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Main => The Armoury => Topic started by: Sir James A on 2011-07-23, 21:18:13
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The 9mm stainless rivited skirt that I ordered from IceFalcon back in April finally arrived. I didn't see any options for size, and I think it's sized for a 12 year old girl. It must be 34" total (I need a 36" and it doesn't quite fit). Good thing I have the spare rings I was going to use for chausse-voiders!
I also got the rest of the armor I ordered from Allan at Mercenary's Tailor. Breast/backplate, closed vambraces, and cased greaves. The greaves are really cool. Once I get my armor stand upgraded and have the armor back on it, I'll get a picture of it with the voiders, skirt, new cuirass, and new greaves (the vambraces are for a different kit). It should be "debuting" at the MD Renn Fest later this year.
Now, to get back to setting up a proper arming coat... :D
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If the shirt is the wrong size I would call Duke Andreas Icefalke & see about a size bigger. He's a pretty cool guys so he should be able to help. He should also be at Pennsic BTW.
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Yeah! The full-plate look sir James?
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pictures or its all mine!
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pictures or its all mine!
lol :)
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pictures or its all mine!
LOL
Sounds good Sir James, we all look forward to the pictures!
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Ahh, that sounds just like our Sir Wolf....... haha.
But Yeees, pictures, please!
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If the shirt is the wrong size I would call Duke Andreas Icefalke & see about a size bigger. He's a pretty cool guys so he should be able to help. He should also be at Pennsic BTW.
Skirt, not the shirt. I noticed there's only one size on the website, so I didn't click the wrong thing. Odd how the skirt is only 34 or maybe 36" circumference, but the shirts run from 48" to 60". That's a heck of a profile, eh?
I got done upgrading my stands over the weekend and the armor is back up. Camera is on the charger, and I'll post some pics tonight I hope.
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i think the problem is that he has his "typical American" profile upside-down....
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ahhahhhha
hmmmm ya either lose weight or add V shapes into the skirt. it will help it flair and fit better
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I also got the rest of the armor I ordered from Allan at Mercenary's Tailor. Breast/backplate, closed vambraces, and cased greaves. The greaves are really cool.
Hopefully this means my greaves won't be too far behind. :)
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u got them?????????? oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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I also got the rest of the armor I ordered from Allan at Mercenary's Tailor. Breast/backplate, closed vambraces, and cased greaves. The greaves are really cool.
Hopefully this means my greaves won't be too far behind. :)
I hope so too. :)
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still waiting....
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still waiting....
Apologies, it was a busy week. Mom's birthday, my car left me stranded on the way to work, I had to deal with title issues for my backup vehicle, and a friday deadline at work squashed my time. Here's what I've done of the skirt expansion so far:
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/jba3/medieval/mail/P1010013.jpg)
(it's hard to see, but I've added maybe 20 rows of the entire expansion needed, and have been going row-by-row lately. it's about halfway done)
A board with nails in it :D
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/jba3/medieval/mail/P1010014.jpg)
To do this:
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/jba3/medieval/mail/P1010015.jpg)
It was helpful for the first few passes of rings.
I've got probably 10-12 hours in on this expansion, and I'm estimating another 15-ish to completion. If I didn't have carpal tunnel before this (and being on a keyboard all day), I will soon!
Wolf: The skirt itself has some expansion/contractions and isn't a "tube" like other ones, so I don't think I'll need the triangle sections. I was pleasantly surprised by that.
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I've never done the board/nails thing with my mail projects, but having started the pattern on multiple occasions the hard way, I can see the benefit. Each time I've started something, I've just grumbled to myself that in the time it would take to hammer in the nails, I could have the pattern started, so I usually have just charged forth.
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I did all the butted without the board/nail, but I'm having vastly more trouble with the rivited. There's a specific way the ring has to pass through the others due to the overlap & rivit. I can't even do it while watching TV yet. :sadface:
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I am not familiar with this board and nail thing you're talking about...I'm guessing it has to do with maille but in what way?
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I am not familiar with this board and nail thing you're talking about...I'm guessing it has to do with maille but in what way?
A single ring goes through each nail, and it's supposed to make it easy to see the "pattern" the mail makes so that all the rings get linked together properly. You can get 1 ring through 4, but if it's not done in the right pattern, the mail doesn't look right. It was helpful for the first few rows, when the rings are a bit wild and untethered, but once you get 4-5 rows done and it has more "shape" to it, I found it harder to work around than to do without it. At least I put it together in 5 minutes out of some random scrap I already had. :)
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For some reason this discussion is giving me a Simpsons flashback:
Kang: It seems the earthlings won.
Kodos: Did they? That board with a nail in it may have defeated us. But the humans won’t stop there. They’ll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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I think I'd need to see what you are talking about...I'm quite sure the image in my head is incorrect.
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I think I'd need to see what you are talking about...I'm quite sure the image in my head is incorrect.
I have a pic on the first page, is it not showing up? It's from my photobucket, it should?
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I had to go back and look...I totally missed that pic! I get it now...how's it coming along?
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I had to go back and look...I totally missed that pic! I get it now...how's it coming along?
Yardwork and car repairs owned me last weekend, so it's been slow. I've made 3 or 4 more rows, but that's it. :o
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You work on cars? What'd you have to do?
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You work on cars? What'd you have to do?
I took the easy way out on this one. I had a friend do my 120K service (timing belt, water pump, pulleys, misc belts, etc) but the valve cover gasket was leaking. I took it back to him for replacement, but he's 70 miles away. I try to stick to oil changes, brakes, and simple bolt-ons. I've got a car in the garage I managed to pull the motor, trans, and everything else from - but it's sat 5 years without me getting another motor in it, so I've got it up for sale to fund some other, more usable toys. :)
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What's that you got hiding in your garage there? I smell a project car! Ever since I was little, my Dad kept me in the garage with him while he pulled and rebuilt motors, carbs, heads, axles - we had a heavy duty engine hoist in the back of the garage. I can't remember a time in my childhood when we had less than 4 or 5 cars, with only two drivers! LOL
Dad was always a motorhead...up until my sister was born, 2 of those 4 or 5 cars would inevitably be a 68-72 Charger...he had about 7 different ones while I was growing up. Then my sister was born and we had K-car sedans and old Saabs and a van. I've forgotten a lot of what he taught me so I'm the minor guy, oil, filter, spark plugs and other simple bolt-ons. Although with this Charger I bought, doing anything is labor intensive so I take it to my old garage now...I've known the guy going on 10 years now and I trust him and he doesn't try to beat me so we're all good. If only I had a garage still...
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What's that you got hiding in your garage there? I smell a project car! Ever since I was little, my Dad kept me in the garage with him while he pulled and rebuilt motors, carbs, heads, axles - we had a heavy duty engine hoist in the back of the garage. I can't remember a time in my childhood when we had less than 4 or 5 cars, with only two drivers! LOL
Dad was always a motorhead...up until my sister was born, 2 of those 4 or 5 cars would inevitably be a 68-72 Charger...he had about 7 different ones while I was growing up. Then my sister was born and we had K-car sedans and old Saabs and a van. I've forgotten a lot of what he taught me so I'm the minor guy, oil, filter, spark plugs and other simple bolt-ons. Although with this Charger I bought, doing anything is labor intensive so I take it to my old garage now...I've known the guy going on 10 years now and I trust him and he doesn't try to beat me so we're all good. If only I had a garage still...
It's a '95 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 spyder, I had it for about 5k miles before the engine spun a bearing, and prior to that it was hit by a 17 girl in an expedition while parked at my parent's house. It was a project car for quite some time, but quite unfinished, and my other 95 vr4 spyder decided to get fussy and stop going into reverse. I've tried all the things I know how to, and consensus of people who know what they're doing (not me :)) said it's a trans-pull and rebuild job. Considering the 5 years the other one has sat, and that I didn't finish it when I only owned 2 cars and was single ... it's time to let someone else fix it properly and for me to move on.
I'm self-taught / forums taught with everything. My parents never had a garage, and dad doesn't change his own oil or have any mechanical ability. I was 'late' to the party, it started when I graduated college and bought a Trans Am. It's a miracle I even pulled the motor, but I had help at the very end, to disconnect the transfer case and steering lines.
Good mechanics / technicians are worth their weight in gold. The guy that currently does all the tough things I am too scared to try I've known for 4 or 5 years, back when he used to work at another shop (he owns his shop now) and worked on one of my old cars. If you find one of those old chargers floating around, I'd be happy to give it a new home - I hope to eventually get a '69 charger or similar old-school muscle car that has no computer controlled anything - the maintenance is beyond simple compared to twin turbo, twin intercooled, all wheel drive, 4 wheel steering - bloody insanity, I tell you. :)
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You'll have to get in line Sir James...if I find an old Charger, I'm all over it. Of course, it was just a few years ago when my Dad sold his 70 R/T...at the time I had no room for it. I still don't...but I kick myself regularly for letting him sell it to someone else. Then his 74 911 gave up the ghost...he's got a 93 Vette t/tops w/a Greenwood package...but I don't know if he's in love with it. lol
You mentioned you had a TA...what year was it? I always loved that car...ever since I saw Smokey and the Bandit! LOL This restaurant I used to work at, the Pine Grove Inn, there was this waitress, Britta, who had a 77 TA with a 402 big block that she'd rebuilt herself...hers was a mean one and she'd go up against anyone. She had fire, that little German girl did.
I had a 75 Firebird I bought while I was still in high school...I'll never forget, bought it for $175 and hid it at a friend's apt so that my parents wouldn't know but they knew anyway! By the time I thought to go back and get it, it had been towed....and they wanted a lot more money than I bought the car for so I let'm have it. It needed a lot of work anyways...still...miss that car.
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You mentioned you had a TA...what year was it?
I had a '92 Firebird w/special edition (91/92 only) stuff - ground effects (body trim) and a V8 instead of the V6. After that, I had an '01 WS6 coupe and a '00 convertible (non-WS6). I traded the WS6 on the convertible because the t-tops were "difficult" to convince to not leak.
I had a 75 Firebird I bought while I was still in high school...I'll never forget, bought it for $175 and hid it at a friend's apt so that my parents wouldn't know but they knew anyway!
Ah, the joys of youth! I bought a motorcycle and hid it behind my parents shed for a week. :D
Back to mail, I've got the skirt expansion finished, which I hope is enough - I'll know tonight, I finished at 12:30am last night and didn't want to wake my wife with the noise (grunts) of half-armoring up to check.
As alluded to on Facebook by Sir Wolf, saturday was my birthday and an armor purchase was involved. I'm going to keep it quiet until MDRF opening weekend, though. :D
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As alluded to on Facebook by Sir Wolf, saturday was my birthday and an armor purchase was involved. I'm going to keep it quiet until MDRF opening weekend, though. :D
Excellent. Can't wait to see it all.
As to whether I'll armor up on opening weekend, that all depends on the weather. We've had a relatively comfortable temperature these last few days, but I'm not expecting it to last. MDRF's opening day for some reason is often pushing about 99', and high humidity.
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Hey man, happy belated...so you got armor for your birthday? I think I may need to have my wife talk to yours so she knows where to look. She has said she's wanted to buy me stuff in the past but didn't want to do like my parents did (they got me a SLO for my birthday a couple years back, but I appreciate the sentiment). lol
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Hey man, happy belated...so you got armor for your birthday? I think I may need to have my wife talk to yours so she knows where to look. She has said she's wanted to buy me stuff in the past but didn't want to do like my parents did (they got me a SLO for my birthday a couple years back, but I appreciate the sentiment). lol
Yep. My wife and I are both quite hard to shop for, so we send hints (links) to what we want. She bought me a dragon skull that mounts on the wall for Christmas last year. It makes it much easier than trying to explain stainless vs mild, rivited vs butted, dome rivit vs wedge rivit, 6mm vs 9mm - no room for confusion with a link, especially with sites that have 12 variations of a coif.
And if she were to try to explain to me what shoes she wants? Ha. I can barely manage to figure out what she wants when she asks me to bring a pair we have in the house. In a store without an item #? I'd find a nice corner to cry in. :)
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Huh...that is an excellent idea. I've already learned more about women's shoes than I ever cared to...but I have learned to leave the clothing to her. All that talk about sizes and cuts and the like...much too much for me to remember. lol
Mayhaps a link would suffice...thanks for that.
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Yeah, Kat and I are similarly difficult to shop for. Most things that are affordable that we'd want, we already have.
Extend this to siblings and parents, and it's a nightmare.
So I created a wishlist web-interface that lets people maintain lists of items (with links) that they're interested in. And people can mark it off as bought, so no one else buys a duplicate, but that purchase-status is hidden from the person whose wishlist is on. :)
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That sounds pretty elaborate...and I'm quite certain my family wouldn't go for it. They're into that whole 'my thought, my gift to you' mentality. Not a bad thing as my folks are pretty cool...Christmas before last we all got lightsabres and dueled out in the streets at 2 in the morning of Christmas day. LOL I think you even did some kind of trick to the picture to get that clash of the striking blades.
(http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv64/ebonpaladin/Lightsabersclash.jpg)
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Yep, and rotoscoped the blades too, to make them more realistic. :) As well as manually added a little bit of color (interactive lighting) on people's skin and so on. To make it more real.
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Wow, did not know you'd done all that...no wonder I like it so much more!
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That's pretty awesome Sir Edward.
And yeah, I usually just tell my folks books or I purchase it myself.
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That sounds pretty elaborate...and I'm quite certain my family wouldn't go for it. They're into that whole 'my thought, my gift to you' mentality. Not a bad thing as my folks are pretty cool...Christmas before last we all got lightsabres and dueled out in the streets at 2 in the morning of Christmas day. LOL I think you even did some kind of trick to the picture to get that clash of the striking blades.
(http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv64/ebonpaladin/Lightsabersclash.jpg)
hahaha thats awesome!!!! one Christmas my family all got paintball stuff. we all went out on new years day and played paintball. man that was such fun!
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Paintball...gonna talk to my Dad about that over Labor Day weekend. That would be effing awesome! :)
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So I created a wishlist web-interface that lets people maintain lists of items (with links) that they're interested in. And people can mark it off as bought, so no one else buys a duplicate, but that purchase-status is hidden from the person whose wishlist is on. :)
No kidding? I did a website wishlist for myself with links last Christmas. I have a terrible habit of hating to shop (general shopping - not sharp 'n shinies!), but when I see something I don't know exists that I think I'd want, I tend to buy it before I forget what / where / when I see it. It's almost all things to buy online that my family would never find, because, where do you go locally to buy a dragon's skull? Or fiber-optic pens? :D