Estrella *Pics*

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:37 pm

Enjoy!

http://tinyurl.com/4vxn9

~Colete, Ansteorra*

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:22 pm

They have both mountains and grass there! I'm amazed! I thought it was all dust. I may have to go sometime...

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:39 pm

Thanks so much for shareing these pics, someday I would like to travel to these events with a video cam. Oh yeah and whoever that is with the big bruse... You need to get armour that protects you there a little better, a bruse like that could kill. I had a friend that fell from a ladder and brused his leg, a few days later a blood clot broke loose and went through his heart and killed him. I always hate seeing bruses like that as I have heard so many bad stories about related deaths since. Have fun but protect yourself :wink:

.

Kottr · Post by **Kottr** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:58 pm

BdeB wrote:They have both mountains and grass there! I'm amazed! I thought it was all dust. I may have to go sometime...

The grass was a biproduct of the constant rain through out the event... Normally it is a bit dustier than that

You should come out however, it is a good time!

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:35 pm

meaddrinker wrote:Thanks so much for shareing these pics, someday I would like to travel to these events with a video cam. Oh yeah and whoever that is with the big bruse... You need to get armour that protects you there a little better, a bruse like that could kill. I had a friend that fell from a ladder and brused his leg, a few days later a blood clot broke loose and went through his heart and killed him. I always hate seeing bruses like that as I have heard so many bad stories about related deaths since. Have fun but protect yourself .

I and everyone I know must be dodging bullets then! I've had prob. a hundred such bruises (and worse) over the last ten years and i've never heard of an SCA bruise killing someone! :shock:

Most likley your friend's bruising was far worse on the inside than the damage caused by sca weapons.

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:40 pm

I hope your right but I think any bruse that is as bad as the one in the pic I saw here is dangerous, but I'm no doctor. I do know there was a lady who fell danceing and died some days later from the same thing I was talking about. Yes we do "all" dodge the bullet so to speak when we get bad bruses, That includes those of us who paintball.

Madyn · Post by **Madyn** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:45 pm

That bruise looks like a hickey from Steven Tyler.

Karl · Post by **Karl** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:50 pm

meaddrinker wrote:I hope your right but I think any bruse that is as bad as the one in the pic I saw here is dangerous, but I'm no doctor. I do know there was a lady who fell danceing and died some days later from the same thing I was talking about. Yes we do "all" dodge the bullet so to speak when we get bad bruses, That includes those of us who paintball.

I get bruises like that every week from Sir(s) Thorfinn, Randolph, Stephen, and/or Wesley.

One day I am going to a.) get SCA armour that is anachronistic and covers the inside of my thigh or b.) learn how to find "reverse".

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:33 pm

I guess the older I get the more bruises worry me. But what the hell I guess you can't live forever

SirCathal · Post by **SirCathal** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:04 pm

Great pictures ... thanks so much for sharing them.

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:11 pm

meaddrinker wrote: Oh yeah and whoever that is with the big bruse... You need to get armour that protects you there a little better.

Hehehe, that's my leg. You should have seen my friend's face though. Tough calibration out there... but nothing that would kill us. We just all bled a little, both internally & externally.

Honestly, meaddrinker, thanks so much for the concern. But to be perfectly frank, I'm running a *HELL* of alot more risk with 3 pins in my hip than a Steven Tyler hickey-bruise that will fade by the end of the week. :wink:

~Colete

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:28 pm

Which on is you in the pics?

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:21 pm

meaddrinker wrote:Which on is you in the pics?

This is me...

And the nasty bruise is mine as well

Kaliban · Post by **Kaliban** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:24 pm

cool shots never seen any pics from the evetn before ..

Roland Brokentooth · Post by **Roland Brokentooth** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:25 pm

Bruises build character

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:38 pm

Thats a Damn fine kit. I realy like the helm and body armour. I not real good at this stuff yet, is that German...Italian... Gothic?? I'll learn :oops:

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:09 pm

meaddrinker wrote:Thats a Damn fine kit. I realy like the helm and body armour. I not real good at this stuff yet, is that German...Italian... Gothic?? I'll learn

Thanks! It's gothic French... with some re-vamping to be done. New vambraces are in dire need. Then next year I'll have a new breastplate, to boot. Just waiting for my main armourer (Icefalcon) to start laser cutting so I'll sport some fleurs. :wink:

Also, my beau will be adding a brass fleur-de-lis plume mount to the sallet brow and some brass fleur trim around the tail. Should be drop-dead by the time it's all finished.

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:21 pm

Hope you post it when it's all done :wink:

Odo · Post by **Odo** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:57 pm

Colete wrote:Hehehe, that's my leg. ~Colete

You know, I saw that and KNEW it was your bruise. I wanted to get back here online and identify it before anyone else. :twisted:

Although, I have never actually seen the leg, that is what I thought it would look like!

Odo

Urban · Post by **Urban** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:36 pm

Awesome pictures!
This was my first year at Estrella, and was a ton of fun. I actually think I have a picture of you somewhere.. I'll have to see if I can find it.
You've got an awesome kit. Hope you don't mind my posting this. Feel free to chew me out if so and i'll remove it.
~Folcric

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:41 pm

Folcric wrote:Awesome pictures!
This was my first year at Estrella, and was a ton of fun. I actually think I have a picture of you somewhere.. I'll have to see if I can find it.
You've got an awesome kit. Hope you don't mind my posting this. Feel free to chew me out if so and i'll remove it.
~Folcric

LOL, thanks.

That's a seriously sour look on my face, but that strange guy holding my hand is fairly cute. :wink:

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:45 pm

Odo wrote:
Colete wrote:Hehehe, that's my leg. ~Colete

You know, I saw that and KNEW it was your bruise. I wanted to get back here online and identify it before anyone else.

Although, I have never actually seen the leg, that is what I thought it would look like!

Odo

LOL, Odo, I tell you what....

Come to Gulf Wars & fight me. If you leave a bruise like that on my thigh, I'll show it to you personally. No online pics about it. :lol:

(Miss ya!)

Urban · Post by **Urban** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:06 pm

Haha, ya sorry about my bad picture taking skills. Ya still look good tho

~Folcric

P.S. That bruise looks like one I got on the back of my shoulder my first t ime in armour.

Crystoll · Post by **Crystoll** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:28 pm

Awsome pics Colete, specially like the ones of you, Vix and Libbie.
I need to get a hold of her cause she's got a song somewhere that has my clan name in it, and I really need to learn it!

Crystoll

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:00 am

Crystoll wrote:Awsome pics Colete, specially like the ones of you, Vix and Libbie.
I need to get a hold of her cause she's got a song somewhere that has my clan name in it, and I really need to learn it!

Crystoll

Send me your email addy and I'll post it to the household list. (They both moved out west)

~C~

PS, thanks!

Clinker · Post by **Clinker** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:00 am

Just got back from Estrella, it rained every night except saturday (thank the gods), the parties were saved.

I fought in the Burro Creek war in maybe 1980 and the armour changes since then are verry pleasing:

Almost NO barrel helms worn today. Almost all barred bascinets or Spangenhelms. Barrel helms were once the most common, easiest-made helm. Probably a rule-driven evolution. Didn't match the rest of the gear anyway.

Quite a few REALLY good portrayals of several different periods.

Alot of lamellar; metal or steel. Or japanese. Nice to see on early period portrayals instead of some of the cobbled-together alternatives.

A lot of riveted maille.

Relatively few visible over-size leather body bands or weight lifting belts. Usually worn by very big men. Also, few leather abortions of armor-like things. Probably cut into lamellar?

Helmets are of fairly high quality. Many spangs that LOOK like late roman, or anglo-saxon or lombard, etc. Many late period sallets with bevors, kettle hats, and occasional gladiator helms. Few simple spun pots.

ROMANS, in loricas and scutums

GREEKS in linothorax, muscled cuirasses, corinthian helmets, and hoplons.

A lot of splinted leather cuisses and vambraces.

Only one one cat's-eye barrel helm on a plate armor. Only one full japanese rig with a spangenhelm.

Most made some effort to keep armor periods at least not too glaringly anachronistic (see above).

Armor for the hips seemed to be the biggest trouble spot. One shiny full plate rig, with a very short fauld, and a large, wide shiny stainless athletic cup, but wiiiider. He couldn't have added a couple more lames? And no, it didn't resemble a brayette. Even the lamellar had trouble. Most were waist-length. A few covered the hips in large, non-articulated panels. The Japanese guys got it right, can't any one else figure out articulation in lamellar? Many had a breast plate of some sort, and cuisses, with not even a tunic to cover the jeans in between.

NO greaves on anyone but romans and greeks. Rule-driven, but still glaring.

Virtually every one wearing combat or engineer boots. Personally, I think the super-heavy weight fighters are afraid of not having the ankle support, and every one else is afraid of getting stepped on by these guys. Very glaring, and detracts from virtually every portrayal on the field. Turnshoes are slippery on mud, but what isn't? Calligae anyone?

Still a few elephant-bottom bell pants. Friends don't let friends wear these things. They are NOT merely loose trousers, and dont have to be this big for ANY leg armor. (Not talking about hakama)

A lot less visible plastic than I expected.

Unit surcoats, bigger than tabards, were commonly worn, and probably covered a multiplicity of sins.

Many, many period pavilions, despite the outcroppings of 'mushroom' tents

All-in-all pretty impressive for SCA. Still a lot of problems with awkwardly shaped gear, but that is what this board is for. I hope I didn't hijack your thread.

Odo · Post by **Odo** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:36 am

Colete wrote:LOL, Odo, I tell you what....

Come to Gulf Wars & fight me. If you leave a bruise like that on my thigh, I'll show it to you personally. No online pics about it.

(Miss ya!)

What a wonderful offer! I will not be at GW's this year. The first one that I have missed since I started in the SCA. The only redeeming thing is that I have good things going on, and that is what is preventing me from attending.

Moving into a new house on the 10th and I just had my knee repaired, after 20 years of pain it no longer hurts (but I can't fight on it yet).

But if I could get a rain check..............

I miss you too.

Odo

Duke Icefalcon · Post by **Duke Icefalcon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:45 am

Colete looked awesome at the war. Great helm, too!!

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:05 am

I see that Count Alamric has a new helm and aventail...

Colète · Post by **Colète** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:06 am

Sir Andreas Eisfalke wrote:Colete looked awesome at the war. Great helm, too!!

Why thank you, Your Grace! You were sporting a pretty cool new look yourself... decked-out in full Greek gear. By chance you have any pictures to show?

Duke Icefalcon · Post by **Duke Icefalcon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:14 am

Negative. I was too busy fighting and having a blast! I think there was a chick who was taking pics for her business. I will try to see if she took any and I will post them.

Cheers!

Jon Barber · Post by **Jon Barber** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:11 am

Sir Andreas Eisfalke wrote:Colete looked awesome at the war. Great helm, too!!

A lot of us noticed your kit (and you) Colete. Very spiff. Glad to hear you had fun.

Jon Barber

Sixtus_Goetz · Post by **Sixtus_Goetz** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:45 pm

Sorry I didn't get to meet most of you at Estrella. My first also and had a blast. This was me there.

Cheers

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/s ... Sixtus.JPG

DAVID01 · Post by **DAVID01** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:07 pm

Sixtus_Goetz wrote:Sorry I didn't get to meet most of you at Estrella. My first also and had a blast. This was me there.

Cheers

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/s ... Sixtus.JPG

Whats all those little pellets at yer feet?

Heairn · Post by **Heairn** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:51 pm

Clinker wrote:NO greaves on anyone but romans and greeks. Rule-driven, but still glaring.

Not true. My helm may have been beat up.. but I had my greaves on, dang it!

Malcolm

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