The obligatory intro post
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black_hound . I've been in reenacting for 25 years as an American Revolutionary War reenactor and I am in the ranks.
I am primarily an artillerist. I have been working black powder artillery for the bulk of those 25 years. When I field with artillery it is as a member of the Pennsylvania State Navy and their 3 pounder cannon, "Defiance".
I also field as a rifleman with the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment, Rifle Coy.
I'm not sure what else there is to say except I love black powder, I love live fire competitions, I love the history of the Am Rev War, and I love the hobby. Warts and all.
If you belong to a unit or civilian organization and they have a website, please post a link and I'll add it to the sidebar.
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I am primarily an artillerist. I have been working black powder artillery for the bulk of those 25 years. When I field with artillery it is as a member of the Pennsylvania State Navy and their 3 pounder cannon, "Defiance".
I also field as a rifleman with the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment, Rifle Coy.
I'm not sure what else there is to say except I love black powder, I love live fire competitions, I love the history of the Am Rev War, and I love the hobby. Warts and all.
If you belong to a unit or civilian organization and they have a website, please post a link and I'll add it to the sidebar.
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Date: 2010-09-09 07:25 pm (UTC)We've been on hiatus for a while, but I recently took two other members along to Detling, which was my first outing as the unit commander.
I love black powder, love history and think the hobby's great fun! I'll have to dig out some photos to share with you...
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Date: 2010-09-09 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-09 08:51 pm (UTC)Have been disgracefully inactive on both fronts for the past year or so, but now getting properly organised for next season.
Special skills: getting bounced on by redcoats; burning holes in greatcoats; the ability to render white kit shabby grey just by looking at it; rescuing woodlice from campfires.
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Date: 2010-09-09 10:17 pm (UTC)There was actually a whole kit in this house at one point. Matchlock and all. I was involved in a Roundhead regiment called Fortescue's Regt. of Foot.
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Date: 2010-09-10 02:20 pm (UTC)Parliamnetarian, hurrah! I'm in ECWS Essex's these days. :)
*Don't judge me. :P
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Date: 2010-09-10 06:21 pm (UTC)What seemed to really kill it was that the folks at the top organizing the events were totally into live wargaming and not so much into any other type of interpretation.
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Date: 2010-09-10 01:40 pm (UTC)Also the ability to render white kit shabby grey just by looking at it will guarantee you'll find a home in the 50th (the Dirty Half Hundred) should you ever wish to defect and become a redcoat.
Also also. Did you make Detling? 'Cause my feet ached too much to wander over to the French camp to ask...
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Date: 2010-09-10 02:11 pm (UTC)Greatcoat = freezing night at Wellington, so cold I didn't realise I was practically kneeling on the edge of the raised fire-pit until I started smouldering gently. (Felt quite guilty about that, because it was a conversion I'd done on an original 1953 RAF coat.) I now look as if I've been kneeling in treacle. :P
Sadly, I didn't make Detling (combination of bloody NA politicking and lack of funds), or I'd have tracked you down! Was it good?
I swear I'm going to run over and glomp you properly IRL one day! :D Are you doing any more this season? I'm sort of on hiatus till the habit-longue comes through, and poor old Cloporte needs a thorough going-over too, but I think there's a couple of dos left...
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Date: 2010-09-10 02:25 pm (UTC)Detling was good, though we ended up with one musket that only fired part of the time - I think the frizzen needs hardening. I ended up with the halberd and looking after the Colours.
There was one point during the second day where a Frenchman had been playing dead and tried to sneak round the back of our line. I ended up pointing my halberd at him, and then the 41st's Sergeant came over and ran him through with his.
I don't know if there are any more events this season; I think we're going to get our insurance sorted for the beginning of next season, rather than waste money for a few months.
Are there any events that you're going to that are open for non-NA, independent units? (That politicking has rather put us off wanting to join the NA...)
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Date: 2010-09-10 07:12 pm (UTC)(Can't be as bad as finding six earwigs in the spigot you plan on using at an event, days before said event...)
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Date: 2010-09-09 09:47 pm (UTC)Currently a scabby peasant, I've just started putting together a family's worth of middling-sort kit, with the aim of doing some social climbing. But I'm still looking for a craft that I'm interested in enough to specialize in. The drawback is that my society does not allow cross dressing. Otherwise I'd do scrimshaw.
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Date: 2010-09-09 10:18 pm (UTC)Ya know, scabby peasants are the best kind of peasants. :D
I remember seeing pics of the Mannered Mob when you first joined. They look very very well turned out.
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Date: 2010-09-10 08:56 am (UTC)I like the Mannered Mob a lot - they really know what they're doing, and they have fun doing it. (I'm a real convert to Georgian food as a result. Good stuff!) But I'm also aiming to start making us sailor kit, so that we can join the Senior Service http://freespace.virgin.net/gc.hughes/senserv.htm
Lots of sewing in this hobby!
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Date: 2010-09-10 01:28 pm (UTC)And yeah, SEWING. Which, in fact, I hate. *g*
I have some to do. Actually should have done it way before now. I need a new linen shirt posthaste. It's just all the handwork. OY.
*Hmmm... need to port my historic sewing icon over here from THE DREADED LIVEJOURNAL.*
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Date: 2010-09-10 01:51 pm (UTC)I got my pattern from Patterns of Time; it's a Kannick's Korner one and pretty self-explanatory.
Also, thanks for reminding me: I have a pair of trousers to finish at some point as well.
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Date: 2010-09-10 06:46 pm (UTC)Speaking of trousers. Are the Napoleonic trousers still fall front?
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Date: 2010-09-10 07:14 pm (UTC)And yes, Napoleonic era trousers are fall-front. (Remember Archie Kennedy's button flying off when he comes running down the companionway?)
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Date: 2010-09-10 02:49 pm (UTC)*g* I quite like sewing. As Sharpiefan says, it's good to have something to do with your hands infront of the TV. But having three people to make 18th Century kit for and 4 people to make Saxon kit for means it just takes forever. And shirts are worst of all, with all those gussets and reinforcements!
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Date: 2010-09-10 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-10 07:18 pm (UTC)Looks like I did two seams enclosed - off-set then folded under - and somehow finished the other two as though doing the double-seam effect you find on jeans. I don't recall having that much trouble with them. (Not like the current issue I'm having with the fall lining of my trousers. Need to re-cut those and totally redo them, which is going to be a pain.)
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Date: 2010-09-12 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-12 03:31 pm (UTC)And I'm still stalling on the shirt. Oy.
I love to knit. LOVE IT. And that always seems to trump the sewing. Yet I need to get with it because I really do need a new shirt.
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Date: 2010-09-12 09:14 pm (UTC)I would swap knitting for shirts, except that I already have a frock coat and posh waistcoat (for Andrew), a robe a l'Anglaise and matching petticoat (for Rose), two sets of pocket hoops and a woman's riding habit (for me) to make first. Also a full nun's outfit, a pair of trousers and an under-dress for Regia. And that will take me a couple of years, I'm sure!
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Date: 2010-09-13 01:16 pm (UTC)I did swap a thrum cap I made for some jewelry. So why not do it with sewing!
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Date: 2010-09-10 01:48 pm (UTC)(Yes, I'm wearing modern trousers with it; the pic was only taken a few minutes after I'd finished it!)
It turned out pretty well, but I refuse to contemplate sewing anything completely by hand again for at least three years! :D
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Date: 2010-09-10 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-10 03:08 pm (UTC)I'm also very glad I was using a checked fabric. Even though it wasn't folded quite straight when we cut it, so it wasn't cut quite on the grain, I ended up using the woven-in lines of the check to follow when sewing it.
I ended up doing one thing at a time - the cuffs, or setting in one gusset then the other - just following the pattern - without trying to do everything all at once. It took me about six weeks or so, in the end. The trickiest bit, for me, was working out which way round the collar went (I added the decorative backstitch suggested by the pattern version I was using). Even gathering the sleeves to fit the cuffs wasn't much of a problem - and I have tiny wrists!
I've got just enough for a second shirt, if I'm careful when cutting it. Though I want a drill jacket and greatcoat first - greatcoat especially after Detling. (It was cold in the evenings!)
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Date: 2010-09-12 08:08 am (UTC)I was at Detling too, but I was there with Regia Anglorum. I know what you mean about the cold! I've just finished making a semi-circular cloak as a result of it :)
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Date: 2010-09-12 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-12 05:25 pm (UTC)http://www.military-odyssey.fsnet.co.uk/mo/mo-f.html
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Date: 2010-09-13 01:15 pm (UTC)One of the big ones here is Military Through the Ages (MTA) that is held every year in Jamestown. Everything from Roman Legions to Iraqi war reenactors.
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Date: 2010-09-13 01:21 pm (UTC)I ended up just drafting the pattern myself. The pattern I bought must have been designed by the insane because the pieces didn't fit together and the sizing was all out the window.
I took the basic lines of Kannick's Workman's Jacket to get the double breasted front correct, and then just drafted the rest of it. I added in the tail pockets and constructed the cuffs based on what I learned from doing a civilian frock coat.
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Date: 2010-09-10 06:44 pm (UTC)