While I shall still watch......I think they're all more designed for a mass audience than the original "Green Valley"........

Mark Griffin wrote:and not a bl**dy cog, tarted up nerf gun or pair of goggles in sight!

Looking good!..My Victorian interest is 1880's grunge,but the dirt is the same...........

Lexington Minute Company are all over the country(even the South-West!) and VERY friendly..........

It's one of the few "out of my period" sites I keep on my favourites to answer the odd "Hmm,I wonder...".....Don't think the '44 was ever universally issued...designed for Far East use and given to Airbourne and Commandos post-war...BTW,a Helmet is NOT part of a webbing set...Jus...

Have a quick look at the Peggy's Neccessities website...Nice "How to get dressed" section.

Not off-hand...It's one showing Charlie leaving Holland for England...Shows Musketeers in Buff Coats and rather strange Helmets..I Think it's in the Houses of Parliament.

AFAIK,There's no evidence for coats/colours before the Restoration...Whether they were uniformed at all in the 1650's is an interesting point..........The painting long thought to show them in 1660 is now generally thought to show Dutch Militia.........

A google for "Revwar music" or such,will bring up quite a few US links..Or ask Cat in the Lexington company...I know She was looking at that side of things.

I guess........breaking shrines up could put a downer on it........

Townsend do bags of tow

Different view here...I'd sooner the existing ones were further apart in date!
A) too much cost in a short period of time
B) Not all periods have traders at events..something in the season would be useful
ATM looks like we have 6 fairs within 4-5 months then Zilch.............

But what happened to the Trade knives?.....I was all excited and waitin' and everythin'..........

Steve

Caught it by accident....very good programme.

I've got one,but it's bugger-all to do with the the technicalities of period combat..........

TBH,I'm not really concerned over Richard in this topic....Just the likelihood of their being a considerable number of pikemen present..I was unaware of the change from Franc-Archiers to Bandes,so I guess their is provenance for the idea..........

I thought the Barnet thing was due to the lines overlapping,rather than to skill or lack of it.....

If I remember rightly...There's a reference to Edward IV entering London with Foreign Pikes in 1471 (as well as the better-known handgunners).......

Anyone know where the Idea Tudor's French troops were pikemen comes from?..Seen it in two recent books as an assumption...I was under the impression the French mainly relied on Swiss pikes,while the native foot were Franc-Archers or Crossbowmen..........Also the idea the they were a shock to Richard...

Horses for courses...I'm doing this for my standards,not the public's.....So whenever possible I go glasses-less,but use my authenti ones for when I really need them...I saved my old modern ones,£15 to have lenses cut down to fit frames from a junk shop.....BUT I wouldn't consider a period where I d...

All nice work!...Mine has "Made in Pakistan"......

the minutemen are a brilliant idea i recon, fills a gap in the market. I didn't catch up with how far the minutemen company had actually got last year beforeend of play. what plans are there for minutemen outings this season so far....?? myself and Captain Reech could quite seriously have an item o...

Both.............

cannontickler wrote:

steve stanley wrote:Still drooling over the fowling images...........

Hey, each to their own fetish Mr. Stanley of the woods.

Nice ideas for the Minutemen..............

For a general history,C V Wedgewood is still readable.........

Still drooling over the fowling images...........

I think there were Dutch/Swedish links pre-dating the TYW.....Dutch were the arsenal of Protestant powers....

Good Luck!

We went last year,and there was a sci-fci-LARP thing opposite...great fun!...Very highly recommend the North Bar in New Briggate about 20 minutes walk away.........

Yes!.....speaking for Revwar & F and I types......