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Ed's other kit, 15th century
Sir Edward:
I guess it's a private gallery right? Otherwise we could post a link. :)
These copies I yanked, I brightened them up a little before posting them here, since the lighting apparently wasn't real good for photos that night.
Great photo gallery by the way! I love the "I'm too sexy" comment. Haha!
(oh also, it made me realize that the attachment settings in the forum were kinda restrictive. I'm allowing 256k per post now, and have increased the total disk allocation for attachments from 10 megs to 200 megs).
Sir Wolf:
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--- Quote from: Sir Edward on 2008-04-17, 14:09:45 ---So, I finally got to try out the new helm + bevor with my armor... (pics wholly stolen from Sword Chick) :)
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Well, Sir Wolf, Christian and Das Bill know where they can see more. ;)
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we do? i dont follow :(
Das Bill:
Yes, the super secret gallery... aka "That website that everyone who is not a preteenage girl is afraid of admiting they have a profile on, even though we all do by now".
Yes, I was surprised at how well your bevor worked with the harness. For those who'd seen it before, that's the GDFB one that I had that wouldn't work with my harness because of the bizarre shape of the bevor. It isn't totally perfect with Ed's harness, as there is still a slight gap under it, but nowhere near as bad as it was with my cuirass. It had gotten in the way with my pauldrons, but it seemed to work fine with Ed's.
Thank you, Ed, for posting pictures that show us from above the knee... We were at VAF, and were wearing our typical athletic pants and sneakers before suiting up. Very authentic, circa 2000 to 2010.
Sir Edward:
Yeah, the gap under the bevor isn't too bad. Also, it allows me some range of motion with my head, and I can stand naturally. My previous sallet (made for SCA combat), forced me to hold my head slightly forward (forward and chin out), and I couldn't turn my head at all. However, it allowed great vision.
The relatively thin eye slit on this sallet is much more period appropriate, but I was surprised by how little I could see. If I looked at my opponent's face, I could not see their arms below the shoulder, or the weapon at all if it was held low. If I looked down at the weapon, I lost sight of their head and shoulders. And in both cases I couldn't see what the feet were doing. These are all things I take for granted during sparring and practice drills.
I'll need to adjust the helmet's suspension a little in any case, since it was resting on my glasses the whole time, and sat perhaps a little low anyway. If I were to try fighting without glasses, I'd be even more blind. :)
Das Bill:
--- Quote from: Sir Edward on 2008-04-18, 14:57:53 ---The relatively thin eye slit on this sallet is much more period appropriate, but I was surprised by how little I could see. If I looked at my opponent's face, I could not see their arms below the shoulder, or the weapon at all if it was held low. If I looked down at the weapon, I lost sight of their head and shoulders. And in both cases I couldn't see what the feet were doing. These are all things I take for granted during sparring and practice drills.
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I think this is exactly why you see so many pictures with the visor up during combat.
Or why many period painting show men at arms wearing a sallet without a bevor, which allows excellent protection from above, but still allows good visibility from below.
The visor could always be lowered if necessary (a hailstorm of arrows coming in, for instance), but can be lifted for combat where higher visibility and air ventilation is necessary.
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