The Armour Archive

brookswift

just because you have a tiny computer monitor... actually my client for the site put that up as an afterthought after i'd already made him the site. it originally was much skinnier. most of the reason i did the site was so that i could finally have an excuse to use brush strokes in a website :-p. .....

brookswift

>g. No shield shall have openings or holes of more than one inch diameter.

doesn't that mean that one could make a swiss cheese shield? why would anyone have ANY openings or holes in a shield? (visible anyway, and if not, isn't a shield boss a bigger hole than 1 inch diameter)

brookswift

well, that was quick, looks like i've already got someone interested.

brookswift

Hello everyone, I'm a professional web developer, but somehow I've moved up to managing the programmers who make the websites for me. I want to have some fun making a website in my spare time, so if there are any armourers who want a free website, give me a ring. I just want to have some fun, so I t...

brookswift

i actually did a ballroom dance demo right after a fighting demo at my school once. I just dropped my helmet and my gauntlets and jived on the plaza. as a partipant in regular triathlons, i was scared for a minute thinking about armored triathlons. "And GO!" *spash!* ... ... ... *bubble*

brookswift

they look like liner holes to me. for sewing in the liner.

brookswift

I haven't yet had the chance to fight in my new stonekeep legs, but I WAS able to dance 5 hours strait in them (i went to a "camelot" ball as lancelot, it was quite fun). and everyone knows, it's not good armor unless you can dance in it :twisted:

brookswift

pm sent about viking sword

brookswift

he's not going to be at estrella then? i've love to talk to someone face to face about kit planning, but gulf wars and pennsic are a bit far for me.

brookswift

of course, knowing you, if we place an order today, it would already be done and shipped by tomorrow

brookswift

I see stainless, mild, aluminum, and even sometimes titanium products being sold by armorers on the web, but i haven't seen spring steel anywhere. does anyone know who/where to go to find spring steel stuff? maybe start with the entry level stuff and move on? any ideas on what a suit might cost? i'm...

brookswift

I've been told that they don't have all those authorizations out here in the west because we just have an honour system. if you want to pick up a weapon, we trust that you're going to learn how to use it properly. if you don't use it properly, we'll talk to you.

brookswift

if i had a car, i'd love to help you out. they're only about an hour from me.

brookswift

do you have any measurements? specifically, i'd like the length of the vambraces.

brookswift

pm sent

brookswift

fatum est! - it's fate ergcapud me? - my place then? me commove - thrill me ocelle - apple of my eye verculum - my little spring chicken rstistine tuos dentes? - have you flossed? battuo/tundo/pulso - bang lacrimanse? - is that a tear in your eye? te firma! - brace yourself! numbquam alterum amem - ...

brookswift

it's almost worth it to buy just for loaner armor... if only i had the extra cash lying around.

brookswift

I might buy a few pounds for cooking purposes... my grandmother might appreciate it. i'll see if i don't catch you at a fighter practice when i finally start showing up again.

brookswift

Hardening anything you're going to hit with a hardened hammer is a bad idea. There is a realistic posibility of either hammer or tool shattering and sending high velocity metal shards at you. Is it a common accident? I dunno. But worth avoiding in my mind. Want to see my scar? I had a small shard o...

brookswift

yeah, this guy was a light archer. he had an open kettle helm. the rules, as i was informed, at this war were archers are dead within 10 ft, but you need to tell them. This was on a bridge battle of sorts, and I had him cornered against "walls" (haystacks)

brookswift

i'm sure NASA can help with those aerospace zero tolerance parts :-p

brookswift

yes, i'm even more confused now. so theoretically, an archer who's not a heavy, (this one wasn't) can just run away, then keep shooting and can't be killed? i don't remember the white diamonds from any of my readings of rules of the lists, i'm not sure on that one. I couldn't say wether he had one o...

brookswift

on the archer tangent, i was within 10 ft of the guy when he fired at me. i was told that you don't hit archers unless they put down their bow and draw their sword (that is, if they are the mixed type). i was also told that an archer must yield if he's not equipped for heavy fighting. seeing as how ...

brookswift

it was "enforced". ie, no marshall saw it in the big clump of that particular bridge battle. that estrella was my first time in armor. i also had some problems with unyielding archers. at least with the archers, i had a marshall yelling at an archer. when you say "yield" within 10 ft of an archer, y...

brookswift

at estrella last year almost every spear/pike thrust i recieved was to the side of my head, usually right after the next guy in the shieldwall was going down. i've been taken off of my feet by the power of those blows more often than not. that didn't bother me as much as the asshole who gave me repe...

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well, at west-an tir war this year, we were in a castle battle with an tir attacking from the outside. they had several res waves, but a new wave didn't start until all the an tirans were dead. so last man standing was the king of an tir, who decided to go out in a blaze of glory and charged the gat...

brookswift

I AM an actress! And I guess my armour is (compared to the body weight) the heaviest armour in the region (about 40-50% body weight, depending on weapon form). heh, then my kit being more than 50% of my body weight (i weigh 175, the kit is 100) really IS the heaviest kit around. I had some fun when...

brookswift

yep, when I find a woman who loves to fight, i'll be set for life.

brookswift

anyone have pictures of these? i've never heard of them before and am very curious now...

brookswift

yeah, i bought a pair off ebay before estrella last year.

brookswift

well, apparently i am a second-hand owner of these gauntlets. They're really great. Perfectly protective. I love 'em. There is NO way any shot is going to make it through to your hand in these.

brookswift

Yeah, once you're in hitting range, if you're not taking shots at your opponent (s)he is taking shots at you. my basic strategy though, is quite simple "don't get hit". that means i fight defensively. it doesn't mean i don't attack, but it means that i wait for my opponent to make the first mistake....

brookswift

how big around is your head, and how does the helmet fit your head?

brookswift

any interior pics of the helm?

brookswift

yeah, and if you're getting him a heli, be warned that they require a LOT of practice/training to fly.

Re: Anyone want a website?

Anyone want a website?

wtb spring steel anything?