Ed's Mid 14th C. kit

[Sir Wolf]

Sir Edward, did you get your COP?

[Sir William]

Yes, where are the pics?

[Sir Edward]

No, I haven't ordered it yet. Roof repairs, truck maintenance, and a wedding to plan. It's putting the armor plans on hold a bit.

[Sir William]

Damn all those extraneous attention-hogging issues...!!!  lol

Except for the wedding...Lady Kat's more than worth the effort, but roof repairs?  Posh, what's a little rain and outside environment?  Truck?  What's that?  lol

[Sir Wolf]

who does Kat think she is? hahahaha jkjk heheheh

[Sir William]

*runs ducking for cover*

You're on your own, Sir Wolf!  lol

[Sir Wolf]

hey u never posted pictures of your new arms and legs from MT

[Sir Patrick]

Hey, Sir Edward, I remember waaay back in this tread you were talking about having trouable getting the sabatons right in your chauses.  Here's a link that might help.

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=126899

[Sir Brian]

*bump resurrection*

So what pray tell has become of this kit? 

[Sir Edward]

Nothing yet. I still need to get the riveted mail, and make the surcoat, and adjust the legs to avoid the... uhm.. pinching hazard in the middle. I also need to think about a coat of plates, but that can come later.

The biggest roadblock is the mail. What I want is the riveted titanium from icefalcon. But I have a wedding to pay for this year, so I've been putting it off. I might be able to work around this, but the problem is that I was planning on pointing the arms and spaulders to the mail, which won't work with my aluminum.

So because of budget reasons I haven't worked on it in a while.

But in terms of the surcoat... hmm... maybe I can have Marie take a look at that.

[Sir Brian]

Oh btw, speaking of surcoat I'm picking up my other new one on Tuesday. This one I had made with the extra linen material and wanted it for a more daily wear or fighting as I want to get into that more in armor. The cool part is the seamstress asked me if I wanted my accolades embroidered. I asked how much more that would be and she estimated the time and said $90.00 for both devices. So the entire surcoat is going to cost me $130 and I won’t have to ruin it by trying to stencil the accolades on with fabric paint! 

[Sir Edward]

Oh btw, speaking of surcoat I'm picking up my other new one on Tuesday. This one I had made with the extra linen material and wanted it for a more daily wear or fighting as I want to get into that more in armor. The cool part is the seamstress asked me if I wanted my accolades embroidered. I asked how much more that would be and she estimated the time and said $90.00 for both devices. So the entire surcoat is going to cost me $130 and I won’t have to ruin it by trying to stencil the accolades on with fabric paint!  

Awesome! That's really cool.




Well, I need to think on this mail thing more. The titanium would be awesome. But steel would be much cheaper. And I could still get stainless to avoid rust... I would just have the full weight.

Example 1 (GDFB): http://cashanwei.com/prod_Detail.aspx?id=AB3084

(chainmail)
Example 2: (Ice Falcon): http://store.fastcommerce.com/icefalcon/stainless-chainmail-haubergeon-large-ff808181179c9a5701179dac4e6e3621-p.html


EDIT: ... dang it, now you have me thinking about this again. And wondering if I can get it together in 2 weeks for the knighting... lol... Stainless is affordable.

[Sir Wolf]

muhahahah yes yes it is.

why can't you point the alum spaulders? need help?

[Sir Brian]

Wow the Icefalcon is cheaper but you don't get your discount with icefalcon. Tough decision there! 

[Sir Edward]

why can't you point the alum spaulders? need help?

I have heavy steel spaulders for this kit. The aluminum mail won't support the weight of things hanging off of it.

Anyway, I made my decision. I'll forgo the titanium. The GDFB stuff has more appropriate sizing for me anyway, and the stainless isn't oppressively heavy. I should have it next week!