The Armour Archive

Richard Blackmoore

What all did you get to see up close and personal? 1977-167-240. Arming doublet 1977-167-273. Embossed shaffron 1977-167-1. Late Gothic German breast and back plates, the breastplate made in Muehlau near Innsbruck by Hans Vetterlein 1977-167-1. Late Gothic sallet 1977-167-19. Portions of a sixteent...

Richard Blackmoore

Hello, My wife asked me to go hunt down some pictures for her and I'm having remarkably poor luck finding anything. I'm looking to find pictures of extant pieces of armor in miniature. Presumably most will be 16th century or later but any and all time periods will do. Childrens armor and/or the sup...

Richard Blackmoore

This exceeded not only my expectations, but also my wishes for the workshop. For those that are not members of the ARS or who have not met Pierre, suffice it to say that Pierre was extremely professional and informative, but was also an approachable, engaging and courteous host. Those that attended ...

Richard Blackmoore

I planned to meet at the early meeting place as requested. But if we are leaving there at 9:30 and it is only a few blocks away from the museum, you all better dress warm with the museum not opening until 10. It is supposed to be pretty cold on Friday I think.

Richard Blackmoore

I noticed that the Museum's website says that it is open late on Fridays, 8:45 instead of the usual 5PM. So for anyone that has not seen the collection before, they might want to consider spending some time walking around after the session ends. Maybe dinner could be pushed back enough to allow some...

Richard Blackmoore

I can't go, I'll be in Philly for the ARS armour workshop, then taking James Gillaspie to NYC to see the Met armour. But you should all buy Muriel's chairs, they are amazing (I have three of the standard size and my wife and kid love them too).

Richard

Richard Blackmoore

I'll be at the workshop after all. And to those I asked to try to find a ride for James Gillaspie, never mind, he's taking the bus and then train to my house and I'll be driving him down to Philly and back with me.

James Peck/Richard Blackmoore

Richard Blackmoore

Arrgghhhhhh!!! OK. I'm much happier with the rule revision and am actually OK with it now. But of course they did this AFTER I ordered a new stainless steel gorget from Jeff Wasson so I would be in compliance with the rules fully, even if I wore my gorget with a helm without an aventail. Grrrrrrrr. ...

Richard Blackmoore

Jeff Wasson does nice work in spring, see his helmet in the recent armour of the month winning bascinet. Also Robert MacPherson if you want really high end stuff and have hit the lotto. A number of other archivers also do good work in spring.

Richard Blackmoore

Drat. I just found out today I can possibly get out of work that day AND my daughter needs to be in Philadelphia on Saturday morning anyway. Please let me know if any seats open up!

James Peck (theregent@optonline.net).

Richard Blackmoore

if we were wearing caps then sure it would hurt. our armour standard is a calibration one. nothing more. it is a basic guidline that keeps us from full submission fighting (as if we wore late period full plate) and touch kill (well for most kingdoms) fighting of non-armoured men. although some plac...

Richard Blackmoore

and anyone have the supporting evidence of the silliness of the god-like man with a sharp spear puncturing a helm (or whatever the fuck) with a speartip....... no no no........ really..... uh oh here we go with the its not the real middle evil times........ yawn... logan Well, take a look at the pi...

Richard Blackmoore

Murdock wrote:i can't find the post but someone asked about bascinets with nasals

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Unfortunately that helm is much later than the SCA target armour for calibration. They did not exist at the time of the helm described in the rules.

Richard Blackmoore

well then i guess thats all i need to be convinced... logan And they (Normans) are called helms. Spangen- Helm ? Just because something is called a helm doesnt mean that it covers the whole head. All of the LH sites I have looked at call them helms, even though they dont go past the brow. It is tur...

Richard Blackmoore

Here is the deal. Thrusting rules vary by kingdom. So some allow thrusts to various parts of the head, some do not. Worse, there are differing ways of doing this: 1) The helm (or parts of it) is ruled proof or invulnerable against thrusts. In these kingdoms you may still thrust at a helm, but the bl...

Richard Blackmoore

Cet wrote:
Ninja's? Not appropriate for European Medieval/Renn Tournaments. Though perhaps it would be entertaining to watch...

With real ninjas you wouldn't see anything though. Plus they are masters of disguise.

Count Rhys is actually a ninja.

If true, that is an exceptionally good disguise

Richard Blackmoore

as soon as you start calling blows for one person, it is hard not to call blows for everybody. That isn't an excuse for not dealing with problem children, just a warning that it can be difficult to do this fairly. It needn't, and shouldn't, involve calling specific blows. If it's a pattern of behav...

Richard Blackmoore

Ninja's? Not appropriate for European Medieval/Renn Tournaments. Though perhaps it would be entertaining to watch... I think that a lot of things could be done to reduce inadvertant failure to acknowledge blows. Education, feedback, simplification of rules, reducing differences in inter-kingdom cali...

Richard Blackmoore

Great thread about a simple problem without a simple solution. Most people are honest and do their best to call blows properly. Most people are human and will sometimes call a light blow as good or call a good blow as not good. For a variety of reasons ranging from weapons issues, armour issues, var...

Richard Blackmoore

The SCA period ends at 1600. Then again, very few SCA members wear full plate circa 1450 to 1600, most are portraying earlier armour or lighter harnesses. All that does is illustrate how our own petty conceits can muddy a discussion such as this. Mr. Rogers offers an explanation on why the results ...

Richard Blackmoore

So what were the Scots wearing at Flodden? The two or three independent accounts I can track down seem to indicate that it wasn't just the Important Men clad in apparently arrow-resistant steel plate, but that "few of them (all the Scots) were slain by arrows." There is mention of a lightly-armoure...

Richard Blackmoore

[quote="Aaron"]Good Morrow,

I was talking with a good friend who has much more experience in the SCA, and we got onto the subject of â€œhistoricalâ€

Richard Blackmoore

November 19th at 100 Minutes War, I ran into a perfectly thrown, hard spear thrust while foolishly charging a line by myself. Due to someone in the line to my left throwing for my head, I turned slightly and my shield moved up just enough the spear got into an odd spot on the left side of my rib cag...

Richard Blackmoore

I'm only going to point out that there's a chunk of folks out there who are attempting to play lower class (even if only in a half-a$$ed fashion), so we kind of already have that lower social class. I've (playfully, with understanding) shoved beggars out of my way at Pennsic. Well yes. And that is ...

Richard Blackmoore

I don't want to ban CA...I've said it a million times. I enjoy hating it. I really do. It adds to my period experience to hate something that is against the social mores of my class. I WANT there to be obvious evidence of who is who and what is what. Hmmm. Isn't that a little modern thought creepin...

Richard Blackmoore

It is clearly a Blankenshield Bascinet with fully rolled edges for safety, being used as trebuchet ammunition, since it is completely useless as a historical helm.

Richard Blackmoore

Because therein lays the skill. From the time you touch the target with the tip of the 915mm long balsa tip you have a milisecond to hit hard and true enough to break that tip, (balsa actually can take quite a hit to break). Not everyone has the skill to then keep that lance on target and place the...

Richard Blackmoore

Um, If you want to hit someone with a socket, why bother with the balsa tip in the first place? Wouldn't it make more sense just to use a solid lance instead?

Richard Blackmoore

I doubt very much that Hans Prunner will reprint the volume. It should have been easily priced as high as 190â‚¬ because of the quality of the printing, of the paper and of its sizes. They are marketing the book at 95â‚¬ to make it affordable to everybody and make everyone happy ... at least they a...

Richard Blackmoore

I remember when the recent reprint of the early 20th century Churburg B&W book came out, that while I was glad to get a copy, I wish they had printed more so that the material could reach a wider audience and also keep the cost per book lower. This is a subject that is touchy in our field. I have h...

Richard Blackmoore

As much as I hate to admit it, I wish the new book was not limited to a single run of 2000 copies. While it makes the book more valuable in the future as a collector's item, I suspect this will end up like so many armour books; a wonderful and valuable resource that many armour lovers & armourers wi...

Richard Blackmoore

I would not say broken bones don't happen, they do. The most common seem to be fingers, followed by forearms/wrists (not frequent) and much less frequently broken ribs. The reason I say 'seem', is that the SCA does not have good injury tracking and reporting set up, so we have to go mostly by what w...

Richard Blackmoore

WOW!!!! I just received my copy yesterday and I have to agree with everyone so far. This book is fantastic! On my first go through of the book I have to say I love the large photos of the gauntlets. Simply stunning. Interestingly, Ken Trotman Ltd. has the book in its latest catalog, for only 75 pou...

Richard Blackmoore

You should talk to James Gillaspie, he has a bit of insight regarding the leg design on these and can also tell you about differences between the actual effigy and the famous model you see pictures of which is not entirely faithful to the effigy (close but not the same). Also Mac made a copy of this...

Richard Blackmoore

Thank you Talbot. It is very kind of you. Can we open a forum on what should I work on next?????? It will be nice to read your suggestions. Hi. I just want to make it clear that my points on sources for the book now having it for less than I paid and with more affordable freight are no reflection o...

Re: Need help w/ research. pics & sources of armor in mi

Re: â€œHistoricalâ€