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Well nce again Joaquin decided his suit of plate was not good enough, so he decided to change it. The changes are new faulds in back, and a segmented backplate. All his own work. to see the pictures i took go here

http://www.stormpages.com/dwarlock/joaquin.html

spiffy! I like where he is jumping for joy along the sidewalk.

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Oh my, but I DO hope my eyes are deceiving me, are these actually Pop Rivets I see on your Segmented backplate?

Nice Kit Joaquin and as a former gymnast, I must commend you on your form for that cartwheel. heheheh

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Pop rivets!?
You impugn Joaquin unjustly! look closely, and you can see those are articulation rivets, but he has placed the burrs on the outside...why he would do that is a mystery, but it is not heresy!

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The third picture down from the top should read "I believe that is MISTER Joaquin to you monkey boy".

Thanks for doing that for me, Dwarlock.

Those are not pop rivets, nor are the burrs on the outside. They are actually handle rivets that I bought at True Value Hardware, and cut down to a managable size. Very sturdy. I don't know why they show up funny in the pictures...

They don't actually articulate. I talked to some people who have more experience with Italian backplates than I have, notably Tom Justus, and learned that those lames aren't supposed to move at all. It is simply a rigid backplate made of four chevron-shaped lames. Why this was done in period, I haven't the faintest clue.

[This message has been edited by Joaquin (edited 03-19-2001).]

although I don't have it in front of me, so I can't say for sure, I think those are just a wide head dome rivet, with some discoloration in the top of the dome fron the lack of a rivet set.

Trust me If they were pop rivits, Joaquin would not have made it back home safely.

well looks like Joaquin was typing the same time I was.

greetings, do you have patterns for the breast/backplate?

-Steel

Nice stuff you have there sir. I don't recall but did you have the full legs w/sabotons when you were up in Lincoln last? Looks neat.

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Ok...quit updating your harness! I just added you to the pic pages and wham!...you update. I update your file...and wham, you change again!

Gallery one and three should be working except for a few images that didn't upload. You're up and running though! I had fun with your page !

Oh yeah, that's not your email on the page either...oops! I'll be messing with the pages tonight and get most of them up and running.

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Krag von Berghen
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Krag none of 1 and 2's picture links work?

The links should work...just not the pics on the individual's page. It's not bringing up a page for whoever you clicked on? I'm getting pages, just no pics on the pages. I'll be messing with it over the next hour anyways.

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Krag von Berghen
KragAxe Armoury

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Nicely done!!

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I couldn't leave this thread with *gasp* thirteen replies! I am a triskadekaphobe!

Seriously, yes, I did make a pattern for the backplate in 20 guage before I started cutting the 16 guage steel.

Thanks, you guys, for the kind words about my harness. And thanks Krag, I've always wanted to be on the Archive Member pics page. A dream of mine has now been realized. *sniff....*

Hey Joaquin, did you make the arms yourself?
if so will you be posting the pattern anywhere? those are exactly the kinds of arms i want to have someday. Or tell me who made em!


thanks
Caleb

one word.....


spiffy

Very spiffy indeed....

No more pics on the throne?

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The arm harness actually consists of an Eagle's Talon couter with a DarkHeart vambrace and rerebrace. The vambraces close with a pin-and-hole arrangement that it kinda neat. I added a strap to make sure they stay closed (occasionally, when I took a hit there, it would pop open).