St. Durendal —|—————— | 🖋/🎙️

Don’t worry! Haven’t forgotten about you lot at all! Took an impromptu break from social media so I could go soul-searching, lore-writing etc.

Chapter I of my lore webnovel’s being drafted, and it’s pretty edgy if I’m being honest lol, I’d say we’re about halfway through it

A copy of Tobias Capwell’s book, ‘Masterpieces of European Arms and armour in the Wallace Collection’, sitting on top of a Nord keyboard, cover side up. The cover features the author’s name in plain text, and the title is mixed in bold golden and plain lettering (with EUROPEAN ARMS AND ARMOUR in gold). It features a profile photograph of a 16th Century plate armour harness, bust-up, which boasts an armet, pauldrons with the left bearing a haute piece, and a fully articulated gorget. The armour presented is bordered with ornamental filigree; either brass or gold.

Hey you lot ^^ Happy Holidays

This is largely just another day for me, but I did get another one of Toby Capwell’s books!

Hey you lot ^^

MAINLINE DIVINITY’S COMING BACK?! HUH?!
Guess we need to start playing through Ego Draconis onstream again, totally wasn’t the biggest inspiration for my lore, nope ^^’

Meme featuring Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil 2: Remake) in his Raccoon City PD outfit, standing in a darkly lit city backdrop, which is in the middle of a downpour. The subsequent caption (impact font) reads, ‘you know it’s raining outside when you go outside and it’s raining’

Going to be streaming some time next week! Any day is fair game aside from Monday, Wednesday and Friday, since I’m busy on those.

I do wanna play Stalker 2 but I dunno if I’d be able to run OBS & VTS with it at the same time! Amazing game mind

Definitely continuing Baldur’s Gate tho, rest assured

Sorry but uhhhhhhhhhh, I feel like I balled too close to the sun with that, so I deleted it

I appreciate that people seemed to like it, and it goes to show that I’m not shadowbanned on here, but I realised that if I want anything to pop off, it should be my VTuber content and not my RL self haha

Sentry

Btw this seems to be getting a little further out of its target audience (friends who want updates on my VTuber stuff) so just before it does more numbers,

This is N O T a NSFW account of any kind, I’m just posting progress since I started lol, wanted to clear that up ^^ I appreciate it though!

Lol thank you, would like to hope so ^^
I got into it because I genuinely enjoy lifting stuff, it’s fun, wasn’t banking on getting big but it’s a nice byproduct

The cover of ‘Armour of the English Knight: An Armourer’s Album’, by Tobias Capwell. It depicts a Knight in early 15th century fullplate harness, mounted on a white horse (presumably a courser), brandishing the haft of a spear/lance. The figure is wearing a great bascinet with a short plume at the crest, a cuirass with a long fauld, a mail shirt beneath, hourglass gauntlets, and arm/leg harnesses that are typical of the period. The foot of the cover shows that it was published by ‘Thomas Del Mar Ltd.’

Hey you lot, morning!

I’m planning on returning to streaming next week! Comic Con Bham’s this weekend and I would have gone if I had the spare money for some figures or something, but alas, I do not.

BUT. Something I preordered a while ago, has now arrived. And it was SO WORTH IT DUDE ^^

Happy to say that we have. OFFICIALLY. Paid the deposit on my arms and legs for my plate harness ^^.

It should be done by January! Seriously looking forward to it!

Images from Illuminated Manuscripts that depict a typical European dragon; green in colour, left wing outstretched, showing the shape.

Like, this sort of shape for the couters and poleyn ‘wings’.

Tbh.

In the new year. I might ask Aki if I can have some of the things from my own real armour, put into my own armour’s design. Cuz we honestly have some great ideas. We’re going to flute the couters and poleyns to look like dragon wings and shit.

LARP cuirass (Italian style), two large tassets in the front, three straps to hold the plackart, front strap, German front-fastening close, etc. - Front View

LARP cuirass (Italian style), two large tassets in the front, three straps to hold the plackart, front strap, German front-fastening close, etc. - Back View

Journey to go fetch this was a nightmare, but a nightmare worth braving

We’re brainstorming ideas for arm & leg harnesses to go with this too, but probably won’t be finished until next year

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- Durendal

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Lord Raven

Career-buffbro over here, I have to do a little extra homework to find artists who can honour that so I REALLY appreciate this ^^

Fantastic work btw

Between getting my cuirass last Friday and finally hitting a full 100lbs set on the chest press machine, I think there’s definitely been a shift in the wind recently.

Second half of BG3 is happening tomorrow probs.

its animated finally god damn BABYS FIRST ANIMATION SO PLS BE NICE

Btw yes, we’re doing BG3 some time either tomorrow evening (Sunday) or next week ^^

I got this class mod that breaks the whole game where you can play as a Celestial. Shield of Faith as a Bonus Action, Booming Blade Cantrip, Revivify Cantrip, Bless as a Class Action, it’s Paladin on steroids

and she was a fairy ✨🦋

[ #pepwip #pepart #wip #art #artcommissions #commissions ]

Harcourt Effigy at the Harcourt Chapel in St. Michael’s, Oxfordshire - the alabaster figure featured is clad in red plate armour of English style, with fluted couters on the arm harnesses, a cloak with a blazon on the left breast, a golden mail collar, etc. - Profile view

Harcourt Effigy at the Harcourt Chapel in St. Michael’s, Oxfordshire - the alabaster figure is clad in red plate armour of English style, with fluted couters on the arm harnesses, fluting on the legs, a cloak with a blazon on the left breast, a golden mail collar, etc. - View looking down on the effigy’s arm harnesses

Example English-style leg harnesses made by Steve Lunn. The cuisses (upper leg armour) have prominent barley twists on them, which are characteristic of English plate.

We’re making the arm/leg harnesses in a fashion that’s going to be based around English style plate, so a lot of barley twist fluting on the rerebraces, cuisses etc., he’s already made a couple of pieces with that type of fluting so should turn out great ^^

LARP cuirass (Italian style), two large tassets in the front, three straps to hold the plackart, front strap, German front-fastening close, etc. - Front View

LARP cuirass (Italian style), two large tassets in the front, three straps to hold the plackart, front strap, German front-fastening close, etc. - Back View

Journey to go fetch this was a nightmare, but a nightmare worth braving

We’re brainstorming ideas for arm & leg harnesses to go with this too, but probably won’t be finished until next year

My custom character in a Baldur’s Gate 3 screenshot. Long, wavy, blond hair that’s perfectly clean, as opposed to his face, which bears splotches of blood. His eyes have blue dragonborn pupils.

Lmao it always makes me laugh when characters in this game get absolutely soaked in blood and yet they got that perfectly clean Salon Selectives hair

Meme depicting a figure with a snarky expression pointing their thumb to the teaser poster for Super Mario Galaxy: The Movie. A speech bubble is attached, saying ‘this fucking rocks actually’. The text for ‘rocks’ is stylised to resemble the colourful font used for Mario game logos. The figure is wearing Mario’s trademark cap; red and round with an ‘M’ in the centre above the brim.

So uh, you lot seen the new Mario Galaxy trailer?

The cuirass next to a sketch of Robert Hungerford’s effigy (which is in Salisbury Cathedral), demonstrating the similarities and differences in the shape, construction etc. (front view).

The cuirass next to a sketch of Robert Hungerford’s effigy (which is in Salisbury Cathedral), demonstrating the similarities and differences in the shape, construction etc. (side view).

We mostly did our own thing with this (the front strap is more common on German armour), but the biggest reference we used was of Robert Hungerford’s effigy, which is one of the few pictorial examples of 15th c. English plate. No real, physical English plate of this period is known to have survived.

Archery and longbows on the Mary Rose - Mary Rose 172 complete bows were found on the Mary Rose. Find out more about the longbows and archery paraphernalia recovered from Henry VIII's warship

The page is actually really interesting too.
maryrose.org/discover/col...

Photograph of a cabinet exhibit at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, UK. Seven yew longbows (unstrung and missing nocks) are arranged against a cyan wall. A chest is placed before them, the lid having been removed and left behind it. There appears to be more bows inside. A complete, assembled bow is to the right, and several arrows are hung beneath this.

Was helping a friend find historical ref images for a design for an archer. I only just found this out:

When the team that lifted the Mary Rose raised the hull, they found like three or four iron chests that were full of longbows.

Of the 250 longbows consigned to the ship, 172 have been recovered.

An Italian Export-style 15th century cuirass, made for LARP. It sits on a model of a torso, and is complete with fauld and tassets. Several straps secure everything in place (front view).

An Italian Export-style 15th century cuirass, made for LARP. It sits on a model of a torso, and is complete with fauld and tassets. Several straps secure everything in place (side view).

An Italian Export-style 15th century cuirass, made for LARP. It sits on a model of a torso, and is complete with fauld and tassets. Several straps secure everything in place (back view).

Big news you lot. Was fighting back tears this morning.

I was gonna wait until this weekend’s Rite to announce it publicly. BUT.

After all the trouble with the fauld was sorted. The cuirass is finished ^^.
I’m going to pick it up from the workshop next week.
Steve has done a wonderful job on it.