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S. Sebok
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Heres my full current kit, Still never got the maille mittens done so I got an aketon with mittens integrated instead.
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Mackenzie Cosens
Location: Vancouver Canada Joined: 08 Aug 2007
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| Ian S LaSpina wrote: | | This thread served as the inspiration for me to get serious about this passion we all share. Several years down the road, here's where I'm at! This is my impression of a late 14th century English knight. Photo taken at a recent living history event I had the honor to participate in. |
Nice!
Who's work?
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Felix R.
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@Ian
Very nice, that is. Your chest looks quite flat. Do you plan to add a globose breast plate, to accomplish the period look?
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Arek Przybylok
Location: Upper Silesia Joined: 16 Jan 2007
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Ian, nice kit. But your aventail has to be padded in historical and practical way. Otherwise, your throat stays uncovered. It is too dangerous to leave it like this 
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Ian S LaSpina
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| Posted: Tue 16 Oct, 2012 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| Mackenzie Cosens wrote: |
Nice!
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Thank you! The helmet and breastplate are Jeff Hedgecock. The arms, cuisses, greaves, and hourglass gauntlets are from Jeff Wasson. All 1050 heat treated spring steel.
| Felix R. wrote: | @Ian
Very nice, that is. Your chest looks quite flat. Do you plan to add a globose breast plate, to accomplish the period look? |
There is a globose underneath the surcoat. Unfortunately what you're seeing here is that my surcoat came detached at the sides so it's just kind of draping over the chest and hanging loose, when it's pulled tight the proper silouhette is more visible. I am toying with the idea of getting a globose with fauld done though to really enhance the silouhette you see on effigies of the time period.
| Arek Przybylok wrote: | | Ian, nice kit. But your aventail has to be padded in historical and practical way. Otherwise, your throat stays uncovered. It is too dangerous to leave it like this |
And you sir, are a mind-reader, because that is exactly what I plan to add next. I hastily attached the aventail for the event I went to, and definitely plan on adding padding to it. Thank you for pointing that out, you're absolutely right.
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"Monsters are dangerous, and just now Kings are dying like flies..."
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Martinho Ramos
Location: Portugal Joined: 05 Jan 2011
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A two year old work in progress of mine of which the only pieces not made by myself are the sallet, bevor, sword and gambeson. The suit is based on various original pieces from the 15th century, with a certain Italian influence to it. Metal thickness varies from 1.5mm on the limbs to 2mm and thicker on the breastplate, helmet and knees.
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Antonio Ganarini
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Really wonderful! I cannot judge the historical accuracy, but it has a "home-made" flavour that's just great!
Ciao a tutti!
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Jimi Edmonds
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Nice I'm really liking the self made kits that is popping up on this thread! oh the want for some metal working tools!
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Tom King
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Felt i might as well post some of my photos from the past few Florida Ren fests. In high school I was part of a reenactment group that was a school club and History of Chivalry, a full contact combat group that is a bunch of Adrian Empire guys wailing on each other for the amusement of crowds.
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my new arm armor with a loaner mail shirt and gorget
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A friend and I before we march around for a fair function.
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action shot; we were doing something irresponsible with weapons back stage
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posing for a photo [ Download ]
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after a melee fight [ Download ]
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17th century russian bulletproof breastplate with hussar pauldrons and late 16-17th century arms [ Download ]
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Sander Alsters
Location: Netherlands Joined: 03 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Wed 17 Oct, 2012 11:55 am Post subject: Helmet |
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I just wanted to show off my new helmet made by Boris Petrov Bedrosov. All credits go to him! He has done a wonderfull job on this helmet and I'm really proud I own it!
I'm still working on the rest of the kit but I made a great start with this helmet. It is going to be part of a Mamluk kit. Please let me know what you guys think!
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David Lewis Smith
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Great looking kit
I work with a lot of wounded warriors and some of them are interested in medieval history. Did you design your prosthetic or use a medieval design?
David L Smith
MSG (RET)
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Raman A
Location: United States Joined: 25 Aug 2011
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| Ian S LaSpina wrote: | This thread served as the inspiration for me to get serious about this passion we all share. Several years down the road, here's where I'm at! This is my impression of a late 14th century English knight. Photo taken at a recent living history event I had the honor to participate in.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8092349496_85a7841325_c.jpg |
Beautiful harness, do you have more pictures?
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Rod Walker
Location: NSW, Australia. Joined: 05 Feb 2004
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My harness set up for Pro-Joust tournaments (think FMJ). It also does historical jousts by removing the tiltbuff and grand guard and having an ecranche used.
Cheers
Rod
Jouster
www.jousting.com.au
"Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblessed
That dare not tilt at something, ere he die?"
--Errantry, John Galsworthy
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Ahmad Tabari
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| Sander Alsters wrote: | I just wanted to show off my new helmet made by Boris Petrov Bedrosov. All credits go to him! He has done a wonderfull job on this helmet and I'm really proud I own it!
I'm still working on the rest of the kit but I made a great start with this helmet. It is going to be part of a Mamluk kit. Please let me know what you guys think! |
Awesome helmet Sander. Though I would probably have used finer mail for the aventail. But still very nice. We dont get enough middle eastern kits here.
What sort of body armour are you planning to go with that helmet?
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Sander Alsters
Location: Netherlands Joined: 03 Jun 2009
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Thank you Ahmad, I agree there are not so many middle eastern kits in comparison. It would be nice to cee more around. I dont know if you are familiar with the facebook page of the saracen re-enacent bazaar. Its worth taking a look.
As for my kit I need to work on my soft kit first. The enitial thought was to make a jawshan of maille and plates. Or just maille underneath my outer soft kit. Now I'm also considering a lammelar jawshan. Maybe with a Kazaghand of a single maille layer underneath.
Im also looking into neck protection. The best I could find was a dhir with leather woven into the rings around the neck. I like the idea so my neck will be better protected.
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Felix R.
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Always nice to see the horse in your Pics Rod.
Here is the finished picture from the first professional shoot, you remember the black background and the spot lights form the picture above?
Yesterday we had our shoot at the Burg Hohnstein in Neustadt Thüringen. The setting was really nice and the photographer does have an I for light set up.
PS: I did shorten the sleeves of the maille after the first shoot.
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Martin Wallgren
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My new Kit! A low born Archer in the later half of the 14th Century! The sword is a Pavel Moc Karel. (The piture is a Photoshop image I put together last night in the commersial breaks while watching Pitch Black!
Swordsman, Archer and Dad
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Josh Wilson
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Very cool Martin!
Have any pics of your bow and arrows?
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Ahmad Tabari
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| Posted: Mon 22 Oct, 2012 12:46 am Post subject: Re: Helmet |
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| Sander Alsters wrote: | Thank you Ahmad, I agree there are not so many middle eastern kits in comparison. It would be nice to cee more around. I dont know if you are familiar with the facebook page of the saracen re-enacent bazaar. Its worth taking a look.
As for my kit I need to work on my soft kit first. The enitial thought was to make a jawshan of maille and plates. Or just maille underneath my outer soft kit. Now I'm also considering a lammelar jawshan. Maybe with a Kazaghand of a single maille layer underneath.
Im also looking into neck protection. The best I could find was a dhir with leather woven into the rings around the neck. I like the idea so my neck will be better protected. |
Yes I've been to that page several times. That guy's work is fantastic. Once I begin assembling a kit (in the near future hopefully) I will most likely go to him for a helmet.
I think a mail kazaghand or hauberk would be a good idea for a 13th century Mamluk. Lamellar seems to feature more often in 14th century art (though likely worn over kazaghands). And of course mail and plate makes its entry in the late 14th/early 15th century. Which Mamluk era are you planning to reenact?
I like the idea of leather neck protection attached to the mail collar. I believe I saw it in an Ottoman or Mamluk mail shirt once.
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Martin Wallgren
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| Josh Wilson wrote: | Very cool Martin!
Have any pics of your bow and arrows? |
Here is the bow and a few arrows but with my 15th century Archers kit!
The bow is a Scandinavian yew selfbow aprox. 85# at 32", the bowyer is Lars Persson. The Arrows are 95 grams 1/2 " parallell with 7,5 inch 3/4 inch hig feathers made in birchwood. Split and shaped and fletched by me! Short bodkins.
Swordsman, Archer and Dad
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