The Armour Archive

Effingham

Its a "happy little Helm" to go with the "happy little trees"....

That helm would never fit over the 'fro.

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Eff - did your prezzies come with a brown afro wig so you could paint 'happy lttle trees'? No, but I was stunned to see that he had his own section in books. Ick. Absolutely ICK. Dont be hating on Bob Ross.. he's deceased. That doesn't get him off the hook. His painting and his effect on the art wo...

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Erik is right and in all mediums. Paint, potery, etc... I have to agree. My maternal unit thinks I should get back to doing fine art things (painting, sketching, etc.) -- and she's right. I used to be good, but ignored doing anything for the last several years. Well, with some Xmas prezzies (a dece...

Effingham

I knight of some twenty years, whom I know, has always had a ECW presona. He remembers when the cut-off was later than the oft stated 1600. Which could have been verified at any point by just looking at Corpora. Since day one of our published governing docs, the rule has been "pre-seventeenth centu...

Effingham

When it comes to demos, I think you need to have your "sunday best" on when you are fighting Christopher, I agree wholeheartedly. Too many people, however, look at a demo as "another chance to fight." Tell those folks to stay at home; they can fight in the tourney or at fighters' practice. A demo i...

Effingham

I know she like the Musketeer era, and has even read all the books. I like the era, too... and also have read all the books (including "20 Years After" and chunks of "The Viscount of (something)"; but the stories, set in 1635+, are beyond the SCA's period. I'd advise your young lady to do something...

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Indeed they are.

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Thanks, Irish.

FWIW, I tend to think it's a Victorian folly, as well.

Without actually studying it, I don't know if I can get more info on it, but that's a gut feeling.

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Irish: I'm trying to forward it now. Keep your fingers crossed. My e-mail tends to choke on and cancel sends of large piles of data in attached files.

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Jon just sent me a picture of it (it's too large or I'd uplist it here) but it appears to be an ECW lobstertail pot, with a three-bar grilled visor. The lobstertail is one single piece that's been fluted to look like there are more (kinda). It's dark and rusty, and *possibly* original to the 17th C,...

Effingham

I saw the one about the middle ages and the one about the tutor period.

So teaching *IS* a bad job...

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Typically I'd expect them to be named after their patron, or lacking a specific noble for backing, the patron saint of the area from which they originated.

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Doesn't look very Japanese...

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Where -- and how, exactly -- did you come by an authentic gladiatorial helmet? And what do you mean by "Corinthean era"?

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i'm so sorry i forgot the period

But the period is 13th century, no?

(Sorry, blame it on good eggnog.

)

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If expense is a concern, I would recommend reading my tutorials, that can be found on my website, ordering the leather and constructing it yourself. Of course, leather isn't inexpensive, it costs about as much as quality steel. Uilleag, I really want to commend you. One of the nicest things about s...

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i've actually decided what i'm wearing i was looking for pics from anyone who also does 13th century

Huh?

Could you try that again using something vaguely similar to conventional English punctuation and syntax?

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I think that's getting a little pernickety about what constitutes a primary source. A contemporary illustration is certainly a primary source, but perhaps not totally reliable, as it involves artistic perception and skill. That's exactly *why* the distinction is made. The quality of the illustratio...

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I know it's a movie thing rather than a documentably historical thing, but I still want this helmet from the Rohmer film, "Percival the Welshman": http://sengokudaimyo.com/percevals_hat.jpg The bowl was one of the things I paid Armourworks for LAST JANUARY before they disappeared off the face of the...

Effingham

It sounds like [Barmitsa]

Ah, spasibo!!

I didn't know if that was a C or K in the Cyrillic -- So it's a Ã

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Thanx - I understand - we called it in russian - "barmica"

Always glad to expand my Russian vocabulary.

But is that C a K or an S? ( "Barmika" or "Barmisa"?)

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Did I say Bob? Nonsense. I meant Brian. Who are you gonna believe -- me or your lying eyes?

E-mail sent.

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Bob -- If you want anyone with expertise on Oriental armours (especially Japanese), let me know.

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Humble opinion: That would be a more interesting offer if the magazine were worth anything.

I've bought and read two issues in the past couple of years. That was two too many.

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The guy is using an ISP from Belorussia. His native encoding is Cyrillic. Your's is one of the several variations of English. When your English-defined e-mail reader receives mail with a foreign code, it enters question marks in place of characters or coding it can't read. I regularly get e-mails fr...

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I've wanted that cloak all my life. Heck, I wanted it before I was born....

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Two words:

Suh weet!

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Man, there is something HORRIBLY wrong with my lifestyle.

Alan, I hate you SOOOOOO bad. Nothing personal. Nothing I can do about it. I just have to. You understand.

Damn, but I'm a lonely puppy.

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I recommend getting and studying a (narrow) book called "The Qin Terracotta Army: Treasures of Lintong" by Zhang Wenli.

There are many good photos (some close-up enough for good detail work) in it. You should be able to get it from B&N or Amazon.

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Here's the thing. We've all got that "knight in shining armour" thing. Does anyone think that this stuff goes an INCH toward promoting -- or even allowing -- the idea of "knights in shining armour"? IMHO, we've gone FAR too far toward the sports paradigm and away from the heroic knights of legend pa...

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It's like Sean Connery being a Russian sub captian in "Hunt for Red October", you ignore it and move on. The accent thing *is* annoying, but you can just ignore it. Actually, within the framework of the film, it works. Connery's character, Ramius, wasn't Russian. He was Lithuanian. All the rest of ...

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If he changed gears and was making well cut plates for a Coat of Plates (or even the full CoP out of leather/suede with plastic plates); brig, etc... I think he'd have more success and better product and wold me doing the Society a great service. I recommended that very thing to him several times s...

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yeah i have but i'm looking for advice from other armorers and i never saw him mention how much over lap is required... I quote from Chapter Nine, "Making a Kabuto: Add to the outline about 3/8" Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 1/2", tapering in toward the top, to the front side of the plate edge. That is going to be the ...

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I just have trouble believing that folks we've known and respected would turn out to commit theft on such a large and wide-spread scale.

And don't let anyone fool you.

They've taken money and >poof<... It's theft. They stole my money. And I'm not the only one.

Effingham

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Dunno, Eff talks about tateage (about the width of the ceneral plate) being nipple to nipple, and then there are solid plates on either side of that just like this.

Yeah, but this isn't a Japanese do. Their measurements are irrelevent.

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