Regiment de Conti 1757 showing the bonnet with the flap turned down. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlVRfDC7rs/SpEh2PKv2hI/AAAAAAAADOg/k9wHqz5VXa4/s400/conti.jpg Regiment du Roi http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlVRfDC7rs/SpEdc_k0wTI/AAAAAAAADOQ/jdSmenM3mKE/s400/bonnet.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlVRfDC7r...

French port, Joseph Vernet SYW.
copy pic to file to be able to zoom in for amazing details within this painting.

detail of French triple cannon in French port, seven years war, Joseph Vernet

Bucket wrote:thanks for your kind observation cannontickler...

being serious for a mo though, thats all starting to look well cool, i deffo wanna come and play Minutemen, its a really good theme to base stuff around as well.

Hi Emma, i believe you've been in contact with us( Lexington Minutemen) we cover the early part of the American Rev War, 1775-1776, espcially Lexington/Concord and the retreat to Boston. I dont think Bret has given you this information, but we have a website, its still in the process of being produ...

ripping timbers for the schooner


frame of the schooner.

Joolz wrote:Yes, but 'bullet boards' doesn't look like a rude word when you read it fast.......
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Hello mate, they are more commonly known as bullet boards, see an original at top of this link. http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/more-flintlock-tools.html the more elaborate looking ones are probably 19th century fakes, although there are 18th century double board examples . Steve is...

Carpenters hall Philadelphia http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/history/images/feast.jpg An awning shades the Tavern's entrance in this 18th-century print. At right is the Bank of Pennsylvania which rented Carpenters' Hall while this imposing structure was underway If ever a building embodied t...

bit of a weedy pic, but if you copy it in and zoom its got some amazing detail.

A View of the Landing (of) the New England Forces in yee Expedition against Cape Breton, 1745"

oooh, suit you sir.......... Commodore the Honourable Augustus Keppel http://collections.rmg.co.uk/mediaLib/387/media-387796/large.jpg A three-quarter-length portrait slightly to left facing to right in captain's (over three years) undress uniform, 1748-67. This uniform was introduced in 1748 immed...

Nah were not getting regimentally in any way, just the militia gear of 1770's is different from the 1750's. Civilian clothing styles have changed. So if you've got kit like the photo, does that mean your going to appear very flat and 2 dimensional on us?!?! In seriousness, if you have clothing that...

So you need to turn up then.... btw would you like me to bring kitguide for the Minutmen to Weymouth smuggling event as i understand you'll be attending said event? who grassed me up, it was supposed to be a surprise, was going to merge into the masses in my mid 18th Naval kit and look all native l...

I've just pinched matey here off the pirate brethren site, he's great i recon. http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/upload/img_400/PY3329.jpg The Greenwich pensioners' uniforms are navy blue. (Also a correction: originally the pensioners' uniforms were dark grey lined with blue, then brown between 1...

Theres about a dozen of us aforesaid minutemen, all pushing to get our kit ready for our first proper show at bath, Weekend before 4th july. Then Kelmarsh, Should be good. You could say we can now claim to be a proper group see. :crazy: shut up you big tart, NO group is ever properly proper until i...

This one a little more for us of the SYW favour, but a very interesting painting just on content alone. Johann Heinrich Tischbein the princes painting showing Wilhelms’ grandsons. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9qV-8rhgrDQ/T4L94O0qrsI/AAAAAAAAAOw/WD4kO7Em_WE/s1600/Tischbein-5498.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot....

a couple from one of my most favouritest artists, John Wootton. section detail from some of his works. George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Litchfield, and his Uncle the Hon. Robert Lee, Subsequently 4th Earl of Litchfield, Shooting in 'True Blue' Frock Coats John Wootton 1744 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/i...

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/battles/revolutionary-war-minutemen.jpg i sort of really like this contemporary print of the Lexington minutemen as it gives a good idea for a line of fire. Mr. Droll wrote. How small do you have to be to qualify as a minuteman? Is the next step up a t...

Still drooling over the fowling images........... :) Hey, each to their own fetish Mr. Stanley of the woods. Nice ideas for the Minutemen.............. the minutemen are a brilliant idea i recon, fills a gap in the market. I didn't catch up with how far the minutemen company had actually got last y...

If you want to be nice to Grania CT make her one of these http://noteworthy.zasu.us/composers/Mozart_WA/fantasy_c_minor_kv385f_completion/restored%20single-action%20Harp.jpg or http://www.palacepianos.com/en/uploads/harps/1266852676_cousineau-harp-1.jpg With some OTT carving, just no mystikal kelti...

field marshal von Reech wrote . "but we'd also like people to see the softer, more genteel side of our natures (So, judging from the selection of illustrations above, we're going to wander about slaughtering wildlife and swilling port in seedy dives. Game on!) " I thought you said you were...