Ha! My most advanced kit came to me unexpectedly as forumite Stuart Thompson shed his CSA stuff. I have no particular use for it (I don't reenact) but couldn't resist. :D

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Battle of Świecino ( Schwetz),1462, between the Polish forces and the Teutonic Knights.
I know that armor is a little later :)
Foto by Tomek Ślebioda (www.matuls.pl)

Sallet:: Basel, now: Metropoloitan Musuem of Art NY
Breastplate: Italy?, now: Bern
Arms: German, now: private collection
gauntlet: German, now: Leeds
Pavise: Wrocław (Breslau), now: missing

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Of course reconstructions based on.. :)

well it looks great, im a massive fan of gothic style plate. never handled a pavise though, how do they fare compared to roundshields/ kiteshields/ heaters

My kits are slowly becoming what I want them to be. Not quite there yet but I'm content for now. Aiming for a late 14th century kit, fairly well equipped foot soldier.

Hardware: Arms, legs and demigauntlets by Mercenarys Tailor (big up for Allan, his dedication and customer service). Legs are tied to the Revival pourpoint-ish vest. Shoulders by Armoury Marek. Brigandine by Steel Mastery. Bascinet of unknown origin. Aventail is not quite completed yet and I need some graves.

The soft kit is plain and simple, wool cotehardie, linen underwear and wool hose, baggy wool hat with a coif under it. Purse is too early but I have a nice one and a bollock dagger from Tod on it's way. Shoes are hand sewn by some skilled craftsman. Also have a Bocksten cape and hood with lirpipie for the cold season.

I don't usually look this angry though, light was in my eyes and I had not had my coffee.

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I have been following this thread, [in fact have this and the 'show us your last sword purchase' thread added to favarites] and just have to say that what you lot have is truely immpressive, I have my own soft kit [cicar 13th C] and am looking into soft kit for the 15th C. but the armours I have seen here with the workmanship, plus the swords on the other thread makes a man jealous!... I look forward to seeing more.. cheers!

here are pics of the armors we use in our group,

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on the right is my own, made by die ritteschmiede (DE), the other to are assembled pieces from different armorers

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our two jousting armors, made by white rose armoury

Here is my early 14th century Teutonic Knight kit. Enjoy!

Picture was taken by a fellow forumite at the all-too period venue of the Maryland Renaissance Fair, which is evidently quite hotter then the Baltic....


BTW, Sjors, nice harness!

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First lancehit I've ever received, last saturday. Quite the experience!

Nice POV on the picture, you can almost hear the hit. I'm a little surprised you went down the course without a gauntlet or at least a vamplate on the lance.

Bryan

This was a very controlled first run, without hitting my (unarmoured) partner. He managed to do two barely noticeable attaints on my shoulder before homing in on the shield. Next weekend will be my first joust and then I will wear protection on my hands. I wanted to be sure I could use these particular components together and the gauntlets I had with me were unfit for te job, but my other pair will do the job fine, after slight modifications.

Ben

Well, good luck in your first joust for the gallery. My you break all your lances and stay in the saddle.

Bryan

Great picture! You remind me of Brian B. in blackadder (the 1st series). I'd fight you to win your daughters hand though..and lose respectfully haha. Excellent, what sword type is that? looks mean! i'm not in touch with that style of kit sorry :(

Okay, just out of curiosity, how does one get into jousting? It looks fun as hell!

as for me, i joined a training group for swordsfighting that also has a demonstration team. this team became a reenacment show group and started jousting and i justed rolled into the progress. i'm now learning how to ride, going to buy a new armor in a few weeks and start training for the actual joust in about a year time.

the way i see it, it takes a lot of conviction, training, money, and you have to put much effort in all sorts of stuff: finding the right armourer, making lances, training the horses, training yourself etc etc.
for me however, its a way of living a dream, and with some luck i will be posting pictures of me jousting within a year time.

For me getting into jousting meant helping out regularly at jousting shows as ground crew for several years, meeting the right people who helped me and gave me advice and support, investing lots of money, hard work and dedication. I am very lucky I can use someone else's horse who is more experienced at jousting than any of the current jousters in the Netherlands.
I've only just started and have SO MUCH to learn still.. It's a humbling experience.

First and most important of all, if you want to do this, take riding lessons as soon as possible. Good riding skills are most important and will make the rest a lot easier.

Here are some of my favorite photos of last weekend:

It was really, really, hot, but fun! :D

The chausses are homemade. Cheater chausses. Fitted tubes of maille sewn to the padded chausses. They turned out very well. I'm having them reconfigured so I can lace on the maille with cord, as to be removable (to interchange with my greaves)

Here are a couple of pics of my hoplon from the recent re-enactment of the 2500th anniversary of the battle of Marathon at Marathon in Greece. First up an action shot from the rout on the beach...



Enjoy!
Cole

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