Wargamer & Re-enactor?

[rumacara]

Hello all

Katsuhiko JiNNai, the problem with the iron hobnails is that when you walk in certain terrain they will make you slip. They are very usefull in broken ground but dangerous in plain terrain.
Roman reenactors can tell you better than me.

Michi, when we reenact for some years we tend to learn how to make most equipment. Its fun and a way of spare some money.

Cheers

Rui

[Argonor]

I am impressed Michi. Are you a cobbler? always wondered about the shoes and now I know.

next question is are they comfy despite the lack of gripping?

The lack of gripping isn't much of an issue - but for comfyness, most ante 1600 shoes need felt soles inside, as even the smallest pepple will be felt through the sole. A single layer of boiled leather just isn't enough 

[Dr. Zombie]

The lack of gripping isn't much of an issue - but for comfyness, most ante 1600 shoes need felt soles inside, as even the smallest pepple will be felt through the sole. A single layer of boiled leather just isn't enough 

But that is because we have grown soft. Humans are from nature designed to walk barefeet (berefoot) I can never remember witch is correct..

And the slipperyness is also minimalised if you change your walking style. Modern footwear has soft heels so we tend to walk heel to toe. But with medieval shoes it is much better to walk to to heel. If that makes any sense at all. It is also better for your knees and back to walk this way. Than the high impact of heel to toe walking.

[Argonor]

But that is because we have grown soft. Humans are from nature designed to walk barefeet (berefoot) I can never remember witch is correct..

And the slipperyness is also minimalised if you change your walking style. Modern footwear has soft heels so we tend to walk heel to toe. But with medieval shoes it is much better to walk to to heel. If that makes any sense at all. It is also better for your knees and back to walk this way. Than the high impact of heel to toe walking.

Just like native americans (used to) and animals do. And I think it's barefoot 

[fastolfrus]

Which Regt?

John Lambert's

[Sterling Moose]

John Lambert's

I was in Meldrum's Dragoons, London Brigade.

[majorsmith]

Fallshirmjager late war 1944

[Katsuhiko JiNNai]

Fallshirmjager late war 1944

Impressive, have your group some armored cars of tanks? Here in italy most of the IIWW groups have some trucks or motorcyles, but some few have tanks too (and italian tanks or tankettes are really rare)

[fastolfrus]

I was in Meldrum's Dragoons, London Brigade.

I often used to drink with "Panda" Jenkins from Meldrums - he spent a lot of time at our regimental events.

[former user]

hmm, I would guess that the hardcore progressive reeanactors are the ones who cut their hair according to the contemporary fashion they represent. Have rarely seen such and probably never done that myself...

[FramFramson]

hmm, I would guess that the hardcore progressive reeanactors are the ones who cut their hair according to the contemporary fashion they represent. Have rarely seen such and probably never done that myself...

Funny enough there's a good half dozen people I know at work who have no interest in wargaming or history, but who seem to be sporting classic 1940's soldaten haircuts. The vagaries of fashion, I suppose!

[majorsmith]

For events I would style my hair a little more in the way you would expect, but having seen late war german haircuts from studying slot of photos you would be surprised at the lengths and styles you would not expect from a german soldier! Also facial hair! Of some length almost pirate like!

[former user]

would like to see those

[carlos marighela]

For events I would style my hair a little more in the way you would expect, but having seen late war german haircuts from studying slot of photos you would be surprised at the lengths and styles you would not expect from a german soldier! Also facial hair! Of some length almost pirate like!

Had the war continued beyond 1945, the German landser would almost certainly have fielded the classic Teutonic mullet. A team of German scientists and hairdressers were working on it at the end of the war. As it was, this 'wonder weapon' would wait another forty years before its widespread adoption in the fatherland. As an interesting aside, the widespread Allied  bombing of the  production facilities for the V-2 rocket left Germany with an excess of peroxide, which in turn found its way into the classic übermensch look.

[majorsmith]

Here's a few period photos the chap removing his helmet with the beard is in Normandy  July 44, to be fair cutting your hair for a two or three day event is pretty extreme! If it's under head wear you don't tend to notice as much