New GDFB kettle helms

[Sir Ulrich]

http://gdfb.com/cart/helmets-kettle-hats-c-51_5.html
I checked that out and I see they got new kettle helms, can only hope some of them will be sold here in the USA.

[Sir Wolf]

hehe i like that ultuna helmet! ive never finished mine

[Sir James A]

If they don't sell them here, I could probably buy one while I'm in England later this year and bring it back with me and ship it to you, or maybe ship it from over there.

[Sir Rodney]

If they don't sell them here, I could probably buy one while I'm in England later this year and bring it back with me and ship it to you, or maybe ship it from over there.

May I ask if the trip is business, pleasure or a little of both?  If pleasure, please tell me that you're going to visit 100 castles and weapon collections posting thousands of photographs for us to drool over.

[Sir William]

^^^yes, what he said!

[Sir James A]

If they don't sell them here, I could probably buy one while I'm in England later this year and bring it back with me and ship it to you, or maybe ship it from over there.

May I ask if the trip is business, pleasure or a little of both?  If pleasure, please tell me that you're going to visit 100 castles and weapon collections posting thousands of photographs for us to drool over.

^^^yes, what he said!

Pleasure, how could a trip to England NOT be pleasurable? I'll be going for somewhere around 2 weeks. I do have a number of castles on the "wish list" to see, but I still have to figure out distances and map out what would be reasonable to do, since I don't know the distance between them. My wife and I will both be taking our cameras, and I'll be taking at least one harness to lend some atmosphere to some of the pics too. At least, that's the plan - it depends on finances. It's our "18 months after the wedding" honeymoon.

Ideally, I'll find a curator or two who won't mind showing me "under the glass case", and letting me me paw at a real sword or two. No definitive time frame for the trip yet, other than sometime after Sept 1st, when ticket prices drop. I've been watching too much Highlander lately, I keep thinking when I'm over there I'll introduce myself as "James Anderson of the Clan Anderson" and give my best shot at a slight accent, and see what happens.

I should ask my dad if we still have the pictures from when we took a family trip 15 years ago - the only time I've been. We went to the Tower of London and I had a great time at Warwick Castle. I also got to meet a umpteenth generation smith, who had his smithy before the town even existed. I got to hold a claymore that he made from a section of railroad track. Really cool guy. I hope those pictures and VHS tapes weren't amongst the items we lost when the basement flooded years ago ... crossing my fingers!

I'll post a new thread when I have a time frame booked, and see what I can do about bringing a thing or two back with us. It'll probably depend on size, weight and quantity.

[Sir William]

Whatever you do, above all, enjoy it.  Hopefully your entire time won't be spent chasing down castles...don't forget to chase the wife around a bit as well! 

[Sir Ulrich]

Hmm they seem to have removed one of them O_o The one that appeals to me most is the 13th century kettle helm though, it's very similar to the one I already have though.

[James Barker]

It's our "18 months after the wedding" honeymoon.

Funny that is the same as my wife and I; our 2006 trip was our "honeymoon" 18 months after our marriage. I also fought at Hastings on that trip.

I loved Leeds, the Wallace Collection, and the Tower of London for armor. Warwick Castle, and Bodam castle were cool. The Museum of London, the V&A, and the British Museum was full of cool stuff too, mostly every day objects with bits of armor.