Why??....
I've been watching Spaceballs but thats just me.
Usually I'm busy doing other PC stuff while something renders or I'm out or I'm watching a movie or reading or working on something.
social life maybe <grin>
hehehe
Quote from: Will on February 02, 2008, 02:07:52 PM
I've been watching Spaceballs but thats just me.
Are you playing with your dolls again? ;D
Its all for marketing ;)
I'm making Roman armour.
is that you in your avatar charging at an unknown force?
Quote from: calico on February 02, 2008, 04:44:27 PM
To wear?
Quote from: JimB on February 02, 2008, 04:39:51 PM
I'm making Roman armour.
Oh yeah ;D
Re-enactment and research. Comes in useful for historical illustrations as well -
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/tarbicus/miles_022_20x10_print_01c_small.jpg (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/tarbicus/miles_022_20x10_print_01c_small.jpg)
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/tarbicus/ross_virtus_09.jpg (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/tarbicus/ross_virtus_09.jpg)
Cool. Is this for a job or for fun?
Quote from: calico on February 02, 2008, 11:52:25 PM
Cool. Is this for a job or for fun?
A man's gotta have a hobby, and I despise golf ;)
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Jimmy5191/fcspqr_02.jpg (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Jimmy5191/fcspqr_02.jpg)
The illustrations were a bonus when they went into academic books on Roman armour and nutter legionaries (the stories I could tell you about what they got up to). I've also helped reconstruct helmets from mangled heaps.
http://www.drachenhort.com/catalog/images/MWC-AH6054K_gross.jpg (http://www.drachenhort.com/catalog/images/MWC-AH6054K_gross.jpg)
While I was in Russia there was the entire fair of people who do historical reenactments they fought with real (i.e. sharp) swords too. Also in either grade we did a reenactment of a rival war battle I was Captain of C company.
I wish I could forge weaponry and whatnot, it's really something I wish I could do. Alas, I am a teenager in a sleepy neighborhood. A forge might ruin that ;)
Also, the odds of accidentally killing myself would be rather high ;D
Thats why we have video games!
@JimB - Looks like something fun. I'm sure it's easy to learn a lot, when you're doing these.
@Will - That would be interesting. A woman I work with is married to a man who does full-blown Civil War re-enactments and even has a cool canon that actually fires from that time period. I find the Civil War re-enactment thing rather distasteful, though. Was about the worst time in the U.S.'s history.
Still they are important battles that defined the history of the country.
True. I understand that. Not saying it's wrong. Just think it's a waste of time. LOL
I do understand grasping the importance of history.
It was a very realistic reenactment, nearly everyone got food poisoning form bad hardtack. ;D
Food poisoning? What's hardtack?
its like a really really tough biscuit.
Oh yeah. I remember now. Sounds like you enjoyed it.
Did it make the whole war history seem more realistic and make the objective history stand out? Which war was it?
civil war, it was not an actual battle more a look at the types of battles through out the war. It was the best final ever though.
If you're interested, I can try to get more information from the lady I work with about her husband's activities. He's pretty devoted.
no but thanks, I'll stick to video games but it was fun for the day. Must be interesting for the roman period though huh.
Quote from: Will on February 03, 2008, 05:24:51 PM
Must be interesting for the roman period though huh.
A thousand years to choose from (two thousand if you count the Byzantine Empire - the Byzantines actually called themselves Roman IIRC), and the basis for most of our modern institutions, yep. I never thought I'd be doing some of the things I have, and every week seems to throw up something that utterly surprises me (superglue, burning braziers for helmet crests, I know I'd rather have been a Roman slave than be one in more recent Europe or the Americas). It gets a bit obsessive, and I must admit to groaning when a Roman soldier walks onto a movie or TV screen; they looked
much better than Hollywood fare ;) Forget all this nonsense where they acted like 18th-C robots in the field - they could be complete nutcases and act highly independently.
I was going to do a 300 quote but that was Greece.
Quote from: Will on February 03, 2008, 06:07:36 PM
I was going to do a 300 quote but that was Greece.
;D If it was "Molon Lave" (Come and get them) be careful. The Victorian translation was for polite society it seems. A fairly common Greek insult, and still used today when you want to insult someone by suggesting they perform a certain act. I've also gotten to know some Greek ancient Greek re-enactors. ;)
one of those unfortunate side effects huh :D