Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
1815 Knapsack project
The project took around five months, mainly due time and not having the right materials. I used waterproof canvas for the outer, a heavy calico for the liner. The outer was painted with a gloss originally, but then repainted with a matt.
I used some leather sofa samples for the top keepers and a charity shop belt for the strap keepers. The straps were made at a local saddlers, T. Jones and Son. They are black with no side stripes, but I had to use brass roller buckles as that's all he had. Fair play to him, it took him s whole to get his head around the construction, but he's done a bombproof job.
I did used a sewing machine for speed
And decided to go for fabric straps rather than leather mainly due to having no wrought iron buckles and I just wanted it finished!
Fabric (inner and outer) £10, paint £10, straps £50, thread £1.50, belt £1, scrap leather £0.
I also managed to have enough fabric to make a two mess covers a shako cover (unfinished).
Monday, 6 April 2015
Monday, 30 March 2015
Sunday, 25 January 2015
Napoleonic weekend at Fort Amherst filming with Sean Bean
The 5th/60th Royal American Rifles were asked to participate in the filming of a documentary for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo for the History Channel. The filming took place at Fort Amherst in Chatham. Day one included drill then filming in the afternoon. Sean Bean, alias Mr Richard Sharpe, was in attendance on the Sunday. We met him briefly and got a photo, he was very friendly and was also impressed with the reenactors attention to detail and knowledge.
There was a great night in the guard house on the Saturday with drink, food and song.
A great weekend.
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Monday, 31 March 2014
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