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Rittmeister Frye

Hey Guys, it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything here at AA, but since I was dragged kicking and screaming (in anticipation!) back into the jousting world, I thought I should get back up to speed on things Renaissance and Medieval. In the past two months I've taken part in two great jousti...

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David;

There is always "something" that we need to tweak to make it "right"!

When we get there though, the game is up, we'll need to find a new project at that point or we'll go mad.

Cheers!

Gordon

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Nice! Right out of Sir Philip Sydney's funeral procession. I love the peascod breastplate, and just the fact that you're doing a targeteer impression, with a proper English basket-hilted broadsword, no less. Even a sufficient padding to the back of your target.

Great job!

Cheers!

Gordon

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For a great explanation of this, and why neither pikes nor infantry firearms did NOT wipe the knight off the field, see "Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe," by Bert Hall. Bingo. It was the Pistolier who drove the mounted knight from the field. A lance is a single-shot weapon (it was standar...

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Interesting... the helmet certainly looks to be straight out of the period illustrations of conquistadors, especially those of the Aztecs (I realize this is in Peru, but I'm thinking in terms of what other natives were "seeing" at the same time). It's almost as though it's a native "artist's renditi...

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It's not like the fellow is using cow manure or something yucky like that (four stomachs do a good job of digesting stuff) ... horses don't do a lot of digesting, so it's only slightly composted hay that comes out. I can see how it would burn well. Gotta try that! (When the weather dries things up, ...

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I'd put it earlier than 1900 myself. Sam Stagg rigging, separate jockeys over the stirrup leathers, the stirrup leathers having the sweat leathers riveted to them, and the very square skirting. It could be after 1900, but if so then not by much. The "Cheyenne Roll" on the back of the cantle is a bit...

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If it's in scale with everything else on the page, it's too big to be a curb chain. Lord knows what in the heck it is, though.

Gordon

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I recall reading that the term "Turkey" comes from the supposed resemblance of the Turkey to a "Turkish Pheasant" or some such. From that to "Turkey-cocke" and thence to simple "Turkey". The Spaniards in the New World, at least up through the end of the 16th Century, referred to them as "Mexican Chi...

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YAY! Good luck with this, Gentlemen!

Cheers!

Gordon

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Rittermeister Frye - That is a good point about conquistadors and copper. I seem to recall something about large quantities on copper crossbow quarrel heads too. Not the best place to look for early cast iron. Indeed, the Tlaxcalans (allied with Cortez against the Aztecs) provided the Spaniards wit...

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I have been trying "conquistador" sites but I have not found any that well documented. I am having more luck with American sites though since as the saying goes: "Americans think that 100 years is a long time while Europeans think that 100 miles is a long ways." I like that! Gotta remember it and s...

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Guthrie, Cast iron shot goes back a bit further than that. The Mary Rose had cast iron shot on board in 1545, and Biringuccio tells us how to do it in Pirotechnia, which was published posthumously in 1540. He thinks of them as a "new" invention from around 1495. Mac As I recall, cast iron cannon ba...

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It seems as though a lot of it was a way of reusing older armours, but it's nifty in that it ended up with a nice system of different hardness levels throughout the armour. Pretty cool. I hadn't seen the test against musket shot though, that would definitely be something interesting to read. (They d...

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Mid-to-late 16th Century German? You're pretty much looking at classic Black and White armour, the stuff of which the Schwarz Reiter were named for. Check out this thread: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=52400&hilit=Schwarz+Reiter For Italian, check out the Osprey book on...

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Excellent!

Cheers!

Gordon

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The thing is that the past IS like another country, even if it's our own country's past we're talking about. Not only do languages change, but outlooks as well. I seriously doubt that any modern "Western" individual is as focused upon religion, spirituality and the here-after as our fore-fathers and...

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Sad turn of events, isn't it James? And you're right, I'm surprised that they don't all shave their heads for more "face time".

Cheers,

Gordon

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Too bad that this film (among many others) seems to suffer from the fact that neither film directors nor costume directors can comprehend that at any period other than our own, people wore HATS. And in combat during this period, gentlemen wore ARMOUR, with HELMETS. Amazing stuff, that. Sad how they ...

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You'll probably be working for either Spain or France (well, the French Crown, at least), or perhaps the Imperialists of Austria. Both Spain and France hired Italian Heavy Horse for their campaigns against Protestant forces in the Netherlands and France, respectively, while the Austrians hired some ...

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Very cool. Thanks for posting that!

Cheers!

Gordon

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Ancel; Indeed, this is the one. It's an excellent resource of period illustrations. BTW, it also has some "classical illusion" illustrations, as well as some from "the old days" (i.e. a few generations prior, with nice Gothic armour and whatnot) so one mustn't jump to the conclusion that because it ...

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This is what those long-tailed shirts are for. Tuck 'em under! Thus being in public just in your shirtsleeves was rather in poor taste. Cheers, Gordon I knew it was poor taste but I'd never thought of it that way! It's your underoos! :lol: Exactly. And this condition lasted well into the middle of ...

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This is what those long-tailed shirts are for. Tuck 'em under! Thus being in public just in your shirtsleeves was rather in poor taste.

Cheers,

Gordon

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AlvarGuerrero wrote:Curious about a late period riding boot as well, though I am looking at some Metis Botas de alas from New Spain as well.

Those don't show up in period illustrations until the late-17th/early=18th Century, I'm afraid.

Cheers,

Gordon

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Good Man! Thanks for putting that together!

Cheers!

Gordon

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Check out "America B.C." by Barry Fell. Some interesting interpretations of the various artifacts strewn about North America, and possible translations of "plow scratches" on stones into Ogam ("Linear 3" as I recall).

Cheers,

Gordon

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There are several sources which note that the forces of the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion would regularly sing verses 24 and 25 of the 118th Psalm prior to battle. They most certainly did just prior to the Battle of Coutras in 1587, according to the writings of Agrippa D'Aubigné, who ...

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I would imagine too that the specifics of lacing viz-a-vis hook and eye closures would depend upon time and place. Late ECW/post-war (from whence most of the extant buff coats originate, I would presume) would, I believe, be more likely to have the hook and eye closure than one from, say, 1620 or so...

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I have always assumed that Jost Amman meant they mythological King Midas, the one of whom everything he touched turned to gold, including food, daughters, etc. Why on earth he would be credited with the invention of maille has always been beyond me, but then the Europeans of that era were wont to ma...

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Wow, looks pretty cool. Already found an error though, at least in the kit of the fellow on the front cover. The French weren't in to "tricker locks" (matchlocks with trigger mechanisms and a trigger guard), but rather stuck with the sear-bar style until full adoption of flintlocks in 1703. So we'll...

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Thanks for the link Andrew, there's a lot of new stuff on the website that I hadn't seen yet.

Cheers!

Gordon

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Good Job! Great looking armour! One so very seldom sees nice segmented cuisses/tassets, so it's wonderful to see them there! I need to go back and put a skirting on the doublet to help keep it from riding up and exposing my hips and back to the bottom of my breastplate, which is where I get most of ...

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Really? How is a falling buffe functionally different than a more standard wrapper? A close helmet already has a "wrapper" as part of its construction of the lower visor, so an added one would be rather superfluous, I would think. I realize that the "sparrow's beak" armets needed one, due among oth...

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That makes no sense to have a falling buffe on a close helmet. And unless there is a cranial cap reinforce to go over the skull with all of the open cuts in it, he helmet itself would be quite useless. I wonder how much of this is an assemblage, and what was done to it later on by the Romanov court ...

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