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New Years resolution guys...what do you plan to improve your kit this year to make it match with your time period and overall make it look more spiff!!!!

Mail gussets and besagues added (I've got them already) and a new arming coat (Maureen is sewing it up).

Wrestling elbow and knee pads.

Fighting at least once per month. I haven't fought since October. Where is that "cry like weened baby" icon?

Dear Sanata,

I may not have been a very good boy but I have tried my hardest. Please bring me TIME so I can do a better job and complete as much of my new kit as possible before Pennsic.

Sean

Finish the legs I'm working on. Replace the rest of the chrome buckles with brass ones. Those are for sure.

I'd like to make new rerebraces and order some spaulders from stonekeep. http://spiers-saddlery.stores.yahoo.net/spst3la.html

I would also like to make some mail sabatons from some of Mstr Knutts welded stainless.

I am actually at something of a sticking point. I want to improve my kit... but I'm not exactly sure how...
Maybe I should do a separate thread... post my kit and get suggestions.
Right now, the only thing I can think of is improving my foundation garments (gambeson, etc.)

Aaron wrote: Where is that "cry like weened baby" icon?

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Hospitaller@Acre wrote:New Years resolution guys...what do you plan to improve your kit this year to make it match with your time period and overall make it look more spiff!!!!

Assuming the arming coat gets done, it would be "actually fight in the damned thing"

Replace my Cop for a breast and back plate and get some new shoulders. After that i'm going to find my self a new helmet. It's going to be a sallet or a eisenhut with a high bevor, something like this

http://www.armorymarek.com/katalog/chapeles/index.html

And maybe some new gauntlets if I have money left...

Maeryk wrote:

Hospitaller@Acre wrote:New Years resolution guys...what do you plan to improve your kit this year to make it match with your time period and overall make it look more spiff!!!!

Assuming the arming coat gets done, it would be "actually fight in the damned thing"

You gonna fight again? Sweet!!!

The visible parts of my kit are a mail hauberk and helmet, with all the other protective bits concealed, so what I need most are more and better linen arming clothes to keep the ugly stuff covered. The paint-job on my shield has definitely seen better days. So, mostly stuff that takes more time than money, meaning I have no excuse but sloth for not getting it done.

Add splinted rerbraces and the correct shoulder armour for my kit.
I am also hoping to finish the maille for my kit as well. It is a long slow process, but I am adding flat wedge riveted shirt and legs (with feet attached) to the kit.

**Edit - DOH...forgot the new surcoat...

1. Correct tunic to be wearing under the armor.
2. New COP's
3. New surcoat, tailored in a way more suited to the rest of the kit.

olaf haraldson wrote:I am actually at something of a sticking point. I want to improve my kit... but I'm not exactly sure how...
Maybe I should do a separate thread... post my kit and get suggestions.
Right now, the only thing I can think of is improving my foundation garments (gambeson, etc.)

The devil is in the details. Look at Camric Greenshield's kit. Why is it so good? It's attention to detail. The right belts, pouches, and other accessories pull it all together.

Kenric

Well till the market went south the game plan was 14 century spring steel arms and legs to complement my body armor and helm by Pennsic... the "minister of finance" has put all the on hold for now.

Anyways I'm going to work on making a nice set of padded cuisses that are going to be a sort of COP for my legs to include covering the BACK part of my legs down to the knee... for now.



Something like this but with plates worked into it... oh, in red and black

Having a kit. I haven't had a complete kit of my own since selling my 14th C one. My plan for 2009 is having a complete kit of my own again AND-
Making sure it is what they would have worn, and not some hidden, covered, plastic, scamalgamination of pseudo-armor.

I would like to make a period gambeson/aketon and helmet liner. I am also toying with the idea of making a pair of aillettes (I hope I spelled that right). Need to make some new fighting pants and tunics, starting to get some serious holes in the current set. This time around I am going to make the tunic a more period length. An actual period belt and sword harness.
I thought I was close to being done but seeing this list reminds me of what I have to get done.

Get the transition to the Hohenkligen Kit at least 1/2 done...

( edited for clarity )

New Charles de Bloise type arming coat (3/4 done by a friends wife), replace the fabric cover on my breast plate with silk velvet (have to make a master for the rivets so a friend can cast the attachemnt rivets), make greaves and sabbatons.

and start two more kits

brian

Leo Medii wrote:Having a kit. I haven't had a complete kit of my own since selling my 14th C one. My plan for 2009 is having a complete kit of my own again AND-
Making sure it is what they would have worn, and not some hidden, covered, plastic, scamalgamination of pseudo-armor.

+Tasha, except that this one is going to be hidden *whatever* so I can do 11thC Norse. I just need to get back into fighting for now and I desperately need to keep the weight down until I can get back up to speed. I do have some ideas for a Mark II kit ... which will probably be 15thC spring steel.

Fight? Yeesh, that sounds good...

Arming caftan/buffcoat thingumbob. Sew a new felt liner for my Cuman helm... do whatever trades I have to do to get a 6mm aventail for same.

Try to get a 14c sword, preferably a XIIIa, again, probably swapping.

Assorted other harness, including a variation on the Prague St. George/Azov harnesses.

That'll probably do me for the whole year, since we've got a newborn coming.

Landsknecht kit: new "shirt" for under armour, finish katzbalger, find better shoes, swap out plates so that it "sounds" better, keep looking for a better sturmburgonet, etc....

1400-ish tourney kit: finish plaque belt (have the pieces), flute shield basket to look like gauntlet fingers, add leather rider to aventail, add houndskugel face to helm, match crayfish with tors&mantle(s), make a CoP for practices and local events, and maybe come up with a way to make "fake-fingered" basket hilts.

Constructive suggestions from folks who have seem my armour would be appreciated.

My list of crap to do to my rig..

1) Get the brand new helmet repaired/welded
2) install aventaill
3) install pseudo period liner
4) make sword
5) repaint/build shield
6) modify gambeson for spaulders
7) locate suitable method to hang legs
make sure the meat under the kit can handle
9) new arms/breastplate

A complete overhaul of my kit. The only things that will remain are my gorget, my cup, my gauntlets, and my C-belt.
New helm from James River Armoury
Mail from Master Knuut
Some home made hidden arms, legs, rigid torso protection, and prettier half gauntlets
New shield

All in all, pretty minor tweaks.

And if I have any money left, start working on a COTT appropriate kit.

Adam

Build an entirely new kit and get fighting again.

Commission a Rus helm from someone.
Lamellar body (though probably do hidden for the time being)
Bazubands from uncle Haroun
Make fighting boots.
Build other necessities for SCA (gorget, demis, etc)

My new helmet:




With a new camail.

Since it is stainless/titanium, I can get rid of the weird yoked coifs I've been wearing for years to keep grease off my surcoats. Maybe go to a padded coif instead of a padded helm.

There's a new gambeson in the works.

I might remake my vambraces again, because I don't quite care for how they fit. Maybe I'll step up and make them fancy like the previous pair that didn't quite fit but were very very showy.

Since it will be 1209 for me, I think it is also time for some of those little "coaster" demi-polyn knees that start appearing on gamboised cuisses around that time. Duke Alaric offered to make me some at some point....

And with a global depression setting in, perhaps the price of Titanium will drop enough for me to afford a new hauberk. Which, come to think of it, might be useful for fighting off the hordes of mercenary marauders roaming the eastern seaboard in 2012.

There's a happy thought!

I have a lot planned for my kit in 2009.

1) Have a new plackart made.

2) re-shape or replace a few lames of my fauld.

3) replace my tassets with a set that more closely match the rest of my kit.

4) make or commission new pauldrons and armharness.

5) add a tiny bit more curve to the tops of the backs of my greaves, whose fit I have recently tightened up.

6) buy a new 6mm riveted mail skirt, shirt, and standard. I already have voyders in 6mm.

&) have the whole harness case-hardened and heat-treated.

money is super tight right now, but I do actually have some plans. They are kind of up in the air in a lot of ways, but I DO have them.

I would like to make new shoes and really get the winningas down. Sometimes leather comes my way, and I think that I have the skills to make some decent shoes to replace the bag shoes that I have been wearing. They are about two hundred years too early for my target date, and that is two hundred years too early for my helm. Who cares, it's a knotwolf. I would like to figure out a cloak attachment system so that I can wear a cloak in battle (If I want) where I don't have to wear a pennambular broach that can be driven into my shoulder. That could be important in Sweden.

If I can come up with some linen, I would like to finally make the tunic that I was intending to have to cover my bazys.

Other things, I have bought some stainless salad bowls to replace the bosses on the sheilds that I have "retired". I took on boss off a retired shield, and it just about breaks my heart to see it hanging there with the big opening. I will put the bowls on the dishing stump and dimple them, and I will have bosses that I don't have to buy. This frees up a huge area for self expression in shields.

And, if I want to go off to fantasy land, I bought a beautiful Klappvisor basicinet a few years ago for a friend of mine. She refused to pay me for it, and now I have a fabulous Klappvisor. I would like to maybe get the beginnings of a 14th century rig to piddle with in the shop. I have a couple of sets of spalders in the shop (I have never used them) and my legs could possibly be converted. Arms are a little bit problematic, but I think that I can solve it. I get jealous of the Deed of Arms crew on occasion.

So, shoes, winningas, and a sort of list legal cloak fastener.

And maybe I will try my hand at copper arm rings.

f

In 2k9 I plan on:

- Replacing all the cr*p brass hinges on my lorica
- Sanding and polishing the lorica (It USED to be stainless, now it's veteraned)
- Manica. (I'm tired of the plastic arms. I've got the patterns and the time. I just need the metal.)
- Greaves.
- New gorget

Let see, A wooden shield would be great. The aluminum is just so wrong...

Finish rigging up my mail chausses and building some under armor for them.
Maybe send my hauberk back to Knut for some tailoring to get rid of the old lady arms.
Also maybe a new gambeson, the one Magdalena made tends to ride up under the mail. Definitely a new surcoat, my original one is not the correct color and I need to add the cross to it in any case.

Splint my vambraces & greaves. Take my elbow/knee cops off the sports pads and attach them to my armor.

Make some kind of new torso armor.

And..ultimate is to have someone custom make neat replaceable visors for my helm.

Need to clean it reaaaally bad

Ned to fix a knee strap


Wanna rebuild my spaulders again

wanna build another coverd BP

new kidneys


spring sabs


gotta build other folks first

Make a 14th Century Covered Pistoia Alter kit.

I am already working on the legs, I just need to get the breastplate from Master Cet and cover it.
Make the faulds.
New arms.
New greaves
Mail shirt for under
new sabatons....


As for the 15th century rig...

voiders.
A new maille standard and skirt...
greaves and sabatons

Agnarr wrote:

Maeryk wrote:

Hospitaller@Acre wrote:New Years resolution guys...what do you plan to improve your kit this year to make it match with your time period and overall make it look more spiff!!!!

Assuming the arming coat gets done, it would be "actually fight in the damned thing"

You gonna fight again? Sweet!!!

Yup.. that's the plan, Stan. Course, I know that's like putting a big, fat, target that says "KNOWN WORLD KISS MY ASS" on my back and forehead.. but hey.. bring it.

Two different kits to work on, SCA and Dagorhir.

SCA kit, for the time being, primarily needs an aventail for the bascinet, and nicer arms (how are those coming, Murdock?).

I aim to make a Charles de Blois style pourpoint for padding and for holding armor bits on (as is the custom), but I may just end up slightly re-tailoring the gambeson I have now.

Dagorhir kit is undergoing a total overhaul, re-working my early 14th century kit into a more mid-century kit. Coat of Plates, splinted cuisses and rerebraces, steel greaves and vambraces, and Wisby-style gauntlets. The best part, though, is that it will be able to pull double duty for SCA fighting once it's done.

Going all hoplite...

Wanted to do it since I was 9 years old... but it took a while... Experimenting with broad/leafed weapons (not sure if will take them to the field except as experimental.)

Much effort is being put into putting together a kit that will look as historically correct as feasible while keeping it SCA safe.

Now I only get to wish for the famous 300 battle to happen at Pennsic...

Rowan