The Armour Archive

Aussie Yeoman

Beautiful photos, in addition to their illustrative purposes.

Aussie Yeoman

I've seen rebar forged to shape work quite well. Especially the high tensile stuff.

Great to see it all coming together Mac!

Aussie Yeoman

When I first started my interest in plate armour, I worried about things like the back of the thighs, the inside of the thighs, inside the elbows, things like that. I had similar worries with all those leather straps on Italian harnesses of the 15thC. When I started in WMA, I came to realise that th...

Aussie Yeoman

Go find a discarded leather couch and slice the back off it. Heaps of thin leather.

Aussie Yeoman

Attempting a Milanese cuirass, if you've not done other projects leading up to it, is a daunting task. How much armour have you made previously? I would suggest that as leadup pprojects, you try your hand at earlier brestplates, like from the late 14thC or such, and work your way up to the more comp...

Aussie Yeoman

It's certainly coming along. I have no real contribution to make, and thus no worthwhile content to put into a post...but I just wanted to express my admiration for the projet so far.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Perfectly. Thanks Mac.

Aussie Yeoman

Glad to see you back, Mac, I was beginning to think some horrid event had happaned to you.

It sure is nice seeing the tent come together, though I suspect you find it even nicer.

What do you mean that the seam will be staggered at the bottom?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

1 Look at pictures. 2 Make drawings. 3 Evaluate drawings. 4 Make more drawings. 5 Do as Wade says. Mac Boy oh boy is this true. For my current set of legs (in planning) I've spent about 10 hours drawing, redrawing and drawing again. I think I'm not quite ready yet to start cutting out steel (right,...

Aussie Yeoman

Well this is disappointing. I thought (knew) I had been subscribed to this thread, but it stopped sending notifications.

Maybe this superfluous post will refresh my notifications.

Very cool to see things in person size start to come together. Joe will be jealous!

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Graham; whenever I see a thread started by you with the word 'progress' in the title I rush to read it, as there's always some amazing work and/or some enlightening tidbit. Was it the intention to have the heart piercing overlap the edge of the lame underneath? I'm not sure if this comes across clea...

Aussie Yeoman

Brilliant! Thanks for that.

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Aussie Yeoman

I do have a rivited mail shirt that I trimmed some off. So I have an excess of rivited shut rings.

Where is it documented?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Is there a way to see the gallery without the automatic scrolling though of all the images?

It's kinda annoying on a slow connection.

Aussie Yeoman

Hi Charlotte, lots of great help there, thanks for the input! My harness is based on examples from 1459, give or take a couple of years, in the proto gothic style of Germany. I haven't made any laces/chappes yet. I'm sort of dreading making chappes. I will have to though. I think I'll have to make a...

Aussie Yeoman

I have started the unenviable task of sewing lacing and arming points onto my 15thC arming/general doublet. I marked the locations of the points just to close up the front, and to my surprise found that there will be 45 points to do. Just to close the front up. I feel I need an apprentice. Anyway, I...

Aussie Yeoman

If not the idea of a separate canvas holder, then at least I would try to put the barrel of the roll of canvas situated over the legs. This would make the table less inclined to want to tip over when someone comes along to watch what you're doing and invariably leans with one elbow on the canvas rol...

Aussie Yeoman

Thanks for the pics Mac. I didn't mean to pester or nag...I was just curious.

I was surprised to see how many rectangular tents there are. Even in images I had seen before, my eye had been drawn to the round pavillions before.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Very nice. Thanks for that. To compare notes, here are the patterns I had drafted but not tested, a few years ago. This is the 'blank' I tried to pattern to look like Pat Thaden's pauldrons. I should indeed have tried to template an original (not saying anything bad about Pat's excellent work, but o...

Aussie Yeoman

Shameless bump.

Aussie Yeoman

And some scans/images of the works you're using for inspiration.

Maybe if your model only had a simple Landsknecht armour or almain rivet.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Wade and Johann, Great pictures and great tips. Certainly a lot to work from there. In this one: http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p181/JColdIron/Pauldrons/20120526_125130.jpg I see that my pattern is way off. In my version of the lames, the lame that goes over the point of the shoulder (so second ...

Aussie Yeoman

Aha! here it is. There're some enticing and teasing pictures there. Looking forward to seeing any pictures of the patterns. Because of my chosen time period (1459-1480_ I'd have a breast/back and bevor, no gorget. I'm sure this would be very difficult to show photographically - much better to see a ...

Aussie Yeoman

Looking very schmick Mac.

How quickly are your wanting to get on to the 1:1 scale version?

And forgive my ignorance, but 'when' is this tent from?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Dave, Bows?!...Really?! I am always a bit behind on this newfangled stuff. Is there any problem with the laminations "creeping"? What is the life expectancy of urethane glue? If it is suitable for bows, it certainly seems like it ought to be suitable for making pavilion hoops. This is very exciting...

Aussie Yeoman

Giles, In my experience, plaster is really the best thing for greaves. It rubs off onto the inside of the work, and thus tells you exactly where it is making contact.... something a live model could not even tell you. Mac Brilliant! So even if the client lived next door, a plaster cast would stand ...

Aussie Yeoman

About 10-15 minutes, I believe, and it's solid in 4-8 hours, but you can unclamp after 2. I have recently adopted it for my bowmaking. A couple of things about gorilla glue: - It only needs a really small bead to get the coverage. Where white/yellow glue is splashed about with reckless abandon, a do...

Aussie Yeoman

Yep. It will get a helmet. Haven't yet decided which helmet I will do first - sallet with bevor or great-bascinet.

Aussie Yeoman

Here's just a couple of fun shots: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/IMG_9356.jpg http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/IMG_9357.jpg http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/IMG_9352.jpg http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/IM...

Aussie Yeoman

I had thought I knew what electrical conduit was - and I was right. That bright orange pipe. A bit more research reveals it is made of PVC. (this is not to prove any point, I just thought it was interesting, and would allow peoplw who for whatever reason can't source conduit, to try PVC tubing) I li...

Aussie Yeoman

Hi Mac,

How do you make a hoop rigid rather than flexible? Thicker/more massive cross section?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Good day, I am most pleased to announce that in October this year Core Life Concepts in conjunction with me will host a weekend long seminar presenting an introduction to the art of armoured combat with the halfsword. In attending this seminar, students will develop a firm grasp of the fundamentals ...

Aussie Yeoman

the archive is getting spammed a lot lately.

I'd like to see pics of as many of the pauldrons as possible. But additionally, if possible, I'd like to see the patterns that they were made from so I can get an idea as to what 2D shape influences the final 3D shape.

Aussie Yeoman

So, the more than slightly selfish question is - did anyone get photos of pauldrons/patterns?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

A little anecdote: We had seven horses in a paddock. Of various breeds and crosses. The dominant male was a large thoroughbred gelding, the dominant female a larger thoroughbred mare. For whatever reason, a 3 year old connemara stallion was introduced. He was realitively lightly built, and among the...

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WMA event announcement: Halbschwert 1, 2012 - Australia

Re: May 12-13 2012 armour study session - North Carolina, US

Re: May 12-13 2012 armour study session - North Carolina, US

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