The Armour Archive

Wolf

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woah cool

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ooooooooo voiders. cool.

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what a great tool. knuckles are like one of the hardest things for me for some dumb reason. how much for the tool again? hehe

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there are no viking peoples. they are danes, fins, norse(norway) and swedes. and claiming "yes they did to something" without historical reference will not get you a bucket of pooh on this board or in historical research... sorry but it wont. find a pic online and we can discuss it. but for the dark...

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but doesnt draccus like those? hehehehehe

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Viking armor, is there any instance of vikings in leather armor? So, the general consensus is that it is difficult to find historical and archeological evidence of vikings wearing leather armor, but if you want to do it, you should make yourself some leather armor. It's a lot more plausible than pl...

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mail wasnt all that either. a theign was supposed to show up with like 5 shirts of mail. if im not mistaken... gotta go find my source. and the thought of, well they had to have armour is a crock too. if they didnt have it... they didnt have it. thinking they would ahve used this or that without evi...

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y do stuffed channels? then u have padded and unpadded areas. use cotton tow and lay it flat on the material and then sew the quilting

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just a few pics of some of the members: m m m m m just lil ole me [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/flonzy/images/Normans/ConroiFitzOsbernMarch06/TimFull/100_0932.jpg[/img] http://home.armourarchive.org/members/wolf/images/conroi/SM8.jpg http://home.armourarchive.org/members/wolf/images/con...

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Otto von Teich wrote:They also wore animal hides with fur, as clothing, to keep warm, this would have had an "armour" effect I'd think...Otto

got a reference for that?

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Conroi Fitzosbern (GA,VA and WV)

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heres jamesb

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have you ever tried it? it really doesnt make much sense. each way you turn you pull the sword up out of the scabbard underneath. then theres the thing about sitting down and the scabbard drapping the mail away from the body.

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holy poop

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Ernst wrote:. Our school system believes that conformity and blind obedience are required from students, education is tertiary.

heh, so was nazism

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ive heard they are 1stc, 3rdc and even 5thc but more of the 3rd thru 5th than anything.

gwen, shoot me an email and i'll fwd you some scan's i have on the subject

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Who was it that ordered coats of 14 (?) layers of linen sewn similar to your coat because in all his years at war he had never seen such a coat penetrated by arrow OR by hand weapon? Have you tested your armour vs a sword? Gaston james hit me in my jack pretty good with his blunt lutel. i felt it (...

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i dont ahv ethe link handy, but christian fletcher shows a great method in his scabbard slide show of a roman gladius

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dude. thats nice. eric needs to update his webpage with some of these pictures etc.

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actually bondo men are dieing out as well. most insurence companies will not allow too much bondo fill. u must weld in a metal plate in place of a dent and bondo the surface or simply replace the entire thing.

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deer will strech and keep streching too. doesnt bounce back (made the mistake once of makeing a seat from deerhide hehehe

wow tim, that is gonna be 1 kick butt outfit

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www.lordgreys.org 15th century lh

www.vikingsna.org vikings, normans and saxons lh

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http://us.armouronline.com/home clams to have made the armour. if you goto their historicalmovie.com site you can see the pieces

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well it all depends, archery is a form of combat in vikesna and vikesuk. u can be directly shot with an arrow. thats why your trained how to shoot one if your an archer, and everyone learns how to be shot by one.

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i useually lay a piece of rail road on its side, lay the lames in the round area and lay a piece of round steel pipe over that, then hit the pipe.

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in my newest HF catalog(paper) it was 79 bucks and the blades were 39

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ya thats what i menat. most of them i've seen in the sca are way too big. no i dont know of any in the post viking/ norman world. i've only seen a few in roman

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never heard of a leather gambison. a long sleeved aketon covered by a long sleeved with mittens hauberk with intregal coif with face covering. then maybe a non sleeved gambison. then a large tabbard or surcoat. then a cloak. and maybe mail leggings. for helm you could go with a nasaled conical to a ...

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coffin shields? those huge door things? only thing i've ever seen is a roman smaller 6 sided one and a 15th c pavaise that comes close to a sca coffin shield

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hehe pete! he's a good guy to get advise from. very helpful, glad you made that contact.

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umm maile was used in 1st c bc was it not? isnt it also believed that the "celts" invented mail and the romans used it?

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http://www.museumreplicas.com/webstore/ ... unics.aspx

cut wrong, not sure about the trim etc but maybe they got the memo that they could sell more wool tunics than cotton.

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very nice. i have major issues with getting rid of gaps myself. i jsut dont have the patience to learn from my mistakes.

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that one guy needs to get his knee checked out, the upper lame is seperating from teh cop.

sweet pics btw

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leather armour.... no.

mail armour... yes.

heres a nice UK group to check out http://www.vicus.org.uk/

rivetted mail leggins??

Re: viking armor

MRL woolen tunics?