The Armour Archive

Baron Alejandro

Though I prefer to rock out with Jackyl, especially Redneck Punk. But the stupid Marshals in the Midrealm won't let me fight Florentine Chainsaw, so I don't even bother playing "The Lumberjack" anymore. What a bunch of pussies. I saw those guys at a biker rally on the Rez up in Cherokee a few years...

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First, go here and if you can, help Freiman out. Then, once you've done that, please read the following. Good evening! I am looking for a pair of old spun tops for an armouring project. Mild or stainless, doesn't matter. 12g bowl and 14g sides, if you please, and in a wearable condition. I'm going t...

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Set a high bar, higher than the standard... a lot higher. but no so high that people don't even bother to try. This is one thing I want to seize on and discuss for a second. I think that the Emprise is a super-cool thing, and I laud everybody for working on it and being so excited about it. ......b...

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Dude that is SERIOUSLY gorgeous. Let's hear it for 16th C. armour. Love love love it. Pics of the whole thing strapped up & ready to rock? Please?

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Vitus, if you don't print up 14th Century Mafia tshirts, someone else will, I am certain of it.

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That is one snazzy suit of armour, but I'm going to cordially disagree that it was Henrician. I think the burgonet is too late, as well as the articulated cuisses. Another thing that springs to mind is that Henry was one fat dude by the time he got older; I've seen his 'old fat boy' armour at the To...

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"How about just staining thick shaped bare rattan? " To me thats be great Stian it and it'd look like hadwood Hey Murdock, You mean like this? http://static.flickr.com/74/224158687_d19795ee75.jpg?v=0 http://static.flickr.com/67/224158688_2180852a45.jpg?v=0

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Aaron, No biggie. Isn't this what the Archive is supposed to be all about? These are the rest of the pics there. They're from my second trip, where I photo'd everything in the Armor wing. Logan, I hear and obey! http://static.flickr.com/91/223193315_2f61374d6c.jpg?v=0 http://static.flickr.com/86/223...

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Is this kind of what you're looking for?

Those are turkish leg armours in the met. I have other pics if you need.

Baron Alejandro

I might have to relinquish my 'pimp' title.

Might.

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DoÃ±a Illadore de Bedagrayne and I gettin' ready to lay the hammer down just before the second Pennsic Field Battle. Sadly, we didn't survive the battle, due to the murderous efforts of Clovenshield. *shakes fist* I'll get you, my pretties! http://pics.livejournal.com/rani23/pic/001ctqf4/s640x480

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Perhaps they were reacting to what they thought was a questionable tactic that I have seen perpetrated by a despicable few. Sucky thing is, it works sometimes. Walk across the field of battle. Don't run, just walk. Don't hold your weapons over your head or chant 'Dead', but don't make any threatenin...

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I'm not in a Tournament Company, but I am a 'fan'. I love seeing them, even if I don't participate. A lot of them show the way it should be done, even if it is the wrong century. I keed. So I don't have direct experience with them, but I do have experience in the SCA. And the conundrum of how to get...

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I'm coming into this late, and I know jack-all about egyptian armour - please take that into account! Gregory, there are some types of plastic you can buy at hobby shops & such that gets soft & malleable when you drop it into hot water. Could you make a bunch of those 'boar's teeth' with that stuff,...

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No you shouldn't.

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a DUCK.

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I'd be inclined to say that the Turks wore them, as well as the Persians (I think bazuband is actually a persian word). I think there's a pair in the Met, but I can't find pics.

Baron Alejandro

Yes, that's it exactly. Listen to James & Josh (I can't believe I just said that

). I've never met anyone who didn't develop problems using a belt, including women. If it works for some, great. But a lot of people I know are using some other sort of suspension arrangment.

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This is a very cool thing.

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I remember fighting with the Princess of Trimaris one year defending the castle. The trimarians were awesome.

Of course, they have yet to be hit by me.

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...smell of for example fried food makes me feel sick...

Never, ever come visit the South, then.

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since I lost about 30 pounds since we made it.

Wait, what? Where on earth did you lose 30lbs FROM?

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Robyn, I think you are just about the cutest thing I have ever seen. and looking awesome in your new steel duds... Can I laugh when she accidentally clubs you in the jibblies? I keed, I keed. Robyn, you look GREAT! About the chinstrap - if you have american military types nearby (and I think you do...

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Bring me the head of Alcyoneus!

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I love the scenes in Talhoffer where the guy & girl are duking it out, she with a rock in her veil and he with a wooden club. I really wanna recreate that in the SCA with water sponges. I think it'd be a hoot.

Baron Alejandro

It is indeed on Monday, monday night.

The official AA-Gathering:

Monday, 14. August, in the castle:

19:00 opening, check out the others by chit-chatting and pick-up fights
20:00 The AA spiff and stick tourney
21:00 Party and discussion time.....

Thank Robyn for putting it together.

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Sixtus_Goetz wrote:http://www.ugoserrano.com/g201.html

Master Ugo's website

*cries*

Baron Alejandro

There aren't enough banners carried into the fray. It ought to look like some of those scenes out of Kingdom of Heaven.

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Sir Daemon's squire Melrakki taught me about corkwood. You have to go get the good stuff from a wood place (he had some extra that he gave me), not rip it out of a bulletin board. Line the brow and the base of the back of the helm. My bell-helm went from going BONNNNNNNNNNNNG to going CRONK. Saved m...

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Their legs are "crushed" or "badly cut." I usually just let them lay there writhing in agony until they pass out. Then I loot them. Sometimes I go get something to drink, come back and see if they're still alive, that sort of thing. But generally speaking if I just ignore them long enough they expi...

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Maybe this book would start out as a good primer!

Baron Alejandro

You know, something's not quite right. What is this armour made to protect you from? Just plates rivetted to a leather or fabric robe isn't going to do *much* - not against blunt force trauma, because the plates don't overlap. Not slashing or stabbing (at least much) because there are spaces between...

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Jon Barber wrote:Jon
Instructor, Tattershall School of Defense

HL John Patrick Robertson, DWS, Deputy Kingdom Rapier Marshal, Deputy A&S Minister for Historic Combat and authorized combatant for 14 years

Braggart.

Baron Alejandro

hammerwhat?

Can't wait to meet the wee Robyn.

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hmmm.....then you have obviously never seen a mother defend her young from danger. The problem is (in our context), *controlled* aggression. Men are better prepared (whether it's nature or nuture is up to debate right now) to execute controlled aggression than women. For instance, if an intruder br...

Looking for old spun tops