I am the czech friend Nigel mentioned and there is some number of people that are interested in going. If the event looks decent that is.

These (or similar called crusseler) were fashionable in 14th Century all over the Europe except France, might have evolved from late 12th Century Spanish headdress. There is a guy over here researching it and has written a piece on it. Availible via me at TORM. In czech only though

Hammer it where you need it soft.

Had I have a facebook, I would become your fan

There were even a Bohemian aristocrats who used the same rose as mentioned.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&o ... %AF%C5%BEe

Be carefull using Maciejowski bible, some of the pics are very artist's licence. It's bible after all, no treatise on contemporary warfare.

How comes nobody mentined http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/ yet?

Cheap helmet is not good,
good helmet is not cheap.

But as I am a very nice person: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22179

:D sorry was so tired being at night shift etc. Shouldn't have posted. Facing of the ribs does not sit properly; the brim is for some reason rivetted onto a piece on which the sides are riveted to, which results in an extra weight and right angle which is a weak point of a contrustion; the brim is t...

It's a crap.

Have any of your group ever tryed makeing some of their own kit? Because i know people who have done this and have come out with kit that was much cheaper than bought products and its measured exactly to fit them e.g jacks and brigadines becaue essentialy the materials are not that expensive a jack...

There were few great threads re:orfentik camping already. Worth looking them up.

Re soldiers need of bedding: when you're on enemy area, just pillage the village and voilá lots of space to sleep comfortably...

Nice one. Will you be at TORM?

..Or should the horse contingent of the show bring enough for the reenactor bed requirements?.. I'll reply to this as the rest of reply is just a by product of the having the bed for event in a modern days. Which is easily solved by not having a bed :wink: Nope, of course they should not bring stra...

When I visited Shakesperes house, they had beds there that looked very short. I was told that people avoided laying flat in bed as they believed laying flat encouraged the devil/death to com and take them. By sleeping slightly proped up in bed (this short one) they gave the impression of being awak...

Cheers again

Next years will be much lovelier as you will be on them sweet Lydia

no. 2 and no. 3 you say? I see, no. 2 looks usable.

Do not worry, this really helps a lot.

Stuart Quayle wrote:Yes, that's the visor - like a long nose shaped wedge.

We nicknamed it after a different bodypart

Stuart Quayle wrote:PS. Your group look superb - Bravo Narvek!

Cheers! It's not just one group, the project consists of quite many people from different groups.
See the rest of the pics in pics section.

Hi Stuart, thank you :thumbup: I will buy a grethelm anyway so that is not an issue. But I would like the visor for practical reasons ie. weight etc. Do you mean highly unusual, long proboscis shaped visor which hinges from either side of the helmet (supposed to date to circa 1300) something like th...

You'll be repayed by a bottle of something nice;)

So, after last event, which was good and fun and all that jazz I am looking for a way how to upgrade my face protection. Right now I have an cervelliere with aventail as in this picture(I am the one with white and blue shield): http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0509/3/3151/3151528_2c89932a588d511240762500...

Cheers nigel
I count on you for this event on 2011.

http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0501/3/3992/3992457_2abe54c0eee23a80dc60629108e8fc43/images/Turnaj_Hradeckeho_Dvora_2010_044.jpg http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0501/3/3992/3992457_2abe54c0eee23a80dc60629108e8fc43/images/Turnaj_Hradeckeho_Dvora_2010_073.jpg http://img5.rajce.idnes.cz/d0501/3/3992/3992457_2...

Oooh, nice! Would it be on sale on TORM as well?

Just one pic, no new gear but the pics looks like one of those totally chaotic iluminations:

you are one serious teaser sir!

отльично! heh, hope it's written right, my russian is a bit dusty.

Nice, very nice.

Yes, sorry, it was a long time ago;) Tatami put on top of makiwara. Correct name of cutting it is tameshigiri. Need to learn some more japanese. Anyway the point I tried to make is that the cutting is much harder than people imagine, you have to make a fluent move and put your body into it etc. Good...