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- Fri Jun 17, 2016 5:36 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: CoP with "exposed" plates
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2512
Re: CoP with "exposed" plates
Here is an updated version of the plates I shared in the other thread that I might actually finish now seven years later. I mashed together pieces for a Kussnach COP that I'll never finish and a cut-up breastplate (plus a bunch of tape and rust). I arranged this with the plates overlapping downwards...
- Fri Jun 17, 2016 1:11 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: CoP with "exposed" plates
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2512
Re: CoP with "exposed" plates
tiredWeasel -- Well that's the best response I could muster to your poetic lamentation ;) I've been slightly damaged from reciting lists of German ackusativ and dativ pronomen in school, so well versed in producing Germanic sounding nonsense! On topic, it is so great to see that there are more writt...
- Thu Jun 16, 2016 1:02 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: CoP with "exposed" plates
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2512
Re: CoP with "exposed" plates
tiredWeasel -- Die Vergebung fließen! If you are able to migrate over something that is useful for this thread that would be great.
/Daniel
/Daniel
- Thu Jun 16, 2016 11:46 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: CoP with "exposed" plates
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2512
Re: CoP with "exposed" plates
Well, if Otto's plates overlap downwards, so that the plate above overlaps the outside of the plate below, then movement would mainly be restricted to the extent that the rivets would restrict movement (except for the lame that is immediately below the breastplate which would be completely fixed). I...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:01 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pottery kiln suitable for armour?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 814
Re: Pottery kiln suitable for armour?
I have an electrical kiln (Rhode I think) with a controller that I've been using for sintering/casting experiments. Of interest to you: The guy I bought it from said I needed to make sure that the kiln has cooled before opening it. Apparently the heating coils can crack if they are cooled too quickl...
- Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 1050 alloys cost/ source in EU
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1142
Re: 1050 alloys cost/ source in EU
Ambrogio -- I might contact you in June to see if you have some C45 left by then (1, 1.5, and 2), and ideally if I can get it in smaller pieces (like 1*1 meter). I'm in Texas now but normally live in Uppsala. It's about time I make the move from mild steel.
- Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:31 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New 1340s Harness
- Replies: 101
- Views: 5778
Re: New 1340s Harness
I love seeing work on armour from this period. Really nice that you went with internal hinges! About the outer part of the vambrace: How close to the tip of the elbow does it come? Maybe its the angle of the photos that makes it look a tad short? I need to go back and re-read this thread, but the so...
- Wed May 30, 2012 3:22 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 554
Re: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
Galleron -- That is an interesting piece of information. Will need to look into that further.
Jester -- I know that leaders of lances could be called caporales but I hadn't seen that the term could be used for leaders of other troops as well. Another lead to follow, thanks!
Jester -- I know that leaders of lances could be called caporales but I hadn't seen that the term could be used for leaders of other troops as well. Another lead to follow, thanks!
- Wed May 30, 2012 2:33 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 554
Re: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
Chef-de-chambre: So are you saying that there could have been permanent low-level units that were organized as a row/line? By "permanent low-level units" I mean something like a modern squad or an ancient file, set up by a higher commander then the guy leading the "squad". I might not have been enti...
- Wed May 30, 2012 11:08 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 554
Re: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
So it seems that whenever there were some form of permanent low-level unit it was organized as a file and not a row/line. Galleron, would the English vintenar be of the more ad-hoc variety that Chef-de-chambre mentioned? Jester -- Yeah, I guess there is more truth to that statement than I'd like to ...
- Tue May 29, 2012 3:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Charles VI Pourpoint: paper session at Leeds in July
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1842
Re: Charles VI Pourpoint: paper session at Leeds in July
And that's a shame! Although, honestly, getting to a town close to the west coast or east coast archipelago should be any visitors top priority, and Uppsala is just too far off the coast. But hey, we've got Old Upsala and the grave hills!
- Tue May 29, 2012 3:09 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 554
Re: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
Thanks Chef, I appreciate it! Its at least good to know that there would be ad-hoc groupings and leadership at a lower level. That fluidity of groupings makes it easier to understand how some components of a lance could be organized in various ways based on what the situation called for.
- Tue May 29, 2012 1:43 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 554
Re: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
Thanks for the link. Ok, in some cases guilds or districs might be the smallest unit. And in other cases it seems that the troops just had to know where in the formation they were positioned. But, if it was the commander's duty to make sure they knew where to stand, wouldn't there be lower level com...
- Tue May 29, 2012 12:40 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 554
Medieval Infantry Squad/Infantry Equivalent of a Lance?
During the 15th century the main organizational (and sometimes battlefield) unit was the lance. The lance, however, seems to be centred around the mounted men-at-arms. But sometimes there were off course infantry components that operated separately from the cavalry. And sometimes there seems to be i...
- Tue May 29, 2012 12:01 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Charles VI Pourpoint: paper session at Leeds in July
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1842
Re: Charles VI Pourpoint: paper session at Leeds in July
Congrats! And I hope it won't take too long for you to get the article published.
- Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:08 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My latest making of video.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1074
Re: My latest making of video.
That was beautiful! The high production value really multiplies the inspirational value of that video -- thanks!
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:16 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My turn to raise a bascinet!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1015
Re: My turn to raise a bascinet!
Konstantin -- Your attention to new and intermittent visitors is one of the things that helps make the armourarchive one of the friendliest forums I visit :) Alec -- I love the manuscript portrayals so that's a comment I take to heart! Since the helmet is a tad thin it might not be completely out of...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:41 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My turn to raise a bascinet!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1015
Re: My turn to raise a bascinet!
So -- three years later I have finally gotten some verveilles in place, fastened the lining and attached the mail. I still need to fasten the front of the mail. I built this from parts of a hauberk so that's why there is a gap between the rings in the front. I also want to fasten the mail to the out...
- Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:26 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: German creased polyens- has anyone made any lately?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1094
Well, there is similar fluting in helmets somewhat earlier than these types of poleyns so I can't see why they wouldn't be able to do it in metal (assuming that the helmets are metal off course). Judging by the time and place you see these poleyns I would doubt that they are made of leather.
/Daniel
/Daniel
- Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:27 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making a pattern
- Replies: 18
- Views: 604
Having extra metal to work with is really great but you need to know when you have reached the final shape. I have learnt by others here to use profiles. Like for a helmet you can have one flat profile of how the helmet looks like from the front, one from the side, and one (or more) with the cross s...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:10 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:09 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
Here are pictures of the patterns. Note that there is no seam-allowance added. I basically added up to an inch around most seams to make sure I had enough left after quilting and fitting. I have also left out the skirt section because it needs the most rework. See some more notes under "lessons lear...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:54 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Manuscript Miniatures database & image collection
- Replies: 62
- Views: 2999
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:17 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
I'm glad to hear that the results are convincing enough! Konstantin -- My plan is to go the knee-cop plus gamboised cuisse and/or tooled leather cuisse route. And like you say -- making some changes to the pourpoint would be easy enough if the legs end up being too heavy. For what its worth I'll try...
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:20 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
Well the reason for the narrow 'shoulder-straps' was that I wanted to make sure that I could lift my arms without lifting the pourpoint. So I essentially went with the aketon pattern without the grandes assiettes. Perhaps it works just as well with broader shoulder-straps but I figured I wanted to s...
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:02 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:21 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:21 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:18 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2255
Hand-sewing a pourpoint and aketon, some lessons learnt
Introduction So I got fed up with the bulk and ill fit of my GDFB gambeson under armour and decided I needed a slimmer option with greater range of movement. In the end I settled for a sleeveless pourpoint, to which I will point the leg armour, and a sleeved, long, aketon that provides the foundati...
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:48 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: I wanna play with these guys
- Replies: 115
- Views: 5071
Please note that in my post I said nothing of behaviour in actual combat, I only talked about martial sports. Neither will I will say anything of it now -- I will just comment on how we can gain knowledge of behaviour and emotions during battle. David - I get the impression that you believe that the...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:32 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: I wanna play with these guys
- Replies: 115
- Views: 5071
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:37 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: I wanna play with these guys
- Replies: 115
- Views: 5071
Gregory and others - Are you criticising the game or the players (or both)? If its the players you don't like then I'm sure that better teams and players will develop over time as more people get involved. That seems to be what happens with all new sports. And in addition, I agree with previous spea...
- Thu May 27, 2010 11:53 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Interesting armor ca 1360? (lorica segmentata-like COP)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 777
Well considering that there apparently existed "plates without covers"/"plates sans couvriers"(spelling?) according to Claude Blair it wouldn't be too strange if they popped up in illustrations. Edge and Paddock proposes that there were examples of those in the Romance of Alexander but in that case ...
- Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:39 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: norwegian armor
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1015
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:07 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A basic helm raising question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 650
Wade -- Yeah, I guess that getting a feel for the thickness of the material is more crucial with "squash raising" then with regular raising, where placing the hammer in the right spot is so important (at least in my limited experience). Aaron -- I received the PM, I'll try not to derail the thread f...