American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Moccasin kit
Over the years I have helped a few people get their kit up together for FIW reenacting and so as a few of you are getting interested I thought I'd take a few steps to get you started. First thing to make and get should be I reckon a pair of Centre seam Mocs. You can buy excellent kits for reasonable prices with all you need to make a pair. Smoke and Fire's kits are here. It's important to be able to make your own and its not all difficult and as Mocs tend to stretch and bend being able to rejig them is a worthwhile skill. It was common for expeditions to pause to make fresh Mocs so being able to make a pair is pretty worthwhile if you plan on being an irregular- Milice or Ranger. Wear them around your place and get the feel of them - and be prepared to make adjustments. Milice also wore Souliers de Boeuf which are reproduced here
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
1783 image rom the British Museum who say; Description American loyalists are being murdered by Red Indians. An Indian (left) seizes by ...
-
This maker of figures is working on miniatures based around the theme Braddock's disaster. First up Natives and Canadians followed by B...
-
Savage Frontier, a 28mm French and Indian War Kickstarter launching in February. Brought to you by Tim Spakowski and Glenn Kapheim from Foo...
No better footwear for the woods.
ReplyDeletehttp://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com