The Armour Archive

Amanda M

I'm ordering a klapvisor from Knowne World Treasures and it's cheaper than the butted stainless aventail price. :\ I'd snatch it up but I'm not sure how to attach it to the helm for one, and the etiquette of saying I already have an aventail so just the helm. Sooo torn.

Amanda M

That was some badassery.

Amanda M

Oddly enough the year before it was rainy all war and the camps were in way worse shape than the field, in my area anyway.

Amanda M

I am thinking those hourglass ones he made are pretty sexy looking too. I'd love to see some more pics at different angles myself.

Amanda M

In a demo situation younger kids get a big kick out of the falling over dead, fwiw.

Amanda M

Brian Brown is one of my past customers and I can say that from that angle at least he was a pleasure to deal with.

Amanda M

No merchant is perfect. Every one of us has disappointed someone in the past, taken too long to complete an order, forgotten about one, made something we weren't 100% happy with, etc. All we can try and do is make good on our mistakes and try not to do it again.

Amanda M

I think the economic difficulties over the last year or two probably made it very difficult for people to attend. My husband and I didn't go lat year even though we're so close, because I was having enough trouble just keeping a roof over our head.

Amanda M

If you ever get better pics I'd love to see them in use. The weather and light was just not cooperating with me that day.

Amanda M

Thanks for the review.

Amanda M

Hey guys. Thanks for the reviews and kind words. This week I didn't get as much done as I would have liked. I came home from a 96 hour shift and moved some furniture and stuff because my work area was occupied by junk. Then I got toned out to a structure fire last night and was out til late. It's be...

Amanda M

Thanks guys. I'm glad you're happy with them.

Amanda M

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:I understand this, I just don't want people to think I have actual visual artistic talent....I do NOT.

-V

I have seen your non SCA artwork and respectfully disagree.

Amanda M

I think he said this one has black and green straps?

Amanda M

BobKnight wrote:too precious to use on the field IMO.

I am of the opposite opinion. To me, it begs to be used. Such displays raise the bar and inspire others to aim for the same mark.

Amanda M

It is. Gorgeous work as usual.

Amanda M

Maybe this will work instead:

http://www.megapathdsl.net/~amichaels/b ... chive1.png
http://www.megapathdsl.net/~amichaels/b ... chive2.png

Amanda M

They're up on my photobucket account. Here's just the link: m I can also upload em to some other webspace if it's photobucket that's the problem. Anyhow there's lots of room left for simple devices. The biggest problem is that there's a number of charges that are really popular so they are getting h...

Amanda M

Man, that's slick.

Amanda M

That's really cool. I'd also love to see how you did it so I can shamelessly steal the design to use. >_>

Amanda M

He's been around forever, which certainly says something in the business.

Amanda M

I could probably do it but I've never made a book before. I've been an illuminator in Atenveldt for something like 4 years. But I have a deep background in the fine arts in general.

Amanda M

If you're wanting to submit it (SCAwise) I would suggest simplifying it a bit. To be honest, it's very busy. It's got 4 different charges in it and 4 colors. My advice would be to think about what you really want to include and leave out the rest. I usually try to get people to choose one or two cha...

Amanda M

SCA heraldry is it's own thing. It's fun to try and obey the rules of period heraldry but it won't always work.

Still, I think that when you register a name and heraldry you are making your mark on the society and it sets you apart from that the casual bikini chainmail/grog the barbarian crowd.

Amanda M

A lot of this discussion seems to me to be far off the stated topic. The question was not "Did women fight?" but "Did women fight in tournaments ?" In the light of that question, it's irrelevant whether Joan of Arc actually fought or if she was purely an inspirational figure; or...

Amanda M

The Society college of heralds is a different beast than say your Kingdom's college of heralds. Generally it is not difficult to get something passed through your kingdom and local heralds are more often than not happy to help you come up with something that looks good and will pass. You can get a l...

Amanda M

Ooh those are really clever.

Amanda M

I try to keep it to less than a month after funding. This week I didn't have any classes or anything to take for work and it was the weekend. I wanted to make some headway since I'm going to be at work from Monday to Thursday morning. I've got pics of them too. I can post em here or email them to yo...

Amanda M

Awesome I love it.

Amanda M

Shipping banners out today. In the group will be Jess, Randy W, Albrecht and Angus. Then I'm off to work tomorrow morning and back Thursday morning to start some others.

Amanda M

I didn't realize I was coming off as arrogant. That was certainly not the tone I was going for. :\ I was shooting for genuinely interested.

Amanda M

I'll go look at my notes. There isn't a lot of examples, maybe not even two hands worth of fingers for the era (mid 15th century) were you to count them that way, and I classify examples by catagory - civilians in defensive actions, women disguised as men in general in military applications, then w...

Amanda M

>_> It can be done.

Amanda M

Or make em into garters or something at least.

I'm kinda fond of the visored sugarloaf now too, so nice kit overall.

Amanda M

Haha. Awesome.