Say cheese: reenactment style

[Dayen]

Me on left

Yes its full contact

And this is what it looks like with 1200 people (I'm dead center fighting the Romans)

And taking castle sucks just as much here as in M&B

Yes I know this is a shameless plug, but everyone has a hobbie. In case any of you are interested or just want to see the sort of gear, clothing, or hearldry that people use visit:
dagorhir.com

 

[MidnightWolf]

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hospitaller+kit  a new kit i've been working on. based on the 1206 statute for the hospitallers.

 

[morgoth2005]

http://loadup.ru/video/view/?id=v303741cf14

You people are useless. Couyple of people got carted off in an ambulance. Not me there (I'm in england :angry, but some people from the Russian forum.

 

[Nethros]

Russians killing eachother. What more can you ask of?

 

[PsykoOps]

Why haven't these reenactors incorparated paintballs to simulate ranged weaponry? I have this totally wild blueprint of a recurve bow that shoots paintballs in my head. Too bad that I dont have access to a workshop
You could do so many cool bow battles with those.

[Edit] Did google just and apparently there are paintball bows available. And I thought that I had an original idea  Well my idea was much simpler than these, rather than convert the energy from the string into air pressure and then shoot the paintball I figured it would just use the string to hurl them like bolts.

 

[James]

Like a pellet crossbow. Been done, about 500 years ago.

 

[PsykoOps]

No, not really like that. It's really hard to explain what I'm thinking. Maybe I can whip up some drawing some day to illustrate it or something.

 

[Dayen]

In the game I play (dagorhir) we do used ranged weapons, just look at the pictures. We use javelins, 'rocks', and arrows. Of course all of these have very strict guidelines on how they are built and how they are checked for safety. The arrows do fly about 100 yards maximum, but at medium range and close range are very effective. In fact, I have woken up in middle of the night because i was ducking and dodging arrows in my sleep.
And as a reenactor, I don't want paint all over my stuff, and if we used paintballs we would all have to wear face protection, and it would be rather difficult to make medieval helmets with proper face protection that look medieval.

 

[Seff]

As promised, cheesy wagon for LARP:

 

[James]

OMFG you guys are awesome!

Who cares if you aren't quite accurate overall (you in the y'all sense), you're much better than most people around my parts.

 

[Yeyinde]

And tiny, tiny kids.

 

[James]

Yeah, but they're all pansies.

Why, because they don't fight full-contact? (Is that true? I seem to remember such...)

If so: Yeah, well you fight with foam, you pansy.

 

[Balinux]

As promised, cheesy wagon for LARP:

*pics*

Just couldn't keep my eyes away from the maille.

 

[James]

They don't really fight at all, I hear. Roleplaying is the order of the day, with the occasional tapping.

No hurling of javelins into faces.

All good, IMO. That's basically what I do, minus, of course, the actual doing it.

 

[Balinux]

hey, your sig link is fucked.

It's ****ed damn it, ****ed!

 

[James]

Shut up, focker.

And yes, so 'twas.

Fixed now.

Speaking of which, that website to which I'm linking with that graphic is chock full 'o pics of my projects.

 

[GeraldDuval]

i always love a good reenacting thread, mostly cause i'm obsessed wit this stupid hobby and i'm a vain bastard. so, Here are some pics of mine doing different timeperiods except for the norman bits, these are all from "real steel reenactments. not airsoft:

Sillywar:

world war 1 french:

this next one isnt me, its our CO, but he's in our sexy pillbox filling out paerwork.

world war 2 canadian:

vietnam:

1st crusade norman kit...i made the coif, ventail and helmet but completely burnt out half-way through the hauberk. It wasn't for a real reenactment though, just a renfaire costume, so no big loss...

 

[Seff]

OMFG you guys are awesome!

Who cares if you aren't quite accurate overall (you in the y'all sense), you're much better than most people around my parts.

That's also a rather lax mode I'm in, I usually have period shoes and no glove, along with a cloak It was cold as hell though, and wet.

They don't really fight at all, I hear. Roleplaying is the order of the day, with the occasional tapping.

No hurling of javelins into faces.

Bull****. The entire day ended up being an ingame early joust type game, where the players were divided up and did things like staged sieges and capture the flag-type games = lots of fighting.

As promised, cheesy wagon for LARP:

*pics*

Just couldn't keep my eyes away from the maille.

Thanks, that's my 4 mm inner diameter butted mail, it's one of the densest I've seen tbh.

Hey seff, the edging on your mail is kickass.

Yeah, well, I figured a guy that could afford a maille of that diameter would have the funds to bling it out a little, so I snatched me some copper wire and wound away


@GeraldDuval: I'll post my US GI WWII when I receive my last bits

 

[Seff]

I meant full-contact fighting.

Some of the kids don't intentionally mean to, but it turns into full contact for them pretty quickly. I'd get in trouble if I did so though.

 

[Nahkuri]

oh and since I'm vain: here's some of my helmet collection. theres prob 5 helmets not pictured. hehehe someone can smack me now.

It's all planned. I'm gonna be exactly like MidnightWolf when I hit my middle age crisis.