The Armour Archive

Maeryk

no dice.. no FTP permissions. Can you throw it on a free web acct and just link to it or something?

Maeryk

Remember.. "weights" could be a pile of rocks.. I know someone who does warp weighted weaving at events simply by scrounging rocks, then puts em back when shes done. So, while some of them _were_ very pretty stones with holes in em, some of em were probably just rocks. Or they could have been turned...

Maeryk

I meant below the knee.. they are rolled down to far for him to be wearing garters under them.. unless he can somehow wear his garters at mid-calf.

Maeryk

Maeryk

am I completely off base, or does 13th C man there need some garters?

Maeryk

Maeryk

I'm not sure what you mean by "beret".

Do you mean the small (well, by LK standards) hat with the tucked rolls around it? (basically helmet padding in a hat) or the big honkin flat hat, or the starfish hat?

Maeryk

Maeryk

No, they did exactly what they are there to do. Impressive, pretty unit tactics that hit like a truck and move like a freight train.

Maeryk

Maeryk

on the topic of the gambezon, (because my wife is about to be making one) how fitted is it at the waist for you?

Maeryk

Maeryk

Hey.. if my household was granted an Alce en-masse, does that count?

Maeryk

Maeryk

the start of mine is in the "my new suit" thread...

Maeryk

It wasnt one of your guys who lost his faceplate on the field was it? or who lost his shoe? hehe. I was watching the fighting.. (Saw you running around too.. it _looked_ like you were trying to get a line on Duke Gregor.. but I could have been wrong), and it _did_ look very clean and jovial. Maeryk

Maeryk

spotted pony traders usually has them at pennsic. sykes sutlering may have them as well. http://www.spottedponytraders.com/ http://sykesutler.home.att.net/clothes.htm I have dealt with both merchants, and both were (IMO) very happy to answer questions over the phone, and service was excellent. Maeryk

Maeryk

Welp, I got the suit. It is _definately_ a late 15th WHite harness.. sallet, 2 piece breastplate with sliders and buckle on the middle, and fauld.. fluted tassets, legs, and arms with case vambraces. It's pretty. (well, to the proud poppa, anyway)..a nd found another guy selling bevoirs so I picked ...

Maeryk

sizing, sizing sizing. Thats trick number one. ARe you double jointed? (and no folks, I dont care if it's a myth or not..). If so, the thumb articulation may not work on "standard" gauntlets for you. I have had to reverse the rivets on some.. at the thumb knuckle, because virtually ever guantlet I h...

Maeryk

I have taken a number of shots that the other guy said were "light".. like to the bargrille.. or that he got somewhere he never should have been able to hit. To me, its that he _did_ hit me there, and he hit me there hard enough to convince me if he could do it once, he could do it again. I have no ...

Maeryk

Dont mean to be a wet blanket, but I _really_ hope someone asked permission of the Brothers Chaps before using Homestar this way.

Great idea tho!

(Its just that they provide the site free.. they dont even run ads.. so I'd feel bad using their characters without permission.. see..)

Maeryk

Maeryk

It sounds like, from the description of your armour, that going with a 15th century persona will fit better. Gothic armour is only good up to around 1515 for the Landsknechts. If you have A&AMK there is a picture of a woodcut by Durer that shows Landsknect soldiers wearing Gothic armour and I think...

Maeryk

yOu going to have any gauntlets with you? Or do you not carry them still?

Maeryk

Maeryk

yeah, I know. No leg armour. I dont find the long tassets terribly practical in SCA combat though.. too restrictive of movement. Maybe I'll just have to make a waffenrock with a long skirt and cover them.. but I _really_ hate to do that. Its a set of high flute legs and arms from ICe, his gothic pau...

Maeryk

Pretty much looks like a wok.. I can see where you would cook int it in a pinch.

(I could see steaming with the woven hats too!)

Maeryk

Maeryk

Jingasa?

(And did they really cook in them? I had heard that rumor.. but not sure the veracity of it.. I had also heard the armor was made of bamboo, and other than the Tatami mat thighs.. thats obviously not the case)

Maeryk

Maeryk

I hope to do better next time. This helmet is 20 years old. I have the plates cut out for 2 new 16 plate helmets, but have put refurbished armour and new gauntlets higher in the queue. It once had nice tehen (rice warmer hole?) furniture which was beaten off long ago. Yes, Mo always jokes that the ...

Maeryk

That is amazingly nice! I have _always_ loved the japanese face helms.. they are true works of art..

Does yours have the rice-steamer hole in the top too?

Maeryk

Edited to add: Kabuto and Menpo.. I knew that.. was just having a mental block.

Maeryk

Who made that helm, Ron? My friend (Mokurai No Matsuyami (I think) has one made by Kuji of the Mid..

Maeryk

Maeryk

The way I'm reading it, mass weapons are one-handed. - and in Atlantia, a polearm is any padded weapon greater than 30" in length. Unfortunately, it can only have 4 striking surfaces. I wonder if I can make it with 8, but only mark 4 - or would that be bending the rules too much? Make it with four,...

Maeryk

Do you know what I mean as the "crossover doublet"? THe leather one, with the leather leg flaps that ran down to the knees? I realize the leg armour wasnt common.. the loooooong tassets were on the somewhat later suits.. (I have seen the beginnings of those in 1550 art).. but yes, this is for SCA co...

Maeryk

You can work up you heat tolerances quite a bit; but it needs to be on a regular and on-going basis "bursts" of overheating will not be a good thing! Used to work on the floor of a welding/sheet metal shop that made(and tested) industrial gas char-broilers. The doors were open, we were surrounded b...

Maeryk

Friend of mine does Japanese. he has a naga-nata, a greatsword, a bastard sword, and some sort of spiked clubby thing I would call a big mace.. they are all documentable, and he fights exclusively with gauntlets and tsubas on everything.

Maeryk

Maeryk

Anybody point me to some? I got some nifty new armor from Ice.. (or will this weekend) and need to build an arming coat to go under it. I'm thinking the landsknecht crossover-doublet style, so I can point the legs to the leg bits, etc.. but I need some pictures/drawings/whathaveyou to get an idea of...

Maeryk

THats how I was told by my Dad it was done years ago. (He was a farrier.. where he got the info, I'll never know..) but he said you put em in a barrel with sand and vinegar and have someone push them around the courtyard for a while.

FWIW

maeryk

Maeryk

There is a NOTABLE exception. Any time someone wanders around the field not showing aggression and thus lulling people into letting them pass. perhaps on the assumption that they are dead or otherwise out of combat when they are not is a loser. I immediately lose respect for anyone that I have to a...

Maeryk

I usually go off my knee.. but that can be tough, since I have always had steel "archers"(?) knees wiht upper and lower plates.. and at times it can be tough to tell where it actually landed. I will usually let the thrower tell me if it was good or not. (Although, if I simply do NOT feel the shot bu...

Maeryk

have YOU ever tried to hang onto a fish?

Its not as easy as it looks!

Maeryk

Maeryk

that belt is also illustrated, in white, hanging over the head of a Knight in a knigting ceremony. but I'll be damned if I can remember hte picture. Yes, the ring belts we wear on the SCA bear a more than passing resemblance to the girth strap on a saddle. *Grin* Bout an inch or less wide is fairly ...

Maeryk

to answer your question of reknown, the man that can only best me by sneaking up behind me and placing his sword in front of my grille has earned no reknown. the man that is allowed to do that and chooses not to is merely playing the game the way its spirit indicates it should be played. the fight ...

Maeryk

The other side of the equation is that a taller man.. (like the 6'8 example above) has a buttload more targetable area than a 5'9 guy does. Theres a lot more leg, that is often more open.. shields being what they are, and there being a practical limit.. I dont necessarily think height is an amazing ...

ca. 1530 German Armour pictures?