The Armour Archive

Thaddeus

"Hello Officer"!?
Wait...
Lemme go get some beer.

Thaddeus

I'm not seeing it.
I want to, but no matter how hard I squint no 'Click here to buy' button is showing up.

Thaddeus

More than that ask yourself do I look like a medieval knight. Plastic is ok if you cover it. Don't wear Dark Victory Armour and expect people to be happy with your field presentation. At least cover it with someting. I would second justmagnus' suggestion. Ask locally if there is some loaner gear, wh...

Thaddeus

Maybe. You need to look for examples of that type of helm from archeological finds. If you cant find evidence of the exact type from digs look for examples that are close to the location/culture and in the same time frame. The danger of using Byzantine art as a source is that it is Art. I think of i...

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D. What you want is this:
http://history.westkingdom.org/Year38/Photos/JC49.htm
An artistic interpretation of an open faced helmet.
I bet Ugo would even make one that was a sculpture of your face.
If you asked reeeeeeeeally nice
and had Alaric put in a good word for you.

Thaddeus

Your not saying it,
Less is more less is more less is more.
Lemmee hear it one time.
With Feeling.....

Thaddeus

D. say it with me.
Less is more.
Less is more.
Less is more.

Thaddeus

carlyle wrote:FtM: "What do they call a Viscount that has won coronet twice anyway?"

Untrainable.

Alfred, Viscount

incorrigible

Thaddeus

Roderick if things fall apart, contact me. I work in the printing industry and might be able to help.

Thaddeus

Owyn, Greetings, and welcome to the SCA, as Jehan has noted you have in one sitting been exposed to the two ends of our fighting. The imense joy of trying yourself against a worthy opponent and the tedium of waiting for someone to show up. The formula will remain largely the same for your entire car...

Thaddeus

I had a P/P round pavilion (with side wall poles) It was at least a two person setup, faster with more. However, after I sold it and was muttering about the difficulty of setting it up someone said gee did you try wind ropes? Ah no of course I hadnt tried wind ropes. Take three or four guy ropes and...

Thaddeus

Thank YOU! Adam.

Thaddeus

Cet email sent

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Samuel, hat's off. Those knees look awesome. I think I will do that to me WMA knees.

Thaddeus

Rags I'll take them off your hands if D hasnt already. Contact me via email or phone.

Thaddeus

Wow!

Thats an awesome belt.
Best fortune to you.
Even as squire Jehan has said.

Thaddeus

Bang up work gentlemen!

Thaddeus

Crack a book, get to reading. Charney and Ramon Lull will give you a good feel for the language of goodly men at arms. There may be translations that are preffered, but I do not know them. Personally I have the editions available via the chivalry bookshelf which I rather like, Particularly Dr. Mulbe...

Thaddeus

East:
In no particular order.
The Von Halsterns
Von Draken Klaue
ICOD

The confederation often refered to as the Northern Army, moves like one unit, sounds like one unit, must be a duck.

Thaddeus

Shaddap

Be happy you dont have to part out the old kit to make the new kit. That's having a problem, I call it differential cash flow.

Thaddeus

It is just that I find it funny that some people take the requirement for plate and mail so seriously that they overlook the fact that the armor should also be "of period style and execution." Most of the folks who showed up for the historical series, at least the tournaments I made it to last summ...

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That's awesome,
Congratulations to the heirs.

Thaddeus

Mine came via ups ground.

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Actually you have the option of the laminated cuisses we were talking about. See 'Late Roman Cavalryman 236-565" Plate G for Christa Hooks interpretation. The author uses an uncited passage to describe the Clibanarii. I know these are found in several archeological digs, but dont have the reference ...

Thaddeus

The kit came in this morining.

Fantastic!

The instructions and reference materials included are a definate bonus.
Thanks for all the work to everyone involved, I look forward to seeing what others are doing with the kit.

Thaddeus

White castle kind of lubricated things The ride was pretty hard on us who are relatively whole and hardy. Maybe next time we can get enough people together to really charter that tour bus we were talking about. Although we did find that having vehicles we could go out on the town in was a huge bonus...

Thaddeus

Vitus, eat white castle - that'll take care of you right well. The ride from white castle on was... erm... well... odiferous. Several of us protested the choice of dining establishment, however we were outvoted by the white castle neophytes, who were desirous of the experience, having heard of the r...

Thaddeus

Well damn Gaston I was going to ask how I got a job working with you. I'd love to if I was less married and more mobile - you wouldnt want to setup an east coast facility would you?

Thaddeus

It was fun - the silliness factor reduced my overall enjoyment of the fighting somewhat but on the whole it was fun. The feast was quite good, and our table became the entertainment - or the embarrassement I am not sure which is most appropriate. It was the kids table and we felt we had a certain um...

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Ian perhaps you will benefit from his more advanced artistic capacity when you finally get your helmet.

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Thats just incredible!
Steve may have some delivery issues, but if you can wait it out the artwork is well worth in my opinion. He has pics pn his site of a chalcidian helm that lookes very nice.

I wouldnt brasso it as the brasso is likely to remove the fire black on the steel.

Thaddeus

Patterns are in the pattern section.

Go to town.

Product testers mostly live in close proximity to Mr. Berry.

Thaddeus

Wow thats all done cold?
Very nice indeed.

Thaddeus

The weapon was using when I last saw him (fall crown) hardly deserved the appelation 'sword', it had more in common with a butter knife and so it was termed by Viscountess Gwenllion. Sir Stephen is very much alive and well. He caused more pain in my left leg with one shot than Karl von Sussen did wi...

Thaddeus

Jiri,
Would you be willing to share your patterns and process with the rest of the class?