The Armour Archive

Amanda M

I can imagine.

I would think a side view would be confusing to the viewer as to what the charge would be at even a short distance.

Amanda M

I only looked through one gallery but that is how an SCA event ought to look. So cool.

Amanda M

Thanks for sharing the pics! I was wondering what event Sir Gaston wanted his banner for...

It looks like the atmosphere of the event was really cool.

Amanda M

Auuugh I want a pair of those so bad. So shiny and sexy.

Amanda M

$90 for the six footer and $120 for the 8 foot for the most part regardless of complication of design. Price includes as much design work as is needed and first class shipping.

Amanda M

This is a bit late in coming but I wanted to get it posted. I recently posted a banner trades for armor thread and Sir Gaston was one of the first to take the bait. Communication- 5/5 Turnaround- 5/5 Price- 5/5 in my mind. Trade so no price. Both of us have sent the first half of our trade deal I se...

Amanda M

An alcohol wipe would work well too. We use them at work to disinfect the ambulances and equipment. Since it evaporates the alcohol doesn't leave residue or much of an odor. And it kills most stuff.

Amanda M

It's proper display is I believe from the top down like a ring, not the side.

Amanda M

I'd love to see the step by step myself.

Amanda M

It's not listed in the restricted charges, but here's where I've found it mentioned: m 2. Offensive Religious Symbolism - Magical or religious symbolism that is excessive or mocks the beliefs of others will not be registered. Magical or religious symbolism is not usually inherently offensive, but of...

Amanda M

Thanks.

I am going to be hardening greaves and crap for my kit when I get the knees.

Amanda M

I loved 'The knight would happily kill you at a distance'.

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Amanda M

When they pulled the crossbow out as a weapon of the knight I knew there was gonna be an uproar on the Archive in the morning.

Amanda M

The show is absolutely full of problems. Half the time their weapon and armor analogs don't even match up with the proper materials of the period. And the armor they were showing for knights spanned some 500 years in a horrible mish mash of bad combat scenes. It's barely watchable. The only thing th...

Amanda M

It's supposed to start at around the fall of the roman empire. But people can deal with earlier rather than later. A spartan is less jarring than a guy with a musket.

Amanda M

Can you stain it after that or would you need to do it first?

Amanda M

I'd throw the auction thread up now but I don't know jack about welders. So I don't know what will work for armoring at what price.

Amanda M

Yes.

Amanda M

I will start a separate thread then. Thanks guys.

Amanda M

Aaron wrote:If we're buying a welder for you, I'm in for $20.

-Aaron

I'm willing to auction off an 8' banner for this.

Amanda M

This one is a searchable database of all the digital manuscript copies you can find on the web, with more being added as links are found or created. You can search by author, region, time period etc. Pretty cool. I've spent hours searching through it myself.

http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/Manusc ... p?goto=109

Amanda M

Haha. I love that movie.

Amanda M

You tilt when you should withdraw, and that is knightly too!

Amanda M

Thank you for the review.

I'm glad you like it.

Amanda M

I told Lady (never "sir") Bolverk that I'd seen this thread, and that her name was mentioned. She told me the story about how An Tirean women got to start fighting. Not knowing that women were "not allowed" to fight in SCA tourneys, she showed up, with a few months training, wit...

Amanda M

audax wrote:I have found that fitting the padding to your head works better than fitting it to the helm.

I was wondering about that. I am gonna have to make one for my hat.

Amanda M

Well, good luck to you. I hope you can recover. People could definitely use your helms. :\

Amanda M

Is there anybody in your local group who can help you out tool wise? Just a thought. ANyhow glad you're hanging in there.

Amanda M

That was kind of my plan, plates instead of faulds. About the only thing I wasn't sure about is the best way to fasten it and such. Thanks for the advice.

In the pic it looks a lot like what I'm thinking of making.

Amanda M

It's really a gorgeous harness.Mine isn't gonna look like that though.

I did like the skirt bit though. Someone posted the pic here a while back and I snatched it because I thought it was a good idea. I'm not sure how I'm going to go about making it yet though.

Amanda M

I've got Jess' old Icefalcon churburg and I'm going to make something like this skirt thingy to cover my hips: [img]http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/isabellaevangelista/ChurburgArmour01044copyedit.jpg[/img] I'm going to make hardened, splinted leather arms and legs to go with the knees and e...

Amanda M

I think later. I'm going for the COTT look.

Amanda M

Beautifu work!- There will be a good number of your banners ont eh field at Pennsic this year by the looks of it I'm hoping so. After I get some of the banners for trade cleared out I am going to take orders for cash again. By the looks of it I'll be able to order my shiny new helmet in June thanks...

Amanda M

Arrrrrgggg no caaaash.

Amanda M

I'm gonna wear my stuff proudly. I've been eyeballing the 14th century stuff for years and it's all finally coming together.

Review: Gaston de Clermont