This weekend, at Cheriton, some re-enactment event on, I'm told. Saturday and Sunday. Unable to source details atm, as me internet is a bit naff in current location. 🥴
https://www.winchester.gov.uk/events/20230/20230 (https://www.winchester.gov.uk/events/20230/20230)
Not just ECW re-enactment, also ACW, Napoleonic, Medieval.
The Cheriton battlefield website is still having a revamp so the council what's on page or the Sealed Knot website have details
Thanks Radar
May give it a go....
Martin
The Cropredy 375 was excellent, I'm sure this one will be as good
It was a good one - went on the Sunday, as the Saturday was distinctly wet.
Well run arena displays, inc WotR and Napoleonic, in addition to the main ECW refight, and had a useful chat to a ACW 'gunner' about Parrott gun manufacture.
Glad you enjoyed it, Martin. I'd hoped to go, but couldn't quite persuade all the family to come along.
Any chance of some pictures (if nothing else, so that I can try harder to convince them next time), please?
Simon
Quote from: Colonel Kilgore on July 29, 2019, 11:01:01 AM
Glad you enjoyed it, Martin. I'd hoped to go, but couldn't quite persuade all the family to come along.
Any chance of some pictures (if nothing else, so that I can try harder to convince them next time), please?
Simon
Having probs with 'file too large'......will work on it.
Quote from: Martin Smith on July 29, 2019, 03:18:25 PM
Having probs with 'file too large'......will work on it.
Martin,
If you're trying to post photos here, they probably won't work. You will need to store them online elsewhere and post a link here (I can help with the latter if you're stuck).
Simon
A clue would be appreciated... I don't 'do' tech very well, as I have a low tolerance for screwabout factor when it comes to the glorious wonder of IT. 😊
Martin,
The first thing is to "host" your pictures somewhere online e.g. Photobucket or similar (I use tinypic.com as it's free and no log-in is required).
You should then be able to get a URL (weblink) to your picture. It's that link that you'll need to post here. An example is: http://i64.tinypic.com/2yl2p9g.jpg
To get the Forum to actually display your picture, you need to put a little bit of code before and after it.
The code preceding the link is: IMG (which you need to place within square brackets).
The code following the link is: /IMG (which also needs to be placed within square brackets).
TinyPic and others generate the URL, with the necessary IMG codes, automatically. But if I paste an example here, it will display the picture instead of the code!
Does this make some kind of sense?
Simon
Thanks Simon.....I'll add it to my 'to do' list 👍
I've just gone onto TinyPic this evening, after a few days away, and see that the site will be closing later this year. Which is a double shame as:
(a) it was free
(b) there is no indication of how images hosted there can be recovered /transferred elsewhere once the site is finally switched off
So, I guess you end up with precisely what you paid for, which probably serves me right for being a skinflint in the first place, but is rather annoying all the same.
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Many thanks, Simon - that sounds like just the thing for me!
Until they get snapped up by Photobucket, Facebook or the like, of course :'(
I was told today that Battlegroup south are looking to put a game on at the event next year and maybe even turn it into a wargames show
Quote from: Colonel Kilgore on August 09, 2019, 10:39:51 PM
I've just gone onto TinyPic this evening, after a few days away, and see that the site will be closing later this year. Which is a double shame as:
(a) it was free
(b) there is no indication of how images hosted there can be recovered /transferred elsewhere once the site is finally switched off
So, I guess you end up with precisely what you paid for, which probably serves me right for being a skinflint in the first place, but is rather annoying all the same.
That's a pity...I'd put aside a few minutes to get sorted on this. However, so it goes.
If you pm'd me an e.mail address I could send the pics of Cheriton that I have (though they're not too inspiring, TBH)
Quote from: Stewart 46A on August 10, 2019, 08:46:12 PM
I was told today that Battlegroup south are looking to put a game on at the event next year and maybe even turn it into a wargames show
That'd be different, and welcome.
It was almost all re-enactment groups on the day I went, plus Michael Arnold (ECW author, Stryker book series, which I enjoy) was there with a stall, chatting, signing books and selling copies, and there was a 'general purpose vaguely military plastic toy' type stall, too.
Quote from: Martin Smith on August 11, 2019, 03:22:23 PM
Quote from: Colonel Kilgore on August 09, 2019, 10:39:51 PM
I've just gone onto TinyPic this evening, after a few days away, and see that the site will be closing later this year. Which is a double shame as:
(a) it was free
(b) there is no indication of how images hosted there can be recovered /transferred elsewhere once the site is finally switched off
So, I guess you end up with precisely what you paid for, which probably serves me right for being a skinflint in the first place, but is rather annoying all the same.
That's a pity...I'd put aside a few minutes to get sorted on this. However, so it goes.
If you pm'd me an e.mail address I could send the pics of Cheriton that I have (though they're not too inspiring, TBH)
Martin, I've sent you a PM. You may in the meantime get there yourself: I've started a new thread on this evergreen topic here: https://rulesforcommonman.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1979.0
Martin,
Here (with thanks) are the pictures you emailed me.
If you would like to write a short commentary in response to this note, I (with my Admin rights) can post the photos into it. You can then select "Modify" to see the code I've inserted, and hence how to post these yourself?
(https://i.imgur.com/Yt9yrjS.jpg),
(https://i.imgur.com/bktzwxY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ARNs3IN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jDWCFaF.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/v50RHPo.jpg)
Thanks Simon -
1) Liveried Wars of the Roses archers and Man at Arms
(https://i.imgur.com/Yt9yrjS.jpg),
2) Napoleonic 95th Rifles in action
(https://i.imgur.com/bktzwxY.jpg)
3) and 4) Whitecoat musketeers and Bluecoats, in the Cheriton refight.
(https://i.imgur.com/ARNs3IN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jDWCFaF.jpg)
5) ACW Parrott Rifled Field Gun replica
(https://i.imgur.com/v50RHPo.jpg)
Thanks Martin - I've inserted the links into your post below.
You should now be able to press the "Modify" button to your post below and see the format of the links I've inserted (from Imgur].
Note that the Forum application has inserted the "width=900 height=675" text within the square brackets around the initial "IMG" code in each case. You don't need to do this, but if the image is too large on the screen you can adjust its width or height in the above manner. I suggest you don't try and set both width and height, as you may end up inadvertently distorting the image!
Does this all make some kind of sense?
Simon
Thanks Simon
I tweaked them all to 600 x 450, a 33% reduction, and they SEEM to have remained undistorted, to my eyes at least, and are now fully visible without sliding the photo...many thanks for this.
As mentioned, no stunning pics there, and it's hard to capture the atmos of a smokey, noisy reenactment, but thanks for going to the trouble of posting them.
Excellent Martin - glad that we've now got you fully operational on the photos!
Simon