The Armour Archive

While I still have not had time to be at home to sit at that computer and scanner to get photo's of my year old daughter Ashley's armour loaded onto this site, I do finally have pictures including digital ones that I'll try to load soon. In the meantime:

Her 14th century reproduction armour was one of 12 winners of the Newsday annual Halloween Costume Contest. She along with the others will appear in the October 31st issue. For those that don't know, Newsday is one of the countries bigger papers, serving Long Island, New York. The 12 winners were taken to a photo studio for fresh pictures to be taken.

You don't get money, but it is still pretty cool and she had a lot of fun. The photographer was amazed by the quality of it. He said most costumes look cool but are not really well made, he was frankly stunned by the details and the period style undergarments, buckles, etc. Not to mention the idea of an 8 year old girl with her own broadsword.

So now the armour that many armourers from this forum contributed to is not only cool, it is "award winning".

She also won first prize back last month when we visited the NY State Rennaissance Festival and she entered the costume contest (in Tuxedo NY), she got a broken off wooden lance tip as a prize, signed by Robin Hood and Maid Marion.

Richard Blackmoore
East Kingdom, KSCA

Cool!

When she outgrows it, you should auction it off, and pay for a new harness with the proceeds...

congrats!

Josh Warren wrote:Cool!

When she outgrows it, you should auction it off, and pay for a new harness with the proceeds...

It would be funny if it were not true. We got the completed suit together in June. She went through two growth spurts, she already barely fits into parts of it, I had to redo all the leg straps and the nice custom made wool chausses Gwen from H.E. made are now way to small so my wife had to throw together a quickie linen set for the photos. I had to cut a link out of the maille coverings for the boots so she could squeeze her feet in (mind you the boots were a tad loose in June.

As much as I would hate to sell this suit, she already wants to be sure she has one that fits for next year and is interested in youth combat in the SCA and wants to keep learning to do choreographed steel weapons combat with me. When I mentioned that we could sell it, she told me in no uncertain terms that we are keeping it forever; she wants to put it in her 'armour hall' when she is older and rich.

Sigh. I've created a monster. Fortunately she's cute, smart and means well. She also just got accepted into John Robert Powers school for competitive commercial acting/modeling and has already gone on her first auditions for with casting directors and agents. The management there loved being able to list Medieval Armoured Combat as a unique skill/activity for an 8 year old. Maybe she'll make enough to fund her armour 'habit'. I was hoping she'd save up money for college, she's thinking horses, armour, travel, Britney Spears albums...

I keep checking this thread to see if you posted the pictures yet...

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..."competitive commercial acting/modeling and has already gone on her first auditions for with casting directors and agents"


I am praying for you.
Every day.

freiman the minstrel wrote:I keep checking this thread to see if you posted the pictures yet...

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I'll post the pictures on a new thread with an armour review. I know I originally said I planned to do this over the summer, but health issues, playing taxi driver for my daughter and working insane hours have kept me away from the home computer and camera/scanner. I'm hoping sometime in the next week or two, but I've also been stuck working weekends. I'm still at work now, I'm 12 hours in with no end in sight. Sigh.

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:..."competitive commercial acting/modeling and has already gone on her first auditions for with casting directors and agents"


I am praying for you.
Every day.

Thank you. I'm thinking that my original plan of sending her to a convent as soon as she decided boys were not 'icky' was a cheaper solution that would have allowed me to keep my sanity. She says that isn't funny.

Do it BEFORE she decides they aren't icky.

On a related note...

They are having a Halloween costume contest at work Monday, and the grand prize is $100.

I'd feel cheesy wearing my armor, since it isn't really a 'costume' to me...
and I stopped being thrilled with "freaking the mundanes" years ago...

But is $100 worth it?

Yep.. especially if it looks the part

A hundred bucks is a hundred bucks, and not to be sneezed at.

But an excuse to wear your armor to work? That is not to be missed.

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Alcyoneus wrote:...and I stopped being thrilled with "freaking the mundanes" years ago..