2012...Show us your kits

[olaf haraldson]

Sometimes, in between fighting, my kit looks like this

[Alecks]

This is the latest version of my kit. The photos were taken 2 weeks ago at THACO-3 in Northshield and are courtesy of Andrea Jacobsen.

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Is that the Battle on the Ice?

[Wolf]

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[Thorsteinn Raudskeggr]

My improved kit.

Ivan & Miach.

Ivan & Baron.

[Rodney]

Is that the Battle on the Ice?

No, but that would be so fun! Recreating the Battle of Lake Peipus would be a blast.

Our local SCA group (Nordskogen) rents an indoor hockey rink in the spring after they've removed the ice. Every now and then I have to fight flashbacks from my youth and NOT check someone into the boards!

[Vilhelm550]

These pics do not do Rodney's kit justice, nice as these pics are. He has one sweet, sweet rig.

[Rodney]

Thanks Vilhelm,

Now if I could just get my fighting on par with my kit I'd be doing OK.

[brewer]

This is the latest version of my kit. The photos were taken 2 weeks ago at THACO-3 in Northshield and are courtesy of Andrea Jacobsen.

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Is that the Battle on the Ice?

My brain got stuck on "Wait - how did he get his THACO down to -3? That's some epic-level fighting!"

Bob

[Cedric]

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Me on the right in the chainmail.

[Swete]

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Me on the right in the chainmail.

Very awesome kit! Chainmail is the bomb.

[Cedric]

Thanks!

[Steinarr Aggarson]

New body armour, shield, wraps, shoes, pants and heavily mod'd belt

[Kaos]

Here's the latest permutation is my armour:


New bucket by Albert Collins, who did amazing work on this grand bascinet. It's a hardenened and tempered medium carbon steel replica based on the famous grand bascinet on Friedrich I von der Pfalz's armour currently residing in Vienna. It has two exchange visors, the original visor and a joust visor. A melee visor has been planned for next year.

I can't recommend him enough. Check this out:

[zachos]

I've seen those pictures before, but my feelings towards your armour should be pasted across the whole internet.

Awesome

[Effingham]

Love the new armour.

Damn.

I must say, though, that in the transition from helmet designs, going without a helmet in 2008 was awful risky....

[Steinarr Aggarson]

Strangely I don't remember much of 2008...

[Effingham]

Strangely I don't remember much of 2008...

I think we've found a proximate cause of that.

[PatternWeld]

Banging out the dents must've been challenging!

[Tom B.]

Here's the latest permutation is my armour:
New bucket by Albert Collins, who did amazing work on this grand bascinet.

The compound curves on that shot from the back are just gorgeous.

Tom

[MattB]

Here's the latest permutation is my armour:


New bucket by Albert Collins, who did amazing work on this grand bascinet. It's a hardenened and tempered medium carbon steel replica based on the famous grand bascinet on Friedrich I von der Pfalz's armour currently residing in Vienna. It has two exchange visors, the original visor and a joust visor. A melee visor has been planned for next year.

I can't recommend him enough. Check this out:

Some really good kit right here!

[Kaos]

Thanks Matt! You really should post your kit as well, as well should Zachos. Both top notch kits.

[DeCalmont]

Finally got some pictures of where I'm at now. These were at a recent event where we had our "Royal Huntsman" tourney, which is the Archery Champion for our Kingdom. It was a great event and awesome tourney.











Added a couple more that just showed up. Definitely do not like the way the surcoat is pushing out when I'm sitting down like that...but maybe not much I can do about that.

[Sigifrith Hauknefr]

here are a couple of me in the new Icefalcon Ti Hauberk. First one has a little "shield to body" contact... but LET IT NOT BE SAID THAT I THROW FLAT WRAPS!



Oh and one from the back... although if memory serves, I think I flubbed this armpit shot!



I do still want to figure out how to deal with the backs of my calves in this kit. I have some very light 6mm mail I was thinking of making mini chausses out of. I suppose I could wear hose and turn shoes instead of sweat pants and Keens... the Keens look great from the front though, as long as the ankles are covered - have a nice stick-out leather seam down the middle. People have accused me of making them!

[Sigifrith Hauknefr]

BUMP! No comments on Sly shield bashing me in the nuts!

[Said ibn-Ali]

BUMP! No comments on Sly shield bashing me in the nuts!

I was looking at the person in the black lamallar with the round metal shield standing in the back left of the picture. I think his sword is broken, or it has one WICKED curve to it.

[Thomas MacFinn]

Since he standing at the head of a line waiting to fight, my guess is wicked curve.

[Sigifrith Hauknefr]

yeah, that dude did have some kind of scimitar.

[ThorvaldR Skegglauss]

BUMP! No comments on Sly shield bashing me in the nuts!

Looks to me like you jumped into his shield. He is in a normal heater shield defense. If you wanna put your nuts there.........

[Columb]

This is a picture from the weekend. I'm wearing the household tabard rather than my usual surcoat, which is more fitted.

[Sigifrith Hauknefr]

Thorvald wins the prize! Actually, I had no memory of his shield in my jibbly bits, just thought it was a funny photo!

[Greg Mele]

I thought I'd post a few images of my own kit, mostly as a tribute to the fine folks who made it!

This first is from Lysts on the Lake 2011.
(Note that I don't have my haubergeon on in that shot )

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The next is from WMAW 2011 with Bernard Emmerich of Les Maitres des Armes, who is about to do bad things to my skull:

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And one of Christian Tobler and I fencing with spears (I am on the right, in the high-point).

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The arms harness and gauntlets are by Jeff Wasson, the legs by Jiri Klepac, the helmet by Jacek Matera and the cuirass an impulse purchase from Anshelm while at Pennsic a few years ago. The haubergeon is blackened stainless (riveted) and the whole thing is pointed to my Revival Clothing arming cotte.

[Greg Mele]

Hmm...let me try that again.

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[Thorsteinn Raudskeggr]

Can't see the first 2 pics.

[Greg Mele]

Updated. Hopefully these work!

[Thorsteinn Raudskeggr]

Yep! Nice kit man!

Would love to spar with you & Christian at some time in my life.