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Main => The Armoury => Topic started by: Sir James A on 2012-02-14, 05:09:04
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Huzzah!
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;D
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Nice! Where'd you get them from?
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Sweet! Love the clap visor! :)
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awesome, which sallet is that
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Huzzah and well done, Sir James!
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Nice. Now you need the kits to go with them all! :)
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what is it someone once told me? helmets without kits are like people without souls
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LOL
Nicely put, Sir Wolf! I wonder how many helmets had kids back in antiquity? lol
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oh shut up i totally missed that. fixed it hahaha
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Nice! Where'd you get them from?
I got them from "Swords Of Might" (swordsofmight.com); the site looked vaguely familiar and I think I've bought a SLO or two from them before in years past, but never armor.
Good experience, overall. They didn't take paypal, which is a bit odd. I put in the notes "please send shipping/tracking info when available", but never got an email about it, or even an automated email that it was shipped. I found out if you created an account, then log on and look at order history, it has tracking numbers in there. It all arrived undamaged and in about a week, so no complaints. The klappvisor was about $10 higher than KOA, but the sallet was about $10 cheaper, so it was a wash. The main reason I got it all from there is KOA didn't have the great helm.
Sweet! Love the clap visor! :)
Thank you, Sir Brian. It's part of my "Sir Brian" kit; 14th century german splinted leather. :)
awesome, which sallet is that
It's a GDFB with the lifting visor and bevor. And it's the most perplexing helmet; I know GDFB is a european company, which I thought maybe they outsourced to India? But the box it came in had a sticker that says "Made in China"; same box that had the GDFB stock # sticker on it.
Huzzah and well done, Sir James!
Thank you. :)
Nice. Now you need the kits to go with them all! :)
These are progress on existing kits without helmets. :) The klappvisor is for my splinted leather gear (aka the "Sir Brian" kit, since I've shamelessly taken a *lot* of inspiration from his kit). The sallet & bevor is for my MRL gothic kit. The great helm is for my early period mail kit.
Somehow, I can't find 9mm brass riveted loose rings now. I was going to do brass edging on my mail to match the brass on the helm, and use it for a crusader/templar kit. KOA and IceFalcon don't have them, and my google-fu has found nothing, and I have no bookmarks for them either. I'm hoping I didn't dream them up.
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Thank you, Sir Brian. It's part of my "Sir Brian" kit; 14th century german splinted leather.
Truly Sir you honor me. Thank you! :-[
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Try the Ring Lord for brass links.
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Nice, I like the great helm, it's the classical crusader design you'd see in the late 13th century.
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Sweet! Love the clap visor! :)
Me too ;)
G.
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Nice, I like the great helm, it's the classical crusader design you'd see in the late 13th century.
I do believe it is the same helm Sirs Edward and Brian use for their dress kits, with the torse and mount on top of the helm. I forget what you call that.
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Try the Ring Lord for brass links.
They have brass links, but only butted. :(
Nice, I like the great helm, it's the classical crusader design you'd see in the late 13th century.
Cool, that's exactly what I was going for.
Nice, I like the great helm, it's the classical crusader design you'd see in the late 13th century.
I do believe it is the same helm Sirs Edward and Brian use for their dress kits, with the torse and mount on top of the helm. I forget what you call that.
Oh, hmm, might be. The other part with the torse is the "mantle". I'm not sure if I'll do one of those or not.
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You can't get my exact helm anymore, as it was from Valentine Armory's clearance when they closed up shop in Canada.
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True. Sir Edward’s helm is much nicer! Mine is just a cheap India/Pakistan knock off. ;)
@ Sir James:
Why not go for the whole crest, mantle and torse? You don’t have to keep it on all the time and it is definitely a crowd pleaser! :)
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Nice helms!
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Mantle, that's it...couldn't remember it for the life of me at that point in time. One of those is in the future for me as well...some day. :)
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@ Sir James:
Why not go for the whole crest, mantle and torse? You don’t have to keep it on all the time and it is definitely a crowd pleaser! :)
If I get some other long-standing projects finished up, it's a possibility. First thing I'll need to find is a helmet-mountable lion. :)
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First thing I'll need to find is a helmet-mountable lion.
THAT surprisingly will be a difficult search. You may have to go with a custom job. I've been keeping an eye open for a lion for Sir Wolf's crest with no real luck. :-\
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You might try searching for resin-cast bookends. I have a set of horse head ones, and one of them took a tumble and broke off its base. All the weight was in the base, the sculpted part was light-weight and hollow. A little sawing, a little paint, and you could make a crest out of one.
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First thing I'll need to find is a helmet-mountable lion.
THAT surprisingly will be a difficult search. You may have to go with a custom job. I've been keeping an eye open for a lion for Sir Wolf's crest with no real luck. :-\
Workable lions are very hard to come by. I ended up looking for wooden ornaments and such that would be suitable.
G.
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Truly, you good gentlemen having a lion for a crest may have to settle for just having a lion's head. :-\
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lion-Head-Mane-Wildlife-Bust-Decoration-Figurine-Statue-/140690107159?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lion-Head-Mane-Wildlife-Bust-Decoration-Figurine-Statue-/140690107159?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LION-Head-Bust-Collectible-New-/200704291950?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/LION-Head-Bust-Collectible-New-/200704291950?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54)
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You might try searching for resin-cast bookends. I have a set of horse head ones, and one of them took a tumble and broke off its base. All the weight was in the base, the sculpted part was light-weight and hollow. A little sawing, a little paint, and you could make a crest out of one.
Workable lions are very hard to come by. I ended up looking for wooden ornaments and such that would be suitable.
G.
Those both sound like good ideas. Very good thinking "outside the box". :)
Truly, you good gentlemen having a lion for a crest may have to settle for just having a lion's head. :-\
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lion-Head-Mane-Wildlife-Bust-Decoration-Figurine-Statue-/140690107159?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lion-Head-Mane-Wildlife-Bust-Decoration-Figurine-Statue-/140690107159?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LION-Head-Bust-Collectible-New-/200704291950?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/LION-Head-Bust-Collectible-New-/200704291950?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D140690105079%26ps%3D54)
Sir Brian, you tempt me. I'm okay with the lion head and not the "full" lion; I just want it to match my heraldic lions. And I thought I had enough unfinished projects already. Perhaps not. :)