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It certainly looks fantastic. How much bunching do you get beneath the arm? *edit* Never mind! Good Lord. I just read the article on your site about sleeve construction. That's outstanding . I've gone from "kind of impressed" to absolutly amazed . Way to research!!! Now I'm wishing that my work coat...

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Me. Given correct full pauldrons -not spaulders- from the late 15th or 16th centuries, and making a distinction between raising and rotating. I think I actualy get more rotational mobility in one-piece pauldrons than most people do out of articulated pauldrons. That may be due to an error in mountin...

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While we're waiting...

http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

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Bah! You're all lightweights, we're not even halfway there.

I should sic the spam-hounds I've got over at my "social" forum onto this thread.

Sixty eight posts could take about five minutes -and the conversation would make sense, too!

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Uh, James, I happen to know for a fact that one-piece pauldrons DO work -I fight in them. The trick is keep them low and over the deltoid only, and buckled to a broad spanish collar so they don't interfere with arm movement -as you'll notice the artist has done. You can't raise your arm over your he...

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Am I seeing that right on this LCD??? Is that polished quartz they used for the flagelants?

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I can do it too! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!!!

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Would be possible to make the following armors, and make them work. Not just in general design, but in detail. If there's any specifics that just won't work in reality, I kinda need to know about it. Comments about the weapons are welcome too, but "fully functional" "hero props" will obviously never...

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I cannot immagine a member of the second estate embarking on a campaign without a bed. A member of the gentry, a belted knight sleeping on a pile of straw? How shameful. If it were a sacrifice one were forced to endure for the sake of moving quickly or some other happenstance on campaign, that would...

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Sounds useful.

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. On one hand, here's a boatload of peole saying a bo couldn't possibly kill a man assumed armor -maille with an open-faced helm- and on the completely opposite end of the spectrum you have the society's reason for not allowing hardwood-cored siloflex swords. Remember that? The ...

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Oh yeah. Those hinges are probably the strongest part of the helmet.

Very well machined, very tight welds. You're going to be haaaaaaapy.

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This deserves a BUMP. It's very pretty. Post again when you finish the back-plate.

Out of curiosity, how did you prototype this? Cardboard? Aluminum foil? miniature???
Always interested in new armorer's methods. Interesting things tend to pop up.

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Not hard at all. When I made mine, I really didn't care about the chain. I used thuroughly modern chain with apropriately sized links, and gave each one a half-twist. I could have cleaned them up of course, but again, I didn't care. I wanted a toy -a beater, not a show piece. If I *had* cared, I wou...

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Read the back-issues of "The Dragon" An all-women military company was probably as rare as an all-gay company would be today. But once or twice, in certain periods, it *did* happen. I'd say the number of women doing a *correct* presentation of period fighting women in the entire SCA would just about...

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"Chvnky"

Very clever. But am I wrong in thinking that the Falx was a longer weapon? I seem to recall seeing excavated blades more than half again that length... I could be misremembering...

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Indeed it was! I'm a little dissapointed that there hasn't been more modern work done on the period, though. The roman historians were good at their job -almost too good for my purposes! My little short-story, thought up on a whim, is turning into a serious research topic. I'll be able to write a te...

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Saying there's only one bablyon is like saying there's only one Rome -true enough if you want to be literal, but Rome of the Empire was nothing like Rome of the Papacy, and neither one is the Rome of today. As for the Assyrians, they came in and trashed other empires at the height of their power -u...

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Holy smokes... I had no idea a padded jack weighed that much! I think I'd be more comfortable in an arming coat and steel. ...unless it was winter. Then it would feel really nice. ^___^ I see no mention of points on the arming doublet. I take it they're to be sewn on by the buyer to fit their armour?

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Oh, I don't know about that. Most armours being produced these days by the masters are actualy very MODEST, compared to the suits worn by the great lords. I think I could find ways to sink 150K into a single kit, EASY. You start out with a harness from around 1490, then you slowly start tricking it ...

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I'm working on a project involving the earliest years of the Dacian campaign, specificly the part in 86 AD where the two Legions were destroyed. Web research has produced a rough sketch of the time period, and apparently there was a LOT going on under Domitian at that point in time. Uprisings and sk...

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Dammit, don't start THAT again!!! Okay, first thing's first. There were SEVERAL Babylons, and several Babylonian empires. Do a brief research on the web, and decide which Babylon you want to know more about/recreate. We're talking about what... two THOUSAND years of history here??? Try to narrow it ...

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I missed the earlier discussion, but are you serioulsy suggesting that steve use a water jet for a prduction run? WHY??? http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/smilies/tk2a-eyebrow.gif Why would you use a water jet when you can do the whole process -hole-punching, end-trimming, and fluting in...

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Honestly -unfortunately- he first thing I thought after reading that was, "That means we're using stock twice as thick as it should be in the SCA. ...That means we'd have to adjust our helmets! Our eyeslots are twice as big as they ought to be anyway. Doh!!!" Thanks for the research. It's greatly ap...

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Damn. The earliest extant shoe dates from the 6th cent. B.C. A horseshoe used by the Romans was a leather boot with a metal plate at the bottom. There has been some debate about when metal horseshoes were first invented - some historians believe that horseshoes were invented during the Middle Ages, ...

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You guys are the best! Answered on all points. While we're on the subject and I still have a new thread, I have another one for you. Did the Romans have farriers , as such? As as specialy disticnt from blacksmiths? Or would shoeing horses have been one of the duties of their normal smiths? About how...

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By the 15th century, several maces had very pointy tines paralell to the handle. I've seen them both under the head on ones with wooden handles and over the hand guard on all-steel versions. They were essentialy belt-clips. Personaly, I would only wear one like that when I was in my hard suit. I'l l...

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Ack! There's nothing like writing about someting to teach you how much you *don't* know about it! Happily, I already knew I didn't know all that much about Rome -I just thought I knew more. To the point, I need to know about the auxiliae . I know (at least, I think I do) that service in the Army pro...

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ACK! I lost the original.

If somebody would e-mail it to me, I can host a mirror of the big picture on a number of sites that don't have bandwidth limitations.

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handle's long enough, but it's weird. Looks like a victorian take on an early rapier, to me. i'd pass.

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Holy crap! When was this done, and where??? What is it depicting??? What's the illumination from? Im guessing late 1480's? ... no idea of location... south of France? I don't recognize the double-s cross on the hilt of the falcion the rider in the lower right is using... Maybe spain? Notice the very...

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I think three days of listening to both the eriudite and the idiotic arguing ought to be enough to make up one's mind, don't you? He's chosen a side, you've done the same, end of discussion.

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Holy cow!

That's fabulous. If it looks half as good in real life as it does in those pictures...

You wouldn't mind mailing that to me so I could give it an unbiased, impartail review, would you? I proooooooomise I'd give it back...

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or you could just ask Sasuke... or wait a while until he finds this tread.

I've been curious about this one, too -for artistic purposes.

Is there truly much increase in mobility in this armour? Is bending over less of a problem? Can you arch your back in this thing?

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sure he does. Hunting crossbows and simple wooden crossbows ought to suit his purposes.

Fantasy armor designs -possible to construct?

Sources for the Dacian Campaign?

Help! Roman military structure question