All over this archive. Threads are everywhere regarding helms, time frames etc.don wrote:Anybody have some info/history of various styles of helms?
Don
The I wanna be forum would be the easiest place to start.
All over this archive. Threads are everywhere regarding helms, time frames etc.don wrote:Anybody have some info/history of various styles of helms?
Don
From what I have been able to glean from secondary and tertiary sources dark skinned people were fairly rare and considered somewhat exotic but were by no means unknown in most of the major Western European trading ports. So a second or third generation son of a trader could easily (well as easily as any other SCA personna) pick up the profession of arms, become landed, and fit into the "knight in shining armor" world with considerable ease, especially in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean basin. I guess Othello would be the arch-type. The "Moors" also had fairly long term control of parts of Italy, so you may want to consider that as an option.Angusm0628 wrote:Friemanfreiman the minstrel wrote: I don't want to come up with a generic Arabic or Saracen personna. I want to be more specific than that.
I want something for the people who want to be the guy in the mirror, and given the rules of the SCA, that is a little difficult.
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I just went thru this thread and saw your request. Why not a Moor living in Spain after the Expulsion ?
Think about it a second. First off it would be different than the typical Saracen. It would allow some room regarding Garb and armour. And it would be plausible.
I had a really good result with an angle grinder and a cutting wheel. It made just the right sized hole in the stump, with the added neatness of not having to chisel much out, and not having to dodge or finesse a saw blade.Nim wrote:Chisel and then pound smooth-ish is the method I've seen suggested most often. Drilling some holes would speed the process up, maybe. With the right tools, you could grind it out. You could char it. Never done it myself (in the newb boat right with you) but those are all possibilitiesLoki of the Ford wrote:I'm new to all of this and am wanting to make a dishing stump.
I've got a hold of a level tree stump but I dont know how to make the dishing bowl in it...the closest thing I can figure is chiseling out wood and that'd take a long time...is there a method I'm missing? Help a newb out.
gothera wrote:so im kinda new to all the different steels. when it comes to sca armor
most places offer steel (mild?),stainless, and spring steel
for things like arms, helms,gaunts. what are differences in each metal besides the price. ive noticed for the most part a piece in stainless will be a thinner gauge then same piece in mild steel. is that the same with spring steel? its really the spring steel that throws me. thanks
What about an Assyrian?freiman the minstrel wrote:Guys,
I have an unusual "I wanna be" thread.
I don't know how to express this without being offensive.
I want to find a decent, fun, and non-stupid persona that a black guy can portray at Pennsic. I know some black folks who come to Pennsic and they have expressed to me that they feel like (I am quoting here) "The only chocolate cone in the vanilla factory". Some of them camp with me, off and on.
I don't want to come up with a generic Arabic or Saracen personna. I want to be more specific than that.
I want to come up with two good personas that a person with darker skin can portray and actually look like the person he is attempting to portray. Better yet, I would like to come up with several, so that I have a choice to offer when dealing with newbies.
I want to present them with at least two options.
First, the easy one, is to come up with a persona that a person could use at war. A soldier that could very easily be seen on the field in the SCA's period, who had origins in a country or culture where darker skin is not out of the ordinary.
The second is more difficult. I want to find a way that a guy can portray a person of darker skin that would be accepted on the field during the time that might be called "The Great Age of the Tournament." I want an option to present somebody who really wants to portray a "Knight in Shining Armor" who would naturally be found on the tourney field in Europe, competing for renown. I am offering bonus points if the persona could easily have been at The Battle of the Thirty.
Yes, I know that we have a lot of black guys who portray Vikings, or Mongols, or Templars.
I want something for the people who want to be the guy in the mirror, and given the rules of the SCA, that is a little difficult.
We need more folks.
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silk road trader?JoJo Zerach wrote:What about an Assyrian?
I always thought that look was cool ever since I saw History of the World Part 1. Anyone able to answer this?Boy Jaymes Chipendale wrote:I will finally be able to fight in a few months(may) and i am hoping to develop a roman persona, but the problem with that is that any way i could wear a lorica segmentata would put me way out of period (100 AD at max) and i already have a roman style helm that my dad got from Shaddan. i know that he wore a segmentata with it, and i was curious if a roman persona would ruin the SCA image of being middle ages? would a persona lower than 600 AD work? are there any special rules or things that might make an exception?
Bemvenido, Gustavo! Welcome and well come to the Archive.Gustavo wrote:Anyway, I'm having big trouble finding rivets here in São Paulo, Brazil. It is likely that i'm not looking at the right places but all i can find are some industries that make them that are located in towns not very close to mine, so i must have them delivered by mail without seeing them... It also seems that rivets are not cheap so i cant afford to go buying a whole lot of them (i'm still a college student, so i'm always broke).
To sum it up, i need good information about the rivets i need so i don't waste money buying unsuited stuff.
If someone can help telling me what rivet measures are the best to put togeather two steel plates 2mm tick and also 3 plates 2mm tick i would appreciate that very much.
I would also like to know what type of rivet is the most adequate for the job (i'm most likely going to hammer it into the plates): solid rivets; semi tubular rivets or any other type.
Doesn' t ruin anything. It would just be more fifth-century than seventh. Unless I am quite behind the curve, SCA period ran from the fall of Rome (AD 410 or 476, take your pick -- either year was a tough one to be Roman) through 1603 when Elizabeth I died.Boy Jaymes Chipendale wrote:I will finally be able to fight in a few months(may) and i am hoping to develop a roman persona, but the problem with that is that any way i could wear a lorica segmentata would put me way out of period (100 AD at max) and i already have a roman style helm that my dad got from Shaddan. i know that he wore a segmentata with it, and i was curious if a roman persona would ruin the SCA image of being middle ages? would a persona lower than 600 AD work? are there any special rules or things that might make an exception?
For any particular set of paintball/motocross body armour you would need to have a marshal take a look at it and see whether it qualified as "rigid" and whether it covered the right areas. With most body armour a kidney belt is unnecessary because the body armour covers the kidneys. For new fighters on a student budget I usually have them scrounge up an empty plastic soap barrel from a car wash and then help them cut it into plates, tie the plates together with nylon cord, and make a safe and comfortable low-profile body armour for practically no cost. As the next step up, use the same barrel to make plates and rivet them onto a 2-layer canvas shell for a 14th cent. coat of plates at minimal cost. I use roofing nails for the rivets. So unless the modern sports gear is free to you, I'd suggest skipping it and making what you need.Malcolm ap Gwilim wrote:I ... was wondering if paintball/motocross body armor would do under a tunic. I have steel legs, spaulders and vambraces from Stonekeep, as well as some shiny vambraces I am ordering from Iror, demi gauntlets and hopefully soon a kidney belt from Schmitthenner.