Building an armor buddy this weekend

James the Baker · Post by **James the Baker** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:33 pm

...with the kids for my roman stuff.I have a fairly clear idea of the framework but figured I would poll the electorate here and hopefully avoid any not-so-obvious pitfalls.
Thanks.
James

Jakob Hilditonn · Post by **Jakob Hilditonn** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:38 am

Make it light weight and design it to keep the center of ballance as low as possible. A quick google search found the following.

http://www.onlinearmory.com/customer/bilder/hamburg.jpg

http://www.arador.com/articles/stand.html

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... &catid=746

http://www.onlinearmory.com/pics/stand01.jpg

for some reason the archive search keeps freezing on me, so I suggest you search for previous discusions on the subject here in the archive.

James the Baker · Post by **James the Baker** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:56 pm

Thank you for the suggestion and the links.
For the life of me I couldn't think of what to call it.
James

James Arlen Gillaspie · Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:32 pm

The problem with all these stands is that not a one of them mimics human anatomy. The basic ideas can be used, but you need to look at the human body in profile and see how it deviates from a straight pole and adapt accordingly.