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Hendrik De Coster
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paul, on what are you basing the bleu and white plumes for a pikemen?
i know they are a must for a man at arms as described in the abbeville ordonnance but never have seen them mentioned in the description of a pikemen.
very good looking kit though!!
edit: some updates of my own. this weekend we organised our own event. I was to be the burgundian commander, despite the lack of a complete armour.
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Norbert Keller
Location: Hungary Joined: 23 Apr 2009
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Hi there!
Our team spent this weekend in Kronach, at Crana Historica. Here is a picture of me and my girlfriend, and about our team 
If you are interested, just visit: http://picasaweb.google.hu/bogi87/KronachCran...irectlink# for more photos!
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Johan S. Moen
Location: Kristiansand, Norway Joined: 26 Jan 2004
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Nice kit Norbert! Just out of curiosity, is the goat in the third pic just a gag, a mascot; or is it a fully trained assault-goat? 
Johan Schubert Moen
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Norbert Keller
Location: Hungary Joined: 23 Apr 2009
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Hi there!
Well that goat was a prop for one of our performance. There was a soldier who "liked" it not in the normal way, and the owner of the goat became angry, and called the soldier for trial by combat/judicial combat...
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Jean-Carle Hudon
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Now that is just terrible, but we have our scot reenactors up here, in their kilts, and ewe know how that goes
Bon coeur et bon bras
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Martin Wallgren
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My latest! An Archer...
Note the target ... hehehe!
Swordsman, Archer and Dad
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Martin Wallgren
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And here is my old armour on it´s new owner...
Swordsman, Archer and Dad
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Quinn W.
Location: Bellingham, WA Joined: 02 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon 31 May, 2010 11:21 am Post subject: Re: goading the goat |
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| Jean-Carle Hudon wrote: | | Now that is just terrible, but we have our scot reenactors up here, in their kilts, and ewe know how that goes |
Who's terrible, now? Come now, we need to at least pretend to be above some things... 
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth"
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Mark A Smith
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My friend from Ontario had a Scots grandfather who told him the story of the wee lassie who asked the piper what he had under his kilt. "Ach, weel ye loch an' see" he said. "Ooooh! It's grewsome!" she cried. "Weel loch ageen, it grew some more!"
"...nothing can hurt me as long as I keep this bucket on my head."
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Daniel Sullivan
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Norbert,
Great photos and pretty fine stuff!
However, above all is the person who has their priorities straight...relaxing in a few bales of fresh hay with a cold bottle of beer. Ah the joys of life!.
Cheers,
Dan
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Martin Wallgren
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My friend Eges armour and a result of some fun and games at Leksands Medieval Market!
Note the arrow!
Swordsman, Archer and Dad
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Scott Hrouda
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| Martin Wallgren wrote: | | Note the arrow! |
That's not right! Poor devil...
...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped. - Sir Bedevere
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Ben van Koert
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It's been a while since I posted something in this topic, but here goes:
I'm most pleased with my rig like it is now, although sometimes I exchange the spaudlers for my brigandine style spaudlers for extra mobility at the expense of protection.
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Joe Fults
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Ben that's some really great stuff.
"The goal shouldn’t be to avoid being evil; it should be to actively do good." - Danah Boyd
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Zach H.
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I just started getting into re-enactment. So here's my Kern kit. Since I have really good friends that do a fantastic portrayal of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Dudley I decided to go with a captain of a regiment of Kern that's employed by her majesty. Since I'm new to this, I'd love some constructive criticism.
Thanks
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Hendrik De Coster
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| Zach H. wrote: | I just started getting into re-enactment. So here's my Kern kit. Since I have really good friends that do a fantastic portrayal of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Dudley I decided to go with a captain of a regiment of Kern that's employed by her majesty. Since I'm new to this, I'd love some constructive criticism.
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well let me start by saying that kit doesn't seem very 16th century distinctive. not that i'm an expert for that age but even in the 15th century people were armed better, especially a captain.
do you have a 16th century reanactment group in your neighbourhood?
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Zach H.
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Right now, it's only my two friends and I. I think were the only reenactment group around our area. We also just started this about a year ago, were all in college so we don't have much money for out kits.
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Randall Moffett
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Zach,
A good start! You have some nice equipment.
I'd say you should move your time frame earlier as you have the start of a good late medieval harness that matches more of what a kern is earlier. I'd think by the 16th some of your equipment would be outdated. That said I do not focus on the 16th century primarily.
The problem is in part what a kern is. From what I can tell, in medieval English use at least, kern simply is a irish levied soldier- so kind of the bottom class of irish soldiery.
In irish, a kern (or the word we anglicized for it) is the lowest form of soldier, once again levied. They fall under the infantry and household troops in Ireland.
In the 16th it seems it gets simplified by kern being light infantry and gallowglass being heavy infantry.
All in all I'd say start by doing a great deal of looking into soft kit. I am not sure about what a 16th century kern would wear at peace or war but from what I remember of the English accounts of Ireland in the 16th the kerns wore little to no armour and still fought with light swords and darts.
Looks like you have a decent aketon which is one of the best places to start. Doing kerns should be fairly less expensive as they were a poorer class and without much, if any, armour.
RPM
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Hendrik De Coster
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| Zach H. wrote: | | Right now, it's only my two friends and I. I think were the only reenactment group around our area. We also just started this about a year ago, were all in college so we don't have much money for out kits. |
well i've discovered that as a student you'll be able to get more done for your kit because you don't have to pay bills etc.at least most of us are.
here's a picture of my current kit. i'm not "rich" so far i know(normal allowance, even less then some others). the most important thing is to get custom made armour. it might be more expensive but you'll end up getting custom made armour any way.
and me acompanying my sister, guarded by my brother in the front
most important however is to get your civilian kit done before you start on the armour. you'll be wearing that more than your armour so naturally this would and should be your first concern. I highly sugest you learn to sew
here's a good site.
https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/index.php?
i suggest you spend your money on some of their patterns instead of armour and work on from there. if you're the only 16th century reanactmentgroup in your neighbourhood you'll not be having battles soon so;)
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Iain Ritchie
Location: Scotland Joined: 18 Dec 2009
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Here is my armour so far, no soft kit as yet but im getting there
its just the top half and no maille under it. I plane to get an arming jacket and add maille to protect the armpits and groin area.
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