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The site may be in Russian, but if you go to this URL:
http://webtranslation.paralink.com/urlmode.asp
and then plug the site's URL into the window (and set Russian->English as the mode) you'll at least get a passable understanding of the text.

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does it suck that I found it in red because red sucks, or that it's only in red? I was planning to do red and black... That it's only red. I'd like to have at least three or four colors to work with. Red, white, black, and blue would be a good supply to start -- but that's cause I want to do a lot ...

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Azure, a chevron sable fimbriated Or, and a chevron inverted braced sable fimbriated Or.

Long.

Try: "Azure a chevron and a chevron inverted braced sable, fimbriated Or."

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So, if a field is divided "per fess azure and vert, a fess wavy argent," having a feather sable overall would be okay? It would be touching the argent fess, but also the azure and vert field. Technically, what you have is a field "tierced per fess wavy azure, argent, and vert" (since ordinaries are...

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As I recall, these are not breaking the rules, but rather are an exception to them. Heralds, can you explain this better? This one's easy. The rule is "no color on color." Those are divided fields; there is nothing overlaying the other. And divided fields using a metal and a color also allow for a ...

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Damn, Dale...

You've found it! BR-248-250 is a good for odoshi. Unfortunately, they only have it in red, and that sucks bigtime. Sigh.

And Hanzo -- it really does follow Sino-Mongolian lines. That's why seeing the zunari is such a "say what" moment.

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Sorry, Richard, that puppy would bounce like a superball.

As an artistic point, too, note that a bordure is an ordinary, and should not be thinner than the chevrons, also an ordinary.

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Hanzo -- why for you be wearing Sino-mongolian armour with a zunari kabuto?

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I think Pietro has hit old Njal right on the head. Heraldry should be appropriate to the time and place portrayed. Except the CoA's rule is that "we don't register persona -- just names and arms. In other words, we don't care if you're Franco-Dutch. Just as long as the name you submit is historical...

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Thanks, Effin-sweetie.

<sniff> -- that's so nice... <sniff>

Usually I get Effing-jerk. Currently dealing with a scad of "I'm a samurai 'cuz I train with swords" moron samurai wannabe teenieboppers in the samuraihistory group. Oy.

Effing-sweetie

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Klatu! Verada! Nic-to!

I swear, kids today...

It's "Klaatu barada nikto."

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(BTW, Kass -- I like the phoenix. Sure it's not a hÃ´Ã´?)

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My main concern was getting something I could draw! Gules, two chevronelles and a bordure or. Oh, my -- that's elegant. I don't understand why people try to put so much different stuff on their devices (we sometimes refer to that as "slot machine heraldry") when such simple, elegant, and correct de...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I just want to take certain authors and just smack them upside their heads for this, including Rowlings, and George RR Marting (despite how much I like his writing.) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> And Si...

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She just turned 19.

You have a nineteen-year-ld daughter?!
:eep:

Feeling old all of a sudden. I just realised that I'm old enough to have one, too. Eep...

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Wyrm, where is the contradiction in those arms and the color-on-color rule? I see none. "The Arms of Passau in Bavaria show a red wolf rampant on a white shield." -- Red on white. "the family of von Wolfersdorf used a black wolf rampant on a yellow shield." -- black on yellow. "the Counts von Brande...

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i smell troll. no butted mail ever found as far as i know. i hope this is a troll and not someone actually thinking this.

For the record, Japanese mail is butted.

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i smell troll. no butted mail ever found as far as i know. i hope this is a troll and not someone actually thinking this.

For the record, Japanese mail is butted.

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Kass: Gotta tell ya... I came >thisclose< to sending a "what the hell are you talking about?!" message to her on the list. Then I decided I didn't need the headache of being accused of being stuffy and so forth. I have enough trouble with that rep in other circles (notably some of the Japanese forum...

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Simon: Bingo. [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

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Ah, spiff. Thanks!

I'm kinda thinking of one of the sugarloafs. Can't decide which way to go. [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

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14th C. what? That would make a difference. [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

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Ian, thickness depends on what you plan to wear with it. I usually use only one (at most two) layers of cotton batting for the arms (any more and I find it binding under armour), and three or four in the body, with one or two more layers in key points (ribs, shoulders, hips). Of course, I don't gene...

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DeCalmont, which helm did you end up getting?

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But Kass history isn't about facts alone but the interpretation of those facts. Either alone is pretty useless or at least very much less useful than when they are coupled together. True, but interpretation of those facts really needs to be done based on ...

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[quote]I believe that's what I just said above, Effingham [/qoute] Well, not quite. You said "a klappvisier refers to a specific kind of visor that was small, of a fairly shallow form and mounted centrally to the brow. There is no such thing as a side mounted kalppvisier, although some do extned the...

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What exactly are you trying to find?

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Man, I hate it when something I ate gives me those dreaded mail shits...

Obviously the occupants of Wisby got a lot of iron in their diets.

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That soft "plop" you hear is the sound of good advice being dropped on the floor and ignored.

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Interesting.

I was always under the impression that a "klappvisor" referred to bascinet visors with a central hinge rather than the side pieces. (Granted that all the klapps I've seen were round-faced, but...)

Doh.

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Why it came about is something I would really like to know though.

Because points take too long to undo and sheep are wise to the sound of a zipper...

[img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

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That would be the Barony of Skraeling Althing

Is it a good place to live?

I know about Alexandria, but know not the local group...

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My goal is to be able to dress according to taste. You know: "Let's see, today I feel late 14th century transitional... German, I think." Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm aiming at. [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif[/img] How's life in D...

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Avoid polyester entirely. Authenticity aside it is horridly hot.

Oh, hell yeah.

I once had a gambeson made of two layers of trigger (65% polyester, 35% cotton) with polyester batting inside.

Yeah, I know. stupid.

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I would if I could, but I've never played with tow, either.

I just figure that when writers spoke of "stuffed" they meant stuffed, as it was clear that when they say "layered" they mean layered and thus quilted.

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I have a little teeny drill press that's about the size of a shoebox. Check Sears and see about those. They're great for apartment dwellers like us. As for hexagons; well, I use plastic kikko (since I am concerned about issues of rusting), but have also made kikko using steel. All I did was get the ...