The Armour Archive

Effingham

NIce work, but you do realize that's a fantasy piece, right?

Effingham

You know, I just realized something. In that last pic, I got a vague "Battlestar Galactica" (original series) vibe to the helmet.

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Interesting piece.

My most burning question, however -- and one that I think is really the most important one to satisfy everything we need to know about those shots -- is:

What is the name of the chick in red? (And does she like older men?)

Effingwoof

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This is a very cool melon-guard. Nicely done, man.

I'm always happy when I see someone trying to do the originals proud.

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Effingham

I pointed mine to my cuisses underneath so it can't be seen. There is a tab of leather riveted to the back of the polyen near the top, and when it is tilted up, I pass the points through the leather and tie it off. The the polyen flips down over the joint, and covers the pointing. I then do up the ...

Effingham

Can you wear contacts?

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William Lee wrote:
Malachiuri wrote:Sir William from Calontir

Looks like he stepped out of a Byzantine warrior saint's mosaic!

Indeed.

I'd love to wear something like that to show my priest. He'd plotz.

Effingham

I would LOVE to see some more detailed pics of Sir William's kit -- especially on the inside.

Yowza.

Effingham

With respect, your Grace, I believe the distinction lies in the perspective of your audience, which in turn lies in how educated an individual is concerning the era that we strive to portray. Most people (even SCA goers) will not recognize the pirate, nor sadly even the Xena costume, as being parti...

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THose are sweet.

And, dude.

You HAVE to make some high-heeled sabatons.

I mean... damn. The next hot shoe of the year!

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Schveet!

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MacTavish wrote:Heres my suit as it currently sits. I will be working on adding things when I redeploy. Still needs a lot of work.

Edward

Edward, who did your jupon? That is the sexiest thing I've seen in a long time.

Effingham

I have great respect and admiration for many of those folks, and would be happy to see any number of them on the throne.

Effingham

Two words:

Bishop. Spong.

Effingham

On the field if you see a gentle in a historically acurate steel 18th century plate rig If the gentle purchased or made the steel rig knowing it was post 17th century and said well I just like this armour and it looks nice. Where is the reasonable attempt? If we are quoting the pre 17th century cor...

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Dude, I've seen much worse on the field.

It sucks being a perfectionist, doesn't it?

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That's a typically protestant mindset.

We Orthodox -- who still have a reverent veneration for relics -- view such things differently.

Effingham

Man, I love black and white half-suits.

They're dead sexy.

Effingham

Lovely work, man.

I'm really impressed.

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Halberds wrote:Run away.
Run away.

Run away while you still can.
The Barbute from Hell kicked my ass.

That musta been one hell of a barbute. I've seen what you can do....

Effingham

FOr the record, this offends me.

Note, however, that I am not calling for you to be beheaded, blown up, shot, stabbed, or knee-ed in the goolies.

But as a Christian, it offends me.

Effingham

Effingham- if you've never met Baldo, no amount of description could prepare you for the reality. He's a rules alwyer of the worst sort. A dastardly cretin who flouts SCA policy at the drop of a hat...any hat...can I borrow your hat? Baldo is the kind of "person" who makes the worst Toure...

Effingham

Eff please dont raise your voice.....I am just a humble pit-fighter of a rather pedestrian intellegence that can not under stand or appeciate the wonders and mysteries of those far away lands... 1000 apologies. Mention it not, good sir, for spiff thou art in ways too numerous to count. Corpora stat...

Effingham

So how do you propose solving the problem of the recreant, those who won't be led by any carrot? This is, I think, the crux of the issue. We have a lot of individualists, and very, very many special snowflakes, who have to march to the tune of their own drummer or want to make their own funny-ha-ha...

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Baron Alcyoneus wrote:I'd go with the Lenin, you'd never notice if it got Marx on it.

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Mazeltations!

Take the time you need, and sleep while you can.

Effingham

Ingvarr wrote:two horses humpant missionary?

I was just thinking this same thing.

Man, we are sick puppies.

Effingham

My pants feel funny.

I *love* the brass work.

Dayum.

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So, who's going to go tell the Tuchux that they need to do something about their plastic shields and dark victory armor? I would suspect it would be the marshals at Pennsic who are authorizing armour on any given day. Perhaps they, too, would get the hint on what is expected on the field. You could...

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We'll never know the give and take of it, but how many people do we lose because our appearance isn't good enough? How many newbies who have dreams of Arthurian legends in their heads take a look at the list field and think "No thanks I don't want to get in a Road Warrior LARP"? Agreed. I...

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I see this possibly alienating some. In today's economy some newer/younger people just won't have the ability to "Period up" their stuff. If they can't even afford a tabard, the cost of going to events and fighting shouldn't even be an issue. I have no sympathy for anyone beyond the autho...

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Domhnall na Moicheirghe wrote:The chain idea above may run into difficulties as a loop of chain is a heraldic charge reserved for Knights. I don't know whether that applies to half-loops of chain or not.

An orle of chain is reserved.

A section of chain should be fine.

Effingham

Konstantin the Red wrote:
Effingham wrote:"Two demi horses combatant cojoined at the base."

If that's where they're conjoined, some wag is going to offer the opinion that they're not fighting.

Two horses humpant?