?
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:37 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Gauntlet question
Replies: 12
Views: 508

Tristan, I use my full gauntlets every time I fight, and I have been whacked many times in the hands; I have yet to be injured. My full gauntlets were made by Duke Kelson of the East. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/150911798_b6829fd4f0.jpg There's an enclosed thumb piece, that rests *over* my glo...
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:09 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Fencers! New technique discovered!
Replies: 17
Views: 619

I call it proper use of timing. :D
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:04 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: [SCA] Wrestling?
Replies: 35
Views: 502

8) Depends on the 'site rules' :mrgreen: And your definition of 'have'. :shock: :lol:

Dilan wrote:Are sheep legal to have at events?


Baron Alejandro wrote:I've seen 'Scottish Wrestling' at several events over the years. Always a good time.
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:40 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: [SCA] Wrestling?
Replies: 35
Views: 502

I've seen 'Scottish Wrestling' at several events over the years. Always a good time.
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:00 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: New Pennsic Hooch???
Replies: 67
Views: 1349

DEAR EDITORS,

Please change Tim's title from 'archive member' to 'Mad Scientist'. :D

Obfuscatorially yours,

Alejandro
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:48 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Single Occular visor for bascinet
Replies: 18
Views: 555

The former Baron of Windmasters' Hill, Barun Geoffrey Athos von Ulm, has an ocular like that. Master Eldrid Tremayne made it for him. Don't know if there's any pics, tho' - I'll see if I can fix that. Barun Geoffrey is local to me.
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:02 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: WoH Site - ethical question... Opinion sought.
Replies: 19
Views: 503

Could you use the ensuing do-re-mi to maintainand expand the site? That'd be a pretty faultless use of the mo-nay.
by Baron Alejandro
Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:56 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Italian cuirass by Stanislav Prosek
Replies: 55
Views: 2468

Makes me want to reach for my credit card and the phone. :)
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:32 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Any one know what this is?
Replies: 13
Views: 550

Going straight off of memory, so I might be wrong. But I seem to remember that's a member of the Chivalry who has epilepsy - any blow to the head, and he has a seizure. So he had that cage built to fight in, and if memory serves, takes any blow to it as good to the head. I think he's from West? Caid?
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:03 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: My Kit Progression from 2000-20007
Replies: 17
Views: 474

So THAT'S who Uillieag made those greaves for! Lookin' sharp, man!
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:02 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Museum of Qin (Terra Cotta Warriors), now with pictures!
Replies: 8
Views: 157

Pics! Pics! Man, I want to get out there so bad.
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:56 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Okay, how 'bout a "12th Century sub-Game"?
Replies: 47
Views: 971

mordreth wrote:
You are so perfectly positioned to do "western barbarian armor" that I am suprised you haven't thought of it
A morion with shikoro, a breastplate with sode, etc


Oh TRUST ME Eff has already suggested it. And for as long as I've wanted this armour, the answer is still No Way. :D
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:02 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Another fantasy piece - Horus mask from Stargate
Replies: 28
Views: 1316

Browin Auld wrote:Cat, you are my leather-lady heroine


:shock:

You might want to think about how that sounds out of context.

P.S. - cat, nice work!
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:41 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Okay, how 'bout a "12th Century sub-Game"?
Replies: 47
Views: 971

See, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. Set something up somewhere with a good list of standards, and how/where to get the gear.
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:34 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Okay, how 'bout a "12th Century sub-Game"?
Replies: 47
Views: 971

I know diddly over squat about the 12th Century. But if there's a good game around, I like to get the gear and go play (I need to start a 16th Cen. Mob) So how about a primer on what the proper attire is for the 12th Cen, where you can get it, etc? I mean, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting ...
by Baron Alejandro
Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:49 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: The 14th Century sub-Game/World
Replies: 120
Views: 4173

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:We need a database with pics of who we are and where we are.


Vitus, Kottr here on the Archive already did that, mostly.

http://www.kottr.com/armourarchive

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