Easter Weekend

Hi there, I just thought I'd post some pictures of what I got up to Easter weekend.
I decided that I wanted to try my hand at making a churburg style breastplate, for my wife and I wanted to see if I could do it all with out making a pattern just seeing if I had got my eye in for the 4 dimensions that armour needs to be.
The plates have rolled edges and the main part of the plates covered in a soft dark chocolate brown leather, with brass rivets. And the straps are all out of a nice burgundy leather.
There is still some bits that need going onto it as I did start to cast the v-shaped adornment in bronze but I cast the ends to thin and they split when I tried to drill the rivet holes.
Now I know that its a variation on a theme that the churburg is only depicted in plain plate, but at the period there are plenty of covered armours so I took a bit of artistic licence here(so please forgive me).

Help me the wife has landed

My mate just after his wife landed in my local.

I hate Mondays.......

Well after a weekend of fixing the Van mighty fine blags for bits for the trusty re-enactment mobile.

I decided that although sheep farming does look like a much more relaxing career; sheep are dumber than computers........ but not by much.

I am halfway through the day and still haven't achieved what I wanted to yet, and theres only half a day left to get a whole days work done.

Why are weekends busier ?

Well its 9 am and already I have been working on Row Level Security , SSL Certificates and VPNs. All I want to know is where are these easy job in IT.

Life as developer is always fun however and where else would a sad geek, get paid for playing with new technologies.

So what do I have planned for today .

Well first of all have to fix the Van so that I can get it all tuned up and ready to go to Wales for the first big Medieval Re-Enactment show of the year.

I have to say that I am looking forward to Bodellwyddan, if last August was anything to go by the first one in April should be loads of fun.
And chance to get all the new toys out that we have bought at the International Living History Fayre and The Original Re-Enactors Market.

And this year I will be taking the portable forge so that I can catch up with making some of my new amour whilst enjoying the sites and sounds of a medieval show.

So if your in north wales come to Bodelwyddan

And then I will be watching the Calcutta Cup, where I hope that I will be watching a successful England win......

Anyway that's it for now, I am off to the Van

Alixx

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