The Armour Archive

Wulfgar

Cool, how were they made, cast I assume?

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My coat is pretty much small rectangular Al plates, my plates do not overlap. I'm a big guy and mine weighs in at 5kg. I would say that if you were going to overlap the plated you wouldn't want anything more than 2mm Al

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Question for you. When you guys say that arrows are nuclear you mean that they kill without being as hard as a heavy blow? or do you mean that if your hit with an arrow anywhere your dead?

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You can also try a rawhide faced hammer in to a wooden block. If it works for you it can cut down noise a lot.

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Anyone heard anything back? I'm heading away for a month in a week and would like to get this sorted before I go if possible

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Very sexy, I like it alot

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Passing, we're really different body shapes.

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Alternatively you could do what we do in Lochac and add some mesh to your helmet. It doesn't take much to form it to your helmet make it look pretty and paint it black so it disapears.

I don't think we'vve had any archery related injuries here.

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How big is your head? How large are the arms and legs?

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I don't think it ever made it to the pattern archive.

My carlos is sitting half finished and unloved on my work bench

After I finish my Valsgard, I want to try and finish it off, so far its been a very easy kit to make.

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Hi, I sent a PM on July 8 requestion 1 pair of Shynbalds and 1 pair of Vambraces. After the full list of available items was posted I revised my order on July 14th to: Sending a PM on UNFINISHED PLASTIC 2 pair of shynbalds (some need moderate trimming) 2 pair of vambraces- various sizes Dibs dependi...

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Thats Lewis Moores armourers mark.

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Sending a PM on

UNFINISHED PLASTIC

2 pair of shynbalds (some need moderate trimming)

2 pair of vambraces- various sizes

Dibs depending on price

1 pair brown bazubands

1 mild steel set of shynbalds

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If you can find a pair I love my T6 gauntlets. Mine were made by west coast before he went our of business but if you can find something similar they are great. The downsides of mine is that the thumb articulates on a rivet which would allow your thumb to be pushed backwards and the thumb tip is not...

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I might have been doing it wrong but I found rub and buff to be more of a pink colour than bronze.

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Hi Torvaldr,

Is it possible to order your standard bazuban shape but so they are only padded with 1/4 padding rather than 3/8?

I like the coverage of the standard pattern but prefer the sleek look of the low profiles.

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You could get a set of the awesome dark victory legs of pain

A few people here in Aus use the Egg armoury legs and love them, I was considering getting a set for when I fly.

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Thanks, based on those pictures I think I like the low profiles better. Now to get saving.

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Yeah baby, check out that conspicous consumption

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Gunther of Orkney seems to make really nice stuff

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looks good , particularly like the point on the bascinet and the combination of colours on the Brig is great! Cheers, the bascinet is a german onion top bascinet made for by steel mastery. From what I understand black wasn't really used much on the field but I figured for SCA I could get away with ...

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My Vendal era kit will be very SCA in appearance, this is intended to be the simple kit. This is me on the left and Hugh de Calais (also on AA) on the right. Next year I hope to have my rivetted aventail on the helmet and also get a pair of sleeves from either Icefalcon or Atlanta armoury. I have ne...

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Torvaldr, I am looking to purchase a set of your buzubands in the near future. For comparison purposes would you be able to take a pic with the low profiles next to a standard buzuban so I can get an idea of how significant the changes are, particularly to the height of the wings? Could you take pic...

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PM sent on Vambraces and Shynbalds

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Wow, thanks everyone for the kind words, I can't say that I ever expected to see my name pop up in a thread on AA. I'm hoping my CoTT is even better next year. I'm also working on a Vendal era kit, so will hopefully have that done for festival next year as well. Isabella you may be pleased to hear t...

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So mate, any chance your willing to let other people use the stake? I have enough 20ga stainless for 2 pairs

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Alexander and his team do great stuff. I was impressed by the knees that he made for me. Fantastic communication as well.

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Torum wrote:hmm thats not so bad... now if we can just get the US economy to crash even more, then teh australian economy can go up ..................................

I'd get a pair and split shipping

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You could always take the face off it and make a slightly odd looking sugar loaf.

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I have about 6 of the lionhead pulls. Do a search on google for lion head draw pull or something of the sort. I pulled the rings off of mine and added chains for my German 14th century rig.

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-To lose the cynism and get back the courtesy I have lost.
-Have fun and avoid politics
-Train hard and become good enough to be accepted in to the order of chivalry
-Win a crown tournament
-Get a new early period kit to fight in.

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From everything I have heard Otto makes very solid and inexpensive helms (they are more than Hjalmr's though)

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Greetings your grace, unfortunately I can't order a set until probably October.

Definately interested in getting a pair of the stainless sleeves though

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I usually make an H shape out of leather. I then put a whole in each leg of the H. Then I put the legs of the H on one end together and run a bit of cord though it with a knot at one end, this makes each end a sort of D shape. Repeat for the other side and it should make a cup shape.

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Sounds good.

Some pics would be good too, can't see a lot of the detail on the bokolo site.