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Hew

I mostly use an old Black & Decker jig saw (that I already had when I started) with fairly fine-toothed hack saw blades. Slow and noisy, but I can cut fairly tight turns with it. Aviation snips are okay for trimming short bits and corners, especially 16 gauge mild and thinner. I've used a borrowed e...

Hew

Only because line drawings tend to lose definition when converted to jpeg. If you can maintain the quality, go right ahead! The best choice for line drawings (with a limited range of colours, like Autocad screenshots, or scans of pencil drawings) is GIF format, because then you don't get compressio...

Hew

Man exits plane for his first solo parachute jump. After a while in free-fall it's time to pull the ripcord. He does, and nothing happens. No problem, I've got the spare chute. He pulls the spare ripcord, it comes out, but it's all tangled and doesn't open properly. Oh crap, he thinks, what am I goi...

Hew

There is a company/group of farms in Scotland that are actively breading the Mesolithic cows back in to existence, one can see them in the movie brave heart, cant remember what the darned moo machines are called though. Uh... Aurochs? Aurochs (wild ox) Bos taurus primigenius 9 th - 10 th century ? ...

Hew

How about warming up the non-film side with a heat gun or hair dryer? It might soften the side of the plastic closest to the plate without melting the plastic. I never had to do this for the protective film, so I have no idea if it will work for your situation. It usually works for getting price sti...

Hew

Maybe the Chinese reintroduced bows to North America. Wasn't there evidence of Pre-Columbian visits by Chinese ships along California somewhere?

Buran wrote:Korg, Buran like sling! Sling good, sling throw stone.
http://slinging.org/

Hew like staffsling. Sling stun deer. Staff kill deer. Korg and Bok carry deer on staff?

Hew

It would seem to be small enough for a person to move or operate it with one hand, since the guys hanging on to them are holding bucklers in their other hands. Unless maybe there's the other guy with a hand on the wheel rim and yet another (wearing yellow, in the closeup view) with a hand on the bac...

Hew

Don't bother removing it. Open up the drier and snip the wires to the heating element. Do so in such a way that you don't have any wire ends flopping around inside. The cost to run the element is pretty negligable. Uh... I think it would be pretty significant, compared to just the motor itself. Bes...

Hew

carrot wrote:Why not just make plastic/leather/metal clamshell gaunts and cover them up with real mail?

Covering stuff up seems to be what SCA fighting kits is all about

How about this: Cover them with white fabric that looks like bandages, and add a few artistically placed "blood stains".

Hew

While "Amazing Grace" (one tune no piper should be out in public without, as he'll need it -- the other is "Scotland the Brave") is popular at funerals and can bring tears, a properly done Flowers of the Forest can make the listener tear his heart out of his chest with his fingernails for grief. "F...

Hew

Just wondering - was there a tradition of laying in a gold coin before you step the mast for Viking longships?

Hew

I made my original poulaines made from cloth-backed vinyl. I used the sock method, [snip] I put a heavy paper triangle on my toes for the shape. Don't forget to add in for seam allowances though. You also have to make areas for anywhere it will overlap. Maybe I'll make a how-to with pictures someti...

Hew

Nice rendering too. The additions (or what I'm guessing are additions) are fairly seamless.

Regarding Trajan's Column - is one of these the spangenhelm you refer to?
http://www.stoa.org/trajan/images/hi/5.40.h.jpg

(main page at http://www.stoa.org/trajan/ , some indices at http://www.stoa.org/trajan/indices.html)

Hew

And of course a common hat is the floppy tube hat, not the chaperon but a simple tube rolled with the rest a flop, Italians and Flems, very easy to make, very cheap and oh so floppy, even Durer has one of a sort in a very early 16th century self-portrait. Some seem to be open ended some stitched up...

Hew

I'm in the middle of collecting period images of headwear. It's still really rough and mostly for men's headwear, but I have a few links to women's headwear too, starting at m . For some of them it's difficult to distinguish between stuff braided into the hair and pieces that are pinned to the outsi...

Hew

I like the way the visor continues the curve of the forehead, like a eggshell. Is that typical? Don't they usually dish out more just below the eyes and then back in again?

Hew

Psssst! ... Orazio: Don't forget to ask for bottom views that show strapping and such.

Hew

All of my fencing helms are designed to be worn over modern fencing masks, this minimizes the visibility of modern sports equipment, and maximizes the safety of the helm. Triplette - m - has something interesting in the Miscellaneous section of their SCA/Theatrical catalog. direct link to frame: m ...

Hew

So, it is becoming more apparent to me that any move towards historical authenticity within the SCA has got to be a personal goal only for the person who desires it and is enriched by it. The more I think about it, the more I realize how inappropriate it might be to examine another's efforts toward...

Hew

You should see how these beasties are armoured ON THE INSIDE!!! Makes a heart or lung shot EXTREMELY difficult. That rib cage looks like FORT KNOX! Maybe Korg not use knife-on-stick to kill mammoth. Maybe Korg, Bok, Tane and Tor trick mammoth, make mammoth run over cliff, like buffalo? ...Eskimo ar...

Hew

Have you registered this device? http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/images/avatars/756003284423f4f49ea62c.gif If so, then don't mess with the additional charges, which might make it conflict with somebody else's arms. I'd say go with the quarterly paint job and be done with it. Besides, it'll be...

Hew

I can only say I'd like to have started SCA fighting a bit earlier in life. Starting at age 40 when you are not a dyed-in-the-wool athletic stud type is a bit tough. It's only tough if you forget it's just a game and believe that you have to win (or even make a good showing) at all costs. Me, a cou...

Hew

All the evidence for Viking age shields says they used centre grip shields like the ones shown here... No way, man. I have incontrovertible archaelogical evidence that says otherwise: [img]http://www.armorall.com/images/home/nav_logo_top.jpg[/img] And you can tell he's a Viking by the horns on his ...

Hew

Oh dear. It looks like I've arrived late. 9 Pages already. Hmmm... Anachronisms I find jarring? (Viewpoint is SCAdian) White running shoes with or without bright streaks of colour. Usually on the feet of children of people who should know better. That being said, my favourite camp (and Rapier Combat...

Hew

Thomas James Hayman wrote:... arent we daddys boy. being allowed to work in the biscuit tin.

Hew

Thomas James Hayman wrote:wow, i err, hate you my shop is a cupboard in comparison.

<yorkshire_accent>Luxury! When I were an apprentice we used to dream of working in a cupboard. Nine of us were crammed into a biscuit tin.</yorkshire_accent>

Hew

I rather like the general shape of Jurgen's version. (Yoink ... saved it to my hard drive.) I'd just change the details, like the ends of the brass trim pieces, make the shape of the breaths oblong, and reinforce behind the nasal (which he mentions in the instructions). For something like that helm ...

Hew

Hmmmm... armour porn chopper. Call it the "Mad Maxmillian".
I could just see a big ol' sallet mounted on the front with a quartz-halogen lamp behind the eye slot, like a Cylon going critical. Maybe a nice chaffron down the front forks, with turn signals behind the oculars. It could work.

Hew

Cat wrote:Ok, this is gonna sound real stupid, but keep in mind that I am blonde.

I've been told "Blonde is not a colour, it's a state of mind."

Hew

Some interesting stuff at that site. - "Frying pan excellent for pencakes or to defend your campsite".

Hew

Ashfield wrote:Nah i didnt planish them,
The thing is that I just received my dishing forms and tryed them out.
[snip]
Since the form is good, planishing would only scratch it, ...

Sorry, I meant "did you planish the helm parts?" - not the dishing forms.

Hew

Since someone has already brought it up, I guess it wouldn't be thread hijacking to ask this. I'm assuming we're talking about this pattern - m In this page of the pattern: http://www.armourarchive.org/patterns/elbow_ab/thumbnails/ElbowArt001.gif Is the lame drawn in the upper half drawn upside down...

Hew

I saw at the supermarket alot of bit for the drill and for other tool maybe, some of them look like plastic wire 1 inch long attached in circle all over the bit looking alike a sun, i dont know cause I didnt experiment it but maybe it would work , ... That sounds something like one of these: [img]h...

Hew

Effingham wrote:
You haven't met our Shire's Herald - Rick.

bad puns

I didn't make that up either.
http://lyndhaven.org/officers.htm - "Pursuivant : Master Aetheric Lindberende" (mundane given name is Rick)

Hew

I was going to say it was the head of an enfield - m - http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/Enfield.gif A hybrid animal, with the head of a fox, chest of a greyhound, talons of an eagle, body of a lion, and the hind legs and tail of a wolf. Also: http://www.heraldicclipart.com/catalog/Enfield2.GIF So,...

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