The Armour Archive

FrauHirsch

The knee and below are not target areas and by default there is knee fighting, however other systems are allowed or alternate formats, such as points only to the waist and above, points thrown or received, traditional Pas formats, etc. Adrian tournaments are typically 2 out of 3 fights, so effective...

FrauHirsch

Yay You!

FrauHirsch

Adria splintered from the SCA in 1989 I think. From what I can tell, it was not so much dissafection with the SCA, but wanting to do something different - using steel swords, more armor and initially they were a single time period 1450 French court. I was told the originators also wanted to reenact ...

FrauHirsch

Fransisco, Depends a lot on the region. But there is a variety of skill level based on where you go and who's trained you. In our area there are many long time SCA solid unbelts who fight as well as my husband who is a KSCA since 1990 and started fighting rebated steel in Adria in 1999. We all still...

FrauHirsch

I agree, that rock's for the most part do tend to have a short sleeve, or just long sleeves attached, with both/either possibly worn over an underdoublet which might or might not have sleeves. What we don't see with men's rock sleeves is them tied on with big bows with a gap between the armscye and ...

FrauHirsch

Our soon to be Duke of Brandenburg, Sir Giachino Marone (Adrian Knight), produced the video and chose the music. He is very talented artistically (college theater professor and long time theater professional). He also teaches Marozzo, and I33, and is on the video fighting with a longsword. He also f...

FrauHirsch

My son is in the first fight with his back to us. Brother Amos's father is also in the video.

FrauHirsch

My son is fighting his first rebated steel tournament in the Adrian Empire:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php ... 030040169#

Most of the fighters in the video are also SCA rattan fighters.

FrauHirsch

I usually use china silk. Its cheap and even a wide tube of it condenses down to 1" or so wide.

To make a 1/2 bow, just make the first side of a normal bow, then instead of making a second bow, just pull the end through.

Some even have a double bow, but both loops are on the same side...

FrauHirsch

We do German. Wide silk tied garters show up before the turn of the century in the continent. They are rampant in the early landsknect clothing. But there are examples of thinner tied garters on the English before 1530 and even later, there are varied widths. I'd imagine the German immigrants to Lon...

FrauHirsch

Very cool. There are a number of other cool videos of this on Youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpwFgVRe ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOg1JPQlio

They even have a facebook site:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 475?ref=mf

FrauHirsch

I was looking for tips and gained far more. thus far i have been making small efforts to change diet like cutting out soda and drinking black coffee (sometimes I cheat at work with one sugar and cream as the work coffee is dreadful) My work coffee is also dreadful, and it is one of those things I r...

FrauHirsch

What's the general consensus on soy milk and seltzer water. Gwen, I agree with Maeryk. I did some research after going on the Nutrisystem diet for about 3.5 weeks. I was pretty hungry all the time (and the food was pretty gross and I had to modify most of it to be edible - within the plan of course...

FrauHirsch

I think that is what I like about wieght watchers vs standard calorie counters. It has some formula that takes into account calories, fat grams and fiber grams, so I find it helps determine the most bang for the buck. The dietary affect of a 250 calorie food with 25 fat grams and zero fiber vs a 250...

FrauHirsch

I recommend weight watchers on line. By logging your food and researching what you can fit in, it will help you figure out where you are blowing it and where you can save the most calories. Its pretty low cost and there is a diet community for guys. I know lot of people I know have been having weigh...

FrauHirsch

http://www.premierwood.com/wooden-ball.asp
http://www.craftparts.com/balls-ball-kn ... 7_279.html

A studded leather cap with one of these balls attached and a dowel for a flag would look pretty good.

FrauHirsch

My husband did some research about finials and even did some statistics. There really are very few styles they used, 90% are variations on orbs: orb right at top - no flag pole, orb on cone, orb on top of flag, orb below flag. Sometimes the orb is a bit flattened (squished looking), sometimes has a ...

FrauHirsch

I'll have to let my husband know he called it. He was watching Sir Conrad fight pickups at Unbelted and said he was in top form.

FrauHirsch

Thanks all! We are a small group, and while most of us have decent armor that is nice to show off, there are often newer folks or pickups that have random loaner gear or fantasy or sca-oid armor, which would be nice to hide so that the group looks more cohesive. We had some incidents where the battl...

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Very nice! Zachos. I was thinking about bends too. Do you have more information about the officers' coat? When, where, what group, etc? Interesting. I assume these are wool? I am in So. CA and we fight in such warm weather, I was going to go with linen, but considering putting the heraldic stuff in ...

FrauHirsch

I kind of like the ones in The Medieval Soldier by Gary Embleton, but they aren't shown over armor: m I'm thinking they would be about 5" longer than the guy in this picture below: m These seem somewhat shorter than the typical SCA tabard and often have a rounded bottom (and narrower shoulders ...

FrauHirsch

I'm thinking of making surcoats/tabards/jupons for our little warband. I've found a nice linen, now I just need to decide what style to do. I'd like to do a later period style. The cut would need to look good over a variety of armor. A number of us wear a fair amount of plate. I'll also need somethi...

FrauHirsch

I also sew the gloves in my guantlets.

FrauHirsch

For fighting with rebated steel swords, I had to have the metal cut away a bit in the area between thumb and forefinger to acheive a good grip. It still bottoms out, but the first thing that hits the handle is my hand, not metal. If your guantlets were a stock size made for men, your hand may be thi...

FrauHirsch

We alway have sod cloths on the tent walls, so first goes the plastic tarp, then canvas , then fold the sod cloth in, then rugs. Very comfy.

If its rainy, the sodcloth goes under the canvas.

FrauHirsch

I pattern wedge tents using simple geometry. Here is a calculator for it:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... tgOtuInLCA

pm me if you need calculation help for a specific wedge tent size.

FrauHirsch

You actually can get better deals on ebay than it costs for painters tarps: Go to: Home > Buy > Crafts > Sewing & Fabric > Fabric > Search results for "canvas waterproof" I didn't find any cheap flame retardant stuff, but it comes up. In any case, these below would be more likely to be...

FrauHirsch

A wedge with a split front and back can be set up so that one side is open which would be a nice stage. m When it is set up like a shade, you can even hang drapes down from the center beam to provide a place for your child to sleep and hide non-period items. These could even be painted to look like ...

FrauHirsch

I have seen people spray their internal aluminum frame with flat black and also have seen someone use woodgrained contact paper. Neither are perfect, but it really helps tone it down. Painter's drop cloths come in a variety of weights. Some of which are pretty pourous. Be cautious about which ones y...

FrauHirsch

Excellent work!

-J

FrauHirsch

Various wedges, short sided conicals here: m There is a conical with short sides in the upper right: m There is also a wedge in the lower right. In this one a wedge with "hips" is just down and right from center: m I have other examples in woodcuts and books. There is really more than one ...

FrauHirsch

In the 14x14, we put "hips" similar to some of those shown with just cloth drapes in Sha-ul's pictures. In a past thread, I posted the examples where the wedge tent has an internal structure that pushes the sides out a bit. This gives a lot more headroom for the beds at the edges. We still...

FrauHirsch

Sha-ul, Baskets are great and light weight storage. It helps if the older kids can help pack and load/unload. Otherwise canvas duffels would be good, even the younger ones will soon be able to help. Board chests are heavy, and take up a lot of space. I like to have a few chests along which double as...

FrauHirsch

Rohesia, I joke that adjusted my armor for the first 20 yrs, not just due to weight changes. Eventually it comes together. I think there is some cases where women can't get fights with new people because they are afraid to fight the woman (for various reasons, some valid, some not), and some cases w...

FrauHirsch

Now for the other stuff: I think that women more often fight body consciousness and self esteem issues than men. Some women have immense issues with this, especially if they were mentally or physically abused as children. I have trained women who just have to stop for a minute to take a break becaus...

Rebated Steel Combat

Ideas for war tabards/surcoats