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by Nissan Maxima
Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:41 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Favorite Melee Pics
Replies: 26
Views: 1404

You cant see shit in this picture, but it is my evil army of wretched villainy(on right) being crushed by Royalists (on left).

What a great day.
by Nissan Maxima
Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:28 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Favorite Melee Pics
Replies: 26
Views: 1404

A picture showing my favorite weapons form, spear and two big guys with axes as back up.
by Nissan Maxima
Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:01 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Nissan Maxima CA Crossbow
Replies: 38
Views: 1004

I made one with iron sights like my old lee enfield. Put checkering on the stock. Stopped myself before I added a monaco cheekplate and a schnabel, but if I make another one it will have them.

And a metal plate engraved with a knight fleeing through the brush.
by Nissan Maxima
Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:50 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Nissan Maxima CA Crossbow
Replies: 38
Views: 1004

RoaK wrote:"Would that include an uber-duke or knight who has an emasculate period surcoat over minimal armor?


Thats immaculate. But way funnier your way. :twisted:
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Nissan Maxima CA Crossbow
Replies: 38
Views: 1004

fair enough. There are odd rules in this game and when I become emperor I will get rid of some I hate and add different ones that others will hate.
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:07 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Nissan Maxima CA Crossbow
Replies: 38
Views: 1004

We are just getting over the Nuclear Arrows, and now some dummies want lever-action fast firing crossbows? There are very few mechanical aids that were part of the medieval Xbow, and those were not fast-load devices. Therefore all mechanical devices really should be separate devices that must be ap...
by Nissan Maxima
Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:36 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Nissan Maxima CA Crossbow
Replies: 38
Views: 1004

Many crossbowmen carried levers called goatsfoot. I have never seen a medieval sample where the lever was permanantly attached. But this design would be very easy to modify so that the lever was seperate as in antiquity. I have made a few of these and the main advantage other than ease of draw is th...
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:18 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Is SCA armored combat for everyone?
Replies: 58
Views: 1483

No.

This is not for everyone.

If you are a whiner please do not try this game.

If you are not, welcome to the party.
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:54 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: direct cast actual 1450-1600 Chest... I NOW HAVE IT HERE
Replies: 51
Views: 1741

I'm in.
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:01 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Boar Hunt
Replies: 43
Views: 1239

Ah, here it is.
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:48 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Boar Hunt
Replies: 43
Views: 1239

Thanks Chef. If anybody is interested in medieval hunting I cannot recomend the museum of hunting and fishing in Munich strongly enough. The building itself is a gothic palace and is literally crammed full of things that I have never seen in print. Hunting dog collars and armour, every type of cross...
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:36 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: My production queue UpDATE4/3/09 NOW TAKING ON NEW COMISSION
Replies: 232
Views: 9754

No problem. Let me know when you have time. Anything you do for me does not need polished, just planished. Because it will be getting painted, for paint to stick, a slightly rough surface works better..
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:35 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Boar Hunt
Replies: 43
Views: 1239

I wish I had a picture, but I saw some lugged bastard swords for boar hunting in the Munich museam of hunting and fishing. They were 15th century. I don't know if armour was worn for the hunt, but it is still badass to kill a boar with a sword. Me, I like my bacon wrapped in plastic in the butcher s...
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:21 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: My production queue UpDATE4/3/09 NOW TAKING ON NEW COMISSION
Replies: 232
Views: 9754

So Murdock,
Are you up to making a set of cased greaves?
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:00 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pennsic vignette number 3: Die, Die, Die!!!!
Replies: 41
Views: 1485

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Your Grace Alaric-
The Big Mace has a name...it's name is "Tyrus."

(Named after Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who was named after the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre)

-V


I know that mace.
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:00 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pennsic vignette number 3: Die, Die, Die!!!!
Replies: 41
Views: 1485

There is no rule that prevents you from doing a full running charge and launching yourself into an enemy line. When I do this I try for full horizontal superhero style flight. (of very very short duration) If the guys behind me cannot read the word "Vibram"on both of my shoe soles I have b...
by Nissan Maxima
Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:39 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pennsic vignette number 3: Die, Die, Die!!!!
Replies: 41
Views: 1485

There is no longer any rule forbiding full speed charges.
by Nissan Maxima
Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:28 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pennsic vignette number 3: Die, Die, Die!!!!
Replies: 41
Views: 1485

I love fighting Atlantians. You get to hit them hard and they very seldom whine.

Seriously. Makes my day to see them across the field. I missed that this year, being on the same side as them.
by Nissan Maxima
Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:38 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Late Medieval quiver suspension- now with a link to original
Replies: 24
Views: 553

I found this at:
www.jamd.com/image/g/50787525
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:11 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Question for the SCA Martials
Replies: 54
Views: 1268

As a two weapon fighter who routinely tosses one sword away to swing the other one two handed, I think the fight should go on.

I especially think my opponent should keep his eyes on the dropped sword till I can hit him in the head with the other one.
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:25 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

The goatsfoot andbolt holder are tubes. You know, you couls skip the bolt holder and acconplish the same thing with a hold down sping made fom a piece of bent thin sheet metal.

I will draw one today.
by Nissan Maxima
Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:22 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pennsic Numbers
Replies: 335
Views: 10859

Better minds than mind can fix this, so that we can just get back to beating the hell out of each other. I am with you, with the caveat that I don't think it needs fixing. This conversation is as old as the war itself. its an annual event, and a sign of the changing seasons, like unto the first cat...
by Nissan Maxima
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:44 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Klap visors and melees
Replies: 46
Views: 1357

bar grills are for pussies.
by Nissan Maxima
Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:33 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

Attached is a more detailed plan of the front including the recess for the prod and the arrow channel.


Isn't this a web tutorial?
by Nissan Maxima
Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:41 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

The firing pin hole is a drilled in two sessions, but it doesn't matter which you do first. The firing pin is made from a round steel pin about a quarter of an inch in diameter. The length is depandant on stock design. Make it long and shorten it to fit. The base has been drilled and tapped (probabl...
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:39 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

the firing pin is held to the trigger bar by a screw going though the trigger (sloppy clearance hole) into a drilled and tapped hole in the firing pin. 8/32 or 10/24 or something like that. Place pin and spring into the appopriate holes and the put the trigger into the void and then put in the pivot...
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:30 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

trigger mechanism
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:07 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

The void
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:19 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

I make the stocks in one piece so that pretty grain patterns are not inturupted by a glue line. (I am clearly not right in the head) I cut the inlets for the trigger mechanism with long drills and chisels. Your way will be waaaay easier.
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:07 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: The 2nd Annual Fete of the Sabaton - NEXT WEEKEND!
Replies: 27
Views: 611

If my wife can't make it I can't fight in it, but I will be ther to help out regardless. Oh and pickup some fights.
by Nissan Maxima
Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:01 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

I will take the firing mechanism on mine apart tonight and take pictures of all the parts for you. That should make it easier. The only real critical part of this thing is the same for any crossbow and that is the wooden lip shape that holds the string in place at fulldraw rest. Every other thing ca...
by Nissan Maxima
Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:28 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

It could be, but why? If the pin stays up you are holding a lever attached to 600 foot pounds of force with nowhere good to put it. If you can have a bushing, putting in a 25 cent bushing sized spring greatly improves the ease of use. The spring also allows some niceties of tension between squeeeezi...
by Nissan Maxima
Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:50 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA pump action combat crossbow design
Replies: 53
Views: 2693

Q:If I part out the job, would you correct it? I am thinking that this might not be above my skill level. A: I am not famialiar with your verb, but by context I take that to mean if you do part drawing will I tell you if you are right. Yes, of course. Q: And where did you get your hardware? Is the c...
by Nissan Maxima
Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:51 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pennsic Numbers
Replies: 335
Views: 10859

Vitus von Atzinger wrote: I cannot blame them for wanting to escape any responsibility for any of it.


We are responsible for ensuring that our employers AND our opponents are happy with our work.

It can be harder than you might think.
by Nissan Maxima
Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:31 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pennsic Numbers
Replies: 335
Views: 10859

While I consider fighting against one's natural Lord and neighbors dishonorable acording to the Old Code, I absolutely envy the fact that mercs can remove themselves from the bullshit that makes a big war event irritating and not fun. I cannot blame them for wanting to escape any responsibility for...

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