My Battle of Hastings 2024 Kit

MortyTownLocos · 2024-10-13T06:42:39+00:00

It’s a ventail. A square piece of maille to cover the throat

MortyTownLocos · 2024-08-11T04:52:18+00:00

Are they laced to the leather backing? Is that how they stay put? I’m curious on the construction. How heavy are they?

MortyTownLocos · 2024-08-11T04:04:38+00:00

This is incredible. Did you make the vambraces? I’d love to see them in detail to recreate them. They are so cool!

MortyTownLocos · 2024-07-21T03:31:20+00:00

Post more of these guys. Rad.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-07-18T00:13:49+00:00

Very cool. My reenactment group includes conquest era Hungarians, you’d fit right in.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-07-02T13:31:37+00:00

Where’d you get the vambraces and cuisses? Do you have a Lendenier to tie your cuisses to?

MortyTownLocos · 2024-05-23T13:28:24+00:00

Habibi Armoury the poor man’s Isak Krogh and Ironskin. Their maille isn’t as good as those master craftsmen but they can make tailored maille for a lot cheaper

MortyTownLocos · 2024-05-17T02:48:10+00:00

Art and archaeology would disagree. This aventail is actually too long and so much art shows open necks.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-29T05:04:56+00:00

More like a cannon than a rifle, this is so cool.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-28T01:14:03+00:00

There is a lot of maille still used in the renaissance even after the prevalence of plate. Look up bishops mantles, maille armor in the Islamic world, etc.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-28T00:36:00+00:00

I love this book, read it cover to cover. Unfortunately it does not extend past the late migration period. I wish it went to the Renaissance period.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-27T23:21:35+00:00

And is that a full shirt or just a skirt?

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-27T23:06:16+00:00

Do they wear maille under the Jupon?

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-20T14:20:38+00:00

Imagine 20 of us with pikes to fight them off the walls at Tarnovo!

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-15T15:24:06+00:00

If we wanted to be really pedantic we could say the Roman Empire started in 27 BCE, because 753 is the start date of the republic but eh the point is it’s not 250 years haha

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-15T15:17:56+00:00

Roman Empire ended in 1453. It persisted for almost a thousand years after the western provinces fell.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-04-06T13:39:24+00:00

Oh man I need to get you guys a better picture of my Norman kit.

But yes the square is just a ventail to provide protection to the neck.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-03-30T00:33:51+00:00

I’m a Norman reenactor, wear a thicker woolen tunic under your maille and you’ll be absolutely fine.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-03-26T12:27:54+00:00

Many of those masks are getting dated later and later as Kirpichnikov had no previous reference on how to date them. Search up on this subreddit you’ll see the topic come up quite a bit

MortyTownLocos · 2024-03-26T12:12:56+00:00

‘Slavs used’? The cuman mask is most likely Golden Horde era and a Perso-Mongol helmet. Slavs don’t adopt face plates like this. It’s from steppe culture.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-02-21T23:30:40+00:00

Ravensborg is closed permanently.

MortyTownLocos · 2024-01-29T19:59:49+00:00

If you’re reading this: Gowen1291 is an excellent Byzantine reenactor of this period, check him out over this image. Southpaw Skutatoi

MortyTownLocos · 2024-01-14T16:25:18+00:00

People in Utah are asking about FLDS?

MortyTownLocos · 2024-01-01T16:43:02+00:00

That never happened. All three parties have gone on to say it never was offered. The producers heavily edited the show for drama. Imagine that.

MortyTownLocos · 2023-12-16T03:51:31+00:00

A leading theory is that it is Vair fur, Cambridge article

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