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Armour & Armor Update - Body Armor for the Modern Man

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Body Armor for the Modern Man

Body armor is about protecting life, it’s that simple. When people hear the word “armor” they imagine knights of old wearing bright shiny plate, riding a white horse but the modern man uses body armor for his everyday protection at work and play. So what do Navy SEAL’s,...

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Armour & Armor Update - The truth about chain mail

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The truth about chain mail

Chain mail discussions are often fascinating, and whenever I’m party to an interesting one it puts a smile on my face. In this video “Shad” discusses chain mail in depth, and I personally found it very interesting. Feel free to leave comments below, I’m interested to...

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Armour & Armor Update - Cosplay Armor - Featuring the best cosplayers!

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Cosplay Armor - Featuring the best cosplayers!

Cosplay armor might be more important to our visitors than real armor, we honestly don’t know — so we’re going to carry out an experiment over the coming weeks to find out what our readers really want. We rescued the content in this site when we acquired the domain as a...

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Armour & Armor Update - Video Game Armor - Featuring the best games, and artists!

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Video Game Armor - Featuring the best games, and artists!

Video game armor might be more important to our visitors than real armor, we honestly don’t know — so we’re going to carry out an experiment over the coming weeks to find out what our readers really want. We rescued the content in this site when we acquired the domain as a...

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Armour & Armor Update - Arms and Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: European Armour

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Arms and Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: European Armour

This is a great new book that will be available in May 2016, but you can pre-order it now at a special price.

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Armour & Armor Update - Her Dad Thought She Was Doing Homework, He Began Crying When He Discovered What She Was Really Doing...

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Her Dad Thought She Was Doing Homework, He Began Crying When He Discovered What She Was Really Doing...

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Armour & Armor Update - Antique Armour For Sale

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Antique Armour For Sale

This extremely rare embossed French cuirass shown below is dated around 1560-1570 and is all yours for just $38,000 over at the faganarms website.What do you think of this piece of armour? Please leave a comment below.

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Armour & Armor Update - Leather Armour Or Something Else?

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Leather Armour Or Something Else?

One of our readers sent the email below today asking if we could help identify the object in the photo’s. Given we have thousands of visitors interested in armour I thought I’d open this request up to everyone. Please read the email and leave a comment if you know what it is,...

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Armour & Armor Update - How To Make A Sword

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How To Make A Sword

The videos below show how to make a sword. In fact it’s no ordinary sword, it’s a pattern-welded sword with a serpent at its core. I really enjoyed the videos below created by Niels Provos and wanted to share them with you here, Niels is a brilliant security researcher in his day...

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Armour & Armor Update - How To Cast A Bronze Sword

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How To Cast A Bronze Sword

Neil Oliver experiments with traditional methods of making a Bronze Age sword just like in ancient times. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEWIuyeNp2k

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Armour & Armor Update - Henry VIII Secrets Revealed Thanks To Armour

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Henry VIII Secrets Revealed Thanks To Armour

Photo credit goes to Collette Mason who took a trip to the Tower of London recently. Thanks for allowing me to post it! A study of armour worn by Henry VIII around 1540 revealed by the end of his reign the King’s vital stats were a whopping 52 inch waist and 53 inch chest, pretty amazing...

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Armour & Armor Update - Shield of Sidhe

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Shield of Sidhe

I wanted to share this with you because, well.. it’s a cool design! The main shield is made from plastozote foam, with a fibreglass core and then latexed. Then the figure was cast in poly rubber. The hole that the figure sites in is a rubber negative casting so that it fit...

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Armour & Armor Update - Critical Hit While Sneaking

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Critical Hit While Sneaking

Beebichu taught herself how to sew and use photoshop because she loves cosplay, she normally likes to make pottery but as you can see there’s no pottery here. It’s a great photo of Nightingale Armour that Beebichi created and there are many more like it at her site so take a break...

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Armour & Armor Update - Development of the 14th Century Spaulder 4

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Development of the 14th Century Spaulder 4

The Development of the 14th C. Spaulder by Eric Slyter Shoulder defenses in 14th Century Germany As in many places on the continent, mercenary crossbowmen and infantry were important factors in warfare and this is believed to be the cause of greater usage of rigid defenses. However, Germany...

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Armour & Armor Update - Development of the 14th Century Spaulder 3

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Development of the 14th Century Spaulder 3

The Development of the 14th C. Spaulder by Eric Slyter Shoulder defenses in 14th Century Italy I do not have as much information available to me for the continent as the abundant information I have for England, so my sections on Italy and Germany will have to remain admittedly incomplete.28 What...

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Armour & Armor Update - Development of the 14th Century Spaulder 2

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Development of the 14th Century Spaulder 2

The Development of the 14th C. Spaulder by Eric Slyter Shoulder defenses in 14th Century England cont. From the middle of the 1300s the English spaulder takes basically the same form until roughly the end of the century, with a domed cop19 protecting the shoulder and tightly fit dependent lames...

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Armour & Armor Update - Development of the 14th Century Spaulder

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Development of the 14th Century Spaulder

The Development of the 14th Century Spaulder by Eric Slyter Spaulders are one of the most common elements in modern reenactment armour, yet most fall short of replicating the shapes and appearance of those depicted in history. This seems particularly so in the century in which they originated,...

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