The Armour Archive

Ok fellas,

Periodically I see posts to show off your stuff, and some of you are getting quite impressive, to put it mildly. Here is my challenge: can you dig up pictures of your VERY FIRST KIT you ever pieced together and post them? I think it will be a whole lot of fun to see what some of our favourite armourers looked like back in the day, also I think it will serve as encouragement to those of us who are not quite at the level of some of you Armour Gods and Goddesses. I'll see if I can dig my old photos up tomorrow afternoon, after class, til then, lets see!!!

Adhemar

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Simple grammatical errors shall not have the better of me!

Well I'll start this off, with my very first kit, back from the mid 80's. A time you could still see freon can helms being used.

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How things have changed

Me two Pennsics back, I have the kettle hat on:

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This is actually my second kit (the first one being so bad i never got photos on it)

[img]http://www.missouri.edu/~rls555/SCA/kits/titus.jpg[/img]

I am the fat Roman wannabe;)

Halv
That photo was taken was the day I was made a Fyrdman of Calontir!

Technically my second kit, but here goes..

Thats me on the left, Vermin on the right.. 1996.



Maeryk

James

I beleive your opponent in that pic is Sir Kirk FitzDavid from Calontir.

Halv

I was skinny.
This is actually my third kit. It is 1976 and that is my first non freon can helm. What do you think of the elbow armor?

Nissan! That's a great blackmail image!
Monika compares you to Monty Python's black knight (albeit with limbs).
"Your elbows are broken!"
"It's only a flesh wound!"

I was going to post my current abortion, but I think i will pass. its too embarrassing. soon my new stuff will be done.

Many of you have come far, now it is time to see Adhemar!

It is me! before my very first war, I went before I finished making my maile into anything more than a wife beater of steel!

the picture is from a wierd angle, so the helmet in actuality does not look so bad, but the rest really does.

Well, this is my first sca kit from -93, I have an older Larp creation somewhere and I'll try to find it.

I thought this was supposed to be for people that dont look so great! I am just finishing up my first kit, and if you drop the pauldrons and replace the breastplate with some big things of leather, that is me (and make the helm uglier).

Bump!! for some more older first kits to be seen

PLEASE


Dragos

Not first kits but really really old crap.
from left to right: Nissan Maxima, Aeleric Basilscus, Turk(a tuchuk), Berengeria(aka Red Nancy) Random Wronghand, Moamar Vile

Wow! I even have you freon-bottel helmets beat!! I had used an old riot mask for protection with a chainmail shirt and crude scaled, shin guards.



My opponent (in red) used an old minibike helmet covered in pleather!

My first "kit" is lost in the depths of time and space. Some of it, especially the carpet body "armor" sown together with fishing line ('cause it was strong and it wouldn't rot), was intentially cast out into those depths.

My first helmet that I actually owned was stolen from me with other armor bits.

Some of the stuff became scrap metal and is probably part a car or some such other useful thing.

I have no photos.

Mord.

Good god! That was back when Turk had hair!
***couch couch psychohosebeastcoughcough***

Everybody knows mine:

http://www.100megsfree3.com/kragaxe/arc ... aquin.html