The Armour Archive

Sextus Maximus

How much for both swords??

Sextus Maximus

What a weapon....

Take plastic?? LOL

Sextus Maximus

I have the shirt and after almost 2 years of a lot of use, I have a few worn spots in the arm pits and some of the padding is detaching from the shirt. Still great stuff... Word of advice, hand wash it and hang it to dry, the dryer seems to wear out the glue or attachement of the padding to the shir...

Sextus Maximus

Thanks, I might just do that.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I am inquiring into having some boots made for SCA Heavy fighting. I am looking for a Late Roman look, and yet have them sturdy enough for the rigors of fighting. I have some Catskill Boots, however after years of fighting, the toe has worn through and the tread is falling apart. I have looked into ...

Sextus Maximus

After spending many hours on my scale shirt, I can say that it is labor intensive and pretty heavy as well. There are a number of materials needed to make a scale as compared say a chain shirt. This is what I have figured on a practical sense while making my scale shirt which I still need two more r...

Sextus Maximus

Divorce your wife and find someone who will honestly love the things you do and be there when you honor her. Sorry, a bit jaded nowadays since my wife after 7 years of marriage never saw me fight once or even tried to go with me to an event. There was always an excuse and used the kids especially fo...

Sextus Maximus

I LOVE YOU MAN!!!

Are there any depections of late armor say 3rd-5th century AD helms and so forth??

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I truly pray that one day I can have a momment like that with my son.. Those are the momments that make life worth living.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

Not to say life has its difficulties, but I still go tot fighter practice even though I have no job, very litttle money and my wife is filled for divorce and evicting me out of the house. I still go out and fight evne if it is once a week and nothing else. It keeps me sane in a insane situation I am...

Sextus Maximus

"I only feel comfortable having my picture taken when I am in full armour."

I wholeheartedly agree with that. To me, I only look right or my true self when I am wearing armor so I like it when I get pics in armor. Go figure...

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

Vitus, I am the same way as well. For some odd reason I dont like getting pictures taken of me as well... I do it when it is necessary, or I have no choice.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

Why do you fight? There are many reasons why I fight the main one is when I put my armor on that I have researched, swet, and bled all over for, I become my true self. We all wear different faces in different places like at work, with family and so on. When I fight, I can be truly myself, and for me...

Sextus Maximus

I sincerely wish I had some money to put done on that helm. That is very fine one indeed and I like the complete look.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I saw it last night and I throughly enjoyed even more than the first one. They even actually use shields the right way in this movie. Go see it, you wont be disappointed or at least I wasn't.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

For the past six months or so I have working on Manica for SCA use. One of my first problems I used to wide of bands and it just did not look right. I am using .032 spring steel which will make the Manica more closer to how they were since they were made out of pretty thin metal. I am still working ...

Sextus Maximus

I made my Bazubands by following House of the Wolf's tutorial. I shaped the while wet. I used rabbit glue and baked them for a period of six hours and brushing on the glue on them every 15 minutes or so. I have sheep skin for the padding and I have no bruises or isuues at all. I was slammed several ...

Sextus Maximus

That looks great and an armor that is not done nearly as much as it should be. The only issue I have is the butted maille, but it seems you are on the right track in replacing it to riveted.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I bet that looks like the real thing from ten feet away....

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

That is absolutely stunning. They did a great job, though a tad bit pricey.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I started out in Tae Kwon Do around 81 and my Master was from Seol Korea. His english was not so good an he was taught in the traditional way so it was not easy. I actually hated going to class when I started out at age 7. I was hyper and out of control kind of kid. I think I would of been one the r...

Sextus Maximus

Have you looked into Lamellar or Scale armor even? Russians if I am not mistaken used a lot of Lamellae and Scale during that time. It is great stuff with great protection and flexibility which for me is very important. If you can make armor that is protective and portray your persona, I say that is...

Sextus Maximus

We are the same height and weight. I am blessed I have great lungs and I dont smoke. One of the things I realized when I was fighting was I would hold my breath and by the time I started breathing, my body was trying to catch up oxygen wise making me be out of breath before the fight was even over. ...

Sextus Maximus

That is the issue I had when I first attempted to make Manica is that my bands were to wide. This time around I making mine out of 410, .032 thickness, and 1.25 inch wide bands. I am going to use a standard low profile elbow cop out of spring just to appease the marshals. I haven't decided to add mo...

Sextus Maximus

My tombstone lamellar is overlapped downards to make it look like scale armor and I have never had any tip shot catch in any way.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I Know Sir Brand has made helms like this in the past. I have no clue he does it anymore.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I was happy to see me a few times. I really appreciate. Since I was either fighting or taking pictures myself, it is great to see me to make sure it was not a dream since I had a blast. m This is me at the squire tourney. m This is me at the field battle, I am the one with the oval shield, fith one ...

Sextus Maximus

This is why I feel that all fighters should take a class on armor maintenance and appreciation of what they wear. I am glad people buy stainless for the lesser upkeep, but like anything you have to inspect and make sure your armor is up to keeping you safe. I really think there are alot of fighters ...

Sextus Maximus

I can't wait to see his Roman boots line. I just might have to get me a pair

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

I am just waiting for Age of Conan....

http://community.ageofconan.com/wsp/con ... plate=main

Sextus Maximus

Sounds like you did your homework and have the correct Ti to make what your wanting. Honestly, out of all the parts of armor my helm is one of the things I like to have some weight to it. Just a personal preferance since having weight in my opinion helps prevent getting hurt. My old Mild steel Roman...

Sextus Maximus

I am sooo jealous.... I cant wait to see the pics especialy anything Roman.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

Titainium can be very tough, but also very brittle. Sometimes it is a good thing that the metal on a helm either has some give or flexibility to it. I would be wary using titainum as a bargrill and its not easy to shape and weld together. Just make sure after you make the grill you put it through so...

Sextus Maximus

I even had a brief glimpse of me being pummeld to the ground after a charge

That is so cool, can't wait to see more.

Aedinius

Sextus Maximus

My knight Sir Gaston has a wood lathe that I think it would work in making the bits for the sword and making a bronze or brass plate for the top part. I am just wondering what would be the best type of wood that would be able to stand up to combat and also look good?

Squire Aedinius

Gladii Swords

Looking for a new boots