The Armour Archive

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How cool!

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Brother Symon wrote:
hrolf wrote:it's not bad.

I like Kvass better, though.

Fermented mares milk?? ? ?? ?

Kvass is Russian beer. Kinda. Made from fermenting black bread. It's GREAT stuff. We used to make it in our closets in the seminary. Ah, Russian seminarians....

You're thinking of koumiss.

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Dan Howard wrote:
Effingham wrote:"Historicalness" -- for things that are *kinda* historical, but ultimately bogus -- like "truthiness"

Instead of saying "that's not period", you can say "that has no historicalness"

Gah. Meant to type "historiness" --- sigh.

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The title of this thread has given me an idea:

"Historicalness" -- for things that are *kinda* historical, but ultimately bogus -- like "truthiness"

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This project makes me REALLY happy. NICE work!

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Is there any padding under the fingers?

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For SCA combat, though, would one not require like 1/4" of padding behind the fingery bits? Would that not affect the feel and so on?

(That said, I *love* those. Am feeling much wantingness.)

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Leo Medii wrote:Both my 14th and 13th C kits have a lot of maille-

That's the wrong picture....

[img]http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/Tempstuff/the-gang.jpg[/img]

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Konstantin the Red wrote:...2 winged lions enhanced combattant Or.

OOoh, hey. Lions with wings.

And halos, yeah!!!!!!

<---------------------------------- Lookie!

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That probably wouldn't work, I'm afraid. It would look like quartered arms of sable a lion rampant or, and gules a lion rampant or. Not quite. It would look like the quartered arms of: 1. Sable, a lion rampant contourney Or 2. Gules, a lion rampant Or 3. Gules, a lion rampant contourney Or 4. Sable...

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Dauyd wrote:Wouldn't lions combatant be considered a single charge?

No, because it's only shorthand for "a lion rampant and a lion rampant contorny in pale."

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You could do per pale gules and sable (or vice versa), and (I think) two lions combatant in chief and two in base or- but keep in mind that mirror symmetry isn't all that period. Indeed. Our modern eye prefers it -- two lions facing each other, for example -- but in period herald speak, those are t...

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That probably wouldn't work, I'm afraid. It would look like quartered arms of sable a lion rampant or, and gules a lion rampant or.

If you're doing anything with charged quarters, there needs to be an overall uniting element (a bordure or something) to make it look a BIT less like marshaled arms.

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Francisco Lopez de Leon wrote:Osprey Books- "Saracen Faris" One of the better-interpreted and illustrated Osprey manuals.

I LOVE that one. One of the best in the Warrior series.

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Marshal wrote:Bjarni Madoff?

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fffuuuuuu....

that's a NICE photo.

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Baron Alcyoneus wrote:It obviously had religious significance.

That one always comes up, yeah.

Where's my copy of Motel.....?

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What Tomburr said. It's sorta my crusade to make people doing Japanese do the best knock-their-socks-off stuff possible, just so the "Japan haters" won't be able to say anything about "you don't belong here" when there are so many Mad Max clones out there wearing God-knows-what. ...

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I do not possess any "very good reasons" for attempting to gather this particular information, other than the simple fact that armouring in plastic is slightly more accessable to a college student living in a basement appartment. I suppose I apologize for the fact that my (evidently) misp...

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Goddamn it. I'm tired of least-common denominator reportage. If it's a tumulus SAY it's a fecking tumulus and don't define it for the hoi polloi. But if you're going to then say "mound burial" just forget the whole tumulus thing and say "mound burial" from the start. ...DAMN it ...

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Goddamn it. I'm tired of least-common denominator reportage. If it's a tumulus SAY it's a fecking tumulus and don't define it for the hoi polloi. But if you're going to then say "mound burial" just forget the whole tumulus thing and say "mound burial" from the start. I dread the ...

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I must admit a certain... well, dejection... when people exult over finding barrel plastic patterns more "yippee" worthy than actual patterns for the real thing.

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I know! I know!

(But I ain't sayin'...)

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Michael, mah bruvvah, you rawk.

That is gorgissimus. Splendacular.

Nissan, damn.

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FOr the record, SCA arms are *not* usually the best indicator of good heraldic style.

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We don't do text on arms.

It's still got that funky off-kilter thing with the bird.

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Adam rocks in OH so many ways.

I can't wait for my cervellier.

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The shikoro (the neck guard) is laced together, and the fukigaeshi (lit. "blowbacks") in front were designed to prevent a downward swordstrike from sliding between the lames and cutting the lacing.

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Man, I wish I had one of those with pelilaurels all over it. <pout>

That's WAY cool!

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SNIP Wandering Dragon Dracones Vagi SNIP Dracones Vagi? Really? I read that to my lady wife, and she screwed up her face and said, "Um... No." You do know that that's a hard G, right? Like in go, get, and gone. That being said, I remember in Latin 101 in college, we had this lady in the c...

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For the record, I do all my work in Adobe Illustrator, and then import the final image into Photoshop.

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Yeah, Pennsic is off the list for me, too, it seems. I'll be in the midst of contractor hell in August.

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You are such a tease.

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It's tengu.

And I appreciate where yer head's at, ruthy.

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