The Armour Archive

Hew

Not a mask. It's the Terminator after a severe beating.
(He'll be back.)

Hew

... as do pegasusesuesuuesseii. ... Ummm... Pegasi? Pegasim? Pegases? I don't think there would be a plural of Pegasus because it's a proper noun - the name of the winged horse that sprang from drops of Medusa's blood after Perseus slew her. It would be like forming the plural of "Zeus" or "Chiron"...

Hew

It might possibly even be just a costume for a masqued ball or something, which wouldn't have to be made of metal.

Just speculating.

Hew

Slightly OT, but now I remember where I've seen that guy before: http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/hats/hatpix/urbino_right.jpg "Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino" (right half of a double portrait), painted 1465-66 by Piero della Francesca. I've got this plan to reproduce the hat.

Hew

Aw, shame on you Hal, for using "Art Deco" in the title. That rocket is way too late ('40s? '50s?) for Art Deco ('20-'30s).

Just a pet peeve of mine.

Hew

If you look at the front, there's a sign hanging from his neck that says "Kiss me, I'm a cloved orange!"

(explanation for the uninitiated: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/52 ... Fruit.html )

Hew

Just for variety, instead of a wood toggle, try a one-piece rolled leather toggle. See the bottom of m I think there is mistake in the directions though. Where it says: "Roll it up tightly from End A until you get to Slit 1 then take End B and push it through Slit I and then Slit 11 and gently pull ...

Hew

Eric - I have just been looking at your web site, and there are some amazing designs there!
I particularly am fascinated by "Helmet 22" - http://www.armurerieduduche.com/Site%20 ... sque22.htm
and "Helmet 26" - http://www.armurerieduduche.com/Site%20 ... t%2026.htm

I love the miscellaneous photos at http://www.armurerieduduche.com/Site%20 ... %20A-2.htm too.

Hew

Hmmm... I bet a Mac Bible helm would look great with a powder coating.

As for multi-colour, I suppose you could cut and shape pieces for a spangenhelm, and have them painted before final assembly.

Hew

Vukodlak wrote:This is about all an explaination i can give.
http://www.tuchux.com

I don't have much like making that site work (except for the music).
This place - http://www.pbase.com/darter02/pennsic32 - has a couple of photos with Tuchux in them.

Hew

As long as there have been men with weapons on boats there have been pirates. We prefer the term "Pre-emptive Marine Salvage Operators". Piracy, however is strictly frowned upon as unchivalrous and it thereby outright against the rules of the SCA so stick to privateering if anyone questions you. Ye...

Hew

Thomas Powers wrote:Hew;
my answer is: Yes.

Theanx a lot.

Hew

i can't believe you said that man! " No plastic is not cool, but it allows new people to get into fighting fast, instead of waiting several years and spending large amounts of money..." THATS STILL NOT TRUE!!! It does not take years or loads of cash to get a decent rig!!!! Yes it is true. Metal arm...

Hew

Try these yet?
http://www.st-max.org/todesengel_woodcuts.htm

http://www.landsknecht.com/html/armoury.html

http://www.landsknecht.com/html/art_gallery.html

Hew

Brass Canoe tacks? It's not clear what the shank diameter would be. m Maybe looking through boat-building hardware will help, but I'm pretty sure I've seen small decorative brass finish nails in hardware stores and places that sell stuff for small woodworking projects like birdhouses, knick-knack sh...

Hew

A friend of mine tells me of his auth bout against someone (in Antir) who was using a rawhide-wrapped rattan sword which was "grandfathered" in from old rules.

Possibly siloflex/rattan weapons would also be grandfathered in?

Hew

Lord Perceval Gower Esq. (left) vs. Lord Thorgar (right) both of Ironwolf Northpack, in a pickup fight. http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/smallbrawl_2004/DCP03753_bg.jpg Not sure who the legged fighter is (Lord Siegfried from Ynys y Gwaed?), but he held out for quite a while with (I think) axe and...

Hew

Semi-OT, but here goes anyway...

How do you pronounce "seax"?
"See-Axe"?
"Seeks"?
"Sakes"?
"Sax"?
"Sex"? (rhymes with the "lead", the metal)

Hew

Way too late (16th C.) to be of any use, but maybe of interest to somebody anyway: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/ ... eland.html
"Like a strip cartoon, the plates tell the story of the subjugation of the Irish rebels by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord-Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth of England ..."

Hew

m has a chart of blade types allowed in each Kingdom. Our household (in the East Kingdom) gets weapons mostly from Triplette (TCA), and we've had good luck with them, although it's not always easy to determine (from the catalog) which weapon parts go well with others. For some grip/pommel/gaurd/quil...

Hew

I would also be interested in making a metal one. I've found references to shields made out of a whopping (big boss 12" wide or so) with the rest of the width made out of segmented, overlapped metal pieces. How about a pizza-sized satellite dish? It's actually parabolic instead of a spherical secti...

Hew

Is this for a combat helm? How much abuse could you expect a powder coating to take?

Hew

From the Society "Marshal's Handbook":
[quote]2. Eye Wear
The lens of all eyewear shall be shatterproof industrial safety glass or plastic. Ordinary glass lenses are prohibited. The wearing of contact lenses or Ã¢â‚¬Å“sports glassesÃ¢â‚¬Â

Hew

How about this: "Creating a Russet Finish"?
http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/russeting.shtml
I've seen a sample piece done this way and it looks like a rusty brown. It uses chlorine bleach.

Hew

Really, I set my history glasses aside when watching a movie, put my Hollywood glasses on, nachos to the left, a cool beverage to the right, and enjoy it for what it is...entertainment with a tiny pich of what I am interested in, sprinkled in here and there. Exactly. Two things "The Messenger" did ...

Hew

In Jant ArnoldÃ‚Â´s "Patterns of Fashion" there is a late 16th century hat that apes the shape of a morion. I am not sure whether its base construction was made of leather (I doubt it, I think it was linen canvas), but it was covered in heavily embroidered velvet. I'm pretty sure that was felt, not...

Hew

I got spoiled buying TRL's stuff, but my wife is bemoning the costs when I have a couple of wire spools in the garage that don't cost a thing other than my labor to use as chain maille. I would like to cut 30 lbs of 16 ga. rings in 5/16" id for a costume lorica hamata in galvy steel. If it's only f...

Hew

In this picture of Ajax and Ulysses with Agamemnon, from the Troy Book c. 1455-1462, there are what I think are wooden guard towers in the very back. I am interested in these because I am designing a new front gate for my camp and I think guard towers would be kinda neat. They would be more invitin...

Hew

...if you are gonna call it reinacting do a better job at trying. I personally don't call it that, so it gets a lot easier. Arn't opinions great Yeah.... just like snowflakes. Lots of them around, and no two the same. Timothy_D_Finkas - Do you know where that image is from? (Title, Artist if known....

Hew

spanish_hospitaller - looks pretty nice, authentic or not.
Plus it's given me a few more ideas for what I'm calling a "Varangianoid" helm with a ventail.

Hew

A plausible "period fantasy armour" would have to have only features that the Medieval viewer would know the antecedents (or the references for), that made it cool. Sallets were period (at one time) and they would recognise a lion and what it symbolised, hence a lion's head sallet. They knew about f...

Hew

Whenever I see auctions like that, I privately mail the seller and fish a little...to see if they really dont have a clue, or if they just dont give a shit and wanna make a fast buck. 9 out of 10 times, its the latter, and then I just go into rant mode and inform them that I feel their business pra...

Hew

Uh... don't the points on the upper/outside part of the breastplate dig into your shoulders when you hold your arms up in front of you?

Hew

Yoshida wrote:I made a Zunari for Sir Marc D'Aubinea (sp?) hopefully the links work.

There's a link?

Yoshida wrote:I have more pics but they're too large to attach on the board...

Scale them down in Photoshop or Irfanview (freeware - http://www.irfanview.com/ ) or something.

Hew

Outside of Ugo and the folks at WETA (LOTRs) I have never seen fantasy armor I like as much... The one thing that bothered me about the LOTR armour was the spaudlers on the Gondorian armour - sorta clunky and with a crease that made it look like they were welded. But, as they point out in the DVD A...

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