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Greenshield wrote:They can also be found in the cloister and Cathedral of Monreale close to Palermo. It dates from 1175.

Here is mine:

Oh, holy crap, that is beautiful. I love the green face. Damn.

DROOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!

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Varukh, I have to (strike that: "get to") second what Gerhard said.

I'm muchly impressed. You seem to really get it, and you're doing a bang-up job. I'm looking forward to meeting you someday.

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Those puppies really turned out well.

Damn. Very nice!

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No, it would conflict. Differently colored bellies don't mean much difference, really.

Some might suggest that there is insufficient contrast between the field and the primary charge, but the chevron *technically* would get you out of the color-on-color rule.

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Wouldn't that be "vert"?

IIRC, "Proper" with dragons is gold tummy and green everything else. Of course, I could well be misremembering that one.

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IvanIS wrote:Kevin Peregrynne AS IX. I found this, it's why we wear elbow cops on our shield arm. Being hit on the shield arm forearm w/o any protection sucks.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the caption mentions a missing RIGHT cop. His shield is for his left arm....

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VERY sexy!

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You need an avatar now. >cough<

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What Wilhelm said.

FFFFFFfffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....

Gaston, you never cease to amaze me.

I'll bet fighting on the knees wouldn't be too comfy, but as a great knight once said, "Our illustrious chivalric ancestors did not squat like frogs."

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Baron Conal wrote:bunch of PM's sent today....

if you were expecting to get an answer and did not
let me know

>sniff<

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To show off their wealth. With a cote on who knows what is under there, without it you can see how fancy the armour of the owner is. Funerary effigies are all about "HEY LOOK AT ME I WAS AWESOME!" Life was about reputation and it had to live on after you croaked. Some effigies were painte...

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Without looking it up, I'd think it would be around or shortly after Gustavus Adolphus. Even up to that time, the idea of a nobleman wearing a uniform (IIRC) was somewhat touchy. Vestiges of *indications* of rank (sashes indicating officers, for example survived into the 19th and early 20th centurie...

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Interesting little bit of thread necromancy.

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That's a bit over-the-topish on the Mongol champion. For the record, before the battle began, there was an agreed challenge between two champions to make a pass with a lance. St. Aleksandr Peresvet was the Russian, and Chelubej (Temir-Murza) was the Tatar champion. They charged each other, and both ...

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Thought this might be of interest to people . It's a high-res art site of the historical paintings of Pavel Ryzhenko and others. I found it while searching for Ryzhenko's painting(s) of St. Aleksandr Peresvet, the warrior-monk who fought and died at Kulikovo in 1380 against the Tatars. Here's the i...

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Not so much. Just trying to find out who I need to talk to about their 'prentoids.

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Lovely. Positively lovely.

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THis thread is phenomenally full of win.

You guys do some spectacular stuff.

Any of you folks apprenticized to Laurels in your area?

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Sadly, Clemens is very out of fashion, to the point of it being fashionable to dislike him nowadays. Utter barbarity. Is this the same people who find their music is better if sung while wearing a carcass? This makes me all kinds of sad. Probably, yeah. The *really* sad thing is people who don't re...

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You really want to get Explicatio Formarum Litterarum, a sort of intro to paleography. It breaks down the decades and regions of Europe and shows what forms of handwriting were common where and when.

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They're pretty comfortable. The "notch" in the arms fall right where your elbows are, so they rest in the notches. Ow... that actually sounds painful to me. So the end of the notch must "dig in" in front of the elbow, and you can't extend and rest your arms. But I'm kinda intere...

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I've never sat in one of those things, and I've often wondered:

How comfy are those arms? They have always seemed to me to be... well, uncomfortable.

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And his stuff looks like real armour, too.

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deflagratio wrote:But if the wife is a Buffy fan she may be into that.

That scene does stay with ya.

But... dammit. SPIKE. Sigh.

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I'm very happy.

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Ditto - I had the same problem with an early pair of the Landsknecht shoes - top strap cut too short to actually close (and the shoe was at least a full size smaller than what was printed on the bottom). Have these Westland strapping/sizing issues been addressed? That's actually an interesting poin...

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raito wrote:There's 2 ways to deal with it -- either scale the armour up so that if they were of 'correct' height the proportions would be correct,

I have to scale mine OUT.

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brewer wrote:]My luck I'd schedule you to come in the middle of Christmas dinner.

Hmmmm.....

(Actually, not likely, so you're safe -- that would mean driving across mountainy things in winter, where there may be Snow and Weather, and I'm a wuss.)

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I refuse to be bullied by your attitude.

Sorry the rules bother you.

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I'd be all over 'em, but... well, I need to actually try one on. I've bought shoes online before, only to find that the clasp thingie was too short to go over my chunky foot and latch. (I'm thinking specifically about some Lendsknecht shoes I ordered a while back.) Even though the shoe fit, I could ...

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I'm sorry, but this pisses me off on all sorts of levels. From the SCA governing docs: II. B. Requirements for Participants at Society events Anyone may attend Society events provided he or she wears an attempt at pre-17th century clothing, conforms to the provisions in Corpora, and complies with an...

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Them's perty shoos.

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Has anyone made...a topic title that actually addressed the issue wanting discussion? LOL! My favorite thread titles (in almost every forum on teh intarwebs, you see the same titles): "Why is it that...?" "Who was it who said...?" "Do you know...?" Sigh.

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just looks sad and tired somehow. I want to hug him and tell him "it's okay, now." Aww, thanks, Eff! Yeah, from that angle, the bars in the oculars do look droopy and downcast. I just figured it was a hot day. Nissan doesn't even look like he's wearing face protection! He's not. It's a ba...

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I remember about 20-mumble years ago in Trimaris -- after a hot, summertime coronet tourney, walking back to camp, Duke Merowald walked over to the pool's edge (we were at a camp ground) and just... stepped off. He walked across the bottom of the pool (well, lurched, really) and climbed out the shal...

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