Hi all,
after being away for some time I am dropping by again with a few pictures of a beat up M15 (in the helmet section) and of an event in my home town. This year we celebrated our 1000th anniversary with a three day medieval market and a historic parade depicting the various ages.
I took part in a group from the shooting club and we dressed as 19th century countryside policemen (Gendarmerie) because there used to be a small Gendarmerie station in town. Of course it was my job to organize the helmets. I figured that historic accuracy would not really be required so I stuck to military versions and built them with new leather shells and as many original parts as the budged allowed (nobody else probably noticed the details anyway). The coachman got a Raupenhelm with the white bush of the Chevaulegers.
This was a really nice event and quite a lot of work too. The town only has 1.200 inhabitants, so almost everybody was involved somewhere.
Here are more pictures:
The market
Our wagon
and that's us..
after being away for some time I am dropping by again with a few pictures of a beat up M15 (in the helmet section) and of an event in my home town. This year we celebrated our 1000th anniversary with a three day medieval market and a historic parade depicting the various ages.
I took part in a group from the shooting club and we dressed as 19th century countryside policemen (Gendarmerie) because there used to be a small Gendarmerie station in town. Of course it was my job to organize the helmets. I figured that historic accuracy would not really be required so I stuck to military versions and built them with new leather shells and as many original parts as the budged allowed (nobody else probably noticed the details anyway). The coachman got a Raupenhelm with the white bush of the Chevaulegers.
This was a really nice event and quite a lot of work too. The town only has 1.200 inhabitants, so almost everybody was involved somewhere.
Here are more pictures:
The market
Our wagon
and that's us..