The Armour Archive

ArtemisGreen

Horseshoe crabs! I found an assload of them around Cape Hatteras a couple years ago. On top of that, you can use their tails as spikythings that you see on alot of the fantasy armour. Not to mention, they're pointy, so that means a badass weapon too. To get rid of nasty smell, just spray it with so...

ArtemisGreen

Archie Zietman wrote:Firstly,secondly, and fifth:

one, two, five (Three Sir!) Three!!!

Sorry... just had to :lol:

ArtemisGreen

Yeah, you actually can make one quite effectively at home. I wouldn't use wood though. I'd go with some thick steel plates or Ibeams, welded together in a c-frame, with gussets to help keep its shape. And yes, it is manually operated. You roll the sheet back and forth, working your way across the pi...

ArtemisGreen

Drooooooooool......

Sabatons it is!

ArtemisGreen

because the guy shows a pic of it a little lower down displaying its curved lower wheel....

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/a ... effigy.jpg

**edit**

How did that link get in there?!

it should have been this one.

http://www.artmetal.com/project/chat/engwheel/pix17.jpg

oops!

ArtemisGreen

Arty's back! It's been a while, but I'm out of school (college) now, so no longer do I have to work from 7:30 to 5:30, then go to school from 6:00 to 11:00, then do that all over again for the next 5 days. So now it's only 8 to 5. New job, and no school really is quite awesome. ( And the fact that I...

ArtemisGreen

spybeak- The way I did it was to use high carbon steel 1/8" rod for my pins. I cut it just barely longer than necessary, and annealed the ends, then peined the ends slightly. I found my high carbon steel rod at ace hardware. It should say "piano wire" on the tag. If you still can't tell if it is or ...

ArtemisGreen

btw Adam, did you print, cut, trace, and cut the pattern that I came up with, and then form it into that!?

ArtemisGreen

Thanks everyone! That helped me out a helluva lot Hal- I knew that the gap was excessive. I only had a series of tack welds at the ends there just to hold it temporarily. That was what I was trying to improve. Thanks to Adam's pics, I see that the problem was in my forming, and not the pattern. Now ...

ArtemisGreen

I was working on developing a pattern for 2 piece knee cops before I lost every bit of free time I had. Now I have some free time, but not much. Making these easy, weldable knees would save me an assload of time. Would anyone please help me out here on my pattern? I seem to keep sucking at it. http:...

ArtemisGreen

Wow Hal! It seems the r&d you did on the macjieowski style helm has really paid off for this one!

ArtemisGreen

Read like hell. Start now, then ask some specific questions. If you go to a few of these other sites, you can find tons (literally tons) of info. www.arador.com www.ageofarmour.com www.armuredube.com m (this one's mine ) You can even find loads of info here on the archive. Just check out our essay s...

ArtemisGreen

Let's see if I can remember my website I made.... It's been too long since I've been on... Here's that piece of crap prototype that I made long ago. I still haven't finished the final draft because of school/work/sleep/girlfriend. It should be able to pass sca standards. It covers the fingers and al...

ArtemisGreen

Well, the armoury could go in 2 directions..... I'll either be building a new wing as an armoury behind the house, or I could possibly move out soon into an apartment, to which it would then be limited by mail. As of now, my engine blew friday when I cranked it up to go to lunch, so I'm not moving o...

ArtemisGreen

..... inhale.... exhale...... repeat..... It's good to be back.... I needed my archive fix For any of those that were wondering why I was gone for so long... the Artemis Green Armoury was in process of moving. Sucks though... because of the move I lost my stump (which was still rooted in the backyar...

ArtemisGreen

From what I've seen, the single row is more historically accurate. The only downside of using that pattern is that some of the marshalls in the SCA will not allow you to fight in a helm like that, since the rivet doesn't go through the layers of metal. It's total bull though. With that design, it's ...

ArtemisGreen

I made my headband an inch and a half longer than hal's, and overlapped that much, then riveted. I put the rivets in the front, and then put the nasal over the rivets to hide them.

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/a ... f11304.jpg

ArtemisGreen

Yeah... that was actually a bad idea to model it after something seen in a video game. At that time (long time ago) this was all I knew, and did some research, but apparently not enough to make it look right. But, the only redeeming quality that actually made it functional is that there was an incre...

ArtemisGreen

Whoa! Another plug for my site! Yeah, that's a pretty easy ballista to make actually. It's modeled after the one from Age of Empires II. I am going to make some changes to it though. Instead of using 2x4's for the bow part, (that's the first page) I'd rather use something a little more structurally ...

ArtemisGreen

My Wiss aviation shears are supposed to be rated to 18ga mild. I have done 16ga mild, and even a bit of hardened 18ga stainless. It's all in the way you take care of your shears, and keep them sharp, and the tension bolt adjusted. If you do these, they will easily cut 16ga with not alot of effort. T...

ArtemisGreen

Oh Crap!! How did I forget the link? Wait a minute... I know I didn't forget it. Mozilla Firefox is just weird. I'm on the other computer now with the better browser. (not saying which one for fear of flameage ) m I believe it will still answer your questions.... IIRC, the outside of the pattern won...

ArtemisGreen

it's that evil stainless I've been telling you guys about. It's some kind of nuclear-quality stainless I got from a naval shipyard scrapheap. 18ga, and it takes me days of hard work to get one damn knee cop dished and raised, before I can start planishing on it. It's like..... I can dish for a littl...

ArtemisGreen

So I'm building a trebuchet.... My friend and I are going to go in on it together. It's going to be a medium-to-small treb. Only a 10 foot throwing arm and a 12 foot base. The throwing arm will be made from a pressure treated 4x4, tapered down after the fulcrum to about 1x1. The fulcrum is going to ...

ArtemisGreen

I just got a welder last week for my 18th birthday (woohoooo!!) Here's my method to my madness.... Welding (to me) is easy Dishing/raising the stainless (I have alot of the stuff) into a knee/elbow cop is very hard (to me) Cutting 2 pieces of stainless and dishing them slightly, then lining them up ...

ArtemisGreen

You may find this tutorial helpful. I'd just follow his instructions, using the existing plastic knee as your basis for measurement.

~Arty

ArtemisGreen

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/a ... rmour.html

I recommend that you read some of these (at the bottom of the page) before you go spending too much money on stuff. It will also answer a butt-ton of your questions.

Any other questions and I'll gladly help you on your way to the dark... *cough* I mean.... plate-armouring side.

~Arty

ArtemisGreen

m m For the coif top or the aventail part? If you need help on the top, then it all depends on the size rings you're using. Every ring size has different numbers of rings to use, and different numbers for the spacing of trumpet rings. If you need it for the aventail part, I always add a trumpet ring...

ArtemisGreen

m m Are you supposed to rivet through both layers of metal, and then through the leather, or do you only do one layer of metal and the leather for flexibility? Also, what kind of material can you use for a wisby cop? Could I substitute some kind of thick canvas (possibly double layered) like cotton ...

ArtemisGreen

By the way Carmel,
on this picture here of the leg harness...

http://www.carmelemanuel.com/images/PICT0012.JPG

I think a spring pin above the latch would go nicely there. So when you latch it down, the spring pin locks into place, and won't let the latch come undone in battle.

Just a thought.....

~Arty

ArtemisGreen

This shot here .... just makes it look like it's about to jump to life and start beating ass all on its own. I love this suit. The only thing I see wrong with it is the shell articulated part on the elbow. If you need help with that, feel free to give me emails about it. That's my specialty By the w...

ArtemisGreen

The only advantage I can figure out of fingered gauntlets over mittens is that you can give the finger to your opponent. Otherwise, I prefer to use mittens. The added dexterity of fingered gaunts isn't that much better, and anyways, you get 2 layers of metal and padding between each finger which rob...

ArtemisGreen

That has potential to be a pretty cool helm if you re-do the upper visor part. What I would do is.. Cut that top piece off of the upper visor part. Looks like it's riveted on with tabs or something on the inside. Get rid of that, and make a new piece that is pretty much parallel with the ground, and...

ArtemisGreen

Hal's right. Gotta start the never ending tool quest. Here's a good article I wrote that can get you started. m There are alot more here at the bottom. Not too many for plate, but it'll get there eventually. For a first project that's useable, go for spaulders. I did vambraces first, since all I had...

ArtemisGreen

You can still jack the articulation up even if you use a spacer. It all depends on how much you smack the rivet down. If you beat the ever lovin' hell out of the rivet and get it as tight as possible with the spacer, you're going to get some bad articulation still when you pull it out. Also, make su...

ArtemisGreen

Why would you want to fight pants? Even then, how would you use a pattern to fight them?

What'd those poor pants ever do to you?

Back in the fray!

2 pc knee/elbow cops

Shakes are gradually going away :D

Tell me, how much of a moron is he?

2 piece welded knees/elbows

Coat of plates questions