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Title: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Erythil on December 22, 2009, 11:44:41 PM

My google-fu is weak. What's a surmac, anyway?

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: mansa on December 22, 2009, 11:48:10 PM

I always thought it was a hat.

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like this ?
(http://www.ljmilitaria.com/geargeneral/42d7795e0.jpg)

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http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,20269.0.html

::EDIT 3::

http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,2781.0.html
lawl 2003 posts

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: BlazinDayz on December 22, 2009, 11:52:37 PM

I think it's like a hat with a huge, wide brim.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Durant on December 23, 2009, 12:49:08 AM

(http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Leaott/files/2007/03/hat.jpg)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Erythil on December 23, 2009, 02:36:09 AM

Thanks guys.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Manhattan on December 23, 2009, 02:42:49 AM

Nah.

(http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/31/11140-kung_lao_large.gif)

Kung Lao's cooler.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Manhattan on December 23, 2009, 02:48:40 AM

Or maybe Stranger.

(http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/71146/stranger_qjpreviewth.jpg)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: LauraMars on December 23, 2009, 03:04:53 AM

I always thought it was more like a pith helmet. Because surmacs are usually armor, right?

(http://splinteredsunrise.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/pith_helmet.jpg)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Fathi on December 23, 2009, 03:16:07 AM

I always pictured surmacs thusly:

(http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images/paul-hogan-as_michael-j-crocodile-dundee.jpg)

You call that a hat?

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: BuNutzCola on December 23, 2009, 08:52:38 AM

Quote from: Fathi on December 23, 2009, 03:16:07 AM

You call that a hat?

Ouch, that stings.

Too soon?

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Nyr on December 23, 2009, 09:22:00 AM

I always thought it was a bit like this.
http://www.armageddon.org/original/artwork/324.jpg

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: slipshod on December 23, 2009, 09:37:15 AM

How I've always pictured surmacs:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2990460726_8ceef819a6.jpg)

(http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_2009_07_14__10_40_39/1.jpg56929074-f9f3-4a27-b290-4ccfe4994dc7Large.jpg)

(http://www.southernswords.co.uk/image_folder/3010.JPG)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Ender on December 23, 2009, 10:11:46 AM

I've always thought of surmacs as Don Quixote's barber bowl hat for some weird reason. Or some other form of dapper head apparel, usually non-western much like what Durant posted.

(http://www.screenhead.com/~screenhe/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/don-quixote.jpg)

or this:

(http://img.youtube.com/vi/MtkK3eijBso/0.jpg)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: RogueGunslinger on December 23, 2009, 12:24:00 PM

Glad we've pinned this one down. What's next?

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: The7DeadlyVenomz on December 23, 2009, 12:50:52 PM

Quote from: Durant on December 23, 2009, 12:49:08 AM
(http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Leaott/files/2007/03/hat.jpg)

This.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: slipshod on December 23, 2009, 02:45:28 PM

Maybe a surmac is more like a jingasa, though. It's the military version of the Oriental conical field hat. Though I'm not sure this would qualify as "wide brimmed".

(http://www.museum-quality-samurai-swords.com/samurai_armor_wild_boar_jingasa/wild_boar_jingasa_2.jpg)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Jdr on December 23, 2009, 05:12:08 PM

Either way, they are ALL badass. I approve of every single variant of the surmac, especially the bush hat with the croc teeth. AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: musashi on December 24, 2009, 09:00:57 AM

Yeah, someone seriously needs to mastercraft a raptor toothed surmac.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Morrolan on December 30, 2009, 12:23:22 AM

Quote from: slipshod on December 23, 2009, 02:45:28 PM
Maybe a surmac is more like a jingasa, though. It's the military version of the Oriental conical field hat. Though I'm not sure this would qualify as "wide brimmed".

I agree with 7DV as well. This is how I see it.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Reverend Green on January 01, 2010, 06:26:32 PM

Quote from: musashi on December 24, 2009, 09:00:57 AM
Yeah, someone seriously needs to mastercraft a raptor toothed surmac.

Nah, bush hat would be better.

a black, raptor-toothed bush hat

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: MarshallDFX on January 04, 2010, 12:41:23 PM

I found this on ~~Brandon's~~ Kronibas' Armageddon photobucket.

(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b315/thesmallclyde/surmac.jpg)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: FantasyWriter on January 04, 2010, 01:57:31 PM

That's not a d-elf, it's a twinky ghatti wearing people clothes ;D

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: IAmJacksOpinion on January 30, 2010, 01:47:46 PM

I always pictured it as a hat with a wide brim. Some of them even have transparent veils which hang down around the face.

I never really thought of a surmac as being armored.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Jdr on February 19, 2010, 11:10:03 PM

It's Tenzin's hat. Thread over (because Tenzin wins at everything).

(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncharted/images/thumb/7/78/Tenzin.jpg/250px-Tenzin.jpg)

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Reiteration on February 19, 2010, 11:52:39 PM

I always thought it was something like this:

(http://www.minnpost.com/client_files/alternate_images/10966/mp_main_wide_VeiledMuslimWomen452.jpg)

minus the mouth piece and plus some sexy chitin plating on the inside makes for 'a stylish, veiled surmac'

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Jdr on February 20, 2010, 06:47:49 AM

That woman on the left is obviously a slut, look at all the skin she's showing!

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Jenred on February 21, 2010, 01:49:35 PM

A pictured it like a sun-hat... because thats how most of them are described.

I dont think I've ever seen an armored one...

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: FantasyWriter on February 21, 2010, 02:44:25 PM

(http://www.linedancing-shop.co.uk/images/catalog/HMXS_-_Mexican_Straw_Sombrero.jpg)

j/k

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Spoon on February 22, 2010, 12:24:38 PM

Quote from: Jenred on February 21, 2010, 01:49:35 PM
A pictured it like a sun-hat... because thats how most of them are described.

I dont think I've ever seen an armored one...

They all count as armor, some more obvious in their description than others. That doesn't necessarily mean they're very protective though... I guess a leather hat is better than a cotton hat.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: jmordetsky on February 23, 2010, 09:05:12 PM

Maybe it's time to string replace Surmac with...:

Kasa - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa_(hat)
Salakot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salakot
Conical - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical_straw_hat
Sedge - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical_straw_hat

Those will at least show if you google them. Surmac seems specific to arm.

Title: Re: What's a Surmac?
Post by: Synthesis on February 23, 2010, 09:41:27 PM

Except I'm pretty sure none of the surmacs IG have descriptions that look like conical straw hats, or variants thereof.

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