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I posted some time ago about a broken Airfix model of a Yeoman of the Guard that my cousin gifted me.
It arrived in several bits and I repaired it, but I thought the sword would have to stay broken, as I couldn't find the rest of it.
However... whilst I was searching for a dropped pencil under the desk in my studio, I found the missing piece.
I have now managed to fix it in place and the figure is complete.
Until next time
Adieu
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Here's the last version of this lad. Nearly as nature intended...
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A fortnight after Hever, I was at a one-day show at Amersham.
I had a lift from my fellow Paladin, Sandy, So only took minimal kit with me.
We couldn't even fit the awning in her ( much smaller) car.
We helped set up a couple of soldiers tents when we arrived , which nearly turned into only one when we found one half of a ridge pole had been left behind and we only had one small bag of pegs.
However, we are resourceful. We managed to rig up two extra guy ropes and tensioned the ridge of the second tent and we pegged ever other loop and - voila, the second tent was up. I added my small array of weapons to the display.
There were only a few of us there, so we armed Deejay for Arming The Knight, with me commentating.
It was quite hot, so he then disarmed and I ran a display of training for two squires and then we finished with a fight between me and Deejay in jacks, gauntlets and helms.
It went quite well and, with only two tents, the pack down was quite quick.
As usual we had a good number of public and it was a nice, unstressful show.
here is another of Poppy's photos of the bishop from Hever.
Until next time
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Saturday went well but was very hot, Sunday showed all the signs of being even hotter.
As usual, I sang a Mass on Sunday morning.
Fellow-paladin Poppy took some pictures and managed to be unobtrusive whilst she did it.
These are used with permission.
I think they came out rather well.
As previously mentioned in an earlier post, I chose not to fight on the Sunday, but took up my polaxe and helped to marshal the field. As it was much hotter and there was no cloud cover or breeze, it's just as well I didn't armour up.
The castle had only put up a few notice boards to guide people to where we were and these were not very effective. We had very few member of the public on the Saturday and Sunday. Strangely, we got slightly more on Monday morning.
I also decided not to fight on the Monday, as this gave me the opportunity to close up the tent after lunch and start doing some packing.
Once we were off duty, the pack down went fairly smoothly- part due to Sandy helping take the tent down and get it folded and packed.
I even got home at a reasonable hour.
It was a -mostly- good event, but certainly not a patch on pervious events at Hever.
Until next time
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Despite the sloping grounds and the ruts and holes we managed to set up the campsite and even obey the noise restriction cut-off time imposed by the site, though, as we heard practically nothing from their great musical production, I doubt they'd really have heard much from us anyway.
Saturday was quite hot, but it clouded over just in time for the fighting, so I armoured up, including the brigandine, and went on.
I managed a couple of fights ( both with fellow-paladin Gus) and decided to sit out the melee.
I have always had a tendency to over-heat when I am fighting. This is ,obviously, worse when I am in full plate. I have come to the conclusion that I will need to go back to light harness if I want to carry on.
I will just have to make sure people know I've only got a padded jack protecting my body, though I think I'll carry on wearing the mail skirt for the moment.
I will post more about the Hever event later
Until next time
Adieu
