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ITT: Medieval /k/
its always the shortest dude that has the most bullshit hanging off his helmet.
fucking manlet inferiority complex
The local blacksmith had a box of these he was selling. I got mine for three silver coins and 5 eggs. Did I overpay?
>>29948908
Post your harnesses
Last pic after stripping the damaged parts. New brigandine upper chest, new cased greaves and new gaunts on the way. Maill skirt and sleeves not shown.
>>29948982
SCA or HEMA?
>>29948950
Shit man, why do you have to be salty like that? My lady just made me a new set for tournament.
>>29948976
Depends. Antique, but useless swords at least 500 years old, that can't be repourposed or have the steel reused, bought for probably less than 15 ounces of silver and a few eggs?
>>29949025
SCA, HEMA and ACL/IMCF
>>29949025
Not him, but I have an SCA event in two weeks...
TFW no armor....
>>29949050
nice bascinet
>>29948908
Got this for cheap with some Persian 4in1 mail, how do? Want to upgrade to siege grade soon.
>>29949055
Where you located?
>>29949058
>bascinet
Not even close. Sallet.
>>29949055
Get a billhook and run around dragging all the guys in armor to the ground before teabagging them.
>>29949085
Currently, Outlands.
Formerly, Middle, but fuck those asshats.... melord.
Hail brothers, I am preparing to raid the Saxons this summer, already acquired the maille I commissioned, still waiting on my helm. Can anyone recommend a smith for a lamellar vest and perhaps some bracers?
>>29949101
You need to meet a bear minimum armour standard for safety, as we're swinging around batons and no pulling shots.
>>29949116
OOTLANDS?
Anyways, sorry you're on the shitty side of the landmass. Atlantia representing.
>melord.
Don't give me that shit. No one talks like that except for schtick.
>>29949149
Honest questions: Purpose, budget, location?
Purpose is the most important. Combat sport armour is more expensive than larp, costume or reenacting armour.
Budget is self explanitory, but hinges on the purpose. $200 of combat sport grad armour is not as fancy as $200 of costume armour, but the function and quality is different.
Location helps me link you to a dealer or crafter that wont incur over seas shipping.
Also, get a gambeson.
>>29949084
How much did you pay and where did you get it? I've been looking for a nice medieval crossbow.
hey guys i just got this at my lss for 8 silver, did i do good?
>fucking fudd at counter
>lectures me about how i only need a spear with blue steel and walnut
>lectures me for 30 minutes before he takes the coins and i leave
>>29949169
>schtick
That'sthejoke.bmp
>>29949169
SCA, <$1000, AEthelmearc. Still working on the gambeson, my sewing machine is being retarded.
>>29949216
Do you have your joints covered yet? Does your local group have an armouring night?
What material do want the lamellar made of? Are you willing to lace it yourself?
>>29949216
Also, who made your bucket? Aesir Metalworks?
>>29949169
Gropey you nig-I'm trying to track down someone who cna make a functional leather larp helmet based off of the Hellenic Thracian helmet. Apparently the visor is difficult to do. Any recommendations?
Ask a Templar anything. We are prepping for an incursion into the holy land.
DEUS VULT
>>29949301
Can I join? I know the Saracen's language, from when I was held there as a slave.
>>29949233
Yeah, I'm using loaner gear while I get my kit assembled. Steel or aluminum is fine, I don't mind lacing. The helm is West Coast Armory's basic viking helm.
Does this count?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbuEUoxntQ
SCA is shit.
Bunch of old stuffy fuckheads.
I've met nicer more welcoming skinheads.
I've never been so put off by any group of people in my life.
DFW Texas area if that matters.
>>29948908
peasant # 1 hey did you hear Geoffrey the smithy is putting on a promotion for this fortnight
peasant # 2 no i didn't what is it
peasant # 1 a mail in rebate
>>29949284
>Thracian helmet
Spend the same or less amount of money and get metal instead.
Seriously, its a waste of leather, and will be more expensive than metal my miles.
http://kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=AH6112
18g steel will be fine for larp, and it actually looks like a helmet.
>>29949311
>The helm is West Coast Armory
Oh. Oh you poor dear. You most likely will never see that helmet. Brand is currently under several lawsuits for undelivered goods.
>>29949327
>DFW Texas area if that matters
Yes. Yes it matters. You're in one of the shittiest groups of the shittiest chunks of the map, no even counting how much Texas sucks in the first place outside of the SCA.
I am honestly sorry for you, and wish I could invite you to almost anywhere else to meet people who actually care about history, wanna have fun, and are not alpha-geeks in uncovered sporting equipment.
Keep in mind, your typical historic recreation group has about 1 out of 10 insufferable douchebags. The SCA is the largest in the group in the world, so now that 100 douchebags out of 1000 members.
Thankfully, they are easy to avoid. Don't like your local group? Go play with the next group over.
Care to storytime? I love hearing about how much my multistate group is awesome in comparison.
>>29949179
Sorry not mine. Thought this was like a "/k/aveman thread"
Can recommend places to buy medieval crossbows thought but they are expensive. Building your own is better and I can link you to info.
But for accuracy you best bet is tods stuff, http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/crossbows/crossbows.htm
Next I would recommend New World Arbalest, if I remember correctly geezer runs it.
http://www.crossbows.net
These are not completely accurate, but OK.
http://replicacrossbowworld.com/index.html
These guys stuff used to look a lot better, pic related.
http://www.medievalcrossbow.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=59
>>29949378
Ouch, that sucks. Hopefully they learned from those lawsuits and actually ship some. Probably not though.
>>29949470
They are ongoing. Im fucked for a $1200 order right now.
>>29949149
Bring it the fuck on, Boat Nigger!
>>29949445
>Thought this was like a "/k/aveman thread"
They tried, but those are lame.
>>29949470
Not likely. The Armour Archive forum is littered with continuing threads of promises and non contact.
>>29949539
Im sorry bro.
>>29949667
Is that your kit? The occulars of the helm, and the front split in your tunic seem off too me, but otherwise its nice.
>>29949378
Can't do metal. Lightest touch system, head shots legal. We've learned that mail is the only metal armor you can reliably feel hits though.
...Plus, once we have on one hand, my leather worker of a knight can figure out how to make some of the trickier parts.
>>29949908
Ok thats retarded kinds of retarded. You have the only advice I can give. You'll spend more making it from leather than the cost of a metal helm.
I hate to suggest it... But what about polyurethane? https://www.etsy.com/listing/238617352/larp-armour-thracian-helmet?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=larp%20helmet&ref=sr_gallery_21
>>29949949
>You'll spend more making it from leather than the cost of a metal helm.
I'm aware. Rigid metal is, however, currently banned, and needs approval on event by event basis.
Poly may be worth considering, especially if I can't find a leatherworker to do it for less than the cost of a good rifle.
I'm also considering trying to to bicolline this year, and seeing if I can successfully network and find a canuck craftsman to do it.
>>29950290
Honestly bro, 18 gauge is just above a beer can in thickness. Im sure if they saw if they would apologize for sucking cock.
>>29950334
I'm in new england, gropey.
The fact that we even allow headshots is literally unheard of here. As in, people from other systems think we're lying.
>These knaves don't carry on the Legacy of Rome
>they haven't even recognized the glory of lamellar armors.
I bet you barbaric heathens still think you're the ones mostly responsible for winning the first Crusade.
>>29950471
>skirts
My wife's armor looks like that.
>>29950513
Your wife also looks akin to some of the poor wretches who would regularly consume opium.
>>29950513
Aye because it is your wife's. I left in a hurry that day.
>>29948982
Where do you guys even get your armor
As much as I'd love to stroll down to the local blacksmith I don't think such a thing exists nowadays around here.
>>29949376
fuck off to the crusades, carlos
chicks dig my codpiece
Can anyone post some hand/arm armor?
>>29950601
you would be surprised, when i first got into blacksmithing and armour smithing i didn't realize just how many of us there are in my local city.
>>29950601
>>29950689
Firstly: Blacksmiths don't make armour. Armourers make armour. Armouring is 99% coldwork.
There are hundreds of professional armourers making reproduction armour, and sports combat armour. It all depends on what you're looking for.
My stuff is all made by Allen Bauldree of AB Hammer armoury, located in Kentucky. I will fight anyone who argues that he's not one of the top 10 in the US. He is also my ACL sponsor. Here is another helm by him.
>>29950685
More specific? Era/location?
>>29950759
Greek roman stuff, old ancient stuff. I can't find anything cool on Google
>>29950767
Manica are pretty cool.
>>29950759
Fugging phone uploads...
>>29950789
That doesn't look like it would be really flexible
>>29950767
Thats both a huge span of time, and going to be hard. There are not a lot of hand and arm armours from that gap of 1000 years.
Lets see what I got though. Starting with Hellenistic
>>29950789
Shame they never caught on bigger. They just were not cost effective.
>>29950807
Its all compression articulation, and is incredibly flexible.
>>29950816
I have a chainmail vest/top piece but that's it. I wouldn't mind getting a complete set and a sword and shit.
>>29950759
Firstly, get off your high horse
secondly see how i made a distinction there, i said both black smith and armour smith. i am well aware there not the same thing i do both.
>>29950826
And 1000 years later, roman manica. Later, they would start using maille shirts with sleeves.
Simple leather and metal bracers were not unheard of, but nothing like splinted defenses.
>>29950845
Calm your tits, anon. Its simply clarification because asking blacksmiths to make you armour is like asking a bakery to make you icecream.
Also, I am not on a high horse. Thats at the end of the month, thankyou.
>>29950471
...Literally nobody in that image wears lamellar, and chain is far more iconic as roman.
>>29950845
He LIVES on a high horse. The kind of man you stand next to-or better behind-in the field, but don't sit next to at the fire.
>>29950909
Ice cream cakes are pretty delicious though
>>29950909
sorry your post just seemed very snobbish, i apologies if you didn't mean it that way.
>>29950912
>The kind of man you stand next to-or better behind-in the field, but don't sit next to at the fire.
You say that now, but I play a mean penny whistle around the campfire!
>>29950924
But they would melt in the bakery! Do you want the world to go mad?! Cats marrying dogs! Boybands playing instruments!
>>29950929
Its cool bro. There is no inflection on the internet. It didn't come through right.
>>29950938
anyhow, if people here want to get into armour smithing, you can get most the way to a full suit of anima armour with just a hand dremel and 2-3 hammers. Bar the helmet, i made my first suit in my bedroom at a Uni dorm.
>>29950981
Even easier, a Coat of plates or (if you're adventurous) a brigandine.
Got a pic of your cuirass?
>>29951000
I'm not home atm, so no sorry.
Who /sca/ here?
Lochac reporting in
>>29951344
Atlantia.
>>29948908
praise the sun
>>29950618
She wants the D...
..double edged and ribbed leather grip for her pleasure.
