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chuckdarwin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:34:49 -0800

Warfare: 1917 gives you a taste of the trenches.

High quality re-creations of medieval armor

agentofselection — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:36:02 -0800

A few examples of high-quality re-creations of medieval armor. Much of this is created using historical techniques (youtube,) by men (slightly NSFW) who can only be called masters. But it ain't cheap. I've linked to the sites of only a few reenactment-grade armoring greats. There are many more, such as Ugo Serrano (warning, bad myspace page) and Chris Gilman, both of whom do work for movies. The answers to all your armoring questions available at The Armour Archive. [Note 1: The British "armour" is often used in the reenactment community to separate medieval "armour" from modern "armor" esp. in search engines.] [Note 2: Stay away from the armour archive off-topic forums if you value your faith in humanity.] This post inspired by comments to this thread which had me thinking "these people need to see some REAL armor."

Not that Big Box Armor you're used to.

PhatLobley — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:55:22 -0800

"Your dog will need to be a pitbull shaped dog around 65 lbs or Ill need your dog here in person to get the right fit." Armor with a personal touch. A full suit of armor for $610! And you your pitbull shaped dog can even match. Oh, and in case you share a hobby with the janitor from Scrubs, you can get this as well. They should hire this guy to do Prince Caspian, if that's the next Narnia movie they're making.

Troy is hurting now

flabdablet — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:32:22 -0800

Be your own video game hero! Troy Hurtubise, the undisputed master of the bear-proof suit (among other things) has failed to find a buyer for its latest incarnation, and is selling the prototype on eBay.

What good is an army of cats without armor?

filmgeek — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:22:04 -0800

Armor for cats and rats. Well, really it's cats and mice, but that doesn't rhyme as well.Token Samurai Cat Jeff de Boer, the artist (bio here) all links have been coralized to protect the webhost

The wierd, wonderful and impractical

Harald74 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:36:50 -0800

Wierd tanks: Tank design has pretty much come to the point where all tanks are alike. They are mostly 60 ton machines with single turret with a 120-125 mm main gun. A number of different approaches has been tried through history, tough. One is the the heavy multiturreted Soviet T-35 from the 30s. Another take is the Swedish S-tank from the 60s, which did away with the turret altogether. A bit more conventional, but pretty much a one-nation tailor-made design is the Israeli Merkava, which is balanced heavily in favour of crew survivability with the engine in front and the ability to carry along a few infantrymen. The strangest of the bunch is the Russian WWI Czar tank, but just a tad impractical, standing 9 meters tall.

Armor of God PJs

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:52:31 -0800

Armor of God: now in child pajama form. Via

The art of Jeff de Boer

hortense — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:26:23 -0800

Pet armour For your dog or your cat. even your mouse!. your rat!

chainmail how-to

taz — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:55:11 -0800

It's in the mail. Dylon Whyte's Art of Chainmail site features beautiful, clear renderings showing, step-by-step, how to join chain links to form different mail patterns, including European, Japanese, and (probably-not-)Persian designs. This is actually fascinating stuff even if you're not a medievalist or a Renaissance-faire type. Also, from the same source, a brief history of armour and the the secret behind the chain bra!