The Armour Archive

Mike England

m Zalea/wool saddle cover avaialbe commercially with a bit aof digging and expense. Otherwise most ot the features on a Portuguese are pretty square so making a cover of material should be pretty simple. I think a couple of the surviving earliest saddles which resemble modern Portugueses were velvet...

Mike England

The weather may have sucked but you looked awesome, as always. We actually had some dustings here over the weekend.

Mike England

The one I was referring to was the one Young Knight posted, which says "The Wallace Collection" on the pic. The ones I posted are all at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mike England

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Although the shape of that reminds me of a Freon can. how about these. http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/bluerunfarm/Krissies%20Armour/A110_schaller.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/bluerunfarm/Krissies%20Armour/DSC02801.jpg

Mike England

Do you mean this?

http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery. ... itemap+url

Mike England

Welcome back Dan,
It is good to hear you and your wife are both doing well.

Mike England

I lent it to a friend a long while back now but if memory serves correctly the partial horse armour on display at the Met a year ago had markings on the inside which were believed to be armourers marks.

http://www.amazon.com/Armored-Europe-14 ... 025&sr=1-1

Mike England

Awesome!

Mike England

An experienced bareback rider can be far more secure on horse than you might expect. Charging against a mounted knight on horseback with lance he would be at a sever disadvantage but against a less well armoured opponent he could surprise you. Roman riding is display of bareback riding skill with pe...

Mike England

When the gun became prominent the armoured lancers role on the battlefield was severly diminished but remained viable in several respects. Until the invention of the needlegun in Germany just prior to the 6 days war reloading was a lengthy process and the range of non-rifled barrels meant that an in...

Mike England

Who is the saddle maker? I am looking for one as well.

Mike England

Man flax and woman flax? One of the reasons I don't put too much faith in Babel Fish. They seem to get messed up more in German than in French or Spanish . . . German is a big fan of the ei ie vowel combination and by switching them around or misplacing one or the other you can vary the meaning, te...

Mike England

Why would a German Castle have M and W on the bathroom doors?

Mike England

This sounds more like a pilot for Gastons potential show. Myth busters and Smash lab wouldn't take it as it doesn't require an explosion.

Mike England

...Arne's armour is based primarily on the effigy of Ulrich Busch, circa 1470. I don't know where the effigy is located, and unfortunately I don't have any photos that I have rights to post. My apologies. Secondarily, the cuisses are primarily based from an image of St. Michael by Michael Pacher, w...

Mike England

Great work over all but I love those greaves Jeff.

Mike England

Can I call dibs now for when you get your next helm Rod?

Mike England

James B. wrote:Here are two fencing manuals with German clothing and I think there are some of the leather armor overalls Maeryk is talking about in there too:

I believe those are called Ledergoller.

Mike England

As I understand it the Landesknechts were given a free pass as to sumptuary laws and other dress codes regarding their social status. However they had other laws regarding the distribution of "booty" within the Landesknechts that tended to give the higher end fabrics and wares to the highe...

Mike England

The questions about nobility and and Landesknechts have me once again looking for clarification. I am under the impression that the Landesknecht officers were German nobility. When I read about rank and file Landesknechts they discuss infantry and tactics but their officers were usually nobles who w...

Mike England

Enrico di Venezia wrote:Have you guys seen William West's progress on the harness he is making for one of the Destrier guys.

http://www.englyshe-plate-armourie.co.uk/Images/Armour%20Images/GERMAN/HELMSCHMID%20SIGESMUND%20ARMOUR/index.htm

Tom

That is just gorgeous

Mike England

I thought a waffenrock was supposed to go over the breastplate and not be an arming garment.

Mike England

I always kind of figured for a mercenary serving a foriegn nation to ask for payment up front. But when your own sovereign requests youir service to think of it as putting a little something away for that estate back home. I guess thats longsighted thinking versus short. You can't travel Europe fore...

Mike England

Why couldn't you just sit him down after the fight and explain that maybe in the future he wouldn't have had to take that shot?

Mike England

I do have a Chinese wife and how in the world am I supposed to explain that. I couldn't even explain wearing a belted plaid and that was only a couple of hundred of miles. Looks like I'm up the proverbial creek. Be a Portuguese. They were certainly there in the 16th Century, and married local women...

Mike England

Just stay away from the goat

Mike England

Night on the Town isn't listed as a fighting event but it used be a good one not far from you Aaron.

Mike England

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Mike England

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/bluerunfarm/Krissies%20Armour/GeorgeinBP.jpg Thats not it (not by Ugo either) But these are: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/bluerunfarm/Krissies%20Armour/GeorgewearingKrissiesarms.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/bluerunfarm/Krissies%20Armour/DSC03...

Mike England

How do we get Sir Gastons member status changed to "Jan"?

Mike England

Whilst we are bumping Ugo work.

He did complete this.

And we took photo's

not the best photo's

on my wifes camera

who has them and won't let me post them.

booo wifey booo

Mike England

We are going to need pictures of you fighting in that Ugo.

Mike England

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah

Mike England

I love that jousting visor

Mike England

Walmart carries, titanium, tungsten and white gold, if you are just looking for a plain band.

White gold is harder than yellow and you you might find it interesting if you like the look of stainless. I don't like yellow and platinum was a bit more than I wanted to spend.