#baselard

[kultofathena]

Tod Cutler – English / Italian Baselard 14th – 15th Cent.

This Baselard from Tod Cutler has a rigid blade of tempered EN45 high carbon steel and a very thick and reinforced tang and the grip is formed from polished wood scales which are sturdily pinned and directly to the tang for a secure construction. The dagger is paired with a durable sheath of quality leather with stitched construction, lacing to tie it to a belt and a finishing chape of brass.

A very popular Medieval dagger that could be found from Scotland to Italy and all places between. The Baselard had some regional variations and the one reproduced here by Tod Cutler is of a style popular in Italy and England. The broad H-shape grip gives a secure handhold and gives plenty of support for the thrust or make a disarm much more difficult. The blade is stiffened at its base with a hexagonal cross section which transitions to a diamond cross section. The long and stiff blade is designed to puncture handily through thick clothing or to be used as a lever to work its way into and through the weakpoints of an armored harness.

[pinaxpinakes]

I felt the duty to draw Baselard in this year of the bunny (*´ω｀*)

[omen4fan]

Omen 4: The Awakening Fan Video | Delia's Murderer from THE OMEN fanfic Always Visible (avlivro)

Delia York tribute by me, which I dedicate to Asia Vieira. This is a scene from the fanfic "Always Visible" (or just "avlivro") based on "Omen IV: The Awakening", embodied with the help of appropriate frames from the film adaptation of Stanislav Lem's novel "Śledztwo". Music by Maurice Jarre from the motion picture "Jacob's Ladder".

This video is intended to illustrate a scene from a fan fiction, when inspector Galbraith (in the video, he is presented as a moustached man in a trench coat) comes to the home of doctor Baselard (a bald old man with glasses), who had previously killed Delia Yonce on the operating table.

P.S. The subtitles do NOT correspond to the real dialogues of the actors, they are needed to illustrate the scene from the fanfic "Always Visible (Another Prayer for The Dying Horror Genre)".

[megamidevice]

Baselard • Frame Arms Girl 1/1 Scale Model Kit by Kotobukiya

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

This wasn't supposed to be anywhere near this long in total... but here's the first chapter of the 'angry confession' prompt I got from @authortobenamedlater a bit ago.

Hope you enjoy!

[studentofetherium]

a new pile of model kits that I ordered for black friday arrived!

[megumifushigurosupremacy]

i have so many thoughts about fire emblem engage still

and theyre almost all about missed opportunities

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

I hate to be a huge dork, but I think the Baselard is the standard fighter whereas the Longsword is more of a bomber.

jrr tolkien: I write literally every kind of character jrrt: this is Beren, he's a wifeguy jrrt: Tom Bombadil, a total mystery but also a wifeguy jrrt: Treebeard, former wifeguy jrrt: Samwise Gamgee, future wifeguy jrrt:... jrrt: Turin Turambar, wifeguy gone terribly wrong

[donowhiskey]

WSX://:14 LYNX

In a fit of impatience after the last 30 minute missions AC announcements, I ordered a Baselard kit, because it was also designed by Takayuki Yanase, and I wanted something similar to the Alba frame. Kotobukiya is still unmatched in making kits that are literally painful to put together, but man I am so pleased with how this came out.

[petermorwood]

I'm curious about the eating pick, how would you compare using it to using a fork?

It's a lot more fiddly - stab not scoop - and having used both a pick and a two-tine fork it surprises me that the three-tine fork with less space for things to fall through (or maybe even something like a modern spork) wasn't an immediate next step, rather than taking more than a century to arrive and then, AFAIK, only for fruit.

Medieval food was mostly eaten with knife-spoon-fingers, and the pick (again AFAIK) was used more like a carving-fork, to hold large pieces in place so they could be cut to spoon- or finger-size, than to convey those pieces to the mouth.

The well-researched "Wolf Hall" series shows Tudor table etiquette, eating with a spoon and with right-hand fingers kept clean by using the napkin worn on left shoulder or forearm.

Earlier table manners were similar; there's plenty of reference to hand-washing, napkins and so on.

IMO “The Private Life of Henry VIII” (1933) is probably to blame for the pop-history notion of “historical” dining involving whole chickens pulled apart with both hands and bones thrown over shoulders or onto the floor.

This link is to the full scene on YouTube, where the dialogue proves that it’s being done partly for comedy, and partly to show how nervous Henry made his court.

People in the Middle Ages didn't cut their food with daggers; yes, they'd have worn baselards or rondels or ballock knives because those were part of everyday costume (including women, there's pictorial evidence for it), but they wouldn't have used them at the dinner-table any more than they'd have used a sword.

I wonder sometimes if those who claim daggers were table cutlery know how big a medieval / Renaissance dagger could be, or how out-of-place it would look at a dinner table.

There's plenty of evidence for picks and small eating-knives as personal possessions. Here’s a 14th-century painting and a modern reconstruction of the thing on the belt.

...and another painting, “The Peasant Dance” by Breughel, showing both a big fighting-knife (Messer) and - worn by the red-hosed dancer in the middle - an eating-knife and maybe pick.

The armed man is also showing off (look at his hat!) that he owns a pewter or maybe even silver spoon...

Eating-knife and pick, collectively called "by-tools", could also be slotted into the scabbard of something bigger, such as that Messer in the Breughel painting as recreated by Tod Cutler...

...or a dagger like these Swiss ones...

...whose scabbard ornamentation with human figures proves how they were worn...

- horizontally (usually across the small of the back) so their decoration was right-way-up for proper admiration.

By-tools could be part of even larger weapons, a sword or Kriegsmesser (war-knife) like this one, which belonged to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I:

Besides holding down or picking up food, a pick had other functions for which a knife with edges wouldn’t work as well such as an auger to drill holes in leather, or a fid or marlinspike for splicing rope or laces.

By the mid-1500s, people on the cutting edge (hah!) of fashion started to carry the ornate version of that little eating-knife-and-pick sheath; they had a “dining trousse”, personal table cutlery with its own separate case or scabbard, and a REALLY stylish trousse might even include the latest toy, a fork.

But that was often regarded as a pointless (hah!) affectation, because after all, everyone had fingers...

[lee1504]

percy jackson x school bus graveyard

thoughts?

cool

just realized that most of the characters below already have 2 parents T-T its okay tho i guess these are just thoughts

ashlyn x pjo:

daughter of athena -> hunter of artemis

weapon of choice: shortsword

aiden clark x pjo:

son of hermes

weapon of choice: baselard dagger

taylor hernandez x pjo:

daughter of hestia

weapon of choice: tomahawk axe

tyler hernandez x pjo:

son of hestia

weapon of choice: gladius

logan fields x pjo:

son of apollo

weapon of choice: recurve bow

ben clark:

son of ares

weapon of choice: falchion sword

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

Royal Black Watch Regiment TO&E (3153):

Trinary 1:

1a. Regimental Command Supernova- "Claymore"

1x HGN-732bM (Regimental Command Mech; COMGEN Melissa Hazen)

1x AS7-K3T (Nova Captain MAJ Theodora Marten-Steiner)

1x AWS-9Q-K (Regimental Senior Enlisted WO Karrie DeLacey; also Unit Chief Technician)

1x OC-1Xb (Quick Reaction Fire Support)

1x CP-10-HQb (Forward Base Defense & Headquarters Transport)

1x RPT-3Xb (Quick Reaction Reconnaissance Asset; attached from Supernova 1 "Dirk")

1x Infantry Star (Armored; Special TO&E; 2/5ths Elemental BW, 3/5ths Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry w/ Tornado G17 PA(L); Elite/Reliable)

1b. Supernova 1 - "Dirk"

4x HGN-732Ib

1x RPT-3Xb (currently attached to Command Nova)

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry with Tornado PA(L)

1c. Supernova 2 - "Broadsword"

4x HGN-732Ib

1x RPT-3Xb

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry with Tornado PA(L)

Trinary 2:

2a. Command Supernova - “Baselard”

1x HGN-732Ic

3x HGN-732Ib

1x OC-1Xb (Quick Reaction Fire Support)

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry w/ Tornado G17 PA(L); Elite/Reliable)

2b. Supernova 1 - “Cutlass”

4x HGN-732Ib

1x RPT-3Xb (currently attached to Command Nova)

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry with Tornado PA(L)

2c. Supernova 2 - “Falchion”

4x HGN-732Ib

1x RPT-3Xb

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry with Tornado PA(L)

Trinary 3:

3a. Command Supernova - “Longsword”

1x HGN-732Ic

3x HGN-732Ib

1x OC-1Xb (Quick Reaction Fire Support)

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry w/ Tornado G17 PA(L); Elite/Reliable)

3b. Supernova 1 - “Sabre”

4x HGN-732Ib

1x RPT-3Xb (currently attached to Command Nova)

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry with Tornado PA(L)

3c. Supernova 2 - “Gladius”

4x HGN-732Ib

1x RPT-3Xb

2x Infantry Star (Armored; Elemental III; Elite/Fanatical)

1x Infantry Star (Unarmored; SLDF Infantry with Tornado PA(L)

Support Sections:

4. Regimental Engineering/MechTechBattalion – “Brunel” (not drop capable)

5x BattleMech Recovery Vehicle

15x Heavy BattleMech Recovery Vehicle

12x Savior Repair Vehicle

12x Paramour Repair Vehicle

40x J-37 Ordnance Transports

10x Pit Bull Medium Trucks

40x Coolant Trucks

5x Hoplite HMMWV

5. Regimental Headquarters Support Battalion - “Chieftain” (not drop capable)

3x Gossamer Drones + 3x Sasayaku Control Transports (Strategic Recon Section)

3x Beagle Hover Scouts (Beagle TAG variant; Battlefield Awareness Section)

1x Praetorian Mobile Strategic HQ

8x Mobile Point Defense System

7x Burro Heavy Support Trucks (1x Water Tanker, 3x Fuel Tanker, 3x Cargo)

6x GESV Mobile Field Kitchen + Field Kitchen Trailer

15x Pit Bull Medium Trucks

3x Hoplite HMMWV

6. Regimental Artillery Battalion - “Caber” (not drop capable)

9x Mobile Long Tom (LT-MOB-95 variant)

1x Pit Bull Medium Truck

3x Burro Heavy Support Trucks (2x Cargo, 1x Fuel Tanker)

9x J-37 Ordnance Transports

1x Tribune Tactical Mobile HQ

4x Hoplite HMWVV

7. Regimental Medical Company - “Fleming” (not drop capable):

10x GESV (MASH configuration) + GESV Medical Trailer

5x Soar Medical VTOL (Militarized variant)

4x Burro Heavy Support Trucks (x2 Fuel Tankers; x2 Cargo)

[pinaxpinakes]

Nowadays, whenever I draw Baselard, I also feel the need to draw Zelfikar.

[valkariel]

Viper's Kiss

Head: Little Lady's Crown - default Body: Lakeland Longcoat of Scouting - default Hands: Molybdenum Armguards of Scouting - loam brown Legs: Martial Artist's Slops - wine red Feet: Valentione Emissary's Dress Boots - default

Earring: Platinum Lone Wolf Earrings Neck: The Emperor's New Necklace Wrists: The Emperor's New Bracelet Right Ring: Omicron Ring of Aiming Left Ring: Omicron Ring of Aiming

Main Hand: Mythril Baselards Off Hand: --

Fashion Accessory: -- Minion: -- Mount: -- Location: #SomerStudios - "3 Sets In One" - Crystal/Malboro Mist W2 Subdivision Topmast Apt 61

Shader: Faeberry Bloom

[halopedia]

Lore Thursday — Falcata

The F-23 Falcata is a heavy V/STOL atmospheric fighter operated by the UNSC Air Force early in the Human-Covenant War. Ultimately supplanted by the S-14 Baselard, surplus Falcatas have found a niche in planetary defense forces.