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.

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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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

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...

Now that is just terrible, but we have our scot reenactors up here, in their kilts, and ewe know how that goes

My latest! An Archer...


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Note the target ... hehehe!

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And here is my old armour on it´s new owner...

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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!" :lol:

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

My friend Eges armour and a result of some fun and games at Leksands Medieval Market!

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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.

Ben that's some really great stuff.

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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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.

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

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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