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Uniform is entirely handsewn, calf skin topped, wooden drum, hand painted.

Another one but with this have Blackhawk DOAV vest.

Tora bora feeling was great, need to do more after summer👍

It's the time of the year again where we teach new recruits to stand in a straight line, a more complicated task than it sounds!

Shot on a period Leica IIIa, Leitz Summar f/2 50 mm lens, expired store brand colour film

Few photos from over the weekend at Fort Hartsuff, celebrating the 150th anniversaries at the fort. This year, celebrating the "Battle of the Blowout" and funeral for the Sgt who lost his life that day. The fort was an active infantry post from 1874 to 1881 to protect settlers moving west and the Pawnee tribes in the area. Beautiful example of a plains fort.

I recently acquired a repro Spanish Army m26 tornister style backpack so I had to take some marching pics with it and all of the other marching gear according to the regulations of 1926.

Note that most of this gear was NOT used in combat as the spanish army mandated that most equipment would be left behind once the column faced combat or prepared for an attack.
Nevertheless, marching gear is very underrepresented in SCW reenactments despite how common are original marching photographs.

Hopefully this will help some of you get a better view at all the heavy uncomfortable shit that these guys had to carry around.

A set of uniforms and equipment from my good friend Alexey Panyushkin

simplified equipment of the Russian Imperial Army of the 1915 model

Been doing some war of 1812 and Creek War reenacting.
The pictures were taken at Fort Toulouse/FortJackson during a muster!

Captions are in French but easily translatable

Photos from an event in Franklin grove, IL this weekend where we ran 3 81mms supporting 3rd battalion's advance

Hey all! I do wwi German and I’m pretty new to doing imperial German. I have two stalhelms. One meant for a size 56/57 cm head and one for 58/59 cm head. Which one would be better suited for someone with exactly a 57 cm head?

With endless historical references, why do 80% of Reenactors paint their helmets wrong?

I didn't know what to post, so I decided to show this photo with the I.G.37 😁

Ive seen on ebay all kinds of different prices but what price would be more realistic

Paramedic, infantryman. Fort 'RIF'. Lower Ranks of the Russian Imperial Army 1914.

Lemme know what i should add or leave out, if you have any tips lemme know please, and i know my bayonet should NOT be like that but i was just quickly throwing it on there. I just came across the PASGT gear and i had the uniform and a lot of the web gear at home so i just said why not do an impression. Im planning on getting a buttpack and some other stuff, probably some more ammo pouches and what not.

“We were still held up and it was decided to call up some of the Black Watch column which was behind us to help out. Imagine our amazement when we heard the sound of the bagpipes, followed in a few minutes by bayonets-fixed Jocks who went down the track towards the Jap positions with the piper giving forth with all his might. The lads charged, screaming and so on, and the Japs took off. I strongly suspect it was the pipes that frightened them, not the bayonets.” (“A member of the Yorks and Lancs”, Jocks in the Jungle)

Like other regiments of the Chindit expeditions, the battalion was split into two columns, 42nd and 73rd. From March to August 1944 men of the 2nd Black Watch would operate in the Burmese Jungle, behind Japanese lines, dealing with the monsoon, malaria, typhus, dysentery, malnutrition, and the stresses of combat. By the later months of the campaign the average man would weigh 145lbs, while carrying 70lbs of equipment on him. The assessment of the 14, 111, and 3rd WA brigades in August showed out of the 11,200 men total only 3,400 remained. With a majority of those gone evacuated or soon to be.