West Coast Armour-in?

St. George · Post by **St. George** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:54 pm

tickets.

William de Grey · Post by **William de Grey** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:33 am

Sir Gaston wrote:Everyone ready for this weekend? Any special requests?

I am looking forward to the weekend, and the boys asking if it is Friday yet. :lol:

I am hoping to get some guidence on a set of 14c arms, and am interested in seeing if you have any of the kits left.

William

Ugo · Post by **Ugo** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:34 am

strippers?

lorenzo2 · Post by **lorenzo2** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:02 am

Special requests? Anything hot raised, knee cops,visor, etc., triangular rolls, hot repousse, roping, heck anything thats hard, usefull, and not in Mr. Prices book!

Tatsuo Okami · Post by **Tatsuo Okami** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:41 pm

Anyplace to sleep that wont get me arrested. Should be able to afford getting there... But with no money left for Hotel. Will bring a couple projects in case anyone is interested. as well as tools for (and finished pair of ) my slot rivet articulated wrist Gauntlets.
Also Basic directions from any Major freeway leading into North Holly wood to the shop would be a god send...

(Hint.. Hint)

?Strippers? :oops:

U Go Ugo WooHoo

ARMOURER ERIC · Post by **ARMOURER ERIC** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:01 am

Everybody get home OK?

Eric

Tatsuo Okami · Post by **Tatsuo Okami** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:06 am

But we made it back in one piece to Aridzona.
Thanks for asking..
Everybody else?????
How's the finger UGO? :oops:

Ugo · Post by **Ugo** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:13 am

Finger's great, How's th' face?...Still ugly? :lol:

Chris Gilman · Post by **Chris Gilman** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:32 am

Thanks for comming guys. It was fun. Sorry for being so preocupied on sunday, I was concerned about getting this project done on time.
I hope all of you had fun.

I'll try and post some pictures.

Damian · Post by **Damian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:38 am

Gentles,

The armour-in was great! I'm sorry I didn't make it back on Sunday but as I suspected would happen, I was called in.

Thank You, Sir Gaston for your hospitality and largess! Not only did this man open his home and his shop to us, he opened his extensive library of rare and hard to find books. He set up some cool demonstrations, like the hardened carbon armour shoot... let's just say this, even a bodkin from a windlass spanned crossbow, at POINT BLANK range didn't penetrate enough to be more than an annoyance, if that. Those aluminum blunts you made were a blast to play with.

I'd like to thank Ugo for sharing his techniques, time and bringing all that sexy Ughat.

I'd like to thank Okami-san for NOT stabbing me in the "Boys"... LOL Even though I did see him try to cut off Ugo's fingers.... or was it Ugo hand block the incomming blow sans guantlets? Hard to say through the haze of Beer. I still wanna see how those "Eye of Sauron" spaulders turned out. Thank you for sharing your experience and technique.

Armourer Eric, I hope to make your hammer-in as well. I enjoyed our discussions and look forward to mangling some metal with you.

It was a distinct pleasure to meet so many archivers and place a face to the names we see here.

-Grim

William de Grey · Post by **William de Grey** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:10 am

I want to thank everyone for a great weekend. I learned more in the last two days than I have in the last six months. I would have written this last night but being that I am not accustomed to hammering so much I was having a hard time typing without my hands cramping. I guess this just shows that I need to practice more.

Tatsuo, I will try to finish the arm next weekend, and am hoping to get pictures up here somewhere. How did you make the small dishing ring? I would like to make one so that I can finish the other cop the same way. Would you also have a pattern for elbows that have lames with the flat top. I checked the pattern I had and it does have one side of the lame different than the other side. I am still checking to see which side is supposed to go on the wing side.

Eric thanks for the help forming the point of the cop. I like the way it turned out.

Ugo, I loved the way the eye turned out. Very sexy. I just wish that I still had my camera out when you finished. It was hard to express the detail that you achieved to my wife. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll tell Edric that you said hi when I see him next.

Gaston, Thank you for the hospitality. Your place is incredible, and the boys said to say thank you again. I am looking forward to putting the kit together, although it will be next week before I have a chance to get started on it. Do you have an ETA on the blueprints for the material cover for the kit? I will pm you with my address.

William

Xanthier · Post by **Xanthier** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:59 am

*sigh* missed another one.
Was about to head out the door when the wife called out she was having some serious contractions. (she's due in 1 1/2 months).
Turned out to be nothing but we spent most of the day in the hospital.

Hopefully another one soon???

lorenzo2 · Post by **lorenzo2** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:49 am

The armor-in was great! Thanks to Sir Gaston for providing a great location. I only got to make it for part of Saturday but in that time I learned a lot. Lets see;

Gaston dissassembled a Macpherson Maximilian suite and we compared how the arms articulation works with an actual 16th cent example and how complex the articulation on a really good set of knees is. The gauntlets on this suite were amazing, couldnt get the edge of a business card between the lames and yet they don't scrape anywhere!

I got to try on some great pieces from the rental department including a 16th cent german style breast with roping.

Got to fire a japanese asymetrical bow, very cool.

Ugo did a raising demo on a 15th cent italian Mantova style elbow blank that I brought. He also anticlastically raised the fan to go around the inner elbow. Got some good video of that and he gave a good narration of why he was doing each technique between swear words. His method of removing wrinkles from the edge was particularly cool. He also helped expain some of the patterns of hammer marks you see in period pieces and what they mean. I also got to take home the roughly completed piece as a momento with markings on how I could improve the pattern to fit better!
Okami showed how he would raise the fan using an interesting sharpened saddle stake to save production time. Carmel did some raising also using a more classic style similar to silver simthing.

Sir Gaston did a demo of how they vacu form plastic armor for movies and showed us some authentic NASA artifacts and a period cabasset.

Last but not least we spent some time with Sir Gaston's huge library of rare armor books. We even got a chance to compare Ugo's eye armor breast plate with museum pics of the original eye and pyramid suits and a portrait which features the original eye armor and helmet. Wish I could have come back on sunday and spent more hours in the library. Maybe next time

I took a lot of video and a few pics. I will post the pics in a while when I get the chance.

Overall, thanks to all those who put in their time and effort to make this happen and their generosity in sharing.

Carmel · Post by **Carmel** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:14 am

Thanks so much to Sir Gaston and everyone who attended and shared their knowledge and perspective. I had a great time and hope to see you all again soon. I posted some photos on the web site at http://www.carmelemanuel.com/west_coast_armourin.htm

It was awesome.

I mean, look at Ugo. He could barely control himself!

Ugo · Post by **Ugo** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:40 am

Ohhhhhh!

I'm sooo gonna git ya!!! All you need is some cheesy rave music or animated happy dance!! Oi Carmel! let me know next time you're in town, brazilian food awaits! Maybe some hammering time! You my friend are a natural,...it would be a pitty if those fingers were to come to some ...harm.

lorenzo2 · Post by **lorenzo2** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:41 pm

Here are some of my pics. Most of what I have is video.
11 someone firing an asymetrical bow
12-15 some stakes
16 Okami flaring a cop with a sharpened saddle stake
17 Ugos arm and the "eye" breast plate
18 "eye" closeup
19 me in a 16th cent breast plate, Ugo's work?
21 closeup of inside of breast
23 Carmel ties on parts of the Mac suite
24-29 inside of Mac leg.
30-31 inside of Mac pauldron

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/l ... in%202004/

Krag · Post by **Krag** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 4:35 pm

Ok, ok...so y'all had more sexy armour at the California armour-in than we did in Texas. But nobody got to shoot a microwave oven with a beer-can cannon out there

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On a more serious note...man, y'all got some awsome stuff. Not only in the pics, but in the background as well. How about some shots of that black and white harness back there!

Next time maybe we can get a national armouring day going and have 50 armour-ins going on at once. Well, I suppose 51 if you include Canada :wink:

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lorenzo2 · Post by **lorenzo2** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:11 pm

The black and white was a cool suite. Unfortunately I forgot to photo it!
I forgot, Pics 36 and 37 are the italian elbow cop Ugo was using for the raising and flairing demonstration. The pen marks are Ugos recommendations on how to make the pattern fit me better.

West Coast Armour-in?

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