11-18-2008, 05:32 PM
Quote:Thanks for that. However, I think your group needs to narrow its period. You are talking a period of c120 years, during which time equipment and probably clothing changed substantially. If you try to cover that whole period in one go, unless you are doing a static display of figure types, your unit will look like the equivilent of Napoleonic, Crimean War, Zulu War and World War I soldiers all marching together. These big time periods are fine for types displays (we often do a types display covering a seven hundred year period) but for a unit display you need to try to have a focus of less than fifty years (and even that is a reasonably wide timeframe). My suggestion therefore, would be to pick the quarter century you really wanted to concentrate on and all equip yourselves for that period. Keep your original 120 year timescle for types displays where you can show the public just how much the Roman soldier changed during that time.
Crispus, the braccae are for the later periods, which I plan to do, up to 180ad, also perhaps for the trajanic impressiontoo, once I get the kit together.
It was extremely coldthat weekend, and as Lucius says we were doing a
bit of this and a bit of that.
But I would not be surprised if legionaries wore braccae sooner, rather than later, as it has been mentioned Marcus Antonious wore them? CMIIW
Soldiers follow leaders? Fashion is usually set by leaders....
I look forward to the information you mention though, as I have some material I have been planning on using for wrapping for some time, just have not gotten to it!
And the 2 tunic thing is going on if you look closely! Or did you think my gut was that shape anyway?
(gets a little tight in the seg though) :roll:
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[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel