https://royalarmouries.org/collection/object/object-1761
FUN FACT: The Toy Dolls were so moved, they recorded a loverly tribute song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7tPikH0UA
(Whilst also trying to warn us of a coming darkness. Guess that part didn’t work out so well. 😔)
I’ve seen this!
currently at Leeds Armouries.
why?
Not sure what you’re asking.
Can you elaborate?
just being an edgelord about britain stealing historic artifacts
Oh, hell yeah. For sure.
Colonialism in general makes me perfectly nauseous… like, just… fuck.Btw, Skullgrid, I couldn’t help but notice your ‘avatar card,’ for lack of a better official designation. And so I’m curious-- could you possibly link me to one of ‘banishings’ you did to the right-wingers in question?
Not really, you can see those things don’t exist, but I didn’t keep receipts. If I was lying about it I’d add more. I basically argued with some bad faith conservatives and saw they deleted their account/community a bit after and took credit.
Alright, I won’t pry further.
Then just-- keep up the good work!
…assuming you’re a fan of all human rights?Yeah, I’m libleft, until you start trying to take away rights from others.
I made my own suit of chainmail, and that was SO much work. Imagine doing it for a entire fucking elephant.
What did you make it out of?
Way back in the day, SCA folks were making chainmails out of soda can pop tops, which was awesome to me, since they weighed almost nothing when completed, but looked pretty convincing. But then the pop tops were discontinued…
Oh, metal wire. I think galvanized iron, because I was a poor teenager.
You’d take a copper tube, put a little hole into it, stick the end of the wire into the tube and the tube into a power drill. You spin the wire into a huge spiral which you can then snip into loose rings.
LOTR was in theaters, and I’d discovered LARP. So I was WAY more motivated than I am now.
Incredibly metal
Oh wow, they just recently added a new elephant focused civilization to Age of Empires 4, and one of the new elephants has this armor! I thought it was an unusual looking design, but now I know where they got it. I had no idea there was so little remaining as reference for this kind of thing.
