The Armour Archive

Strongbow

Some of these post went way beyond simple human decency...Josh...I really thought the last couple of years had changed you and you wern't such a fuckin ass, but I guess I was wrong....You truely can't change your stripes...And for any of you newer folks wondering what I am talking about....Just rea...

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a couple months ago, someone linked a database with soldier's names for name research... anyone have a link?

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Murdock wrote:With cut of jean shorts!!!!

Ya gotta go full on white trash herald

and a ball cap!!!

and mirrored sunglasses. Nothing says medieval like mirroed sunglasses.

Strongbow

Agnarr wrote:I now believe i am going to make plastic armour, glue nickels to it and fight in it at pennsic, so i can get singled out on the battlefield by people.

I'll Fight in it one battle.

It may be a breach of etiquette, but I triple dog dare ya!

Strongbow

On civilian education vs Laurels and so forth. See here's the thing. In the civilian word, anybody with acedemic letters at the end of their name has usually aquired them at great expense of time, labor and yes, even money (education don't come cheap.) Most people don't go through all that effort j...

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Hell Iâ€™ll post the final outcome on my very non-period helm later so you can bad mouth it to your harts content. It's below in it's "undecorated" form. I choose it simply because I liked it when I saw it. But to Dierick, Effingham, Josh Warren, and the other authenticity mavins out ther...

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Some of the statements this guy makes, such as... For i am a warrior in my hart and mind... ...the design was passed down throe my family d.n.a and I have opened it in my mind? ...make me think he's a "mall ninja" m But his spelling makes me think he's a very young kid who's read some low...

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I am again the researcher at large for the baroney of WintersGate. We are very small but the baroness has requested that we get together some ideas for a good Pas de Arms. I have never personaly been to one nore has any other member of the barony so I was wondering what suggestions you might be abl...

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Hi guys, Yes they are finger gauntlets. I'll put up some pic's for those who can't access photobucket. Sorry big photo's. Next is the coat of plates. And then finnish off the helms. Those are awesome! Any chance of some patterns on those? I wouldn't mind giving making them a shot. I know it might b...

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danfrombham wrote:That's what I'm looking for but I can't get a very good look. I'd like

to be able to see this from close up and some different angles thanks

for the link though.

Like I said... contact the Abbey. They seem to have photos for sale, and if they do, maybe they have some nice ones.

Strongbow

Campaign 138 Poitiers 1356 Capture of a King I'm a little reluctant about that one because while the art is excellent, the author apparently think that armour of approximately 1380ish was used by the "elites" at Poitiers in 1356. For example, the cover Art shows Jean II is what is esentia...

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Jiri has that elusive eye for shape... just wow.

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Baron Donal wrote:Even the large photo doesn't really make it clear: Are those true finger gauntlets or "pseudo" finger gauntlets, with solid shells shaped to the fingers?

There are some making-of pics in the link... these are actually real finger gaunts... and a cool design to boot!

Strongbow

OK I'll bite... Dear Master_Iron_Wolf: First off, welcome. Second, I suggest you you take the ribbing you're getting in good humour, but with a certain level of seriousness... in the end, you will benefit from it. The design of your helmet, despite your claims of historical roots, is pure fantasy. N...

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prolly=probably. Hmm funny, I always spelled probably, probably I also spell Hurt, Hurt, and Heart , Heart, but I'm old. But I'm also not a very good speller neither But I can build things. We have an assassin helmet here I canâ€™t find it, perhaps our ninja has it. sorry to offend you. i use it ca...

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As for academic degrees and Laurels, I'm going to have to agree with the Laurel is fundamentally different then an academic degree. Frankly anyone in the SCA who doesn't look at ability over anything else is doing themselves a dis-service. And actually just cause someone has a PhD in history doesn'...

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The Osprey book "The Armies of Crecy and Poitiers" has a lot of illustrations where you can see the spauldors clearly. he illustrations in that book are not so good. Lots of "artistic license" and not really helpful when trying to figure out what this stuff looked like. I'd sugg...

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We used the LED candles (available from Bed Bath & Beyond) at Crossroads in Time and they worked a treat. Raimond and Jehan had done some photo testing and apparently, these put out the same power and color temp as actual candles of equivalent size. Klaus Which ones did you use? My main complai...

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Since we're repopulating the site, here are some new and some old ones. Leave it to me to have to follow Murdock Trying to make early period as pretty as the mafia. Cam One of the nicest early period kits I've seen. Who is the gentleman on the righ in the bottom pic? I wanna see more of his hat.

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Murdock wrote:COTT last year with Kate

You two havta be the monarchs sometime. What imperious and regal smirks! I love it! (Of course, the arms on your clothes help with the look)

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Arms are not and cannot be inherited. They can be. You just have to file the right paperwork. I was being short and brief.... but my point is that in the SCA, we do not treat arms as they were treated historically. It is possible to transfer arms, but marks of cadence are never used, and there isn'...

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One thing that comes to mind is the absolute lack of acknowledgement of civilian education. For example Mistress Fugddaboutit has never graduated high school, works in 7-11, and lives in a grass hut. BUT because she has looked at a bunch of books and has been in the SCA a long time, and can talka g...

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12th cent, as long as you cover the back. Face plates were added to many existing helms in this time as an inovation. George I believe early 13C was when face plates start appering...As audax said it resembles the St Justina helm except it is spangen in construction in stead of fluted...the St Just...

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Is this the one in Westminster Abbey? If so, I think I have a pic around here somewhere.... at one point I was thinking of basing my kit off that effigy. Edit: here's the page from the official Westminster Abbey page: m At the bottom it notes that photos of the tob may be ordered from the Abbey... s...

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when I called them some time ago, they were out of stock... no word on when or if they will do another run.

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I'd recommend Patrick thaden (he did my awesome bascinet), but he isn't actively in the armour biz any more. I'd also highly recommend Jiri Klepac of www.armour.cz Really awesome armourer. Excellent communication and first rate work. The only reason I hesitate at all is that atm the exchange rate is...

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I have several pieces by Jiri, and they're all fantastic! You'll love it! I getting some legs done by him later this year.

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Let's see... here's a favorite:

Dukes and Counts don't have any land associated with them... and no vassals.

Another:

Arms are not and cannot be inherited.

Strongbow

Uh, do you feel this way about heavily decorated swords from the period? m I can see why you would. I think the reason he says that is becuase we have come to associate heavily decorated swords with the cheap reproductions that are so very common. Most serious reproductions today represent simpler ...

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I have a question:

Of the surviving plates, are they solid, or are they somewhat hollow? Seems if solid, they would be HEAVY.

I'd love to get some of yours Talbot, but I think it would cost me a tone to buy enough o.0. Lots of brass in those I guess.

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Ok, here is my Kit (just no SCA, its for LARP): A german knight from around 1340-70: http://www.markus-niessen.de/Fotos/Larp/Hohenst2/Gross/Rimg0055.jpg Civil Clothing http://www.markus-niessen.de/Fotos/Larp/Hohenst2/Gross/Rimg0067.jpg Detail of the stichings http://www.gwebspace.de/ven_on/Bild078....

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Good point there, I know I sound like I'm arguing all the time but I'm just extremely picky and trying to come up with a kit that I like the looks of, then attach it to a time frame, some think that's ass backwards, but it's the look that appeals to me before anything, and I kind of cling to it. No...

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It seems you specialize in these wonderful German-gothic gauntlets.

And it shows... they are magnificent!

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Out of curiosity... what are you trying to do with it?

Is it for a rattan waster? Or are you trying to replace a missing pommel on a steel sword?

I love the look of "fishtail" pommels, but that replica.... is not a good one.

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Hmm and suprisingly Ive seen very few scale faulds being used today....even though they appear quite a bit...probably 1 out of 35 odd persons is shown with one in 14th and early 15th century illustrations...often German and Eastern European, Poland, Russian, Czech, etc. My fighting cuirass has what...

Database of soldier's names?

Re: Pas ideas